Parenting TV, experts, and middle-class mothers in South Korea

2013 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hae Young Jung
Keyword(s):  
Middle Class ◽  
South Korea

Feminine Habitus

2015 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kelly H. Chong
Keyword(s):  
Middle Class ◽  
South Korea ◽  
Small Group ◽  
Sense Of Self ◽  
Spiritual Practices ◽  
Group Culture ◽  
Women’S Experiences ◽  
Evangelical Churches ◽  
Women's Experiences ◽  
Cell Groups

This chapter explores middle-class women's experiences and encounters with evangelicalism and patriarchy in South Korea, which is renowned for the phenomenal success of its evangelical churches. It focuses on a female, small-group culture to study the ways women become constituted as new feminine subjects through the development of a novel evangelical habitus—one that is constituted by new dispositions, both embodied and linguistic, and is developed through ritualized rhetorical, bodily, and spiritual practices. Through participation in cell groups, the chapter reveals how women sought healing for experiences of “intense domestic suffering,” notably when attempts at other solutions failed, such as psychotherapy or shamanistic intervention. Yet in spite of the empowered sense of self that many achieved through these therapeutic, charismatically oriented communities, women were still resubjugated to the structures of social and religious patriarchy.

Body and Ki in GiCheon

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Victoria Ten (Jeon Yeon Hwa)
Keyword(s):  
Middle Class ◽  
South Korea ◽  
Rural Society ◽  
Social Phenomena ◽  
Industrial Growth ◽  
Cultural Authenticity ◽  
The Past ◽  
New Middle Class

Industrial growth and the development of the new middle class in South Korea of the 1980s went together with increased consumption and leisure culture, causing growing concerns with health and personal self-cultivation. Accordingly, sŏngin undong (sports for adults), mountain hiking and ki suryŏn were on the rise. People of older generations have lived through Korea’s dramatic transformation from a mostly rural society to an industrial one. Their yearning for the past, in which the “past” is idealized and imagined anew, is directly connected to old Korean mountain culture of immortality, a touchstone of cultural authenticity. Together with an image of rural “old Korea” in the minds of contemporary people, it becomes a source of inspiration in re-inventing tradition in the spirit of nationalism. This tendency is expressed in new religious and spiritual movements that matured toward the 1980s. Ki suryŏn is an important part of these spiritual-social phenomena. The author Victoria Ten (Jeon Yeon Hwa) is a teacher of GiCheon, one ki suryŏn disciplines, which she researches at academia, combining this with a profession of a lawyer.

The Development of Gratitude in South Korean Youth

2017 ◽  
Vol 52 (1) ◽  
pp. 87-101
Author(s):  
Ebony D. Leon ◽  
Yue Liang ◽  
Soeun Lee ◽  
Sung-Ae Kim ◽  
Lisa Kiang
Keyword(s):  
Middle Class ◽  
South Korea ◽  
Children And Adolescents ◽  
Cultural Values ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Regression Analyses ◽  
Korean Children ◽  
South Korean ◽  
The Poor ◽  
Korean Youth

Guided by Kağıtçıbaşı’s work on cultural values, the current study sought to examine the gratitude expressions, wishes, and spending preferences of South Korean children and adolescents. Participants included ( N = 229) 7- to 14-year-olds ( M = 10.79, SD = 2.19; 54% girls; 55.3% middle class) from Kimpo, and Seoul, South Korea. Regression analyses revealed that older Korean youth were less likely to express concrete gratitude than were younger Korean youth. In addition, older Korean youth were less likely to give their money to charity or the poor. With regard to wishes, Korean youth who wished for the well-being of others were more likely to also give their money away to others. This study contributed to the gratitude literature by considering how gratitude, wishes, and spending preferences may manifest themselves in an understudied group, young Koreans.

Transforming the East Asian developmental state: Democratic mobilisation and the role of the middle class

2020 ◽  
pp. 205789111989785
Author(s):  
Tian He
Keyword(s):  
Middle Class ◽  
South Korea ◽  
East Asian ◽  
Policy Decision ◽  
Developmental State ◽  
Business Elites ◽  
Economic Decision Making ◽  
Ruling Elites ◽  
Growth Promoting

Many studies have noted the reduction in the effectiveness of the East Asian developmental state in formulating growth-promoting policy in South Korea and Taiwan. Current literature attributes the transformation of the developmental state model to the rise of business elites and organised labour. This article argues that another type of social actor – the middle class – also contributed to the state’s reduced capability in directing economic development. Unlike business elites and organised labour who directly challenge the state’s policy decision, the middle class forces East Asian ruling elites to democratise the political system of a country. The democratic transition pushed by the middle class consequently facilitates the emergence of policy constraints on the state’s economic decision-making process. I elaborate this argument in the two divergent cases: the transformation of the developmental state in South Korea and the non-transformation of the developmental state in Singapore.

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