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</style><p>The Korean Studies Program and the Institute of Modern Korean Studies at the Graduate School of International Studies, Yonsei University are pleased to invite you to attend the 55th Yonsei-KF Korean Studies Forum, which will be held on Tuesday, March 28th at 6:00 pm in Room 702 of New Millennium Hall. The speaker will be Cornell University Ph.D. Candidate in Anthropology Amy Levine. Her talk will be "<strong>Risk and Responsibility? The Double-Sided Coin of Transparency in Contemporary South Korean Non-Governmental Organizations</strong>." The abstract of her paper can be found at the end of this email. </p>
<p>The presention will be followed by a dinner reception. I hope you will come to enjoy the presentation, the discussion, and the reception.Contact Cedar Bough Saeji at 016-525-3239 for further inquiries. </p>
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<p>Sincerely, </p>
<p>Hyuk-Rae Kim</p>
<p>Professor of Korean Studies</p>
<p>GSIS, Yonsei University<br /><br /></p>
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FONT-SIZE: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 18.0pt; mso-hansi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-ascii-font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><font face="Batang">정직</font></span><span style="FONT-WEIGHT: normal; FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 18.0pt">, <em>jeongjik</em>), trust (</span><span lang="KO" style="FONT-WEIGHT: normal; FONT-SIZE: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 18.0pt; mso-hansi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-ascii-font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><font face="Batang">신뢰</font></span><span style="FONT-WEIGHT: normal; FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 18.0pt">, <em>sinroe</em>), and cleanliness (</span><span lang="KO" style="FONT-WEIGHT: normal; FONT-SIZE: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 18.0pt; mso-hansi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-ascii-font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><font face="Batang">깨끗함</font></span><span style="FONT-WEIGHT: normal; FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 18.0pt">, <em>ggaeggeutham</em>).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>The concept has not only spread across the globe, but across private and public sector distinctions over the last twenty years.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>This has happened in a characteristically “compressed” (</span><span lang="KO" style="FONT-WEIGHT: normal; FONT-SIZE: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 18.0pt; mso-hansi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-ascii-font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><font face="Batang">압축적</font></span><span style="FONT-WEIGHT: normal; FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 18.0pt">, <em>apchukjeok</em>) way in South Korea with post-IMF era financial restructuring from “above” and anti-corruption legislation and pact-formation from “within.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>South Korea, for example, became the first and still is the only nation in the world with a civil-society led social pact on anti-corruption with the signing of the “Korean Pact on Anti-Corruption and Transparency (K-PACT, </span><span lang="KO" style="FONT-WEIGHT: normal; FONT-SIZE: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 18.0pt; mso-hansi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-ascii-font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><font face="Batang">투명사회협약</font></span><span style="FONT-WEIGHT: normal; FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 18.0pt">, <em>tumyeongsahoehyeopyak</em>)” in March 2005.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>South Korean civil society, and specifically its non-governmental organizations (NGOs), are self-appointed and increasingly self-reflective leaders in the spread of transparency.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>Are they themselves transparent, though, and what does being so mean?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>This paper will attempt to answer both of these increasingly present questions by treating transparency as a “double-sided coin (</span><span lang="KO" style="FONT-WEIGHT: normal; FONT-SIZE: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 18.0pt; mso-hansi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-ascii-font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><font face="Batang">동전에</font></span><span lang="KO" style="FONT-WEIGHT: normal; FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 18.0pt"> </span><span lang="KO" style="FONT-WEIGHT: normal; FONT-SIZE: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 18.0pt; mso-hansi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-ascii-font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><font face="Batang">양면</font></span><span style="FONT-WEIGHT: normal; FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 18.0pt">, <em>dongjeone yangmyeon</em>)” of risk and responsibility.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>Drawing upon fieldwork in progress, this paper argues that Korean NGOs are grappling with both sides of the coin as modern institutions with economic development, financial management, political advocacy, professional ethics and expertise at stake.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>Transparency, for them, is less matter of fact and more matter of “method” (</span><span lang="KO" style="FONT-WEIGHT: normal; FONT-SIZE: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 18.0pt; mso-hansi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-ascii-font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><font face="Batang">수단</font></span><span style="FONT-WEIGHT: normal; FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 18.0pt">, <em>sudan</em>) and “process” (</span><span lang="KO" style="FONT-WEIGHT: normal; 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Hyuk-Rae Kim, Ph.D. in Sociology<BR>
Professor, Korean Studies Program<BR>
Director, Institute for Modern Korean Studies<BR>
Graduate School of International Studies<BR>
Yonsei University<BR>
Seoul, 120-749 KOREA<BR>
Office Tel: +82-2-2123-4705 Fax: +82-2-392-3321<BR>
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E-mail : hyukrae@yonsei.ac.kr/ imks@yonsei.ac.kr<BR>
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