Case Study on Communication Behaviors of North Korean Refugees in Korean Society: Focused on Intercultural Sensitivity

The purpose of this study is to investigate the influencing factors of parental child abuse by North Korean refugees who are living in South Korea. In-depth interviews were conducted with five parents who escaped from North Korea. The study identified three categories of factors impacting child abuse: the weakening of family functions from past experiences before and after defection, the stress of adapting to the culture of an unfamiliar society, and low parenting self-efficacy. North Korean parents suffered from emotional and functional crises from past traumatic events and, at the same time, experienced additional acculturative stress as a “minority” after entering South Korea, even as they continued to deal with Maternal Parenting Stress. These complex factors have been shown to lead to child abuse in migrant societies. This study contemplated the context of child abuse through specific examples. The results could provide thoughtful insights into child abuse among migrants and refugee parents, and provide evidence-based intervention plans for its prevention.

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South Korea’s “Glocal” Hero: The Hiddink Syndrome and the Rearticulation of National Citizenship and Identity

Sociology of Sport Journal ◽

10.1123/ssj.24.3.283 ◽

2007 ◽

Vol 24 (3) ◽

pp. 283-301 ◽

Cited By ~ 20

Author(s):

Nammi Lee ◽

Steven J. Jackson ◽

Keunmo Lee

Keyword(s):

21St Century ◽

Global Economy ◽

World Cup ◽

Cultural Changes ◽

Korean Society ◽

Coaching Strategies ◽

National Citizenship ◽

Definition Of ◽

The Relationship

This study examines how one sporting figure came to signify fundamental shifts in Korean society at the beginning of the 21st century—a time when Korean society was destabilized and seeking to reposition itself within the global economy. Guus Hiddink, a Dutch-born soccer coach, is credited with helping Korea attain its highest-ever ranking at the 2002 World Cup. Sporting achievements aside, Hiddink’s role as a foreigner and national Korean hero presents a unique and unprecedented case study of the relationship between globalization, nationalism, and neoliberal citizenship. Hiddink was the first foreigner ever to be awarded honorary national citizenship. Furthermore, his general coaching strategies and philosophies assumed a mantralike quality, popularly referred to as the Hiddink syndrome, that influenced wider cultural changes with respect to economics, politics, education, and the very definition of national citizenship and identity.

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Bitter Taste of Paradise: North Korean Refugees in South Korea

Journal of East Asian Studies ◽

10.1017/s1598240800000059 ◽

2006 ◽

Vol 6 (1) ◽

pp. 105-137 ◽

Cited By ~ 38

Author(s):

Andrei Lankov

Keyword(s):

South Korea ◽

Social Adjustment ◽

Bitter Taste ◽

Korean Society ◽

South Korean ◽

The Past ◽

The North ◽

North Korean Refugees ◽

North Korean Defectors ◽

To Come

This article deals with the problems of North Korean defectors currently living in South Korea. In the past, most such defectors came from privileged groups in the North Korean population, and their adjustment to the new environment did not pose a significant problem. However, from the mid-1990s, defectors began to come from the far less privileged groups. They experience serious problems related to jobs, education, crime, and social adjustment. Recent years have seen a dramatic but not always openly stated change in the official South Korean attitude toward defectors: from a policy explicitly aimed at encouraging defection, Seoul has moved to the policy of quietly discouraging it. There are fears that encouraging defection will undermine the policy of peaceful engagement with the North. There is also the perception that refugees are outsiders, not quite adjustable to the conditions of South Korean society and thus a social and budgetary burden.

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Blogging as ‘Recoding’: A Case Study of the Discursive War over the Sinking of the Cheonan

Media International Australia ◽

10.1177/1329878x1114100112 ◽

2011 ◽

Vol 141 (1) ◽

pp. 98-106

Author(s):

Yeran Kim ◽

Irkwon Jeong ◽

Hyoungkoo Khang ◽

Bomi Kim

Keyword(s):

Digital Media ◽

News Media ◽

Korean Society ◽

The Public ◽

Digital Network ◽

The Social ◽

Discursive Politics ◽

The Public Sphere ◽

Media Practices

This article explores how Korean bloggers, in contestation, participate in the social structure of communication and potentially transform it through their vernacular practices of decoding and recoding in the blogosphere. As a neo-liberal regime has been established, citizens practise discursive politics in a seemingly democratic and technologically advanced society that is actually a coercive-controlled communication system. Through the analysis of news blogs on the Cheonan disaster, it is suggested that a majority of bloggers are seen to utilise news media stories to gain leverage for their points of view or to provide counter-arguments against the dominant frames generated by the established news media. The critical reframing of the digital network in Korean society allows a reflexive reading of the Korean digital wave, which should be contextualised within generation politics, economic polarisation and ideological contestation. In order to avoid a nationalistic celebration of the IT power of the country, citizens' digital media practices are analysed as contributions to the democratisation of the public sphere and the enhancement of social openness and participation in the digitised arena of discursive politics.

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English-Medium Instruction and Intercultural Sensitivity: A Korean Case Study

Journal of Studies in International Education ◽

10.1177/1028315317720767 ◽

2017 ◽

Vol 21 (5) ◽

pp. 467-482 ◽

Cited By ~ 9

Author(s):

Jeongyeon Kim ◽

Jinsook Choi ◽

Bradley Tatar

Keyword(s):

College Students ◽

International Students ◽

Intercultural Sensitivity ◽

Student Population ◽

Lingua Franca ◽

English Medium Instruction ◽

Local Students ◽

Qualitative Analyses

This case study examined the reactions of local students to the diversity in student population. Specifically, it investigated how the local students’ intercultural sensitivity to the international students is interrelated with their perception of the English-medium instruction (EMI) policy. The quantitative and qualitative analyses of the questionnaire responses of 213 college students and the subsequent interviews with 15 students revealed a lack of intercultural sensitivity which was correlated with their perception of EMI. The findings indicated that the local students’ different perceptions of the policy interplayed, directly and indirectly, with their sensitivity to the cultures of international students. The implications of these findings are discussed in terms of cultivating intercultural sensitivity in an English as a lingua franca context.

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