[Jennifer Jung-Kim]

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[Jennifer Jung-Kim]

Hi, 

Please share your thoughts on this workshop here: 

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Jennifer

[Jennifer Jung-Kim]

Great ideas! I teach a foodways class and students have to each make a video. Because not everyone can afford to eat out or buy special groceries, I give them the option of going to a market and talking about the ingredients or prepared foods there (without buying them). 

[Jennifer Jung-Kim]

I forgot to show the results of our Mentimeter word cloud survey (please see attached file).

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The haenyeo are one of the many cool things about Jeju! 

Koreans do like basketball, but soccer is by far most popular. 

It is illegal for ordinary North Koreans to possess South Korean content, but people do get it. South Koreans often send balloons with USBs over the DMZ, and people also get it on the black market. And some people close to the Chinese border can get content that way. 

[Jennifer Jung-Kim]

Hi, Everyone, 

It was a pleasure to see you today. 

This is the course I am teaching for high school students in July: 

Immersive International Studies Summer Institute

And keep an eye out for my August 5-week series for educators on Korean popular culture!

Re: lunar new year: 

https://folkency.nfm.go.kr/en/topic/detail/4243

https://english.visitkorea.or.kr/enu/ATR/SI_EN_3_6.jsp?cid=941952

I can't find a good link to the Taste the Nation episode covering seollal, but you may be able to find it. 

If you post other questions, I am happy to answer them

Best,

Jennifer 

 

[Jennifer Jung-Kim]

Hi, Everyone, 

Please view the two videos and at least skim over the readings before our Zoom session on Monday. I look forward to your questions and comments. In particular, I hope you will think about how you can apply pre-1800 Korea to your classroom, regardless of which level/subject you teach.

Best,

Jennifer

 

[Jennifer Jung-Kim]

Kayla, I absolutely agree. I don't know how they came to call it "costume" and I wish they would stop that. 

I do not think of it as cultural appropriation if clothing is worn in a respectful way. And Koreans love it when tourists wear Hanbok to visit palaces. 

But I do have a problem if someone wears it on Halloween as a costume. 

[Jennifer Jung-Kim]

Althuogh there are many Koreans who would welcome reunification, the official South Korean position (and obviously North Korean as well) is that they do not want to see regime collapse in North Korea. And if we try to second-guess whether the US, Japan, PRC, and Russia would be better off with a reunified Korea or not, I think the answer is that the other neighboring countries would rather not. I think then the most feasible option would be to end the Korean War and have two separate, peaceful Koreas.  

[Jennifer Jung-Kim]

I think Britain was definitely complicit, as was the US with the Taft-Katsura Agreement. Both the US and Britian were safeguarding their own intersts over The Phillippines and Hong Kong, respectively, and bargained so with Japan.

[Jennifer Jung-Kim]

What does the Chinese & Korean revival of traditional clothing signify?

Koreans do wear traditional clothing for lunar new year, weddings, and more, so I wouldn't say it's exactly been "revived," unless you mean the "everyday Hanbok" that you see worn in a more everyday sense. 

Does wearing traditional clothing signify rising cultural & historical pride?

I think it definitely reflects pride, but I don't know that it's rising.

Does it suggest rising nationalism?

Ditto.

 

What does the China-Korea controversy over clothing mean? Does it reflect the traditional power relationship between China and Korea?

There is controversy over everything, from history to food to popular culture, so it doesn't seem odd that clothing is also controversial. 

 

Is traditional clothing considered “material culture”?

I think so, the same as any other tangible cultural item. 

 

[Jennifer Jung-Kim]

There were some hopes that Trump and Kim Jong Un might have been able to end the Korean War for once and for all, but that did not happen. 

In my Intro to East Asia class, I have students take on various roles as Six Party country representatives and NGO representatives to try to hash out a Peace Treaty. It's run like a poli sci simulation, and it's a great way to learn about conflicting and overlaping agendas of different partties. 

[Jennifer Jung-Kim]

Tood, this is a really fun course that looks at the globalization of Korean popular culture in the forms of Korean popular music (K-pop), dramas, cinema, webtoons, food, beauty products (K-beauty), sports, and e-sports. The course is framed as a writing-intensive course that teaches students to write critically. But I do think students get more when they have some understadning of modern Korean history instead of just looking at popular culture by itself. 

[Jennifer Jung-Kim]

According to this article, the 1968 editorial letter in the New England Journal of Medicine started as a joke/bet between two doctors, but somehow sparked an anti-Asian campaign that is still going today: 

The Strange Case of Dr. Ho Man Kwok

[Jennifer Jung-Kim]

Btw, one of my former students from Occidental College won Master Chef UK in 2011 and has become a bit of a celebrtiy chef. I love that chefs don't have to be limited to the cuisine of their own ethnicity. 

https://www.bighospitality.co.uk/Article/2019/07/23/MasterChef-winner-Tim-Anderson-to-double-up-with-a-second-Nanban-Japanese-restaurant-in-London-s-Covent-Garden

 

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