Sacred Game: A Goffmanian Ethnography of a Women-Only Public Place in South Korea

2020 ◽  
Vol 25 (4) ◽  
pp. 718-733
Author(s):  
Jongryul Choi ◽  
Yeseul Lee
Keyword(s):  
South Korea ◽  
Empirical Research ◽  
Ethnographic Research ◽  
Conceptual Scheme ◽  
Korean Women ◽  
Public Place ◽  
Public Places ◽  
Interaction Order ◽  
Better Than

Recently, women-only public places have emerged rapidly and become widespread all over South Korea, but very little empirical research has been conducted on how women construct interaction order in such places. This article is a Goffmanian ethnography of how Korean women construct interaction order in a women-only public place. It presents ‘sacred game’ as a conceptual scheme to inform ethnographic research on interaction order. By using this conceptual scheme, we conduct an ethnography of a women-only yoga studio in South Korea. This research shows that women actively engage in sacred game when they appear in a women-only public place where situational proprieties are ambiguous and actions are inconsequential. This research suggests that creating this kind of public place would be better than merely creating a women-only public place itself in order to empower women to form a modern sociability.

Health-seeking experience of North Korean women defectors in South Korea

2018 ◽  
Vol 35 (3) ◽  
pp. 192-201
Author(s):  
Chong-Hee Chung ◽  
Hee-Young Kang ◽  
Pamela K. Lake
Keyword(s):  
South Korea ◽  
Korean Women ◽  
Health Seeking

Risk Comparison of Karachi Stock Exchange with Next Eleven Countries: A Country Beta Approach

2014 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 202
Author(s):  
Aqeel Abbas ◽  
Sajjad Ahmad Baig ◽  
Muhammad Zia-ur-Rehman ◽  
Muhammad Abrar
Keyword(s):  
South Korea ◽  
Stock Exchange ◽  
Country Risk ◽  
Stock Exchanges ◽  
Global Index ◽  
The World ◽  
Better Than

This study is based on the Country risk of different stock exchanges of the world. Here Country risk is derived from the Country Beta Approach, as this approach is described by the Erb, Harvey and Viskanta (1996). Specifically, this study is based on the risk comparison of KSE 100 with next eleven countries (South Korea, Iran, Mexico, Philippine, Indonesia, Turkey, Egypt, Nigeria, Pakistan, Vietnam and Bangladesh), which are defined by the Goldman Sachs (2005). For this purpose, the stock exchange's data of these countries is compared with the global index. Actually, the global index is consisted on the 44 countries of the world. Here only one factor is discussed, which is a country risk (country beta). Actually the riskiness is measured in this study on the basis of beta, higher the beta means higher the risk; lower the beta means low the risk. The result shows that the performance of KSE is much better than the next eleven economies but Nigerian stock exchange has less risk than the KSE 100.

scholarly journals Four Asian Tigers' Political and Economic Development Revisited 1998-2017: From the Perspective of National Identity

2021 ◽  
Vol .4 (4) ◽  
pp. 54-61
Author(s):  
Dong-Ching Day
Keyword(s):  
Economic Development ◽  
Hong Kong ◽  
National Identity ◽  
South Korea ◽  
Developmental State ◽  
State Theory ◽  
Economic Growth Rate ◽  
Asian Tigers ◽  
Identity Issue ◽  
Better Than

Developmental state used to be and is still regarded as a very practical theory to explain why Four Asian Tigers-Taiwan, South Korea, Hong Kong, and Singapore enjoyed almost averagely double-digit economic growth rate each year from 1970 to 1990 as well as East Asian economic development. However, developmental state theory couldn’t tell why South Korea and Singapore’s economic development had done much better than Taiwan and Hong Kong’s in terms of GDP per capita after 2003 and 2004 respectively. The aim of the study is trying to use national identity perspective to explain why it happens like this, since Four Asian Tigers’ economic development more or less was troubled by national identity issue. The major difference between these two groups is that South Korea and Singapore have done better in dealing with national identity issue than Taiwan and Hong Kong.

scholarly journals The Upsurge and Impact of COVID 19 in India: Health Issues and Remedial Measures

2021 ◽  
pp. 28-34
Author(s):  
Kanchi Isswani
Keyword(s):  
Sudden Increase ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Health Issues ◽  
Public Places ◽  
Frontline Workers ◽  
Time Period ◽  
Essential Services ◽  
Novel Coronavirus ◽  
Major Decision ◽  
Better Than

