You are invited to attend the 91st Yonsei-KF Korean Studies Forum with Ms. Jane Kim. Her bio and abstract can be found at the end of this notice. <br><br>Title: "The Second An Chungk'un of Korea and the Politics of Making a National Hero"<br>
Speaker: Jane Kim, PhD Candidate, University of California, Los Angeles<br>Date: Tuesday, May 19th<br>Time: 6 pm<br>Location: Room 702, New Millennium Hall, Yonsei University campus<br>No RSVP required. For directions, please refer to <a href="http://gsis.yonsei.ac.kr/html/content.asp?code=001007">http://gsis.yonsei.ac.kr/html/content.asp?code=001007</a>. <br>
<br>Questions? Contact <a href="mailto:kimhall@yonsei.ac.kr">kimhall@yonsei.ac.kr</a> or at 010-4800-4895<br><br>Our last forum of the semester will be on June 2. The presenter will be Mi-Ryong Shim, a PhD candidate at Columbia University. She will be presenting the paper, "On Kang Kyong-ae and Her Act of Writing." <br>
<br>We hope to see you on the 19th of May. <br><br>Sincerely,<br><br>Hyuk-Rae Kim<br><a href="mailto:hyukrae@yonsei.ac.kr">hyukrae@yonsei.ac.kr</a><br>Professor of Korean Studies<br>Graduate School of International Studies<br>
Yonsei University<div><br></div><div><p class="MsoNormal">JANE KIM is a Ph.D Candidate in Korean History at the
University of California at Los Angeles.<span style="mso-spacerun:yes">
</span>She received her BA in Poli Sci and History at University of Toronto and
also received her MA degree at the same university.<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>She is currently in Korea as Korea Foundation
Field Research Fellow.<br></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">ABSTRACT This paper examines a killing that took place in
Sorok Leprosarium in June 20<sup>th</sup> of 1942, when one of the patients
attacked and killed the director of the leprosarium.<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>The perpetrator was a 27 years old male
patient named Yi Ch’unsang.<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>Before
coming to the island, he served a one-year sentence at the S<span style="mso-ascii-font-family:Cambria;mso-hansi-font-family:Cambria">ô</span>daemun
Prison for petty theft.<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>The director of
the leprosarium whom Yi killed was named Suho Masato was known as one of the
more prominent colonial bureaucrats in Korea.<span style="mso-spacerun:yes">
</span>In my paper, I analyze the discourse surrounding the act, in particular,
focusing on the attempt to ‘nationalize’ Yi’s killing of Suho as part of
national independence movement.<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>The
argument of this paper is that claiming this act as ‘national history’ and Yi
as ‘national hero’ worthy of An Chungk<span style="mso-ascii-font-family:Cambria;
mso-hansi-font-family:Cambria">ű</span>n not only belies historical
uncertainties but also prevents from scrutinizing the post-colonial history of
leprosy control in Korea.<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span></p>
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