scholarly journals Feminism against Beauty Standards in South Korea: Force Creates Resistance

2021 ◽  
Vol 12 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Syamimi Waznah Hamdon ◽  
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Fitriani Bintang Timur ◽  
Keyword(s):  
South Korea ◽  
Qualitative Method ◽  
Transnational Feminism ◽  
Standpoint Theory ◽  
Feminist Standpoint Theory ◽  
Professional Networks ◽  
South Korean ◽  
Global Feminism ◽  
Negative Stereotyping ◽  
Made In

This article explores about the resistance that women in South Korean made in regards to the unrealistic beauty standards that is projected for the Korean women in order for the to get a place in social involvement. Women in South Korea are marginalized, and although the population in women in South Korea is 49.93% in 2019 which is a balance number for both female and male, but their voices remain as minority within the society involvement. In regards, they are often isolated from important social and professional networks and subjected to the negative stereotyping of becoming a feminist. Women in Korea are ought to have the attributes of beauty standards or else, society would judge them and this is a sign that women are trapped with this kind of projection thus it become a barrier for them to grow themselves. Why beauty standards matter among women in South Korea and how global feminism influence women in South Korea to create a resistance against rigid beauty standards in South Korea? To explore this question, this study used qualitative method with phenomenology approach. Drawing on the concept of transnational feminism as well as feminist standpoint theory, this study expected to find the actions taken by the women in South Korea to oppress the idea of objectifying women into certain characteristic of beauty and the oppression of “pretty priviledge”.

Storytelling/Narrative

2015 ◽  
Author(s):  
Shari Stone-Mediatore
Keyword(s):  
Feminist Theory ◽  
Power Relations ◽  
Democratic Theory ◽  
Transnational Feminism ◽  
Standpoint Theory ◽  
Feminist Epistemology ◽  
Feminist Standpoint Theory ◽  
Feminist Standpoint ◽  
Politics Of Knowledge

This article traces debates within feminist theory since the 1980s over the critical and democratic potential of experience-based storytelling. Focusing on accounts of storytelling that have developed within feminist standpoint theory, transnational feminism, feminist democratic theory, and feminist epistemology, the article examines arguments that experience-based narratives are necessary for more rigorous and inclusive civic and scholarly discussions. The article also examines the challenges that have been posed to storytelling from within feminist theory, including analyses that highlight the power relations, exclusions, and cultural conventions that characterize storytelling itself. The article explores what we might learn about the politics of knowledge from such varied but persistent feminist engagements with storytelling.

scholarly journals South Korea and Chinese Conflict over THAAD: How it started and the way it ended

2021 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Anggraining Tias
Keyword(s):  
South Korea ◽  
Comparative Research ◽  
Qualitative Method ◽  
Defense System ◽  
Missile Defense ◽  
Nuclear Development ◽  
Historical Comparative ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Made In ◽  
The Way

After North Korea’s fourth nuclear tested in January 2016, U.S. and South Korea has an official discussion started in early February 2016. The choice to deploy the anti-missile defense system THAAD was made in July 2016 and therefore the first launchers in May 2017. This launch was in line with the tenure of President Moon Jae In at that point. President Moon Jae In initially opposed THAAD but has now accelerated its deployment in response to North Korea’s nuclear test on September 3. Even before the official THAAD discussion started, Beijing expressed its opposition to the system. Although China is additionally against  North Korea’s nuclear development, THAAD is seen as an arrange to undermine China’s strategic interests within the region. And because of this, China giving a ‘punishment’ to South Korea.                This research aims to describe how the conflict between South Korea and Chinese can happen, the impact of the place THAAD in South Korea to the relations between two countries, and the way the conflict ended. This research uses neorealism as an approach. The methodology employing a qualitative method and collecting the data employing Historical-comparative research.

scholarly journals THE SOUTH KOREAN CYBER POLICY IN PROMOTING ACTIVE INTERNET USERS AND ITS VULNERABILITIES IN CYBER THREATS

2020 ◽  
Vol 2 (7) ◽  
pp. 11-23
Author(s):  
Hanis Shaheera
Keyword(s):  
South Korea ◽  
Qualitative Method ◽  
Industrial Revolution ◽  
The South ◽  
South Korean Government ◽  
South Korean ◽  
Internet Users ◽  
The World ◽  
The Government

The world is now entering the 4th Industrial Revolution (IR4) and South Korea is the example that accepted the cutting-edge evolution as it is a country with the most wired in the world. Hence, this study intends to explore the initiatives taken by the government of South Korea in succeeding to encourage and expand internet users among South Korean by implementing an auxiliary cyber policy. This study will implement a qualitative method by focusing on the case study of South Korea. The researcher intends to examine the cyber policy made by the South Korean government and its effect on the increasing internet usage among South Korean. The findings show that there are demographic factors in influencing internet users and mechanisms taken by the government by collaborating with private agencies in influencing South Korean through media platforms about the benefits of using the internet as part of daily life despite its vulnerability in cybercrimes.

