<html><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif;font-size:8pt"><div><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 18px; ">I recently read Christopher K. Green and Stephen J. Epstein's "Now On My Way to Meet Who? <span class="yiv2941361181yshortcuts" id="yiv2941361181lw_1384063508_0" style="line-height: 1.2em; outline-style: none; outline-color: initial; ">South Korean Television</span>, North Korean Refugees, and the Dilemmas of Representation" in the 14 Oct. 2013 edition of The Asia-Pacific Journal, and found it quite illuminating, as usual.<br clear="none" style="line-height: 1.2em; outline-style: none; outline-color: initial; "><br clear="none" style="line-height: 1.2em; outline-style: none; outline-color: initial; ">One of the main themes of the essay
is the "Otherizing" of North Korean female defectors on the show "Imangap," whereby the North is presented via their personal narratives as a quaint, exotic or pitiable backwater to the "superior" or far more modern, developed South (in a kind of hierarchized relationship). I don't normally watch much TV, Korean or otherwise, but I have seen a few installments of the show when in Southern hotel rooms, as well as odd clips on YouTube, and what struck me was how many of the woman had been thoroughly South Koreanized: Their North Korean accents muted or replaced with standardized South Korean accents, make-up styles overtly South Korean, and fashions as well. Having recently lived in NE China for several years, and interacting with dozens of young North Korean women there (none of them defectors, I should note, but there for various official or state-sanctioned reasons), the South Koreanizing of these women seemed obvious<span
class="yiv2941361181Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 19px; "> </span>to me, and what I am wondering is if this struck anyone else who has seen the show as well? More to the point, is this so-called "South Koreanizing" at odds with the theme of "Otherizing" these women, or is there in fact a double "Otherizing" at work here, in the sense that these women have been encouraged to present themselves according to contemporary South Korean standards of beauty and speech, whether because of the producers or the broader South Korean society in which they now live, and are consequently further alienated from their own original, or primary, North Korean identities? Certainly there seems to be a process of standardizing and homogenizing at work here, and indeed I've also noticed that the American drummer of Busker Busker, Brad Moore, has undergone a similar kind of "South Koreanizing" subsequent to his appearance on the hit TV show "Superstar K": Thick
oversized black glasses currently in vogue here in the South, an overly whipped<span class="yiv2941361181Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 19px; "> South </span>Korean hair style and a fashion sensibility that is distinctly South Korean well -- call it a rather conservative type of "indie preppy," if you like.<br clear="none" style="line-height: 1.2em; outline-style: none; outline-color: initial; "><br clear="none" style="line-height: 1.2em; outline-style: none; outline-color: initial; ">In any case, if multiculturalism implies an acceptance and celebration of cultural difference, erasing or downplaying cultural differences would seem to be at odds with the much-heralded rise of "multiculturalism" in South Korea, would it not? Is "Imangap" simply another instance of South Korean "multiculturalism" actually being code for radical assimilation and incorporation into the South Korean collective? <br clear="none" style="line-height:
1.2em; outline-style: none; outline-color: initial; "><br clear="none" style="line-height: 1.2em; outline-style: none; outline-color: initial; "><br clear="none" style="line-height: 1.2em; outline-style: none; outline-color: initial; ">Scott Bug</span></span></div><div class="yahoo_quoted" style="display: block; "> <br> <br> <div style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif; "> <div style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif; "> <div dir="ltr"> <font size="2" face="Arial"> On Saturday, November 9, 2013 1:15 AM, Sun Joo Kim <sunjookim1@hotmail.com> wrote:<br> </font> </div> <div class="y_msg_container"><div id="yiv2973229179">
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<div style="TEXT-ALIGN:center;MARGIN:0in 0.5in 0pt 0in;" class="yiv2973229179ecxMsoNormal" align="left"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; ">Korea Institute at Harvard University is pleased to announce the second Harvard Korean Art History Workshop to be held on December 13, 2013. Please see below for a tentative schedule of the event.</span></div>
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<div style="TEXT-ALIGN:center;MARGIN:0in 0.5in 0pt 0in;" class="yiv2973229179ecxMsoNormal" align="left"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; "><b>Infinite Interfusion: Buddhist Art in Korea</b></span></div>
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<div style="TEXT-ALIGN:center;MARGIN:0in 0.5in 0pt 0in;" class="yiv2973229179ecxMsoNormal" align="left"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; ">Date: December 13, 2013</span></div>
<div style="TEXT-ALIGN:center;MARGIN:0in 0.5in 0pt 0in;" class="yiv2973229179ecxMsoNormal" align="left"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; ">Place: Korea Institute, CGIS South, </span><font face="Cambria"><span lang="EN">1730 Cambridge Street, Cambridge, MA, 02138</span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; "></span></font></div>
<div style="TEXT-ALIGN:center;MARGIN:0in 0.5in 0pt 0in;" class="yiv2973229179ecxMsoNormal" align="left"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; "><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; ">Organized by Korea Institute </span></span></div>
