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<h4 align="center"><font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><i><span
style="font-size: 12pt;" lang="EN-US">"Hansen’s Disease in
Korean Society: Social otherization and integration in the
20<sup>th</sup> century." </span></i></font><i><span
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face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"> by Joji Kohjima</font></span></span></i></h4>
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<font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif">The Korean-American
Educational Commission warmly welcomes you to our seventh
Fulbright Forum of the 2010-2011 program year with 2010
Fulbright Junior Researcher Joji Kohjima.<br>
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<h1 align="center"><u>Summary</u></h1>
Hansen's disease in Korea historically existed at endemic levels
until effective drugs became available in the 1930s to 1950s.
It has been referenced in Korean literature for centuries even
including some Chosun era mask dances. In the 20th century,
Hansen's disease patients became what professor Jeong Keun-Shik
of Seoul National University refers to as "the most significant
social other" in ethnically homogeneous Korean society. They
have alternately been used as symbols of national shame,
Christian salvation, Japanese imperial benevolence, and finally
Korea's national "han," or sorrow. <br>
Joji Kohjima’s research deals with the efforts of Hansens’s
disease patients to tell their own story, and to seek
restitution for their treatment under Japanese colonialism and
post-colonial Korean governments. He has been researching the
social and medical conditions of Hansen’s disease in modern
Korea in conjunction with several institutions including the
Catholic University Medical School’s Leprosy Center in Seoul,
the 518 Memorial Hall at Jeonnam National University, Aeyangwon
hospital in Yeosu, and Sorokdo National Leprosy Hospital in
Sorok Island, Jeollanamdo. This forum will explore leprosy in
Korean society as a phenomenon originating at the microscopic
level of bacteria but extending to the level of social
constructs in the discrimination, otherization and isolation
faced by leprosy patients. Largely originating in Japanese
colonial policy, patients have historically faced quarantine,
forced labor, and forced sterilization as they were caught in
the triangle of Japanese colonial government, missionaries, and
an often hostile Korean population. <u><u><br>
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<div align="center"><u><u><b>Biography</b></u></u><br>
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Joji Wilson Kohjima is originally from Tacoma, Washington. He
is the great grandson of Robert Manton Wilson, an American
missionary who worked as a doctor on Hansen’s disease in Korea
from 1907 to 1941. Joji graduated in International Studies from
the University of Washington where he also studied pre-medicine
with a focus on biochemistry. He will apply for medical school
to begin in 2012. He hopes to continue studies in medical
anthropology in conjunction with medical school. <br>
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