<div dir="ltr"><div><font face="arial, sans-serif" color="#000000">Dear all, </font></div><div><font face="arial, sans-serif" color="#000000"><br></font></div><font face="arial, sans-serif" color="#000000">The Third Biennial Melbourne Metropolitan Korean Studies meeting is coming up this Friday -this one-day workshop will showcase the latest research of senior Koreanists from different Australia-based universities and provide a space to discuss current challenges facing Korean Studies. <br><br>Time: Friday June 17 2022, 10am - 5pm AEST (in-person registrations open at 9am)</font><div><font face="arial, sans-serif" color="#000000">Location: Monash University Sport Centre Premiers room / Zoom<br>Register here: <a href="https://forms.gle/56orrUGiTbGWF3KZ9">https://forms.gle/56orrUGiTbGWF3KZ9</a><br><br>This event will feature the following presentations:</font><div><font face="arial, sans-serif" color="#000000"><span id="gmail-docs-internal-guid-28ab1743-7fff-ed79-e3ba-05341814de7a"><span style="background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Session 1: The Korean Peninsula </span></span><br></font><div><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;text-decoration-line:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><font face="arial, sans-serif" color="#000000">Why don’t you come out and change society? Coalition politics inside South Korea’s candlelight rallies of 2016/17</font></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><font face="arial, sans-serif" color="#000000">Presenter: Dr David Hundt</font></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><font face="arial, sans-serif" color="#000000">South Korea’s candlelight rallies played a decisive role in ending Park Geun-hye’s presidency in early 2017, but little is known about how the disparate cross-class coalition of interests inside the rallies held together. Drawing on interviews with activists and first-time or infrequent rallygoers, this article finds that there was broad consensus among participants on three major issues: the historical significance of the impeachment crisis, the need to practise a democratic ethos during the rallies, and the need for the crisis to usher in a new and better phase of national politics. The consensus, we illustrate, helped prevent further democratic decline in the short-term, but did not definitively bring South Korea into a new era of politics.</font></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><font face="arial, sans-serif" color="#000000"><br></font></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;text-decoration-line:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><font face="arial, sans-serif" color="#000000">Soju advertising from 1960 to the present: A journey through 60 years of visual culture and language</font></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><font face="arial, sans-serif" color="#000000">Presenter: Dr Lucien Brown</font></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><font face="arial, sans-serif" color="#000000"><span style="background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"></span></font></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><font face="arial, sans-serif" color="#000000">In this talk I report the initial findings of an analysis of over 800 soju print adverts spanning 60 years. I demonstrate how soju advertising developed “harder” imagery and language during the 1980s, which then transitioned to “softer” images and the use of female models from the 1990s. Since then, the imagery of soju ads has continued to evolve, showing evidence of shifting gender roles and changes in the idealized image of women. Whereas previous studies (Harkness 2013) have shown changes in the social semiotics of soju adverts from the 1980s to the 2000s, this study contextualizes these changes within a wider historical timeframe.</font></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><font face="arial, sans-serif" color="#000000"><br></font></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;text-decoration-line:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><font face="arial, sans-serif" color="#000000">Knowledge production of "security" in the Asia-Pacific</font></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><font face="arial, sans-serif" color="#000000">Presenter: Dr Maria Rost Rublee </font></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><font face="arial, sans-serif" color="#000000"><span style="background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"></span></font></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><font face="arial, sans-serif" color="#000000">Knowledge production about what constitutes "security" varies around the world. In this presentation, I discuss research on security studies within the Asia-Pacific, examining journals and topics over a 10-year period. In particular, I highlight trends in Korea and around Korea.</font></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><font face="arial, sans-serif" color="#000000"><br></font></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><font face="arial, sans-serif" color="#000000"><span style="font-weight:700">Session 2: North Korea</span><br></font></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;text-decoration-line:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><font face="arial, sans-serif" color="#000000">Climate change adaptation in North Korea at the environment-security-governance nexus</font></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><font face="arial, sans-serif" color="#000000">Presenter: Dr Ben Habib</font></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><font face="arial, sans-serif" color="#000000"><span style="background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"></span></font></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><font face="arial, sans-serif" color="#000000">In a 2010 article published in Asian Survey, I argued that North Korea did not have the adaptive capacity to buffer the climate change impacts predicted for the Korean Peninsula. Repeated climate shocks were likely to exacerbate the pre-existing weaknesses of the food system and place significant stress on an already fragile DPRK state. Only ten years later, those climate impact predictions are coming to pass, as evidenced by the 2020 typhoon season. In this presentation I will evaluate what has held up and what has changed from the picture painted in my 2010 article, and pinpoint potential near- to medium-term risks at the nexus of climate, governance and security.