Nation Building In South Korea Research Articles

Short-lived fantasy or long-term legacy? 2018 Pyeongchang Winter Olympics and nation-building in South Korea

It is argued theoretically and demonstrated empirically that mega-sporting events (MSEs) play a paramount role in promoting nation-building in the host countries. This study navigates the case of the 2018 Pyeongchang Winter Olympics held in February 2018 in South Korea and examines the impact of this sporting event on nation-building. To this end, this article employed an online survey that was conducted three times at stated intervals in major Korean Web communities— January 2018 (one month before the Olympic Games), April 2018 (two months after the Olympic Games), and March 2019 (one year after the Olympic Games). This study suggests that, while the hosting of the 2018 Pyeongchang Olympics had truly accomplished nation-building effect, this was just a short-term fantasy rather than long-term legacy.

Liberation or purification? Prostitution, women’s movement and nation building in South Korea under US military occupation, 1945–1948

This article investigates postcolonial South Korea’s prostitution policy as a focal point of sexual politics in the undertaking of nation building under US military occupation (1945–1948). It clarifies that the discourse on prostitution served as a forum for competing visions of a new nation: socialism versus nationalism, and women’s liberation versus national purification. It analyzes the paradoxical process by which the women’s campaign to abolish one colonial legacy of prostitution (‘Authorization-Regulation’) eventually resulted in retaining another legacy (‘Toleration-Regulation’) in a new guise. It conceptualizes the postcolonial prostitution policy that combined regulation and prohibition as a ‘Toleration-Regulation Regime,’ arguing that it was a compromise between the US military government and South Korean elites. Finally, this article demonstrates that building the nation was also a process of making female subalterns, prostitutes.

Reconstructing Bodies: Biomedicine, Health, and Nation-building in South Korea since 1945 by John P. DiMoia

Reconstructing Bodies: Biomedicine, Health, and Nation-building in South Korea since 1945 by John P. DiMoia

John P. Dimoia, Reconstructing Bodies: Biomedicine, Health, and Nation Building in South Korea since 1945, Stanford: Stanford University Press (Studies of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute, Columbia University), 2013, 296 pp.

John P. Dimoia, Reconstructing Bodies: Biomedicine, Health, and Nation Building in South Korea since 1945, Stanford: Stanford University Press (Studies of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute, Columbia University), 2013, 296 pp.

Reconstructing Bodies: Biomedicine, Health, and Nation-Building in South Korea since 1945

Reconstructing Bodies: Biomedicine, Health, and Nation-Building in South Korea since 1945

Elite Sport and Nation-Building in South Korea: South Korea as the Dark Horse in Global Elite Sport

South Korea has performed well in international sporting competitions over the past quarter of a century, as revealed by Olympic Games medal counts. Although a growing body of literature has investigated the elite sport systems of Western countries and China, few sports scholars have examined South Korea. This article begins this analysis by examining how the South Korean government has used elite sport for nation-building and promoting national identity; how it has employed a strategy for hosting major events; and assesses these factors and the role of business as significant contributors for the success of Korean elite sport.

Nation Building in South Korea: Koreans, Americans and the Making of a Democracy

Nation Building in South Korea: Koreans, Americans and the Making of a Democracy

Gregg Brazinsky, Nation Building in South Korea: Koreans, Americans, and the Making of a Democracy

January 01 2010 Gregg Brazinsky, Nation Building in South Korea: Koreans, Americans, and the Making of a Democracy Robert M. Hathaway Robert M. Hathaway Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Scholar Author and Article Information Robert M. Hathaway Online Issn: 1531-3298 Print Issn: 1520-3972 © 2010 by the President and Fellows of Harvard College and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology2010 Journal of Cold War Studies (2010) 12 (1): 168–169. https://doi.org/10.1162/jcws.2010.12.1.168 Cite Icon Cite Permissions Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Search Site Citation Robert M. Hathaway; Gregg Brazinsky, Nation Building in South Korea: Koreans, Americans, and the Making of a Democracy. Journal of Cold War Studies 2010; 12 (1): 168–169. doi: https://doi.org/10.1162/jcws.2010.12.1.168 Download citation file: Ris (Zotero) Reference Manager EasyBib Bookends Mendeley Papers EndNote RefWorks BibTex toolbar search Search Dropdown Menu toolbar search search input Search input auto suggest filter your search All ContentAll JournalsJournal of Cold War Studies Search Advanced Search This content is only available as a PDF. © 2010 by the President and Fellows of Harvard College and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology2010 Article PDF first page preview Close Modal You do not currently have access to this content.

