{"id":30893,"date":"2013-05-10T15:01:45","date_gmt":"2013-05-10T15:01:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=30893"},"modified":"2013-05-10T15:01:45","modified_gmt":"2013-05-10T15:01:45","slug":"even-the-rivers-a-film-about-educating-south-koreas-multiethnic-generation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=30893","title":{"rendered":"Even The Rivers: A film about educating South Korea’s multiethnic generation."},"content":{"rendered":"

Even The Rivers: A film about educating South Korea’s multiethnic generation.<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

April 2013<\/p>\n

Cindy Lou Howe<\/a><\/strong>, Director<\/p>\n

Matt Kelley<\/a><\/strong>, Producer<\/p>\n

Uikwon Lee<\/a><\/strong>, Researcher<\/p>\n

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“In 10 years, even the rivers and mountains change.”
\n\u2014Korean proverb<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

South Korea has seemingly always known dramatic change. Created after Japanese colonization and a devastating civil war, the nation became one of history\u2019s most remarkable economic success stories. Today, many South Koreans are proud that their former \u201cHermit Kingdom\u201d is a global economic and cultural powerhouse, hosting the Olympics and exporting everything from Galaxy smartphones to \u201cGangnam Style.\u201d<\/p>\n

Despite this constant change, South Korea remains one of the world\u2019s most ethnically homogeneous societies. According to recent statistics, just two percent of South Koreans are immigrants, the bulk of whom are ethnic Koreans from China. Many Koreans cling to a \u201cone blood\u201d national identity that emphasizes so-called \u201cpure\u201d bloodlines, a notion borne of nationalist and anti-imperialist movements from the turn of the last century.<\/p>\n

This self-concept, however, is increasingly at odds with the nation\u2019s changing demographics. Urbanization, immigration and one of the world\u2019s lowest fertility rates have resulted in a multi-ethnic baby boom for South Korea. According to the 2010 Census, there are over 150,000 children in the country with at least one parent of non-Korean heritage. By 2020, the government estimates there will be over 1.6 million multi-ethnic South Koreans, including half of all children living in rural areas…<\/p>\n

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Even The Rivers: A film about educating South Korea’s multiethnic generation. April 2013 Cindy Lou Howe, Director Matt Kelley, Producer Uikwon Lee, Researcher “In 10 years, even the rivers and mountains change.” \u2014Korean proverb South Korea has seemingly always known dramatic change. Created after Japanese colonization and a devastating civil war, the nation became one […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,33,8,394,842],"tags":[14643,10285,229,14642],"class_list":["post-30893","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia","category-census","category-media-archive","category-socialscience","category-videos","tag-cindy-lou-howe","tag-matt-kelley","tag-south-korea","tag-uikwon-lee"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30893","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=30893"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30893\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=30893"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=30893"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=30893"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}