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Showing 1 to 17 of 17 for “"Korean Studies"”.
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Korean Studies in North America 1977-1996: A Bibliometric Study
… study of the literature of the field of Korean studies. Its goal is to quantitatively describe the literature and serve as a model for such research in other area studies fields. This study analyzed 193 source articles and 7,166 citations in the articles in four representative Korean and …
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Information behaviors of users of Korean collections: how do they find needed information?
… International Education’s 2012 survey shows that Korean international students in the USA add up to 72, 295 students, including 21,260 graduate students (Institute of International Education, 2013). A survey from Modern Languages Association found that despite the decline of students taking …
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Marital Satisfaction Factors for Korean-Americans
<p><em>Problem. </em> Many marital satisfaction studies have focused on many sub-groups: Caucasians, Blacks, and many ethnic groups such as Japanese, German, Polish, Indian, Chinese-American, Swedish, Mexican-American, Nigerian, and Koreans in Korea. No study was found that has investigated marital …
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A Critical Analysis of the Relationship Between Salvation and Social Justice in the Minjung Theology
… attempts to reconstruct the traditional Korean Christian notions of salvation. This study is primarily limited to the works of two representative minjung theologians: Nam Dong Suh and Byung Mu Ahn.</p> <p>Chapter 2 traces the historical context of Korea from which minjung theology …
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Bilinguals’ Emotion and Language: An Exploratory Study of Korean-English Bilinguals’ Experience of and Expression of Shame
A major aim of this study was to investigate Korean-English bilingual students’ psychological experiences and verbal expressions of shame in Korean and English. In particular, this study focused on how English as a language of Education influences the ways in which University students acknowledge …
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Discovering Korean learners' perceptions of intercultural encounters with their classmates
… and second, how did these reactions affect Korean students' perceptions of their ESL classes? The purpose of this study was to investigate the intercultural experiences of Korean learners in an intensive ESL program, and based on its findings, to suggest ways to improve intercultural …
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Life and Seoul of the Party: South Korea’s Brief Occupation under Communist North Korea
This thesis analyzes the North Korean occupation of Seoul through the oral histories of the men and women who experienced the event. At the beginning of the Korean War, North Korean forces successfully captured and held the South Korean capital for three months. Despite the occupation’s interesting …
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A study of the United States-Korea Treaty of 1882
… the thirteenth largest nation in the world, and Koreans are the most homogenous people in the world; the nation, which is thrust down off the coast of Asia between the thirty-fifth and forty-fifth parallels and separating the Sea of Japan form the Yellow Sea, greatly contributed her civilization …
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Why Renegotiation?: Renewal of the South Korea-Chile Bilateral Free Trade Agreement
… between Chile and South Korea. Existing studies have examined the reasons and outcomes of creating the initial Chile-South Korea FTA, but they have not focused on renegotiations between the two countries. A few investigations on renegotiations have focused on diversifying their exports …
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Vegetal Being: Dreamwork, Ritual, and Performance in Han Kang’s The Vegetarian
<p>In this thesis, I am writing towards an ecofeminist informed reading of the English version of The Vegetarian by Han Kang, translated by Deborah Smith. My aim is to display how, like an ecosystem of complex interdependency, it is impossible to separate body from theory from text from ecological …
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Constructing Frontier Villages: Human Habitation in the South Korean Borderlands after the Korean War
The inter-Korean border is often considered to be purely a politico-militaristic problem which renders the space of the border static, homogeneous, and empty of human habitation. However, a closer examination reveals a highly dynamic border full of discrepancies which is, in fact, inhabited by …
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Towards a Decolonial Feminist Aesthetics: Gender, Race, and Empire in Theresa Hak Kyung Cha’s <i>Dictee</i>
<p>Defining revolutionary struggle as a struggle between fictions, Trinh T. Minh-ha asserts that art in revolution is a spiritual presence which widens the conception of freedom. Political struggle is constituted by clashes in differently written and conceived realities—hinged on the creation and …
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The role of cooperation in the development of inter-Korean relations, 1972-2007
The division of the Korean peninsula is a unique case in the history of world politics and international relations. Also, it is still one of the main issues for the construction of a stable security regime in Northeast Asia. Finally, it is above all, the continuation of a "National Tragedy" that …
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The South Korean “Meta-Avant-Garde,” 1961–1993: Subterfuge as Radical Agency
<p>My dissertation examines South Korean performance and conceptual art from 1961 to 1993 during the Cold War military dictatorship, and focuses on the dynamics of socio-political tension between the military dictatorship and the opposition of political dissidents comprised mostly of artists, …