The national crisis and de/reconstructing nationalism in South Korea during the IMF intervention

Cho, Younghan

doi:10.1080/14649370701789666

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“…Heejin was not alone in asserting that South Korea could ill-afford more egalitarian policies in the face of its race for global standing. As many have argued, nationalism and cosmopolitanism often go hand in hand (Cho 2008;Park and Abelmann 2004;Schein 1998).…”

Section: An Elite College Coedmentioning

confidence: 96%

College rank and neo‐liberal subjectivity in South Korea: the burden of self‐development

Abelmann¹,

Park²,

Kim³

2009

Inter-Asia Cultural Studies

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This paper explores the ways in which contemporary college students in South Korea inhabit new discourses of human development in the context of South Korea's neo-liberal turn and globalization. By using ethnographic methods, we examine the lives of college students across three campuses, a top-tier private school and two mid-tier schools. The college students who we introduce all aspire to and accept the burden of managing their personal formation for a changing world. We note that the individuated way in which they narrate and take responsibility for their circumstances and predicaments is quite new and resonant with discussions of neo-liberal subjectivity. We show, however, how the burden of self-development is borne variously, according to differences in the 'brand capital' of the students' university, gender, and family background. We argue that neo-liberal subjectivity, highlighting personal ability, style, and responsibility, works to obscure escalating structural inequality in South Korea.

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Section: An Elite College Coedmentioning

confidence: 96%

College rank and neo‐liberal subjectivity in South Korea: the burden of self‐development

Abelmann¹,

Park²,

Kim³

2009

Inter-Asia Cultural Studies

113

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“…Like recent media coverage trend, which shows that the form of nationalism has been changed from unitary political nationalism to such as a combination with neoliberalism or sporting nationalism (Cho, 2008;Lee & Maguire, 2011), and the result shows more focus on localization rather than nationalism. To be specific, a host city image enhancement was focused as opposed to promoting or addressing overall national sentiment to the event.…”

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confidence: 85%

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Abstract:The study examined how newspaper articles have framed the 17th Incheon Asian Games 2014, in regard to the different issues covered, sources cited, positive and/or negative externalities frames, and the relationship between issues and sources. A total of 625 Korean nationwide and local newspaper articles covering the Asian Games during the 9-year period between April 7, 2005 and September 18, 2014 was analyzed in terms of three aspects of framing: (1) the types of issues highlighted, (2) the sources of information cited, and (3) the ways in which either possibilities of positive or negative externalities depiction were used. The results of the current study reveal that "political issues" (e.g., administrative and/or political conflict among central government, host city, and local residents, participation of North Korea national team) except "factual information of the event" (e.g., schedules, results, athlete performance, history) were the most commonly highlighted, "administrators" who are the government agencies preparing the Asian Games were the most frequently cited sources of information and the frame of "negative externalities" was more employed than the frame of "positive externalities" in newspapers of the Asian Games. This study regarding media coverage of the mega sporting event identifies how mass media agencies influence their target audience using framing theory and especially provide extensive analysis of media coverage of the Asian Games to date, which could serve as a groundwork for further studies of media framing theory.

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“…Despite his struggles on the mound or remaining intermittently on the disabled list while with the Rangers, his significance and salience remained central to Korean MLB fandom; most significant was the positive effect he had on Korean morale during the IMF intervention (Cho 2008a). Not only does Park continue to provide fertile ground for the nationalistic images that still flourish around him, many Korean fans continue to dwell on the days when the country was in dire straits but he performed superbly.…”

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Major League Baseball as a forged national pastime: constructing personalized national narratives in South Korea

Cho¹

2012

Inter-Asia Cultural Studies

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Baseball was introduced to Korea by American missionaries in 1905 but the sport was popularized in Korea during the Japanese Occupation . Baseball in Korea thus took root in relation to two colonizers: Japan and the US. To date, the popularity of baseball among Koreans can still be explained in terms of their relationships with their past colonizers. For example, given the historically constructed status of America as the 'modern' Other, the success of a Korean player in American Major League Baseball (MLB) may provoke euphoria, nostalgia and nationalism. Nationalism is most pronounced whenever the Korean national team meets the Japanese at an international baseball tournament; the victory is, for fans, akin to having 'avenged' the oppressive Japanese occupation of Korea. This paper argues that recent developments of Korean MLB fans show that the globalizing processes of baseball have fed their nationalism vis-à-vis their past colonial administrators.

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The national crisis and de/reconstructing nationalism in South Korea during the IMF intervention

Cited by 49 publications

References 8 publications

College rank and neo‐liberal subjectivity in South Korea: the burden of self‐development

College rank and neo‐liberal subjectivity in South Korea: the burden of self‐development

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Major League Baseball as a forged national pastime: constructing personalized national narratives in South Korea

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