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<P>Now, calm down:</P>
<P>to link </P>
<P>"<FONT size=2>the system of exploitation of unpaid/badly paid student/graduate student labour [which] does exist in the Korean academia, being applied both to Korean and foreign students"</FONT></P>
<P><FONT size=2></FONT>and the</P>
<P><FONT size=2>"socio-political position of the university mandarinate in South Korea in general" (Oooops, wonderful wording!)</FONT></P>
<P><FONT size=2>with the</FONT></P>
<P><FONT size=2>"illegitimate government of Park Chong Hee [which] badly needed the compliance and collaboration of the intellectual elite to provide itself with some semblance of legitimacy, and it left no stones unturned to coopt these ranking intellectuals who were willing to bow down "</FONT></P>
<P><FONT size=2>and</FONT></P>
<P><FONT size=2>"the class of "societal aristocrats" in the spirit of Wilhelmian Germany in the research offices, and the pre-modern ways they are treating their subordinates"<BR></FONT></P>
<P><FONT size=2>as well as </FONT></P>
<P><FONT size=2>"Stalin [who] made the ranked academics a part of the new privileged class in the1930-40s, the similar culture of privatized power [which] got implanted in the Russian universities as well.<BR></FONT></P><FONT size=2>
<P><FONT size=2>in my mind means simply to belittle the atrocities of a</FONT></P></FONT>
<P>Stalin, pre-1st-war German society, Park Chun-Hee ! Look at them all in line with badly behaving professors misusing their position (which happens all over the world) - grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr</P>
<P>Greetings, Werner Sasse<BR></P>
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<DIV></DIV>From: <I>Vladimir Tikhonov <vladimir.tikhonov@ikos.uio.no></I><BR>Reply-To: <I>Korean Studies Discussion List <Koreanstudies@koreaweb.ws></I><BR>To: <I>Koreanstudies@koreaweb.ws</I><BR>Subject: <I>[KS] Bad habits in academia, too</I><BR>Date: <I>Wed, 07 Dec 2005 17:30:05 +0100</I><BR>>Yes, it is absolutely undeniable that the system of exploitation of<BR>>unpaid/badly paid student/graduate student labour does exist in the<BR>>Korean academia, being applied both to Korean and foreign students. <BR>>It<BR>>also looks like the kyop'o students are especially vulnerable to <BR>>this<BR>>sort of abuse - as they are judged to be "compliant because they are<BR>>Koreans" and believed to need a position in Korea in the future. In<BR>>fact, you are lucky that you have been paid at all, as I have
some<BR>>Russian "hubae" of mine who were not. But what is interesting here <BR>>is<BR>>why the well-known abuses are being tolerated, and I suggest it <BR>>might<BR>>have something to do with the socio-political position of the <BR>>university<BR>>mandarinate in South Korea in general. As Prof. Kang Chunman wrote <BR>>in<BR>>his recent popular book on Korea's history in the 1970s (<Han'guk<BR>>hyOndaesa sanch'aek - 1970 nyOndae> - recommend to all!), <BR>>illegitimate<BR>>government of Park Chong Hee badly needed the compliance and<BR>>collaboration of the intellectual elite to provide itself with some<BR>>semblance of legitimacy, and it left no stones unturned to coopt <BR>>these<BR>>ranking intellectuals who were willing to bow down - by appointing <BR>>them<BR>>to the "Professorial Evaluational Committees", by giving all
sorts <BR>>of<BR>>advasorial appointments, by hiking up the university salaries, and <BR>>so<BR>>on. The practice of giving the political appointments to the loyal<BR>>academics continues today. So, we have the class of "societal<BR>>aristocrats" in the spirit of Wilhelmian Germany in the research<BR>>offices, and the pre-modern ways they are treating their <BR>>subordinates<BR>>are taken for granted. When Stalin made the ranked academics a part <BR>>of<BR>>the new privileged class in the1930-40s, the similar culture of<BR>>privatized power got implanted in the Russian universities as well.<BR>><BR>><BR>>Best,<BR>><BR>>Vladimir Tikhonov (Pak Noja).<BR>>--<BR>>Vladimir Tikhonov,<BR>>Department of Culture Studies and Oriental Languages,<BR>>Faculty of Humanities,<BR>>University of Oslo,<BR>>P.b. 1010, Blindern, 0315,
Oslo, Norway.<BR>>Fax: 47-22854828; Tel: 47-22857118<BR>>Personal web page: http://folk.uio.no/vladimit/<BR>><BR>>http://www.geocities.com/volodyatikhonov/volodyatikhonov.html<BR>>Electronic classrooms: East Asian/Korean Society and Politics:<BR>> <BR>>http://folk.uio.no/vladimit/eastasianstudies.htm<BR>> <BR>>http://www.geocities.com/uioeastasia2002/main.html<BR>> East Asian/Korean Religion and Philosophy:<BR>><BR>>http://www.geocities.com/uioeastasia2003/classroom.html<BR>><BR></FONT></BLOCKQUOTE></div></html>