<html><head></head><body><div class="ydp8984ac09yahoo-style-wrap" style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"><div id="ydp8984ac09yiv5564874789" style=""><div style="" class="ydp8984ac09yiv5564874789yahoo-style-wrap"><div dir="ltr" style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"><span><p dir="ltr" style="margin-top:0px;color:rgb(91, 110, 128);font-family:Roboto, Gothic Tahoma, sans-serif;font-size:22.5px;background-color:rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span style="font-size:24px;"><span style="font-weight:bolder;">The Limits and Possibilities of the Natural in Korea</span></span></p><div style="margin-top:0px;color:rgb(91, 110, 128);font-family:Roboto, Gothic Tahoma, sans-serif;font-size:22.5px;background-color:rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span style="font-weight: bolder;">Date:</span> Friday, June 5, 2026</div><div style="margin-top:0px;color:rgb(91, 110, 128);font-family:Roboto, Gothic Tahoma, sans-serif;font-size:22.5px;background-color:rgb(255, 255, 255);" dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">Location: HIB 135, University of California Irvine</div><div style="margin-top:0px;color:rgb(91, 110, 128);font-family:Roboto, Gothic Tahoma, sans-serif;font-size:22.5px;background-color:rgb(255, 255, 255);" dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><br></div></span></div><div dir="ltr" style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"><span><span style="color:rgb(91, 110, 128);font-family:Roboto, Gothic Tahoma, sans-serif;font-size:22.5px;background-color:rgb(255, 255, 255);">The conference explores the limits and possibilities of multiple conceptions of what constitutes "nature," "biology," "nativeness," or "the organic" in the Korean context. How have terms such as </span><em style="color:rgb(91, 110, 128);font-family:Roboto, Gothic Tahoma, sans-serif;font-size:22.5px;background-color:rgb(255, 255, 255);">jayeon</em><span style="color:rgb(91, 110, 128);font-family:Roboto, Gothic Tahoma, sans-serif;font-size:22.5px;background-color:rgb(255, 255, 255);">\uc790\uc5f0\u81ea\u7136, </span><em style="color:rgb(91, 110, 128);font-family:Roboto, Gothic Tahoma, sans-serif;font-size:22.5px;background-color:rgb(255, 255, 255);">saengmul</em><span style="color:rgb(91, 110, 128);font-family:Roboto, Gothic Tahoma, sans-serif;font-size:22.5px;background-color:rgb(255, 255, 255);">\uc0dd\ubb3c\u751f\u7269, </span><em style="color:rgb(91, 110, 128);font-family:Roboto, Gothic Tahoma, sans-serif;font-size:22.5px;background-color:rgb(255, 255, 255);">saengtae</em><span style="color:rgb(91, 110, 128);font-family:Roboto, Gothic Tahoma, sans-serif;font-size:22.5px;background-color:rgb(255, 255, 255);">\uc0dd\ud0dc\u751f\u614b, </span><em style="color:rgb(91, 110, 128);font-family:Roboto, Gothic Tahoma, sans-serif;font-size:22.5px;background-color:rgb(255, 255, 255);">tojong</em><span style="color:rgb(91, 110, 128);font-family:Roboto, Gothic Tahoma, sans-serif;font-size:22.5px;background-color:rgb(255, 255, 255);">\ud1a0\uc885\u571f\u7a2e, </span><em style="color:rgb(91, 110, 128);font-family:Roboto, Gothic Tahoma, sans-serif;font-size:22.5px;background-color:rgb(255, 255, 255);">yugi</em><span style="color:rgb(91, 110, 128);font-family:Roboto, Gothic Tahoma, sans-serif;font-size:22.5px;background-color:rgb(255, 255, 255);">\uc720\uae30\u6709\u6a5f, among others, been invoked in Korea and to what ends? How are they braided into nationalist or Cold War claims over nature and landscape? Conversely, how have these terms been used to denote differences and demarcate the boundaries of \u201cKorean nature\u201d? How have ideas about organicism evolved in Korea over time? What are the boundaries of \u201cthe natural" in Korea, and who gets to decide them?</span></span></div><div dir="ltr" style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"><span><span style="color:rgb(91, 110, 128);font-family:Roboto, Gothic Tahoma, sans-serif;font-size:22.5px;background-color:rgb(255, 255, 255);"><br></span></span></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false" style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"><span><span style="color:rgb(91, 110, 128);font-family:Roboto, Gothic Tahoma, sans-serif;font-size:22.5px;background-color:rgb(255, 255, 255);">For conference details, go to </span></span><a href="https://www.humanities.uci.edu/events/limits-and-possibilities-natural-korea" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.humanities.uci.edu/events/limits-and-possibilities-natural-korea</a></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><br></span></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font color="#5b6e80" face="Roboto, Gothic Tahoma, sans-serif" style="background-color: inherit;"><span style="font-size: 22.5px;">Organized by Eleana Kim (UC Irvine), David Fedman (UC Irvine), Albert L. Park (Claremont McKenna College, The Claremont Colleges) and Juwon Lee (UC Irvine)</span></font><br></span><br></div></div></div></div></body></html>