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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 81st Yonsei-KF Korean Studies Forum, which will be held on <u>Tuesday, May 20th at 6:00 PM</u> in Room 111 of New Millennium Hall at Yonsei University. The speaker is <strong>Jeong-Woo Koo, </strong>Lecturer, Graduate School of International Studies, Seoul National University. The title of his talk is <span lang="EN-US"><strong>“<strong style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><u><span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; LINE-HEIGHT: 115%; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'">The Fall of Confucian Academies in Choson : A Macro-Sociological Explanation</span></u></strong>.” </strong></span>The abstract of his paper <span>and a brief bio </span>can be found at the end of this email.<span> </span></font></font> </p>
<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 style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><font face="Times New Roman"><font size="3"><u>Abstract:</u>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 10pt"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; LINE-HEIGHT: 115%; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'">On March 18, 1871, Taewongun (Grand Prince) who held real power when King Kojong (r. 1863-1907) assumed power at the age of 12, issued a historical order that was enforced nationwide: All Confucian private academies ever built, except for the forty-seven royal chartered ones, were to be destroyed. During the period from 1865 to 1871, over 800 academies were abolished and these intermediate organizations largely disappeared from the central scene of the Korean history and politics. Why did this ‘tragedy’ every happen? Why did the Choson state become hostile to the once beloved local associations and decide to eliminate them? To answer these questions, Koo situates this historical drama in a broader sociological context involving political competition between the state and a nascent civil society, in association with his aim of overcoming the current historical explanations emphasizing more imminent causes of the abolition, such as military and fiscal abuses of the academies. </span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 10pt"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; LINE-HEIGHT: 115%; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'">Jeong-Woo Koo is a lecturer in Graduate School of International Studies at
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University in 2007. His interests include comparative-historical sociology, organizations, cross-national/global analysis, and quantitative methods. His publications have appeared in Social Science History and Korean Journal of Sociology.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>Currently, he is working on three projects: (1) The historical origins of publicity and public sphere in from 1600 to 1945; (2) worldwide expansion of national human rights institutions and its impact on the improvement of human rights from 1960 to 2005; (3) sources of the evolution of the Korean film industry from 1980 to 2005.
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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>
Institute Tel: +82-2-2123-4437 Fax: +82-2-362-1651 <BR>
Mobile: 010-4710-4705<BR>
E-mail : hyukrae@yonsei.ac.kr/ imks@yonsei.ac.kr<BR>
http://gsis.yonsei.ac.kr<BR>
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