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In 1949, just before the outbreak of the Korean War, Lee Jong-Ryul appealed for urgent development of the campaign for the national revolution to avoid bloodshed among the Korean people. He advocated political independence and democracy as well as a popular liberal enterprise system to stand against the imperialism.<BR> In the early 1930s, Lee Jong-Ryul was not a simple nationalist influenced by the socialism, as some historians have argued. He attempted to carry out a socialist revolution driven by the proletariat, considering that the Korean society had already entered the stage of the socialist movement through the nationalist movement. In the end, he failed to build the Communist Party based on the proletariat, so he declared his ideological conversion in his final statements at the sentencing court in 1935. Afterward he found the causes of his failure in the backwardness of the Korean society, and redefined the character of the future revolution and its main agents, paying attention to the relative independence and the importance of human consciousness that Marx had neglected. Finally, he proposed a new political line, national revolution and human revolution , which should be driven by the national proletariat, which accounted for 95 percentage of the total Korean population.<BR> Lee Jong-Ryul’s political line could not be regarded as one of the communist’s tactics for a unified front, as some previous studies have argued.

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While multiculturalism lost popular support in Europe, it gained public interest and policy attention in Northeast Asia, particularly in South Korea since the 1990s. Korea accepted multiculturalism discourse and policy with great enthusiasm. Given a small number of immigrants, especially a smaller number of permanent residents, the enthusiasm for multiculturalism that Korean people have shown so far is quite surprising and unusual. The drive behind a multiculturalism fad was possible because it was thought to be politically correct and was regarded as synonym for globalization and advancement, a step toward joining the ranks of advanced nations. The Korean approach to multiculturalism has several distinctive characteristics. First, multiculturalism and migrant integration are not clearly distinguished, and terms, such as multicultural policy, multiculturalism policy, foreign policy, and immigration policy, are often used almost synonymously and interchangeably. Second, the main target group or beneficiary of the government’s migrant integration policy is people in international marriages and their children. Migrant workers, who account for a larger share of immigrants in Korea, are not considered a major clientele of migrant integration programs. Ethnic Chinese, who have lived in Korean soil for many generations, are not even considered a relevant target group that the government needs to take care of. Third, most migrant integration policies and programs aim at assimilating immigrants to Korean culture and society rather than accepting cultures and identities of immigrant groups. Fourth, the Korean people and society as a whole are pretty sympathetic toward immigrants, especially toward female marriage migrants and their children. Because of the general public’s positive and benevolent attitudes toward immigrants, the Korean government allocated a generous budget for migrant integration programs. Fifth, because immigrants and ethnic minorities are not numerous and non-threatening and had arrived in Korea in different time periods, the Korean society has responded to each group in a separate manner. The group-specific approach has not only created fissures among migrants, but has also amplified prejudices and stereotypes, even antagonism and conflict among migrants and natives. Thus, in the future, government support ought to be provided to people equally, not according to their particular background information and identity, but according to their needs as determined by universal standards such as social class and risk factors (familial dissolution, sickness, and unemployment).KeywordsMigrant WorkerKorean GovernmentReverse DiscriminationMulticultural SocietyKorean PeopleThese keywords were added by machine and not by the authors. This process is experimental and the keywords may be updated as the learning algorithm improves.

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Nursing practices should be based on the understanding of human beings. In order to understand human beings, it is important to study the lifestyles and thoughts of people in their natural environment. In this sense, the cultural aspects of a society need to be studied for a culture-bound nursing service. Child care, which is an important element of nursing, is also strongly influenced by the culture of a society. Therefore, a cultural study is necessary to understand the child-rearing practices of any society. The major purpose of this dissertation is to provide basic foundations for developing a culture-based theory for nursing intervention through studying traditional cultural elements of child care in Korean society. The study examined child-rearing practices in a small village on Koje Island in the southern part of Korea. It utilized ethnographic methodologies including participatory observations and in-depth interviews. The study participants were 9 Korean mothers living on Koje Island. The average age was 52. The data were collected between July in 1998 and December in 1999. The average number of interviews per person was 7-8, and the duration of each interview was approximately 2 hours. The data were analyzed using the Spradley Analytical Method. The following 9 major child-rearing aspects of mothers on Koje Island were discovered as a result of the study: 1. Firstly, mothers on Koje Island were mostly concerned about the "Old Birth Goddess' Curse", especially during their child's early years. This concern was evidenced by their careful behavior when their child was very young and by their praying to the Old Birth Goddess not to be jealous of their babies.2. Secondly, they wished their children to live a different and better life than themselves. It was represented by their strong motivation toward their children's education as well as their expectation for their children's success. In traditional Korean culture, Korean people think that the rise and fall of the household depend on their offsprings. Therefore, Korean mothers wish their children attain to a higher level of social status through education.3. Third, mothers are concerned about their children's righteousness. Mothers on Koje island expect their children to live with discretion, justice, strength, respect, harmony, and to do their best in life.4. Next was an 'anticipation of their children's happy marriage'. The attributes of this category were an 'anxiety about their children's married life', and 'an expectation of a good spouse for their children'. Because Korean people believe that only a son can continue the bloodline of a family, especially Korean mothers have a great concern of the possibility of their daughters not having a son after marriage. Also they have different expectations toward their daughter-in-laws than son-in-laws.5. Korean mothers also derived their satisfaction from their son. It was characterized by 'excessive affection toward their son', 'dependency on their son', and 'being afraid of their married daughter having a girl like themselves'. Korean society has been a patriarchy. Therefore, a son is beloved as someone who will take care of his old parents, be in charge of ancestral rites, and provide a daughter-in-law who can conceive a son.6. The sixth category concerned 'the differences in their expectations for their children'. The attributes in this category were 'different expectations depending on their children's gender', 'different expectations depending on their children's ability', and a 'great sympathy toward children with low abilities'. Korean mothers expect their son to become better than their daughter.7. The seventh category was related to their 'roles in child-caring practices'. Traditionally a child was raised in an extended family system in Korea So it was not the sole duty of a mother to bring up the child. Korean mothers used to receive much help rasing children from their in-laws, and family members. On the other hand, many children grew up by themselves, because their mothers were very busy taking care of housework. Furthermore, many children also grew up in poverty.8. Mothers also had issues related to 'conflicts in child rearing'. They were characterized by 'lack of understanding', 'rudeness of children', and 'giving vent to one's anger'.9. Finally, mothers regretted not doing their best in child-rearing practices. It was characterized by a 'bitter feeling of repentance', 'feeling irritated', and 'feeling of unsatisfaction'.