</font></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><font face="arial, sans-serif" color="#000000"><br></font></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;text-decoration-line:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><font face="arial, sans-serif" color="#000000">North Korea as a method</font></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><font face="arial, sans-serif" color="#000000">Presenter: Dr Jay Song</font></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><font face="arial, sans-serif" color="#000000"><span style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"></span></font></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><font face="arial, sans-serif" color="#000000">The paper reviews methodological trends in North Korean studies, mainly in social sciences, over the past two decades. It aims to demonstrate the evolution of data and methodologies employed by scholars in the field by focusing on three methods—statistical analyses, interviews, and theory testing—as well as to examine benefits and challenges associated with each methodology. The study finds that data and methodologies have become significantly diversified and sophisticated with increased accessibility to digitized North Korean materials, multidisciplinary eclectic methods, and computational analytical tools used by a new generation of scholars. At the core, it is the validity of data that can genuinely contribute to evidence-based scientific investigation. It also highlights that researchers’ epistemological barriers can seriously undermine the transparency in data and research design. Self-reflection, crossexamination, and rigorous peer review can further advance the quality of North Korean studies.</font></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><font face="arial, sans-serif" color="#000000"><br></font></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><font face="arial, sans-serif" color="#000000"><span style="font-weight:700">Session 3: Australia-Korea relations and education</span><br></font></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;text-decoration-line:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><font face="arial, sans-serif" color="#000000">Developing future business leaders to advance the Australia-Korea relationship</font></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><font face="arial, sans-serif" color="#000000">Presenter: Prof. Patrick Butler </font></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><font face="arial, sans-serif" color="#000000">Successful international trade relations and deep political, economic and social ties between Australia and Korea require the engagement and development of next-generation business leaders. Each national cohort has important lessons to learn from the other, including strategic perspectives and capabilities in the areas of business culture, manufacturing, marketing, innovation and service sector productivity.</font></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><font face="arial, sans-serif" color="#000000"><span style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"></span></font></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><font face="arial, sans-serif" color="#000000">Insights from Monash Business School and Sungkyunkwan University (SKKU) Business School exchange programs and student visits at MBA and Executive MBA levels are developed.</font></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><font face="arial, sans-serif" color="#000000"><br></font></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;text-decoration-line:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><font face="arial, sans-serif" color="#000000">Transitional Justice in Korea: A Role for Australia?</font></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><font face="arial, sans-serif" color="#000000">Presenters: Dr Danielle Chubb and Dr Nazanin Zadeh-Cummings</font></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><font face="arial, sans-serif" color="#000000"><span style="background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"></span></font></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><font face="arial, sans-serif" color="#000000">This presentation will discuss an Academy of Korean Studies funded project titled ‘Transitional Justice in Korea? A Role for Australia,’ awarded in 2020 and completed in 2021. The presentation will explore some of the challenges of designing the project, finding funding, and pivoting an in-person workshop methodology to an online space. It will also cover the project’s publications and preliminary findings, as well as present potential future directions.</font></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><font face="arial, sans-serif" color="#000000"><br></font></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;text-decoration-line:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><font face="arial, sans-serif" color="#000000">The Future of Korean Studies in Australia: Challenges and Opportunities</font></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><font face="arial, sans-serif" color="#000000">Presenter: Prof. Bronwen Dalton</font></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><span style="background-color:transparent"><font face="arial, sans-serif" color="#000000">Many of the challenges facing Korean Studies in Australia are similar to the challenges facing Australian universities - government funding is declining, competition from non-traditional providers is growing; pressure to create new sources of income is rising; students are more forthright about getting value for money and are seeking more enhanced digital learning experiences. More broadly, these challenges emerge in the context of increasing volatility in our region and heightened pressures on both economies. More profound, the climate change crisis presents humanity its greatest existential threat. In this context we must rethink the how we deliver Korean Studies education and also prepare students to follow their passions in new ways that meet changing expectations and ensure graduates can thrive in these uncertain times. The good news is that these challenges also present Korean Studies its greatest opportunities. In particular, there is a great opportunity to develop ICT enabled lifetime fit-for-purpose learning  and for-purpose learning in ways that further enrich and expand academic curriculums and programs and connect students with their passion for social change; become a vehicle for engagement with our region in ways that deepen the strategic Australian-Korean partnership in ways that lead to mutual prosperity and build more resilient democracies in both countries; and, through seizing new opportunities for research funding from industry and philanthropy, resource a rapid acceleration of the research standing of the field. BUT the other good news is that, for Korean Studies, this is much more about propelling a trajectory rather than changing course.</font></span></span></p><span id="gmail-docs-internal-guid-561e16c2-7fff-c58c-85d4-efaa5a35b215"><font face="arial, sans-serif" color="#000000"><div dir="ltr" style="margin-left:0pt" align="left"></div></font></span><div><font face="arial, sans-serif" color="#000000"><br></font></div><div><font face="arial, sans-serif" color="#000000">Please also see the attached program for this event for more details. Please do not hesitate to contact me at <a href="mailto:danae.smith@monash.edu">danae.smith@monash.edu</a> should you have any queries. </font></div><font face="arial, sans-serif" color="#000000"><br></font><div><font face="arial, sans-serif" color="#000000">Best wishes,</font><div><font face="arial, sans-serif" color="#000000">Danae Smith</font><br><br>--<div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr">Danae Smith<div><p class="MsoNormal">Monash University Korean Studies Research Hub (MUKSRH) Research
Assistant</p></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>