<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,0)">Dear KS list members, I hope you are well.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><br>Please note the following seminar organised by Monash University Korean Studies Research Hub. Registration details are also included below. Hope to see you there.</div><div class="gmail_default"><div class="gmail_default"><div><font face="arial, sans-serif" color="#000000"><br></font></div><div><font face="arial, sans-serif" color="#000000">Warm regards,<br>Sandy.</font></div><div><font face="arial, sans-serif" color="#000000"><br></font></div><div><font face="arial, sans-serif" color="#000000">_____________<br><br></font></div></div><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><font face="arial, sans-serif" color="#000000"><b><span lang="EN-GB">Monash University Korean Studies Research Hub (MUKSRH) presents:</span></b><u></u><u></u></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center;line-height:12.65pt"><font face="arial, sans-serif" color="#000000"> <u></u><u></u></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><font face="arial, sans-serif" color="#000000"><b><span lang="EN-GB">Monash Beyond Borders Korean Studies Seminar Series 2026<br>Seminar 3</span></b></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><font color="#000000" face="arial black, sans-serif"><i><b><span lang="EN-GB"><br></span></b><u></u></i></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center;line-height:12.65pt"><em><font color="#000000" face="arial black, sans-serif">"</font></em><span style="background-color:transparent;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;font-size:11pt;font-weight:700">How Does Dialect Fit the Nation? The Politics of Language Standardization in South Korea</span><em><b>"</b></em></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center;line-height:12.65pt"><br></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center;line-height:12.65pt">Dr Eunseon Kim (ANU)</p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center;line-height:12.65pt"><font face="arial, sans-serif" color="#000000"><span lang="EN-GB"> </span><u></u><u></u></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center;line-height:12.65pt"><font color="#000000"><font face="arial, sans-serif"> </font></font><font color="#000000"><font face="arial, sans-serif"> </font></font>Room 221, Learning & Teaching Building (LTB), Clayton VIC 3168 and via ZOOM</p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center;line-height:12.65pt"><font face="arial, sans-serif" color="#000000">8th May, 2-3pm (Melbourne time)</font></p><p style="box-sizing:border-box;margin-bottom:1rem;margin-top:0px"><font face="arial, sans-serif" color="#000000"><br style="box-sizing:border-box"></font></p><div><p style="text-align:justify"><strong>Abstract:<br></strong></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:rgb(33,33,33);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">South Korea is often imagined as a nation bound together by a single shared language. But what happens to regional dialects under that ideal? This study explores the politics of language standardization in South Korea by examining how standard Korean came to function as the legitimate language of education, public life, and national belonging, while dialects were marked as incorrect, undignified, backward, or in need of correction. Dialects were not simply excluded; they were managed\u2014corrected in schools, restricted in broadcasting, and tolerated mainly as subordinate forms of speech. Even recent efforts to celebrate dialects as cultural heritage or linguistic diversity do not fully escape this hierarchy: </span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">dialects are increasingly welcomed as markers of regional identity that \u201cenrich\u201d Korean, but usually without challenging the privileged status of the standard language itself</span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:rgb(33,33,33);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">. This study highlights how standard language ideology has shaped the social meanings of dialect: who sounds educated, who sounds provincial, and who gets to speak for the nation. In doing so, it asks what a more inclusive vision of language, identity, and belonging in Korea might entail.</span></p><p style="text-align:justify;padding:10pt 0pt 0pt"><strong>Bio: <br></strong></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Eunseon Kim is Lecturer in the School of Culture, History and Language at the Australian National University. Her research explores the ideological and semiotic dimensions of Korean, especially honorifics, linguistic etiquette, and metapragmatic discourse. She is currently preparing a book manuscript on the socio-semiotic history of Korean honorifics and their role in ethno-national modernity.
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