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</style><p style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><font size="3"><font face="Times New Roman">The Korean Studies Program and the Institute for Modern Korean Studies at the Graduate School of International Studies, Yonsei University are pleased to invite you to attend the 74th Yonsei-KF Korean Studies Forum, which will be held on <u>Tuesday, October 16th at 5:30 PM</u> in Room 702 of New Millennium Hall at Yonsei University. The speaker is <strong>Professor <span lang="EN-GB" style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-language: FR; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB">Valérie Gelézeau</span>, </strong><span lang="EN-GB" style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-language: FR; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB">Human Geography and Korean Studies</span><span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt">, <span lang="EN-GB" style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-language: FR; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB">Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, France</span></span>. The discussant is <strong>Professor Joon Han, </strong>Department of Sociology, Yonsei University.<strong> </strong>The title of her talk is <span lang="EN-US"><strong>“</strong><span lang="EN-GB" style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB"><strong><u>Changing Socio-Economic Environments, Housing Culture and New Urban Segregation in <city w:st="on"></city>
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<p> <br /><font face="Times New Roman" size="3">The presentation will be followed by a dinner reception. I hope you will come to enjoy the presentation, discussion, and reception. Please contact Jennifer Bresnahan at 010-5441-9204, <a onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)" href="mailto:jennifer.bresnahan@gmail.com" target="_blank">jennifer.bresnahan@gmail.com</a></font><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"> for further inquiries. </font></p>
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<p style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><font size="3"><font face="Times New Roman"><br />Sincerely, <br /></font></font> </p>
<p style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><font face="Times New Roman" size="3">Hyuk-Rae Kim</font></p>
<p style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><font face="Times New Roman" size="3">Professor of Korean Studies<br />Director, Institute for Modern Korean Studies</font></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt; TEXT-ALIGN: left" align="left"><span lang="EN-GB" style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB">The paper analyzes the impact of the recent politico-economic changes (democratization, liberalization, globalization and the aftermath of the Asian financial crisis) on the Korean middle class through a geographical analysis of Seoulite apartment complexes (<em style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal">ap’at’</em></span><em style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-language: KO; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB">u</span></em><em style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB"> tanji</span></em><span lang="EN-GB" style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB">), which are now the dominant housing culture in the city. It is based on a systematic comparison of the transformations that have taken place in seven Seoulite apartment complexes between the mid-1990s and the mid-2000s.</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-language: KO; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB"> <br /></span><span lang="EN-GB" style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB">After presenting the general framework of the housing policy and the housing production system in
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt; TEXT-INDENT: 35.4pt; TEXT-ALIGN: left" align="left"><span lang="EN-GB" style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB">Specialising both in Human Geography and Korean Studies, Valérie Gelézeau is an Associate Professor at the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales (EHESS, Paris, France), and a junior member of the University Institute of France. She is the author of <em>Séoul, ville géante, cités radieuses </em>(<em>Seoul,
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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>
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