11 Gender Ideologies and Korean Language Learning: Experiences of Female Marriage-Migrants in Rural South Korea

2019 ◽  
pp. 197-215
Author(s):  
Mi Yung Park
Keyword(s):  
South Korea ◽  
Language Learning ◽  
Learning Experiences ◽  
Korean Language ◽  
Gender Ideologies ◽  
Rural South ◽  
Marriage Migrants ◽  
Female Marriage

Marrying into South Korean Rural Towns

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Minjeong Kim
Keyword(s):  
Empirical Study ◽  
South Korea ◽  
General Information ◽  
Religious Organization ◽  
Rural South ◽  
International Marriage ◽  
South Korean ◽  
Unification Church ◽  
Matching Process ◽  
Marriage Migrants

Chapter 2 provides the background for the empirical study that is the basis of Elusive Belonging. I first describe the context of rural South Korea, where one in three marriages is an international marriage, followed by a description of international marriage trends in Korea. Because most of my subjects were matched by the Unification Church, an international religious organization that promotes intermarriage, I then explain the Unification Church and its matching process. I describe the Korean state’s policies regarding marriage migrants and its “multiculturalism” project. Finally, I provide general information on my informants.

scholarly journals Feminist Critiques of the Multiculturalism and the Case of South Korea: Marriage Migrants, Patriarchy, and Nation-Building

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
◽  
Sun A Ku
Keyword(s):  
South Korea ◽  
Gender Inequality ◽  
Nation Building ◽  
South Korean Government ◽  
South Korean ◽  
Korean Family ◽  
Care Giving ◽  
Building Process ◽  
Marriage Migrants ◽  
Female Marriage

<p>Feminist critiques of multiculturalism have largely focused on group rights by looking at multicultural societies that are based on pluralism. However, in some countries of new immigration, such as South Korea, multiculturalism does not necessarily have a pluralist form, but instead pursues assimilation. Thus South Korea provides an opportunity to explore gendered aspects of multiculturalism in a different context from that upon which the existing feminist critiques are largely based.  What are the gendered aspects of South Korean multiculturalism? In this study I address this question by looking at policies designed particularly for female marriage migrants. I argue that the aim of these policies is to make such migrants contribute to South Korea’s multicultural nation-building process through their reproductive, care-giving, and symbolic functions in the idealized Korean family and that patriarchy is reinforced in the implementation of these policies. This reinforcement of patriarchy has resulted in a perpetuation of gender inequality. Looking at the ways in which the South Korean government uses female marriage migrants as instruments in its nation-building process expands the current scope of feminist critiques of multiculturalism.</p>

scholarly journals Feminist Critiques of the Multiculturalism and the Case of South Korea: Marriage Migrants, Patriarchy, and Nation-Building

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
◽  
Sun A Ku
Keyword(s):  
South Korea ◽  
Gender Inequality ◽  
Nation Building ◽  
South Korean Government ◽  
South Korean ◽  
Korean Family ◽  
Care Giving ◽  
Building Process ◽  
Marriage Migrants ◽  
Female Marriage

<p>Feminist critiques of multiculturalism have largely focused on group rights by looking at multicultural societies that are based on pluralism. However, in some countries of new immigration, such as South Korea, multiculturalism does not necessarily have a pluralist form, but instead pursues assimilation. Thus South Korea provides an opportunity to explore gendered aspects of multiculturalism in a different context from that upon which the existing feminist critiques are largely based.  What are the gendered aspects of South Korean multiculturalism? In this study I address this question by looking at policies designed particularly for female marriage migrants. I argue that the aim of these policies is to make such migrants contribute to South Korea’s multicultural nation-building process through their reproductive, care-giving, and symbolic functions in the idealized Korean family and that patriarchy is reinforced in the implementation of these policies. This reinforcement of patriarchy has resulted in a perpetuation of gender inequality. Looking at the ways in which the South Korean government uses female marriage migrants as instruments in its nation-building process expands the current scope of feminist critiques of multiculturalism.</p>

scholarly journals Institutional Supports and Life Satisfaction: The Case of Cross-border Marriage Migrants in South Korea

