Abstract
The term modernisation (hyeondaewha) has been widely used for almost three decades both by the government and people at large in Korea. It refers to things and images such as ‘new’, ‘Western’, ‘developed’, ‘scientific and technological’, ‘international’ and so on. While the modernisation project was initiated by the Korean state, it has always been referred to as ‘our’ project in South Korea. Instead of individual terms such as ‘I/me’, collective ones of ‘we/our’ are commonly used to refer to the phenomenon of modernisation in the everyday language of Koreans. In this situation, words such as ‘we/our’ have normative connotations and shape people’s ways of thinking and acting.1KeywordsKorean SocietyUnmarried WomanKorean WomanWoman WorkerModernisation ProjectThese 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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