State and Nation Building in South Korea: A Comparative Historical Perspective

The paper analyzes why South Korea, a war-tom and poverty-stricken country, succeeded in building a modem state in a single generation under the most trying circumstances. Despite its remarkable success, there are conflicting views on contemporary Korea: common liberal perspectives tend to focus on its deviances from democracy. The author develops a theoretical perspective on nation building which assumes that a new nation lacks the basic infrastructure of a modem state and therefore the primary task of leadership is to build this infrastructure-security, economy, and democracy. It is assumed that many constraints as well as multiple challenges exist in nation building, but a step-by-step approach is necessary. In terms of a comparative historical perspective based on the nation-building of early modernizers, those nations experienced a centralization of power, a buildup of a standing army and economic growth, and democratization occurred gradually. The paper then analyzes how South Korea's nation building is similar to those early modernizers in terms of sequential achievement in the order of security, economic growth, and democratization. Witnessing a looming failure of the U.S. policy of democracy promotion in Iraq, the approach has important theoretical implications for those who struggle with the lingering problems of many Third World nations.

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Pressure and Protection: Cold War Geopolitics and Nation-Building in South Korea, South Vietnam, Philippines, and Thailand

This paper compares the failures and successes of nation-building in South Korea, South Vietnam, Philippines, and Thailand between 1954 and 1991. The primary argument is that several key elements of Cold War geopolitics interacted with each other, and the unique external and internal politics of each regime, to create divergent frameworks and margins for error that influenced the willingness and ability of each state to assume the burdens of nation-building. In all four states, moreover, the success of nation-building depended on finding the right balance between geopolitical pressure and protection to augment local narratives of security, nationalism, and legitimacy.

“알맞게 낳아서 훌륭하게 기르자!” (Let’s Have the Proper Number of Children and Raise Them Well!): Family Planning and Nation-Building in South Korea, 1961–1968

This paper looks at the formation of a South Korean national health network by focusing on the introduction of an ambitious National Family Planning (FP) Program under President Park Chung Hee (1961–1968). The program, influenced in part by the model of its neighbor, Taiwan (Taichung), saw two pilot studies carried out in Koyang (rural, beginning in 1963) and Sundong-gu (Seoul metropolitan area, 1964–1966), before being carried to rural areas nationwide. If the program began with numerous echoes of Japanese colonial practice, it was mobilized specifically in terms of the emerging “modern” South Korean story and the state’s relationship to the welfare of the individual family unit. Using a range of Korean and English-language sources, the paper illustrates how the FP effort took: (1) the Koyang study of the effects of mass communication in rural areas as a tentative blueprint for expanding its national agenda; (2) subsequently enlisted mobile transportation (1966) to expand the scope of its reach; and finally, mobilized “Mothers’ Clubs” (1968) to penetrate the very fabric of rural society, making women both the target as well as the primary means of distribution. Ultimately, this strategy of enlisting the active participation of South Korean women on behalf of the program asked rural women in particular to submit their bodies to the state’s scrutiny, even as they formed the core of the distribution network. In this respect, FP anticipated the mass mobilization of rural South Korea in the New Village movement of the 1970s and leaves behind an ambiguous legacy of state control that is only just beginning to be re-examined.

(Let's Have the Proper Number of Children and Raise Them Well!): Family Planning and Nation-Building in South Korea, 1961–1968

This paper looks at the formation of a South Korean national health network by focusing on the introduction of an ambitious National Family Planning (FP) Program under President Park Chung Hee (1961–1968). The program, influenced in part by the model of its neighbor, Taiwan (Taichung), saw two pilot studies carried out in Koyang (rural, beginning in 1963) and Sundong-gu (Seoul metropolitan area, 1964–1966), before being carried to rural areas nationwide. If the program began with numerous echoes of Japanese colonial practice, it was mobilized specifically in terms of the emerging “modern” South Korean story and the state's relationship to the welfare of the individual family unit. Using a range of Korean and English-language sources, the paper illustrates how the FP effort took: (1) the Koyang study of the effects of mass communication in rural areas as a tentative blueprint for expanding its national agenda; (2) subsequently enlisted mobile transportation (1966) to expand the scope of its reach; and finally, mobilized “Mothers' Clubs” (1968) to penetrate the very fabric of rural society, making women both the target as well as the primary means of distribution. Ultimately, this strategy of enlisting the active participation of South Korean women on behalf of the program asked rural women in particular to submit their bodies to the state's scrutiny, even as they formed the core of the distribution network. In this respect, FP anticipated the mass mobilization of rural South Korea in the New Village movement of the 1970s and leaves behind an ambiguous legacy of state control that is only just beginning to be re-examined.

Nation building in South Korea: Koreans, Americans, and the making of a democracy

Nation building in South Korea: Koreans, Americans, and the making of a democracy