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  • In Korea, Adoptees Fight To Change Culture That Sent Them Overseas

    In Korea, Adoptees Fight To Change Culture That Sent Them Overseas Code Switch: Frontiers of Race, Culture and Ethnicity National Public Radio 2014-09-09 Steve Haruch In the Gwanak-gu neighborhood of Seoul, there is a box. Attached to the side of a building, the box resembles a book drop at a public library, only larger, and…

  • Abuse of Modernity: Japanese Biological Determinism and Identity Management in Colonial Korea

    Abuse of Modernity: Japanese Biological Determinism and Identity Management in Colonial Korea Cross-Currents: East Asian History and Culture Review Number 10, March 2014 26 pages Mark Caprio Rikkyo University, Ikebukuro, Tokyo, Japan Medical researcher Kubo Takeshi’s contributions to professional publications, such as Chōsen igakkai zasshi (The Korean medical journal), and more popular magazines, such as…

  • Skin color remains big barrier

    Skin color remains big barrier The Korea Times 2014-01-27 Park Si-soo Min Kyung-joon (alias) is a “good boy” in many aspects. The freshman at a middle school in Ansan, Gyeonggi Province, has been acknowledged by his teachers for his outstanding academic achievement and affable personality. Min is also very actively engaged in sports, which explains…

  • Gov’t to overhaul services for multicultural families

    Gov’t to overhaul services for multicultural families Yonhap News Agency Seoul, South Korea 2014-01-15 Shim Sun-ah SEOUL, Jan. 15 (Yonhap) — The government plans to streamline its support system for multicultural families to help them integrate into society, officials said Wednesday. The move comes as some existing services, including Korean-language education, have been redundant or…

  • Transforming Korea into a multicultural society: reception of multiculturalism discourse and its discursive disposition in Korea

    Transforming Korea into a multicultural society: reception of multiculturalism discourse and its discursive disposition in Korea Asian Ethnicity Volume 13, Issue 1, 2012 pages 97-109 DOI: 10.1080/14631369.2012.625703 Ji-Hyun Ahn University of Texas, Austin Since 2005, multicultural-based words such as multicultural society, multicultural family, and multicultural education have grown explosively in Korean society. Due to this…

  • Race and Justice in Transnational Perspective: “Race-ing Toward the Real South Korea: The Cases of Black-Korean Nationals”

    Race and Justice in Transnational Perspective: “Race-ing Toward the Real South Korea: The Cases of Black-Korean Nationals” Seminar Series: Race and Justice in Transnational Perspective University of California, Merced California Room 5200 North Lake Rd. Merced, California 95343 2013-11-07, 10:30 PDT (Local Time) Nadia Y. Kim, Associate Professor of Sociology Loyola Marymount University, Los Angeles,…

  • Rearticulating Black Mixed-Race in the Era of Globalization: Hines Ward and the struggle for Koreanness in contemporary South Korean media

    Rearticulating Black Mixed-Race in the Era of Globalization: Hines Ward and the struggle for Koreanness in contemporary South Korean media Cultural Studies Volume 28, Issue 3, 2014 pages 391-417 DOI: 10.1080/09502386.2013.840665 Ji-Hyun Ahn University of Texas, Austin Since the mid-2000s, the term multiculturalism has entered the Korean lexicon as migration has become more and more…

  • An African American’s Perspective on the Korean Wave

    An African American’s Perspective on the Korean Wave The Chosunilbo Seoul, Korea 2013-07-09 Emanuel Pastreich, Associate Professor Humanitas College, Kyunghee University I received an unexpected email in February 2013, from a young woman who was studying public health at Harvard University. Mariesa Lee Ricks explained that her mother was Korean and that she had a…

  • Winners of 1st Korea Multicultural Youth Awards

    Winners of 1st Korea Multicultural Youth Awards The Korea Times 2012-12-12 Jun Ji-hye Habitus, a student volunteer group at Yongmoon High School in Seoul, has worked for vulnerable members of society such as the disabled, senior citizens and multiracial children. Among their good works, running the study room for elementary school students from multiracial families…

  • Stepping toward multiculturalism

    Stepping toward multiculturalism The Korea Herald 2013-04-03 Cho Chung-un Experts call for a long-term vision of Korea as a multiethnic society, social agreement on overall immigration policy Globalization, demographic change and economic growth have led Korea to embrace cultural diversity and tolerance toward others. But biases and discrimination against foreigners remain and Koreans’ pride for…