<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><span class="" style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-thickness: initial;"><font face="HelveticaNeue" class="">Dear Korean Studies members,</font></span><div class="" style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-thickness: initial;"><font face="HelveticaNeue" class=""><br class=""></font></div><div class="" style="font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-thickness: initial;"><div class="" style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"><font face="HelveticaNeue" class="">The Choson History Society is inviting </font><span class="" style="font-size: 9pt;"><b class="">Daham Chong</b> (Sangmyung Univ.)</span><span class="" style="font-family: HelveticaNeue;"> for a talk titled, </span></div><div class="" style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"><span class="" style="font-size: 9pt;"><b class="">The Rise of South Korean “New-Right” Revisionist Historiography on King Sejong and the Issues of Post-coloniality in South Korean Historiography</b></span></div><div class="" style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"><div class="" style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"><br class=""></div><div class="" style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;">Date: January 27, 2022 Thursday, 3:00pm (PST) / January 27, Thursday, 6:00pm (EST) / Janurary 27, Thursday, 11:00pm (GMT) / January 28, Friday, 8:00am (KST)</div><div class="" style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"><font face="HelveticaNeue" class=""><br class=""></font></div></div><div class="" style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"><font face="HelveticaNeue" class="">This is a virtual Zoom event. Please register below. We look forward to seeing all of you!</font></div><div class="" style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"><a href="https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZEkduyrqTktGtUFC-2RGu9oFNj1jG7eka9o" class="">https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZEkduyrqTktGtUFC-2RGu9oFNj1jG7eka9o</a></div><div class="" style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"><br class=""></div><div class="" style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"><p class="MsoNormal" style="layout-grid-mode:char;mso-layout-grid-align:none;
word-break:normal"><img apple-inline="yes" id="B62F97CC-6CA7-4DF2-8AAE-8B525262A1A8" src="cid:E9A2F74F-613C-4BA3-9739-8186E13FB850" class=""></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent:40.0pt;layout-grid-mode:char;mso-layout-grid-align:
none;word-break:normal"><span style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34);" class="">A renowned
South Korean economic historian Yi Yŏng-hun(</span><span lang="KO" style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34);" class="">이영훈</span><span style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34);" class="">) 's
arguments on King Sejong in a youtube media lecture series in 2016 and its
publication into a book called <i class="">Sejong ŭn kwayŏn sŏnggun in'ga</i> (</span><i class=""><span lang="KO" style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34);" class="">세종은</span></i><i class=""><span lang="KO" style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34);" class=""> </span></i><i class=""><span lang="KO" style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34);" class="">과연</span></i><i class=""><span lang="KO" style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34);" class=""> </span></i><i class=""><span lang="KO" style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34);" class="">성군인가</span></i><span style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34);" class="">) in 2018, has triggered controversial disputes, across the public media
space, over King Sejong and his rule which have enjoyed its most iconic status
as the all-time favorite national hero or saint king within the context of
South Korean nationalism. Furthermore, this is the book where those South
Korean far-right revisionists' core arguments on Japanese colonial rule issues,
including "comfort women" represented in the book called <i class="">Pan-Il
Chongjokjuui</i>(</span><i class=""><span lang="KO" style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34);" class="">반일</span></i><i class=""><span lang="KO" style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34);" class=""> </span></i><i class=""><span lang="KO" style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34);" class="">종족주의</span></i><span style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34);" class="">) in 2019, have actually originated from and these issues are still
ongoing. This book's arguments, phenomenal impacts, and reactions from the
public audience represent the realities of Korean academia, politics, and
society.</span><span style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); text-indent: 40pt;" class=""> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent:40.0pt;layout-grid-mode:char;mso-layout-grid-align:
none;word-break:normal"><span style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34);" class="">By
historicizing them based on a postcolonial and a transnational perspective,
this paper seeks to rethink where the studies of Korean history in South Korea
have been, where it is now, and where it is going to be, historiographically
and politically. First, with a historiographical approach, I will critically
review the main arguments and problems of his interpretations of King Sejong
and his rule. Then, I will critically examine how his arguments work for the Sejong
period and the later period of Korean history within the current academic and
socio-political context of South Korea. I will also show you how Yi's
reinterpretation of King Sejong ends up only supporting Japanese far-right
historical revisionist arguments on perennial controversial issues between
Korea and Japan, including "comfort women." Finally, I will talk
about some crucial points on the issues of post-coloniality exposed by the
controversies of Yi's arguments in the studies of Korean history here in South
Korean academia, and I will also talk about what the Korean historians studying
Chosŏn history should rethink to deal with far-right historical revisionism in
this age of new media and post-truth.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="layout-grid-mode:char;mso-layout-grid-align:none;
word-break:normal"><img apple-inline="yes" id="BDB50AAB-5071-4022-979D-FE461E839E2E" src="cid:CAEB1811-9F69-4FF3-9E9F-1D39D7D4A21E" class=""></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="layout-grid-mode:char;mso-layout-grid-align:none;
word-break:normal"><b class=""><span style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34);" class="">About the
Speaker<o:p class=""></o:p></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="layout-grid-mode:char;mso-layout-grid-align:none;
word-break:normal"><span style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34);" class="">Daham Chong
is an associate professor in the School of Humanities and Social Sciences at
Sangmyung University in Seoul. He received his Ph.D. in 2008 with the
dissertation that scrutinizes how 15th century early Chosŏn kings such as
Sejong and Yangban ruling elites appropriated Confucian knowledge and
technology of "Sinitic" world system to create what they thought of
their "own" kingship and dynastic identity in the fifteenth century.
For about 15 years, based on a postcolonial and transnational perspective, he
has focused on rewriting early Chosŏn history, which has been highlighted
within the nationalist frameworks of South Korean Historiography as an iconic
period of self-awareness and self-discovery of Korea's "own"
identity. He has also focused on critically analyzing how post-1945 South
Korean historiography has invented Korean identity throughout the nation-state
building process after 1945 in its inseparable relationship with US academia
within the global Cold war context.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="layout-grid-mode:char;mso-layout-grid-align:none;
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word-break:normal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;
mso-fareast-font-family:Gulim;color:#222222;mso-font-kerning:0pt" class=""><br class=""></span></p><div class="" style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"><font face="HelveticaNeue" class="">More information about the Choson History Society: <a href="https://www.chosonhistorysociety.org/" class="">https://www.chosonhistorysociety.org/</a></font></div><div class="" style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"><font face="HelveticaNeue" class=""><br class=""></font></div><div class="" style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"><font face="HelveticaNeue" class="">Sincerely,</font></div><div class="" style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"><font face="HelveticaNeue" class="">Sean (Song Yeol) Han</font></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="layout-grid-mode:char;mso-layout-grid-align:none;
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