<div style="TEXT-ALIGN:center;MARGIN:0in 0.5in 0pt 0in;" class="yiv2973229179ecxMsoNormal" align="left"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; ">Co-sponsored by East Asian Art History Program and Harvard-Yenching Institute</span></div>
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<div style="MARGIN:0in 0.5in 0pt 0in;" class="yiv2973229179ecxMsoNormal"><u><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; ">Session I: Buddhist Iconography, Local Contingencies</span></u></div>
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<div style="MARGIN:0in 0.5in 0pt 0in;" class="yiv2973229179ecxMsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; ">Harmony and Conflict in </span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; ">Ch’ŏnt’ae</span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; "> and </span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; ">Hwaŏm</span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; "> Buddhism as Seen through a </span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; ">Kogyŏ</span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; "> Amitâbha Painting</span></div>
<div style="MARGIN:0in 0.5in 0pt 0in;" class="yiv2973229179ecxMsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; ">I</span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; ">de</span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; "> Seinosuke</span></div>
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<div style="MARGIN:0in 0.5in 0pt 0in;" class="yiv2973229179ecxMsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; ">The Shifting Pantheon of Bodhisattva Ksitigarbha</span></div>
<div style="MARGIN:0in 0.5in 0pt 0in;" class="yiv2973229179ecxMsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; ">Gyeongwon Choe</span></div>
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<div style="MARGIN:0in 0.5in 0pt 0in;" class="yiv2973229179ecxMsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; ">Discussants: Yukio Lippit, </span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; ">Chin-sung Chang</span></div>
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<div style="TEXT-JUSTIFY:inter-ideograph;TEXT-ALIGN:justify;MARGIN:0in 0.5in 0pt 0in;" class="yiv2973229179ecxMsoNormal"><u><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; ">Session II: Buddhist Worlds in Unified Silla </span></u></div>
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<div style="MARGIN:0in 0.5in 0pt 0in;" class="yiv2973229179ecxMsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; ">Sŏkkuram and Iran: Kuchean Buddhist Caves and their </span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; ">Eighth-Century</span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; "> Korean Kin</span></div>
<div style="MARGIN:0in 0.5in 0pt 0in;" class="yiv2973229179ecxMsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; ">Minku Kim</span></div>
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<div style="MARGIN:0in 0in 0pt;" class="yiv2973229179ecxMsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; ">A Four</span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Cambria Math', serif; ">‐</span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; ">sided Buddha Land?: A Stupa Valley Sculpture on Mt. Nam in Unified Silla</span></div>
<div style="MARGIN:0in 0in 0pt;" class="yiv2973229179ecxMsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; ">Sunkyung Kim</span></div>
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<div style="MARGIN:0in 0.5in 0pt 0in;" class="yiv2973229179ecxMsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; ">Discussants: </span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; ">Eugene </span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; ">Wang, Youn-mi Kim</span></div>
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<div style="TEXT-JUSTIFY:inter-ideograph;TEXT-ALIGN:justify;MARGIN:0in 0.5in 0pt 0in;" class="yiv2973229179ecxMsoNormal"><u><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; ">Session III:<span> </span>Reading Patronage in </span></u><u><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; ">Chosŏn</span></u><u><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; "> </span></u><u><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; ">Buddhist Painting</span></u></div>
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<div style="MARGIN:0in 0.5in 0pt 0in;" class="yiv2973229179ecxMsoNormal"><i><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; ">Sakyamuni Expounding the Teachings</span></i><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; "> in the Museum of East Asian Art, Cologne: A Vivid Example of Gold Line Painting in Early Chosŏn</span></div>
<div style="MARGIN:0in 0.5in 0pt 0in;" class="yiv2973229179ecxMsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; ">Maya Stiller</span></div>
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<div style="MARGIN:0in 0.5in 0pt 0in;" class="yiv2973229179ecxMsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; ">Buddhist Activities by Royal Household Members in the </span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; ">Chosŏn</span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; "> Dynasty: On the <i>Three Indras</i> Painting of 1483</span></div>
<div style="MARGIN:0in 0.5in 0pt 0in;" class="yiv2973229179ecxMsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; ">Jiyoung</span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; "> Lee</span></div>
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<div style="MARGIN:0in 0.5in 0pt 0in;" class="yiv2973229179ecxMsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; ">Discussants: </span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; ">Melissa </span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; ">McCormick, </span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; ">Jaebin Yoo</span></div>
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