The novel Coronavirus was something that nobody was prepared for. It was that part of the syllabus which was always neglected. The contagious disease which started in the Wuhan region of China had started to settle in various parts of the World. The outbreak of this disease has reached such a huge number that all the countries witnessed lockdown in some form or the other. Some people have witnessed destruction of mankind while some have even leisured this time to their fullest but as it has been always said “Prevention is better than cure”. Prevention of covid 19 in all the nations was one of the major steps which was taken in the year 2020. In India it all started in the year of 2019 December when the first ever case of covid 19 was reported in the state of Kerala followed by Rajasthan, Maharashtra and Delhi. Following such a situation and then sudden increase in the no of cases all over the country a major decision was taken that was of Complete lockdown excluding the emergency and essential services. Before taking the step of lockdown, as a gesture of respect to the frontline workers, government of India announced Tali Bajao movement. In the period of lockdown Certain norms were even made mandatory that were wearing a mask, maintenance of hand sanitation and following social distancing of 1.5 meters in public places. All the educational institutes and teachings were even suspended during the time period of lockdown as it could have become a hub for the virus to spread. With time, the restrictions which were laid down in lockdown were started to be reduced in the phase wise manner and finally India noticed its very first Unlock period. In all this scenario mankind has dealt with various situations and have emerged to be a better person. All these steps were crucial to control the spread of Novel Coronavirus and prevention from the already spread cases.

Mixed-Race Children and Their Korean Mothers

Framed by War ◽  
2019 ◽  
pp. 148-173
Author(s):  
Susie Woo
Keyword(s):  
South Korea ◽  
Mixed Race ◽  
The United States ◽  
Racial Identification ◽  
Korean Women ◽  
South Korean ◽  
Segregated Schools ◽  
Child Placement ◽  
Women And Children ◽  
Identification Practices

This chapter looks at what happened to the Korean women and children who remained in South Korea. It sets the stage by describing how President Rhee’s 1953 directive to remove children with American fathers to the United States heightened the vulnerability of those who stayed. The South Korean government worked closely with Harry Holt and in 1954 established Korea’s first welfare agency, Child Placement Service, expressly to remove mixed-race children. The chapter describes how US racial identification practices used to determine which children were “part-black” were introduced to and became institutionalized in South Korea. It also describes how Korean women were erased in this process. They were coerced to give up their mixed-race children and were offered no support from either government. For the children, solutions ranging from segregated schools to welfare reports that pathologized them as “social handicaps” relegated this population to the margins. The chapter ends with a consideration of how mixed-race children and the mothers who fought to raise them navigated the ongoing legacies of US militarization in South Korea.

The ecosystem of a ‘wealth-tech’ culture: the birth of networked financial subjects in South Korea

2019 ◽  
Vol 42 (2) ◽  
pp. 207-224
Author(s):  
Bohyeong Kim
Keyword(s):  
Social Networks ◽  
South Korea ◽  
Social Networking ◽  
Financial Information ◽  
Self Management ◽  
Public Place ◽  
Third Place ◽  
Simultaneous Production ◽  
New Form

Starting with an online financial community in South Korea, this article explores the simultaneous production of a new form of subjectivity and a networked ecosystem of financial cultures. Using a multi-sited ethnography to track the movements of users as they moved across different spaces, this article finds that users gifted financial information to each other, blended laity and expertise, and reappropriated financial communities into a third place defined as an informal, public place hosting sociable conversations. Through the grafting of prosocial activities (e.g. sharing, gifting, and social networking) onto financial self-management, users were shaped as networked financial subjects and exhibited a distinctive mode of selfhood informed by both financial subjectivity and neoliberal networked subjectivity. At the same time, their practices spawned countless social, convivial groups as well as entrepreneurial financial gurus. By demonstrating the complex webs of on- and off-line groups, programs, relationships, and social networks, this article illustrates how the networked ecosystem of financial cultures brought the markets and commons into coalescence.

scholarly journals A Fuzzy Technique for On-Line Aggregation of POIs from Social Media: Definition and Comparison with Off-Line Random-Forest Classifiers

Information ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 10 (12) ◽  
pp. 388
Author(s):  
Giuseppe Psaila ◽  
Maurizio Toccu
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Random Forest ◽  
Data Sets ◽  
Public Place ◽  
Public Places ◽  
Machine Learning Classification ◽  
Classification Technique ◽  
Points Of Interest ◽  
On Line ◽  
Source Of Information