2018 ◽  
Vol 4 ◽  
pp. 237802311880585
Author(s):  
Hyunsu Oh
Keyword(s):  
Life Satisfaction ◽  
South Korea ◽  
Language Proficiency ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Positive Influence ◽  
Marriage Duration ◽  
Cross Border ◽  
Marriage Migrants ◽  
Using Data ◽  
Female Marriage

The positive influence of institutional supports from social networks on psychological well-being of immigrants is extensively acknowledged in the literature. However, immigration experiences outside the Western societies are underexplored. Using data from the 2012 Korean National Survey for Multicultural Family, I examine how institutional supports for cross-border marriage migration shape life satisfaction among female marriage migrants in South Korea. Findings reveal that levels of life satisfaction among marriage migrants married via commercially arranged marriage agencies are lower than those of female marriage migrants using interpersonal networks from kinship and friends/colleagues. Religion-motivated marriage migrants show lower levels of life satisfaction. In addition, the impacts of institutional supports on life satisfaction are mediated by marriage duration and language proficiency, indicating higher levels of satisfaction are associated with shorter marriage duration and better language proficiency; however, the impacts vary by institutional supports.

scholarly journals Korean language learning demotivation among EFL instructors in South Korea

2019 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 199-223 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nigel Gearing
Keyword(s):  
Foreign Language ◽  
South Korea ◽  
Language Learning ◽  
Language Education ◽  
National Language ◽  
Motivation To Learn ◽  
Host Society ◽  
Structured Interviews ◽  
Korean Language ◽  
South Korean

Studies investigating the motivation of L1 speakers of English to learn the national language of the host society they currently reside in remain rare, despite the exponential growth of such individuals residing in these nations this century. Previous such studies in South Korea have concluded that learning Korean as a second language (L2) is largely perceived as difficult, unnecessary and is therefore accompanied by experiences of demotivation and amotivation (see Gearing & Roger, 2018). However, these studies did not explicitly address demotivation and amotivation when examining experiences that affect the motivation to learn Korean of 14 English as a Foreign Language (EFL) instructors working in South Korean university language education centers (LECs). Therefore, this study investigates which learning experiences resulted in the amotivation of participants and how two participants who experienced demotivation employed strategies to remotivate themselves. Coding of semi-structured interviews and optional diaries found that despite intent, most participants displayed symptoms of both amotivation and demotivation. The main implication of this study is that in the absence of perceived necessity, affected individuals with insufficient internal motivation or vision to acquire Korean consequently attribute externally related demotivating experiences to pre-existing or resulting amotivation.

scholarly journals “Fake” or “Real” Marriage? Gender, Age, “Race” and Class in the Construction of Un/desirability of Marriage Migrants in South Korea

2020 ◽  
Vol 2020 (14) ◽  
pp. 125-145
Author(s):  
Jiyoung Lee-An
Keyword(s):  
South Korea ◽  
Social Relations ◽  
Security Studies ◽  
Race And Class ◽  
Critical Security Studies ◽  
The Social ◽  
Marriage Migrants ◽  
Boundary Making ◽  
Female Marriage ◽  
Multiple Intersections

This paper examines the link between the regulation of marriage migration and national boundary-making processes in South Korea through the analysis of “fraudulent marriage” discourses. Corresponding to the goals of the Korean government based on the gendered and racialized construction of the Korean nation, populations of marriage migrants are hierarchized according to various intersecting axes of gender, age, class, and “race.” Based on a critical race and intersectional feminist framework and critical security studies, I examine multiple intersections of the social relations, which hierarchize marriage migrants. While certain marriage migrants are constructed as desirable because they embody particular sets of characteristics (namely childbearing female marriage migrants from developing countries), other marriage migrants outside these parameters are actively constructed as undesirable and suspected of fraudulent marriage. The discriminatory distinctions drawn among differentially racialized and gendered marriage migrants raise significant social justice concerns. The article concludes with a brief discussion of strategies pursued by marriage migrants and their Korean spouses to undermine discourses of fraudulent marriages.

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