[KS] NEAC/Korea Foundation grants/fellowships announcements

[Mike Goodwin]

Clearly, it is a short-sighted strategy to view
> critics and other independent scholars this way,
> because their commentary on Korean culture generally
> reaches much wider audiences than academics

Hi Scott: This is an issue you have raised before, and it is one with which 
I empathize (especially because I own and have read both your Eng-langauge 
books, and know them to be "spot on). 

I see the above strategy (as you say) as just that; a stratgey (a strategic 
decision). It is a relative effect of a phenomenon that has its 
(intentional) roots in a certain "negative" disposition some (not all) 
academicians have. Nietzsche talked about it viz. philosophers. Most, for 
him, are useless to society, and the only ones N. himself admired were 
those whose lives were (as he said) "exemplary". The useless ones (and I 
think we can generalize to all disciplines here) tend simply to see 
themselves --and therefore try to live their lives--"above" the rabble, 
where much good critical thought originates.

It's a defense mechanism, right? And so this element becomes absorbed into 
money-granting bodies --directed by boards of academics, some of whom see 
themselves as protectors of intellectual justice and purity via 
certain "standards" (e.g., "The successful applicant will be enrolled 
in/completing an M.A./Ph.D. from a recognized university", etc.)



    romoting greater understanding of the culture--and
> deserves to be supported in order to ensure that it is
> more rigorous and informed through opportunities to
> study the language, pursue research and so forth.
>    Any thoughts on this institutional bias from the
> List?
>    --J. Scott Burgeson
> 
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