Social media represent an inexhaustible source of information concerning public places (also called points of interest (POIs)), provided by users. Several social media own and publish huge and independently-built corpora of data about public places which are not linked each other. An aggregated view of information concerning the same public place could be extremely useful, but social media are not immutable sources, thus the off-line approach adopted in all previous research works cannot provide up-to-date information in real time. In this work, we address the problem of on-line aggregating geo-located descriptors of public places provided by social media. The on-line approach makes impossible to adopt machine-learning (classification) techniques, trained on previously gathered data sets. We overcome the problem by adopting an approach based on fuzzy logic: we define a binary fuzzy relation, whose on-line evaluation allows for deciding if two public-place descriptors coming from different social media actually describe the same public place. We tested our technique on three data sets, describing public places in Manchester (UK), Genoa (Italy) and Stuttgart (Germany); the comparison with the off-line classification technique called “random forest” proved that our on-line technique obtains comparable results.

scholarly journals Effect of the Floor Level on the Probability of a Neurologically Favorable Discharge after Cardiac Arrest according to the Event Location

2019 ◽  
Vol 2019 ◽  
pp. 1-6
Author(s):  
Han Joo Choi ◽  
Hyung Jun Moon ◽  
Won Jung Jeong ◽  
Gi Woon Kim ◽  
Jae Hyug Woo ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Cardiac Arrest ◽  
Life Support ◽  
Response Times ◽  
Advanced Life Support ◽  
Public Place ◽  
Public Places ◽  
Floor Level ◽  
High Rise ◽  
Event Location ◽  
At Home

As the number of people living in high-rise buildings increases, so does the incidence of cardiac arrest in these locations. Changes in cardiac arrest location affect the recognition of patients and emergency medical service (EMS) activation and response. This study aimed to compare the EMS response times and probability of a neurologically favorable discharge among patients who suffered an out-of-hospital cardiac arrest (OHCA) event while on a high or low floor at home or in a public place. This retrospective analysis was based on Smart Advanced Life Support registry data from January 2016 to December 2017. We included patients older than 18 years who suffered an OHCA due to medical causes. A high floor was defined as ≥3rd floor above ground. We compared the probability of a neurologically favorable discharge according to floor level and location (home vs. public place) of the OHCA event. Of the 6,335 included OHCA cases, 4,154 (65.6%) events occurred in homes. Rapid call-to-scene times were reported for high-floor events in both homes and public places. A longer call-to-patient time was observed for home events. The probability of a neurologically favorable discharge after a high-floor OHCA was significantly lower than that after a low-floor OHCA if the event occurred in a public place (adjusted odds ratio (aOR), 0.58; 95% confidence intervals (CI), 0.37–0.89) but was higher if the event occurred at home (aOR, 1.40; 95% CI, 0.96–2.03). Both the EMS response times to OHCA events in high-rise buildings and the probability of a neurologically favorable discharge differed between homes and public places. The results suggest that the prognosis of an OHCA patient is more likely to be affected by the building structure and use rather than the floor height.

The fantasy of authenticity: understanding the paradox of retail gentrification in Seoul from a Lacanian perspective

2020 ◽  
pp. 147447402091466
Author(s):  
Myung In Ji
Keyword(s):  
South Korea ◽  
The Other ◽  
Ethnographic Research ◽  
Lacanian Psychoanalysis ◽  
Scant Attention ◽  
Consumption Practices ◽  
Own Name

Gentrification studies have well-documented how gentrifiers’ alternative consumption practices of seeking ‘authenticity’ lead to retail gentrification. However, they pay scant attention to the paradoxical subjects of gentrification who continue to take part in gentrification by consuming authenticity, even as they criticize the gentrification-driven loss of authenticity. Drawing upon Lacanian psychoanalysis and ethnographic research in one of the gentrifying neighborhoods in Seoul, South Korea, this article demonstrates how the fantasy of authenticity sustains this paradox while facilitating the continuing retail gentrification. As part of the process, various subjects of gentrification name the neighborhood differently – Seochon and Sejong Village – and claim that their own name is more authentic than the other. In and beyond this toponym debate, the fantasy of authenticity allows the subjects to constantly cross the borders of authentic/inauthentic and gentrifier/gentrified, and thus, reinvest their endless desire for ‘something more authentic’. Ultimately, by bridging psychoanalysis and gentrification studies, I argue that we, as the subjects of gentrification, should bear responsibility for our compelling desire for and fantasy of authenticity to challenge the cycle of the ongoing retail gentrification.

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