• Title/Summary/Keyword: The Korean Astronaut Project

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Is Yi Soyeon an astronaut or a space tourist? : The First Korean Astronaut Debate on the view of ANT (이소연은 우주인인가 관광객인가? : ANT의 관점으로 본 한국최초우주인 논쟁)

  • An, Hyoung-Joon
    • Journal of Science and Technology Studies
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    • v.9 no.1
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    • pp.89-127
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    • 2009

  • The Korean Astronaut Project(KAP) aims to make the first Korean astronaut fly and take part in space activities in the International Space Station(ISS) in April 2008. KAP was on the purpose of studying the requirement to master manned space technologies as part of the long-term basic plan for national space development. However, people criticized that Ms. Yi was a 'space tourist' not an 'astronaut' because KAP was a program for pride, prestige in 21c's new space race, not specifically science and technology. The government emphasized that Yi carried out her 15 experiments in ISS very competently. In contrast people devaluated Yi's space experiments as below the level, though some of them are enough meaningful to be published on SCI journals. Why did the government fail to make people take Ms. Yi as an astronaut? I answer to this question using the notion of "Network Analysis" based on Actor-Network Theory(ANT).

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