Modern Korean History and Society

* Professor : Tae Gyun Park.

tel: 880-8519,	e-mail: tgpark@snu.ac.kr  office: 140-1 dong 618

Kim Ji-soo

E-mail: jessykim24@gmail.com   office: Kyujanggak

* Purpose of this class :

1. To improve student's capability to introduce Korean history, society, and culture into foreigners.

2. To understand and criticize foreign scholars' perspective on Korean history.

3. To examine modern Korean history in order to illuminate historical background of division of the Korean Peninsula, Korea's economic growth since the 1960s and the financial crisis in 1997.

4. To analyze the Korea's position in Far East as well as in the world.

5. To approach understanding of North Korea.

* Class Time : Tuesday 2:30 - 5:00

* Schedule

Week 1. 3/3 Park / Kim

(1) Class Introduction

(2) Korea's place in the world

(First Round: week 2- 8 by Kim Ji-soo)

Week 2: The Confucianization of Korea

Deuchler, Martina. The Confucian Transformation of Korea: A Study of Society and Ideology.Cambridge, Mass.: Council on East Asian Studies, Harvard University Press, 1992. (Introduction,Ch.6,andConclusion)

Haboush, JaHyun Kim. “The Confucianization of Korean Society.” In Gilbert Rozman, ed., The East Asian Region: Confucian Heritage and Its Modern Adaptation, 84–110. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press,1991.

Week 3: Gender and Social Status in Late Chosŏn Dynasty

Kim, Jisoo. “Voices Heard: Women’s Right to Petition in Late Chosŏn Korea.” Ph.D. diss., Columbia University, 2010. (Ch. 2)

Kim, Jung-wŏn. “Negotiating Virtue and the Lives of Women in Late Chosŏn Korea.” Ph.D. diss., Harvard University, 2007.  (Ch.)

Ko, Dorothy, JaHyun Kim Haboush, and Joan Piggott, eds. Women and Confucian Cultures in Premodern China, Korea, and Japan. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 2003. (Introduction)

Yonemoto, Marcia. “Gender and Early Modern East Asia.”

Week 4: The emergence of modern Korea

Hwang, Kyung-Moon. Beyond Birth: Social Status in the Emergence of Modern Korea. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Asia Center, 2004. (Introduction, Chapters 1&2, and Conclusion)

Week 5: Narrating the Nation

Schmid, Andre. KoreaBetweenEmpires.N.Y.:ColumbiaUniversityPress,2002.(Ch.2&5)

________________. “Rediscovering Manchuria: Sin Ch’aeho and the Politics of Territorial History in Korea,” in The Journal of Asian Studies, vol. 56, no.1(Feb.,1997),26–46.

________________. “Colonialism and the ‘Korea Problem’ in the Historiography of Modern Japan: A Review Article,” in The Journal of Asian Studies, vol. 59,no.4(Nov.,2000),951–76.

Week 6: Colonial Modernity in Korea

Shin, Gi-wook and Miachel Robinson eds.  Colonial Modernity in Korea. Harvard University Asia Center, 2001.(Introduction,Ch.1,2,and7)

Week 7: Shifting Notions of Gender and Womanhood in Colonial Korea

Choi, Hyewol. Gender and Mission Encounters in Korea .Seoul-California Series in Korean Studies. University of California Press,2009.(Ch.1-4)

Yoo, Theodore Jun. The Politics of Gender in Colonial Korea. University of California Press, 2008.  ( Ch. 2)

Week 8: War, Memory, and the “Comfort Women” Issues

Soh, Sarah. The Comfort Women: Sexual Violence and Post-colonial Memory in Korea and Japan. Illinois: University of Chicago Press,2008. (Intro. & Ch.1-3)

(Second Round: Week 9-15)

Week 9. Division of the Korean Peninsula 3/24

Main Topic: Who is more responsible for the division? External or Internal?

TEXT: Bruce Cumings, Korea's Place in the Sun, Chap. 4

Q.

1. Why did the United States try to carry out the Trusteeship policy in the Korean Peninsula shortly after World War II? What was the original plan of the U.S. at the beginning of the occupation over the Southern Part of Korea?

2. How do you think about the Moscow Agreement in December 1945? What are the key contents of the agreement? Why were Koreans divided into two about the agreement?

Week 10 Korean War 3/31

(1) What triggered the war?

(2) Why did the war last for about three years?

(3) POW issues(presentations)

TEXT: Steven Hugh Lee, Korean War

Rosemary Foot, A Substitute for Victory

Q.

1. Why did the war begin or come in 1950?

2. Why did Chinese intervene the war in spite of the fact that they had a lot of things to do because revolution was carried out only one year before the war?

3. What is the reason of long disputes on the POW issue during the Armistice negotiation?

Week 11. Colonial Period: Origins of the Korean Economic Development

(1) Colonial legacy and Economic Development (presentations)

(2) A Background of the Korea's Economic Development : 1950s (Lecture)

TEXT: Atul Kohli, Where Do High Growth Political Economies Come From? The Japanese Lineage of Korea's "developmental State"

H, K, and M, Japanese Colonialism and Korean Development: A Critique

Kohli, Japanese Colonialism and Korean Development: A Reply

Tae Gyun Park, "Different Roads, Common Destination,"

Q:

1. Regardless of Japanese purpose, is it possible to argue that Japanese policy modernize social structure and economy in Korea?

2. Why Dr. Kohli asserted that colonial legacy was a crucial background of Korea's economic growth since 1960s, in spite of the gap from liberation to 1960s?

Week 12. Political Developments in South Korea 4/7

(1) Origins of the political party system.

(2) How to evaluate President Park and his policy? (presentations)

TEXT: Bruce Cumings, Korea's Place in the Sun, Chap. 4

Carter Eckert, Korea Old and New, Chap. 20

Q,

Week 13 Armistice System and South-North Clashes 4/14

(1) South-North Clashes under the Armistice (lecture)

TEXT: Tae Gyun Park, Beyond the Myth, Pacific Affairs

Q.

1. What is the main cause of the 1968 crisis in the Korean Peninsula?

2. Why has North Korean economy been stagnated since the 1980s?

3. How do you think about the Sunshine policy of the DJ Government?

Week 14 Modernization, Democratization, and Korean Society

Week 15 North Korea

* Course Requirements / Grading :

Presentation 20%,  Discussion 30%, Paper 30%, Attendance 20%,