• Journal of Contemporary Eastern Asia
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• 제21권1호
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• pp.1-32
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• 2022

Through the Global Korea Scholarship (GKS) program, the government of the Republic of Korea annually invites over a thousand international students to learn the Korean language and obtain a higher education degree from Korean universities. One of the program's goals is positioned within the public diplomacy framework. Korea seeks to cultivate Korea-friendly networks and transform GKS students and alumni into ambassadors to contribute to Korea's promotion abroad. However, there is no clarity on whether this mechanism works as expected. This study examines GKS students' relationship-building experiences with South Koreans during and after the exchange program. Analysis of twenty in-depth interviews with the program's alumni reveals both what facilitates and what obstructs personal and professional relationship-building between scholarship recipients and South Koreans at different stages (language year and degree years) of the program and after graduation. The paper concludes with practical recommendations for universities, GKS administrators, and the South Korean government regarding their policies for scholarship holders.

• 비교교육연구
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• 제22권4호
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• pp.75-98
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• 2012

이 연구는 한 중 일 3국에서 시행하고 있는 정부지원 유학생정책의 주요 특징을 비교 분석함으로써 중국 및 일본과 국제교육 교류 분야에서 앞으로 어떻게 경쟁하고 협동하여 갈 것인가에 대해서 시사점을 찾고 장차 우리나라 정책의 개선방향을 모색하는 데 목적이 있다. 한 중 일 3국 정책의 비교 분석 결과를 토대로 우리나라 Global Korea Scholarship(GKS)의 개선방안을 제시하면 다음과 같다. 첫째, GKS의 초정 및 파견사업에서 선발 대상국가에 '주변국'을 별도의 범주로 구분하여 접근함으로써 동아시아 국가 협력의 기반으로 적극 활용할 필요가 있다. 둘째, GKS를 장학금이라는 재정지원정책에서 한걸음 나아가 자국의 문화와 언어에 대한 사전 이해와 전파정책으로 이해하고 운영할 필요가 있다. 셋째, 내국인 파견 GKS는 단기지원사업을 중심으로 획기적으로 확대 운영할 필요가 있다. 넷째, 아시아 개도국을 위한 GKS 외국인 초청사업은 자원외교의 관점을 넘어서 초정 당사국의 발전을 지원한다는 교육 ODA의 관점에서 설계, 운영할 필요가 있다.

• 대한가정학회지
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• 제44권8호
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• pp.143-150
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• 2006

Life Science or Home Economics has its own history of scholarship. In South Korea, the School of Home Economics was regarded as the best school of 'producing best brides' in the early stage of its academic history. Since the 1980s when South Korean society went through a speedy economic growth with development of culture and service industry, the school was transformed to educating highly professional career women in the field of industry which deals with everyday lives. As an applied science in nature, the school of Home Economics has had a heavy emphasis on engineering the familial and social life. It also has heavily depended on imported theories and statistical researches. In the crisis of familial and social disintergration, the role of School of Home Economics needs to be redefined. Reexamination of the premises of Home Economics and methodology is necessary. Decolonializaton of the scholarship in the changed condition of global capitalism is particularly urgent in the late modern era of reflexion.

• 수완나부미
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• 제7권1호
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• pp.77-88
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• 2015

This article will review the historical background of the development of area studies and the adoption of global studies in Japan. Global studies, which focuses on global issues such as migration, mainly developed in the United States and Europe, but more recently found home in universities in Japan. A characteristic of the development of global studies in Japan is that specialists in area studies have played an important role in institutionally establishing this new discipline. "Japanese area studies" has an affinity with the concepts of global studies contrary to the situation with area studies in the United States. Conventional academic societies based on area studies in Japan, however, have been forced to change as a result of globalization and the establishment of global studies in Japan. I would like to point out that there is some discrepancy between the scholarship boundaries and the actual research and educational program in area studies. I will also discuss how we should reconsider the concept of "area" by tackling global issues.

• 비교교육연구
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• 제27권4호
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• pp.211-230
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• 2017

한국 정부는 2016년부터 '고등학교 직업교육' 프로그램을 신설하여 CIS 국가 재외동포 고등학교 학생들을 초청하여 국내의 유관 전문계 고등학교와의 교류를 진행하고 있다. 본 연구는 카자흐스탄과 키르기스스탄에서 선발된 직업교육 고등학교 학생들을 대상으로 직업교육에 대한 운영 실태와 교육만족도 분석을 실시하여, 독립국가연합과 한국 간의 직업교육프로그램 운영 현황 파악과 동 프로그램의 활성화를 위한 향후 발전방향을 탐색하는 데 초점을 두었다. CIS 국가의 직업고등학교 국제 교류학생들의 만족도를 분석한 결과, 평균 3.92점의 높은 점수가 확인되어 양 국가 간의 전문계 고등학교 대상 직업교육 프로그램은 성공적으로 운영되고 있는 것으로 나타났다. 그러나 면담 결과, 일부 교류학생들의 경우는 한국어 어학능력 습득과 준비 미비로 인해 학업 이수와 학교생활 적응에 있어 상당한 어려움을 겪고 있는 것으로 파악되었다. 추후, 동 교육프로그램 운영의 활성화를 발전적 미래를 확보하기 위해서는 학업생활 적응준비도 제고 차원에서의 한국어 역량강화 사전 교육프로그램이 중앙 지방정부 차원과 단위학교 수준에서 적극적으로 구안 실행될 필요성이 있다.