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  • Korean Studies
  • Yang-Hee Hong

The Paradox of Genealogy: Family Politics and the Publishing Surge of Chokpo in Colonial Korea Yang-Hee Hong In 1920s and 1930s colonial Korea, the practice of purchasing and publishing chokpo, the genealogical record of family lieange, became widespread. This trend was considered a strange phenomenon to reform-minded Korean intellectuals, since chokpo was seen as a symbol of past morality—a product of obsolete familism that contributed to Chosŏn Korea’s collapse. Korea’s familism, symbolized by chokpo, was hence recognized as an obstacle to the formation of nationhood necessary for rebuilding Korea: familism precluded the creation of a “one nation” identity. Despite the criticism, the Korean people’s desire for chokpo did not abate but was strengthened by publishing companies and their brokers. The most fundamental reason for the increase in the desire for chokpo was the family system implemented by the Japanese colonial authority. The patrilineal succession of the household and the surname system, universally enforced to all Koreans under the colonial family system, were similar to the traditional family culture of upper class yangban. The colonial family system thus gave rise to the spread and enjoyment of yangban culture, which, in turn, resulted in the chokpo publishing surge. Eventually, the family system established by the Japanese colonial authority led to the universal acceptance of the patrilineal system by all Koreans. This acceptance strengthened the cultural identity of Koreans based on patrilineage, which served as the foundation of Korea’s cultural nationalism Korean Studies © 2022 by University of Hawai‘i Press. All rights reserved. 1 Keywords: colonial Korea, chokpo, family law, familism, patrilineage, surname system, Japanese colonialism Introduction: The Publishing Surge of Chokpo in Colonial Korea A unique phenomenon in colonial Korea (1910–1945) was the popularization of chokpo. This category of books was at the top of the list of publication license applications that the Japanese GovernmentGeneral of Korea announced each year. The publication of chokpo began to increase in the 1920s and enjoyed its golden age in the 1930s.1 There were seven volumes of chokpo published in 1912, but by 1921, the total number of publication increased eleven fold. There were 243 volumes in 1925, 290 in 1926, and many more in the 1930s.2 According to the repository of chokpo stored in the National Library of Korea, 1,152 volumes of chokpo were published in the 1930s, which is 46% of all chokpo archived in the library.3 Chokpo is a genealogical record of a patrilineal lineage based on the same surname and the surname lineage seat (pon’gwan or pon)—the original place of the progenitor. Compiling chokpo was an exclusive practice among the yangban aristocracy in Chosŏn Korea. In colonial Korea, the social status system had ostensibly been abolished, but chokpo, the quintessential yangban publication, gained immense popularity. An article in Tong-A Ilbo in 1926 reported this phenomenon as “strange.”4 Zenshō Eisuke, a Japanese official of the Government-General of Korea, invented the term tongjok-purak (blood-relative village 同族部落) to characterize Korean society. Zenshō argued that same-surname villages were a unique feature of Korean society and that there was a close relationship between these vollages and the Korean people’s attachment to patrilineal ties. Zenshō thus explained the publication boom of chokpo in colonial Korea by using the notion of blood-relative group sharing the same patrilineal lineage. He argued that Koreans considered chokpo important, because Koreans had “a tendency to respect the genealogical clarification of their blood relations, as Asian people worship ancestors and follow the history or tradition of a family.”5 He went on to say: There are many downsides in the publishing of chokpo. In Korean society, in which the people worship their ancestors and value their own clans, where homogeneity of blood-relative group is strong, chokpo is being excessively esteemed at the moment. Of all the various annual publications in Korea, chokpo 2 Korean Studies 2022 is actually the number one publication. . . . Science does not advance and knowledge does not grow in Korea because of Korea’s inability to free its legs and escape the old muddy fields of chokpo and famous families. . . . . one should not take lightly...

  • Research Article
  • 10.18622/kher.2020.12.156.1
2015 개정 교육과정에 따른 『한국사』교과서의 독립운동사 구성 방식 검토
  • Dec 31, 2020
  • The Korean History Education Review
  • Jimin Woo

“Korean History” by the 2015 National Curriculum has organized the Independence Movement showing the following features. Firstly, it has divided the ‘Japanese colonial era’ into three, to comprehend the Japanese colonial policy and the Korean people’s nationwide movement in connection with international situations thereabout. Moreover, it identified the independence movement continuously from the 1910s to the post-liberation period and presented changes in the independence movement over time. It’s emphasis on social movement is greatly noticeable. We find it meaningful to observe the country Koreans were trying to establish. Accordingly, the activities of Koreans in the 1920s and 1930s, which had been covered as national movements in one, were re-classified into national activities and social movements.<BR> There were many inquiry activites on ‘Japanese colonial era’ which to evaluate the historical significance of various national activities and also to identify the importance of social movements as well. Through these activities, it seems that they wanted to understand the independence movement in various ways and promote critical thinking.

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