The Review of Korean Studies, 한국학중앙연구원

PDF Citaion Korean Cultural Heritage Outside Korea: How They are Perceived and How They are Treated

이강한(한국학중앙연구원) pp.6-8 https://doi.org/10.25024/review.2024.27.2.001

PDF Citaion From Colonial Dilettantism to the Korean Wave: The Formation and Ever-changing Roles of Korean Art Collections in the United States

김수진(성균관대학교 동아시아학술원) pp.9-38 https://doi.org/10.25024/review.2024.27.2.002

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This paper examines the history of Korean art collections in the United States by dividing it into four major periods and discussing key issues to each period. During the first period, from 1882 to 1910, foreigners who visited Joseon and the Korean Empire collected Korean artworks. In the second period, Japanese antique dealers primarily gathered artworks in colonial Korea and sold them to American institutions and individuals. The third period, under U.S. military government rule following World War II, during the Korean War, and subsequent U.S. military presence, was marked by American residents collecting Korean art. The fourth period involves professional collectors who acquired Korean artworks through dealers in the United States instead of traveling to Korea and collecting them in person. This history of Korean art collections raises issues related to nationality, ethnography, and colonial collecting practices. Additionally, certain types of artworks that have not been highly valued in Korea received significant attention and were actively collected within the United States. This paper proposes alternative exhibition methods for overseas cultural heritage and calls for a reevaluation of Korean art collections in the United States from a perspective that moves beyond an ethnographic gaze.

PDF Citaion The Multivalence of Collected Korean Objects in the Netherlands: National Collections, International Networks, and Second-hand Collection Practices

ELMER VELDKAMP(Leiden University) pp.39-68 https://doi.org/10.25024/review.2024.27.2.003

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Museum collections of Korean art and ethnographic objects outside Korea are often explained as the product of national endeavors on the one hand, or as uprooted overseas cultural heritage on the other. This research argues for a holistic approach to understanding the cultural significance of such objects as a combination of their material attributes and as part of a larger body of Korean relics of the past, and their contextual attributes such as the circumstances, networks, and individual actions that have led to them ending up in the museum. By acknowledging also the importance of these opposing views of what makes Korean collections outside Korea culturally significant, we can preserve the history surrounding them more completely and more accurately. This article proposes the mobilization of a digital approach to gathering these different bodies of knowledge in one location in an inclusive, flexible, and sustainable manner.

PDF Citaion A Museological Exploration of One Hundred Boys at Play beyond Korea

박지영(Denver Art Museum) pp.69-110 https://doi.org/10.25024/review.2024.27.2.004

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This paper explores the cross-section of meanings and values attributed to the Korean pictorial work One Hundred Boys at Play, now part of the Denver Art Museum’s permanent collection, examining its potential for evolving interpretation. As this object prepares for its upcoming display in the Korean gallery of an encyclopedic museum in the United States, this study serves as a preliminary curatorial step. It aims to illuminate the artwork’s multiple meanings for contemporary viewers, contextualized within the historical and societal frameworks in which these significances were constructed.

PDF Citaion Personal Trajectories and National History: Why the Goryeo People Went to the Mongol Empire and How They Lived There

이명미(경북대학교) pp.113-142 https://doi.org/10.25024/review.2024.27.2.005

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The study of Korean history in the 13th and 14th centuries, when Eurasia was unified with the rise of the Mongol Empire, is still dominated by a dichotomous view of Mongol interference and Goryeo resistance. However, the relationship with the Mongol Empire imposed constraints and burdens on the Goryeo state, but it also provided new opportunities for the Goryeo people. The state to-state relationship between Goryeo and the Mongol Empire had a profound effect on the lives of the people who lived during this period. The individual trajectories that various groups of Goryeo people, including women, eunuchs, monks, and scholars, followed in the Mongol Empire after their voluntary or involuntary journeys to the Mongol Empire under these external circumstances influenced events that, whether they intended it or not, in turn, had a decisive impact on the unfolding of Goryeo and Korean history. While the Goryeo state drew lines and judged their lives based on their attitudes toward the Goryeo state, in the Mongol Empire, where the Goryeo people settled, they formed bonds and networks of relationships that were somewhat independent of such lines and judgments by the Goryeo state. This article aims to overcome the national historical perspectives of interference and resistance that have been central to understanding the Goryeo-Mongol relations by examining the diverse backgrounds of the Goryeo people who traveled to the Mongol Empire and the trajectories of their lives there from their perspectives.