• Asia Marketing Journal
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• 제22권4호
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• pp.79-101
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• 2021

With the steady rise in global popularity of the Korean music group BTS, the South Korean government and surrounding industries have swiftly begun utilizing their image and international recognition for specific nation branding purposes. While K-pop soft power strategies are not novel to the South Korean state, what is new is the rapid speed at which BTS have become a beacon for South Korean culture, language, and symbolism in the international arena. However, few scholarly works have sought to investigate the role fans have played in this heightened position for the group as state representatives, with minimal research conducted into the work fans do within the framework of ARMY fan culture. This paper will thus aim to fill the gap in scholarship on ARMY as an organized labour network, focusing on the role fans play as labourers in online spaces that work to promote, disseminate, and cultivate wider recognition for BTS as artists. Through the conjunct engagement of a political economy framework and theories of participatory culture, this paper will explore the manner through which the free labour of ARMY, premised on affect, has constructed the fandom as active agents of soft power alongside BTS themselves.

• Asia pacific journal of information systems
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• 제20권4호
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• pp.25-51
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• 2010

This study compares and contrasts the intellectual development of the MIS field in Korea from 2005 to 2009 to that of international trends by using a keyword co-occurrence network analysis of the two flagship journals: APJIS and MIS Quarterly. From 316 research articles in these two journals, 132 unique and most frequently co-occurred keywords were put into analysis. The results of structural equivalence show a mild correlation between APJIS and MIS Quarterly. The e-commerce, trust, and technology adoption are the high frequency keywords in both journals. In Korea e-learning, purchasing, and recommendation systems turn out to be important keywords while outsourcing, research method, quantitative method, design research, information theory, and empirical research are in average international journals. This connotes that the Korean scholarship tends to focus more on practically oriented topics, but the clustering and relational mapping of research topics in each journal show a mild level of overlap with distinctive orientations due to intrinsic disparities depending on the concerned journals' geographical scopes, namely domestic or global.

• 수완나부미
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• 제8권1호
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• pp.121-146
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• 2016

Defining key characteristics of Southeast Asia requires historical interpretation. Southeast Asia is a diverse and complicated region, but some of modern history's "grand narratives" serve to unify its historical experience. At a minimum, the modern history of the region involves decisive encounters with universal religions, the rise of Western colonialism, the experience of world wars, decolonization, and the end of the "cycle of violence". The ability of the region's peoples to adapt to these many challenges and successfully build new nations is a defining feature of Southeast Asia's place in the global stage. This paper will begin with a question: is it possible to develop a hermeneutic of "expedience" as a way to interpret the region's history? That is, rather than regard the region from a purely Western, nationalist, "internalist" point of view, it would be useful to identify a new series of interpretative contexts from which to begin scholarly analysis. In order to contextualize this discussion, the paper will draw upon the writings of figures who explored the region before knowledge about it was shaped by purely colonist or nationalist enterprises. To this end, particular attention will be devoted to exploring some of John Furnivall's ways of conceptualizing Southeast Asia. Investigating Furnivall, a critic of colonialism, will be done in relation to his historical situation. Because Furnivall's ideas have played a pivotal role in the interpretation of Southeast Asia, the paper will highlight the intellectual history of the region in order to ascertain the value of these concepts for subsequent historical interpretation. Ultimately, the task of interpreting the region's history requires a framework which will move beyond the essentializing orientalist categories produced by colonial scholarship and the reactionary nation-building narratives which followed. Instead, by beginning with a mode of historical interpretation that focuses on the many realities of expedience which have been necessary for the region's peoples, it may be possible to write a history which highlights the extraordinarily adaptive quality of Southeast Asia's populations, cultures, and nations. To tell this story, which would at once highlight key characteristics of the region while showing how they developed through historical encounters, would go a long way to capturing Southeast Asia's contribution's to global development.

• 수완나부미
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• 제10권1호
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• pp.63-91
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• 2018

One of the goals of this article is to continue the momentum begun by emerging scholarship on theory and practice of writing about visual culture of and in Southeast Asia. I hope to offer culturally sensitive and embodied ways of looking at images and objects as sites/sights of cultural knowledge as further theoretical intervention. The argument put forward in my essay is three-fold: first, I critique the prevailing logocentric approach in the field of Southeast Asian Studies and I argue that in a postcolonial, global, and transnational period, it is important to be inclusive of other objects as sites/sights of social, political and cultural analysis beyond written and oral texts. Second, I argue that although it has its own political and theoretical problems, the evolving field of Visual Studies as it is practiced in the United States is one of many ways to decolonize the prevailing logocentric approach to Southeast Asian Studies. Third, I argue that if one reads these Euro-American derived theories of vision and visuality through the lens of what Walter Mignolo calls "colonial difference(s)," then Visual Studies as an evolving field has the potential to offer more nuanced local ways of looking at and understanding objects, vision, and visuality. Last, I point out that unlike in the West where there is an understanding of pure, objective and empirical vision, local Southeast Asian perspectives on objects and visions are more embodied and multi-sensorial. I argue that if one is ethically mindful of the local cultural ways of seeing and knowing objects, then the evolving field of Visual Studies offers a much-needed intervention to the privileged, lingering logocentric approach to Southeast Asian Studies. Moreover, these alternative methods might help to decolonize method and theory in academic disciplines that were invented during the colonial period.