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All,<br>
<br>
I'm also interested in the use of "yobo" as a derogatory term for
Koreans as used by Japanese. Currently reading "The Clan Records: Five
Stories of Korea" by Kajiyama Toshiyuki, I very recently ran across the
term in two of three chapters read so far. Up to now I'd thought
perhaps the author had misremembered some phrase, but it seems not.
>From page 12 of the book;<br>
<br>
<blockquote>Despite the slogan "Japan and Korea Unified," the Japaneses
scorned the Koreans. Even Japanese children showed contempt, using
expressions like <i>yobo</i>, which Koreans deeply resented. A Koran
word, <i>yobo</i> originally meant "hello," but in the mouths of
Japanese ti implied "you slave." <br>
</blockquote>
<br>
V/R,<br>
Richardson <br>
<br>
<br>
Todd Henry wrote:
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</style>Dear all:<br>
<br>
I am currently completing an article on colonial racialization with a
focus on how Japanese settlers and journalists appropriated the native
term "yo^bo" to derogatorily refer to colonized Koreans, particularly
lower class laborers. I am also analyzing Korean critiques to this
racialized usage of "yo^bo," but am not completely satisfied with the
explanations they (the Korean critics) give as to the social etymology
of this term.<br>
<br>
I would, therefore, be interested in any scholarship (or other
information) that deals with how this term was used during the late
Cho^son period and into the colonial period. It would also interest me
to hear more about post-liberation/colonial uses of "yo^bo" and if they
had anything to do with the sort of derogatory usages I have been
investigating from the colonial period.<br>
<br>
Thanks in advance for your guidance and help.<br>
<br>
Todd A. Henry<br>
<br>
Korea Foundation Postdoctoral Fellow (2008-9)<br>
Korea Institute, Harvard University<br>
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