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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><b><span style='font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>The Center for Korean Studies at UC Berkeley<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><b><span style='font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><b><i><span style='font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>Proudly Presents<o:p></o:p></span></i></b></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>Accidental Cosmopolitanization: Citizenship Contradictions of Rural Marriage Immigration in South Korea<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>Colloquium: Center for Korean Studies | February 24 | 4 p.m. | <span style='color:#4D5963'><a href="http://www.berkeley.edu/map/3dmap/3dmap.shtml?athletic"><span style='color:#03959C;text-decoration:none'>Institute of East Asian Studies (2223 Fulton, 6th Floor)</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:#4D5963'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>Speaker: <b>Chang Kyung-Sup</b>, Professor of Sociology, Seoul National University<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:#4D5963'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>As a late modern irony in South Korea, rural villages have become a platform for cosmopolitanization in terms of rapidly increasing marriages between Korean bachelors and foreign brides from various Asian countries. These marriage immigrants are seen as the first non-Korean ethnic groups to become integrated and accepted socially by Koreans. On official, social, and personal levels, there are intense negotiations and inventive suggestions concerning the status of foreign brides as Korean citizens, which will be discussed along with the contradictions that can structurally deny or threaten their genuine sociocultural and political membership in Korean society.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:#4D5963'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>Event Contact: <span style='color:#4D5963'><a href="mailto:cks@berkeley.edu"><span style='color:#03959C;text-decoration:none'>cks@berkeley.edu</span></a>, </span>510-642-5674<span style='color:#4D5963'><o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div></body></html>