Dr. Hijoo Son is an independent scholar of Korea, migration history, diaspora studies, and educational pedagogies. Her background incorporates her scholarly work at universities including UCLA, UCI, LACC, Santa Monica College, and Sogang University in Seoul as well as her past decade of teaching, advising, and mentoring at the secondary level at Phillips Exeter Academy, Phillips Academy, and Harvard-Westlake.
Cross-Currents: East Asian History and Culture Review, 2018
Y. David Chung is an artist and filmmaker known for his film and video works, installations, perf... more Y. David Chung is an artist and filmmaker known for his film and video works, installations, performances, drawings, prints, and public artworks. This interview combines two conversations on the concept of Korean identity and diasporic art: one that took place in 2008, after Chung finished filming his documentary "Koryo Saram: The Unreliable People," co-directed with Matt Dibble, and the other in 2018. Hijoo Son and Jooyeon Rhee jointly designed the questions, interviewed Professor Chung, and redacted the transcript into its present form.
Cross-Currents: East Asian History and Culture Review, 2018
Author(s): Son, Hijoo; Rhee, Jooyeon | Abstract: This special issue of Cross-Currents—“Diasporic ... more Author(s): Son, Hijoo; Rhee, Jooyeon | Abstract: This special issue of Cross-Currents—“Diasporic Art and Korean Identity”—is the fruit of a two-day conference on “Korean Diaspora and the Arts” held at The Hebrew University of Jerusalem in May 2017. The contributors explore new delineations of the political, social, cultural, and emotional landscapes inhabited by Koreans living in diaspora. Korean diasporic artists investigate the meaning of “Koreanness” through their paintings, political cartoons, theater, film, documentary, photographs, and multimedia art. This special issue on Korean diasporic art presents creative expressions of a shared history of trauma, suffering, or displacement, affectively reconstructed or nostalgically reimagined, produced in China, Cuba, Japan, Kazakhstan, South Korea, and the United States. The contributors demonstrate how artists are particularly able to captivate audiences and innovate ways of articulating the multiple aspects of the everyday condition...
There was the title of one of four projects exhibited at the fi fth Kwangju Biennale held in Sout... more There was the title of one of four projects exhibited at the fi fth Kwangju Biennale held in South Korea in 2002. The name alludes to fi ve of the oldest and largest
What James Clifford calls a “dwelling-in-displacement” in his seminal article titled “Diasporas” ... more What James Clifford calls a “dwelling-in-displacement” in his seminal article titled “Diasporas” (1994) entails the maintaining of communities and of having collective homes away from homes. This type of existence represents a specific cosmopolitanism that is held in tension between structures of the nation-state and assimilationist ideologies. In order to explore this tension, the case of an adopting artist Yong Soon Min and an adapting adoptee Nathalie Lemoine shows a scale of identities and multiple affiliations overseas Koreans maintain. Most studies of overseas Koreans understand those residing abroad as self-same entities whose roles and function are understood primarily as intermediaries, pioneers, or future resources that provide potential bases for the expansion of national power outside of the borders of the nation. This essay suggests that such a perspective does not attune with the history of overseas Koreans and their sense of self that is constituted by a complex of in...
Modern Korea at the Crossroads between Empire and Nation, 2011
The policy of overseas Koreans refers to the goals, decisions, and activities of the Korean gover... more The policy of overseas Koreans refers to the goals, decisions, and activities of the Korean government to establish and improve relationships between overseas Koreans and their homeland. Through its policy, the government can set the definition and rights and duties of overseas Koreans, protect the rights and interests of overseas Koreans in their host countries, strengthen ties and interrelationships between overseas Koreans and the homeland, and utilize overseas Koreans for the development of the homeland. For this reason, researchers and policy makers need to take the policy of overseas Koreans seriously.
Cross-Currents: East Asian History and Culture Review, 2018
Y. David Chung is an artist and filmmaker known for his film and video works, installations, perf... more Y. David Chung is an artist and filmmaker known for his film and video works, installations, performances, drawings, prints, and public artworks. This interview combines two conversations on the concept of Korean identity and diasporic art: one that took place in 2008, after Chung finished filming his documentary "Koryo Saram: The Unreliable People," co-directed with Matt Dibble, and the other in 2018. Hijoo Son and Jooyeon Rhee jointly designed the questions, interviewed Professor Chung, and redacted the transcript into its present form.
Cross-Currents: East Asian History and Culture Review, 2018
Author(s): Son, Hijoo; Rhee, Jooyeon | Abstract: This special issue of Cross-Currents—“Diasporic ... more Author(s): Son, Hijoo; Rhee, Jooyeon | Abstract: This special issue of Cross-Currents—“Diasporic Art and Korean Identity”—is the fruit of a two-day conference on “Korean Diaspora and the Arts” held at The Hebrew University of Jerusalem in May 2017. The contributors explore new delineations of the political, social, cultural, and emotional landscapes inhabited by Koreans living in diaspora. Korean diasporic artists investigate the meaning of “Koreanness” through their paintings, political cartoons, theater, film, documentary, photographs, and multimedia art. This special issue on Korean diasporic art presents creative expressions of a shared history of trauma, suffering, or displacement, affectively reconstructed or nostalgically reimagined, produced in China, Cuba, Japan, Kazakhstan, South Korea, and the United States. The contributors demonstrate how artists are particularly able to captivate audiences and innovate ways of articulating the multiple aspects of the everyday condition...
There was the title of one of four projects exhibited at the fi fth Kwangju Biennale held in Sout... more There was the title of one of four projects exhibited at the fi fth Kwangju Biennale held in South Korea in 2002. The name alludes to fi ve of the oldest and largest
What James Clifford calls a “dwelling-in-displacement” in his seminal article titled “Diasporas” ... more What James Clifford calls a “dwelling-in-displacement” in his seminal article titled “Diasporas” (1994) entails the maintaining of communities and of having collective homes away from homes. This type of existence represents a specific cosmopolitanism that is held in tension between structures of the nation-state and assimilationist ideologies. In order to explore this tension, the case of an adopting artist Yong Soon Min and an adapting adoptee Nathalie Lemoine shows a scale of identities and multiple affiliations overseas Koreans maintain. Most studies of overseas Koreans understand those residing abroad as self-same entities whose roles and function are understood primarily as intermediaries, pioneers, or future resources that provide potential bases for the expansion of national power outside of the borders of the nation. This essay suggests that such a perspective does not attune with the history of overseas Koreans and their sense of self that is constituted by a complex of in...
Modern Korea at the Crossroads between Empire and Nation, 2011
The policy of overseas Koreans refers to the goals, decisions, and activities of the Korean gover... more The policy of overseas Koreans refers to the goals, decisions, and activities of the Korean government to establish and improve relationships between overseas Koreans and their homeland. Through its policy, the government can set the definition and rights and duties of overseas Koreans, protect the rights and interests of overseas Koreans in their host countries, strengthen ties and interrelationships between overseas Koreans and the homeland, and utilize overseas Koreans for the development of the homeland. For this reason, researchers and policy makers need to take the policy of overseas Koreans seriously.
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