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</font><p style="margin:0cm 0cm 0pt"><span lang="EN-US" style="color:black;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><font size="3">We are also seeking panelists and a
discussant to join our panel proposal for AKSE conference.</font></span></p><font color="#000000" face="굴림" size="3">

</font><p style="margin:0cm 0cm 0pt"><span lang="EN-US" style="color:black;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><font size="3">Our panel title is “In and Out of
Korean University: New Inter-Asia Mobility in Higher Education”. This panel
will tackle both institutional and individual dimensions in inter-asian
mobility, higher education market, shifting hierarch in global academy and global
higher education exchange circuit. You can find more detailed proposal below.</font></span></p><font color="#000000" face="굴림" size="3">

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</font><p style="margin:0cm 0cm 0pt"><span lang="EN-US" style="color:black;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><font size="3">If interested, feel free to us:
Younghan (</font><a href="mailto:choy@hufs.ac.kr"><font color="#0563c1" size="3">choy@hufs.ac.kr</font></a><font size="3">) or Jiyeon (</font></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10pt"><a><span style="color:rgb(102,102,102);font-size:12pt;text-decoration:none"><font face="Calibri">jiyeon-kang@uiowa.edu</font></span></a></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><font color="#000000"><font size="3">) for sharing your initial thoughts or possible topics soon, preferably
before 6</font>^{<font size="2"> </font>}</font><font color="#000000" size="3">July.</font></span></p><font color="#000000" face="굴림" size="3">

</font><p style="margin:0cm 0cm 0pt"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><font color="#000000"><font size="3">We are also receiving a 500-word abstract and a brief
bio at the same time</font></font><font color="#000000" size="3">.</font></span></p><font color="#000000" face="굴림" size="3">

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</font><p style="margin:0cm 0cm 0pt"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><font color="#000000" size="3">Thank You!</font></span></p><font color="#000000" face="굴림" size="3">

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</font><p style="margin:0cm 0cm 0pt"><span lang="EN-US" style="color:black;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><font size="3">Jiyeon Kang (University of Iowa) &
Younghan Cho (Hankuk University of Foreign Studies)</font></span></p><font color="#000000" face="굴림" size="3">

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</font><p style="margin:0cm 0cm 0pt"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="color:black;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><font size="3">Title: In and Out of Korean University: New Inter-Asia Mobility in
Higher Education</font></span></b></p><font color="#000000" face="굴림" size="3">

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</font><p style="margin:0cm 0cm 0pt"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><font color="#000000" size="3">Abstract:</font></span></b></p><font color="#000000" face="굴림" size="3">

</font><p style="margin:0cm 0cm 0pt"><span lang="EN-US" style="color:black;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><font size="3">This panel examines new inter-Asia
mobility with focusing on higher education as a window to personal and national
project of “success.” The papers on this panel study undergraduate and
postgraduate students as well as Korean educational institutions from critical
cultural approaches, illuminating individual strategies, institutional
practices, and national discourses in response to the marketization and
globalization of higher education.</font></span></p><font color="#000000" face="굴림" size="3">

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</font><p style="margin:0cm 0cm 0pt"><span lang="EN-US" style="color:black;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><font size="3">In South Korea’s neoliberal reforms
since the late 1990s, study abroad has become a joint project through which an
individual family envisions “opportunities abroad” for its middle-class
reproduction and simultaneously imagines South Korea’s participation in the
global race. Within a decade, however, Korean students often withdrew from the
English-speaking countries, realizing the difficulties of becoming
cosmopolitans, and instead some of them head to China for investing their
future. Also, South Korea has emerged another regional hub of higher education
among Asian students. South Korea aggressively recruited international students
from Asian countries (prominently China, followed by Vietnam). On their ways of
pursuing degrees in Korean university, these new Asian students deploy diverse
strategies for success and survival, encounter unexpected challenges, and
experience Korean society, culture and people, which also constitute one
dimension of multicultural Korea.</font></span></p><font color="#000000" face="굴림" size="3">

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</font><p style="margin:0cm 0cm 0pt"><span lang="EN-US" style="color:black;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><font size="3">While individuals were experiencing the
global education as a part of their project for domestic success, South Korea’s
higher educational institutions similarly encountered globalization and
marketization in their own rights. Recruiting international students served a
dual purpose. These students primarily functioned as symbolic capital for
Korean universities in the newly introduced competition to attain the status of
world-class institution. This amplified the existing competition among elite
universities, which used the rankings as both domestic and international
markers of their status. Among the criteria, the number of foreign faculty and
students were relatively attainable targets, compared with other areas
requiring long-term investments. Furthermore, for South Korea’s private
non-elite institutions in particular, international students became veritable
lifelines for survival. The Korean government and its affiliated instituted
such as Korea Foundation and KOICA (Korea International Cooperation Agency)
have sponsored regional elite students into Korea university for the purposes
of at expanding cultural territory and globalizing Korean language and Korean
studies.</font></span></p><font color="#000000" face="굴림" size="3">

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</font><p style="margin:0cm 0cm 0pt"><span lang="EN-US" style="color:black;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><font size="3">The panel attends to the ever-shifting
parameters of educational success, ranging from foreign language proficiency,
entrepreneurial subjectivity, calculation of the future market, and even
alternative paths from the mainstream education systems. The panel develop
higher education into an important category in understanding South Korea and Asia’s
modernization, family experience, and social mobility.</font></span></p><font color="#000000" face="굴림" size="3">

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</font><br clear="all"><br>-- <br><div class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div>Professor in Korean Studies(Ph.D in Communication Studies)</div><div>Graduate School of International and Area Studies, Hankuk University of Foreign Studies (Seoul, South Korea)</div><div>Homepage: <a href="https://hufs.academia.edu/YounghanCho" target="_blank">https://hufs.academia.edu/YounghanCho</a></div></div></div></div></div>
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