Elusive Belonging

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Minjeong Kim
Keyword(s):  
South Korea ◽  
Sense Of Belonging ◽  
Foreign Born ◽  
Multicultural Society ◽  
Projected Image ◽  
South Korean ◽  
Everyday Lives

With the unprecedented number of foreign-born population, South Korea has tried to reinvent itself as a multicultural society, but the intense multiculturalism efforts have focused exclusively on marriage immigrants. At the advent and height of South Korea’s eschewed multiculturalism, Elusive Belonging takes the readers to everyday lives of marriage immigrants in rural Korea where the projected image of a developed Korea which lured marriage immigrants and the gloomy reality of rural lives clashed. The intimate ethnographic account pays attention to emotional entanglements among Filipina wives, South Korean husbands, in-laws, and multicultural agents, with particular focus on such emotions as love, intimacy, anxiety, gratitude, and derision, which shape marriage immigrants’ fragmented citizenship and elusive sense of belonging to their new country. This investigation of the politics of belonging illuminates how marriage immigrants explore to mold a new identity in their new home, Korea.

The Emergence of Business Groups: Israel and South Korea Compared

2002 ◽  
Vol 23 (5) ◽  
pp. 737-758 ◽  
Author(s):  
Daniel Maman
Keyword(s):  
South Korea ◽  
Multinational Corporations ◽  
Business Groups ◽  
South Korean ◽  
Economic Organizations ◽  
Self Sufficiency ◽  
Institutional Contexts ◽  
1960S And 1970S ◽  
The 1960S ◽  
Korean State

This paper examines the emergence of business groups in Israel and South Korea. The paper questions how, in very different institutional contexts, similar economic organizations emerged. In contrast to the political, cultural and market perspectives, the comparative institutional analysis adopted in this research suggests that one factor alone could not explain the emergence of business groups. In Israel and South Korea, business groups emerged during the 1960s and 1970s, and there are common factors underlying their formation: state-society relations, the roles and beliefs of the elites, and the relative absence of multinational corporations in the economy. To a large extent, the chaebol are the result of an intended creation of the South Korean state, whereas the Israeli business groups are the outcome of state policies in the economic realm. In both countries, the state elite held a developmental ideology, did not rely on market forces for economic development, and had a desire for greater economic and military self-sufficiency. In addition, both states were recipients of large grants and loans from other countries, which made them less dependent on direct foreign investments. As a result, the emerging groups were protected from the intense competition of multinational corporations.

scholarly journals Engineering care in pandemic technogovernance: The politics of care in China and South Korea’s COVID-19 tracking apps

2021 ◽  
pp. 146144482110207
Author(s):  
Youngrim Kim ◽  
Yuchen Chen ◽  
Fan Liang
Keyword(s):  
South Korea ◽  
Textual Analysis ◽  
National Belonging ◽  
Surveillance Studies ◽  
South Korean ◽  
Care Services ◽  
Ideological Dimension ◽  
And Control

This article critically examines South Korea and China’s COVID-19 tracking apps by bridging surveillance studies with feminist technoscience’s understanding of the “politics of care”. Conducting critical readings of the apps and textual analysis of discursive materials, we demonstrate how the ideological, relational, and material practices of the apps strategically deployed “care” to normalize a particular form of pandemic technogovernance in these two countries. In the ideological dimension, media and state discourse utilized a combination of vilifying and nationalist rhetoric that framed one’s acquiescence to surveillance as a demonstration of national belonging. Meanwhile, the apps also performed ambivalent roles in facilitating essential care services and mobilizing self-tracking activities, which contributed to the manufacturing of pseudonormality in these societies. In the end, we argue that the Chinese and South Korean governments managed to frame their aggressive surveillance infrastructure during COVID-19 as a form of paternalistic care by finessing the blurred boundaries between care and control.

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