PDF Citaion Korean Studies in Transition: Focusing on the Missionary Children at the University of California, Berkeley

이영미(인하대학교 한국학연구소) pp.143-165 https://doi.org/10.25024/review.2024.27.2.006

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This paper examines the lives and works of three early Koreanologists, Harold J. Noble (1903–1953), George M. McCune (1908–1948), and his wife, Evelyn B. McCune (née Becker) (1907–2012), to explore the characteristics and significances of Korean studies in the United States before formalization or during the transitional period. They were all missionary children born and raised in Korea. They began studying Korean history based on their strong affection for Korea, and all received their final degrees in Korean history from the Department of History at the University of California, Berkeley. While working as Koreanologists at different times from the early 1930s to the early 1960s, they inherited the Korean studies that Americans had done in Korea, studied Korean history from a different perspective from that of ordinary Westerners, and laid the foundation for Korean studies in the United States before it was formalized.

PDF Citaion Evolution of the Saemaeul undong as an Open System Organization

Stanislav Rieznik(영남대학교) ; 이환범(영남대학교) pp.167-196 https://doi.org/10.25024/review.2024.27.2.007

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Saemaeul undong is regarded as one of the leading forces behind Korea’s economic progress and modernization by resolving economic and social problems in rural society, overcoming national crises, and instilling confidence in the people. Since the 1970s, Saemaeul undong has been studied and discussed in numerous contexts. However, not many research efforts have been made to specifically classify the overall flow and development stages of Saemaeul undong by age from the perspective of sustainability. By applying the open systems approach, research on the evolution of the Saemaeul undong was conducted. The Saemaeul undong seen through this systems approach shows itself as an effective open system organization. The study results show that Saemaeul undong’s evolution is driven by an iterative cycle of input, throughput, output, and feedback. Within this process, the goals and value indicators, project type, and content of Saemaeul undong were determined by the degree of involvement in the promotion system by the government, private sector, and academia. Following the findings, the promotion system of Saemaeul undong is an important variable that has a key influence on the development process of Saemaeul undong. The study concludes that continuous academic research is needed to analyze changes in the international environment and propose new parameters for the promotion system of Saemaeul undong.

PDF Citaion Aesthetic of Queer Failure in 2010s’ Korean Literature

최현희(한국외국어대학교) pp.197-224 https://doi.org/10.25024/review.2024.27.2.008

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This article examines the representation of queerness in 2010s’ Korean literature, showcasing a significant shift from prior depictions of queer subjects as symbols of deviance to embodiment of critical resistance against social norms. It posits queerness as a performative act, one that not only challenges established identities but also questions societal constructs. The concept of queer failure is reinterpreted as a subversive stance against normative definitions of success, proposing that failure itself can be a form of critique and expression of queerness. Through analyzing fictions by Park Min-jung and Park Sang Young, this article highlights how irony serves as a central narrative strategy, allowing for a multifaceted portrayal of queerness that both reveals and disrupts. This irony facilitates a deeper engagement with the texts, prompting readers to confront and reinterpret the conventional narratives around identity and societal integration. This article suggests that the ironic representation of queerness and failure contribute to a re-envisioning of social structures, proposing the potential for a queer utopia that extends beyond the confines of current societal limitations.

PDF Citaion Korean Language Education Overseas

이강한(한국학중앙연구원) pp.226-229 https://doi.org/10.25024/review.2024.27.2.009

PDF Citaion Research Trends of Korean Language Education Overseas in Korea

이정란(한국학중앙연구원) pp.230-246 https://doi.org/10.25024/review.2024.27.2.010

PDF Citaion Korean Studies in the United Kingdom: History and Prospects

연재훈(University of London) pp.247-264 https://doi.org/10.25024/review.2024.27.2.011

PDF Citaion Korean Language Education in the Netherlands

Ae Ree Nam(Leiden University) pp.265-281 https://doi.org/10.25024/review.2024.27.2.012

PDF Citaion Korean Language Education in North America: Its State of Affairs and Beyond

서주원(Columbia University) pp.282-296 https://doi.org/10.25024/review.2024.27.2.013

PDF Citaion Emerging Trends and Challenges for a New Generation of Korean Language Learners in Thailand

정혜선(Chulalongkorn University) pp.297-311 https://doi.org/10.25024/review.2024.27.2.014

PDF Citaion At the Crossroad between Community and Additional Language: The Case of Korean Language Education in Australia

Nicola Fraschini(The University of Melbourne) pp.312-327 https://doi.org/10.25024/review.2024.27.2.015

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