{"id":8207,"date":"2010-08-09T19:21:21","date_gmt":"2010-08-09T19:21:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=8207"},"modified":"2011-12-09T17:53:38","modified_gmt":"2011-12-09T17:53:38","slug":"honhyeol","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=8207","title":{"rendered":"honhyeol…"},"content":{"rendered":"

…The Korean word for a bi or multiracial person, despite the composition of their mixture, is honhyeol (in)<\/em>, which literally translates into impure blood.<\/strong> There has been a \u201cpride\u201d instilled in Koreans for their \u201cethnic homogeneity\u201d which has resulted in \u201cfear and distrust of outsiders\u201d (The Economist, 2006). The connotation for Korea, which bases its national identity upon the notion of Koreans descending from one common ancestor and speaking one language, is that these offspring of interracial relationships are not Korean, because they have more than Korean blood coursing through their veins. It makes sense then that the oppositional identity of these \u201cpure blooded\u201d Koreans came about as a sort of resistance to the first Chinese invasion, then Japanese imperialism, and then finally Western imperialism in the form of American occupation after the Korean War. Korean nationalism was wrapped up in the idea of \u201cconsanguinity\u201d to link \u201cethnic homogeneity\u201d to a \u201cprofound sense of cultural distinctiveness and superiority.\u201d (Kim, 2007) As these countries made their presence known, Korea began to rely on internal colonialism, which economically exploited and political excluded groups different from the dominant group, becoming a reminder there can be \u201ccolonial subjects \u2013 on the national soil.\u201d (Gordon, 2006; Blauner 1972, p. 52) For many then, international marriages were \u201cassociated with the invasion of Korea by other countries\u201d and were subsequently seen as \u201cbetrayals of nationalism\u201d where the children resulting from those unions became physical reminders of that betrayal (Lee). Kim Sok-soo believes that the coupling of nationalism with ethnic homogeneity ultimately has became a \u201cuseful tool for the South Korean government when the country was embroiled in ideological turmoil. It was used as an effective tool to make its people obedient and easy to govern\u201d (Park, 2006). The way the bodies of these bi and multiracial Koreans are, in both social and political realms, recognized, regulated, and ultimately utilized through relationships maintained by various institutions of the state is essential to a particular form of governmentality…<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Washington, Myra<\/strong>. \u201cMore than a Metaphor: Blood as Boundary for Korean Biracial Identity<\/a>\u201d Paper presented at the annual meeting of the NCA 95th Annual Convention, Chicago Hilton & Towers, Chicago, IL, Nov 11, 2009 Online <PDF>. 2010-08-09 <http:\/\/www.allacademic.com\/meta\/p368501_index.html<\/a>><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

…The Korean word for a bi or multiracial person, despite the composition of their mixture, is honhyeol (in), which literally translates into impure blood. There has been a \u201cpride\u201d instilled in Koreans for their \u201cethnic homogeneity\u201d which has resulted in \u201cfear and distrust of outsiders\u201d (The Economist, 2006). The connotation for Korea, which bases its […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,3,125,8,394],"tags":[228,229],"class_list":["post-8207","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia","category-excerpts","category-identitydevelopment","category-media-archive","category-socialscience","tag-korea","tag-south-korea"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8207","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=8207"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8207\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8207"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8207"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8207"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}