[KS] The 81st Yonsei-KF Korean Studies Forum (Hyuk-Rae Kim, Yonsei University)

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The Korean Studies Program and the Institute for Modern Korean Studies at the Graduate School of International Studies, Yonsei University are pleased to invite you to attend the 81st Yonsei-KF Korean Studies Forum, which will be held on Tuesday, May 20th at 6:00 PM in Room 111 of New Millennium Hall at Yonsei University. The speaker is Jeong-Woo Koo, Lecturer, Graduate School of International Studies, Seoul National University. The title of his talk is “The Fall of Confucian Academies in Choson : A Macro-Sociological Explanation.” The abstract of his paper and a brief bio can be found at the end of this email.  
 The presentation will be followed by a dinner reception. I hope you will come to enjoy the presentation, discussion, and reception. Please contact Jennifer Bresnahan at 010-5441-9204, jennifer.bresnahan at gmail.com for further inquiries.  
 
Sincerely,  
Hyuk-Rae Kim
Professor of Korean StudiesDirector, Institute for Modern Korean Studies
GSIS, Yonsei University 
 



    
        
            
            Abstract: 
            On March 18, 1871, Taewongun (Grand Prince) who held real power when King Kojong (r. 1863-1907) assumed power at the age of 12, issued a historical order that was enforced nationwide: All Confucian private academies ever built, except for the forty-seven royal chartered ones, were to be destroyed. During the period from 1865 to 1871, over 800 academies were abolished and these intermediate organizations largely disappeared from the central scene of the Korean history and politics. Why did this ‘tragedy’ every happen? Why did the Choson state become hostile to the once beloved local associations and decide to eliminate them? To answer these questions, Koo situates this historical drama in a broader sociological context involving political competition between the state and a nascent civil society, in association with his aim of overcoming the current historical explanations emphasizing more imminent causes of the abolition, such as military and fiscal abuses of the academies. 
            
            
        
    


 

Biography: 
Jeong-Woo Koo is a lecturer in Graduate School of International Studies at


Seoul

National

University. He received his Ph.D. in Sociology from


Stanford

University in 2007. His interests include comparative-historical sociology, organizations, cross-national/global analysis, and quantitative methods. His publications have appeared in Social Science History and Korean Journal of Sociology.  Currently, he is working on three projects: (1) The historical origins of publicity and public sphere in from 1600 to 1945; (2) worldwide expansion of national human rights institutions and its impact on the improvement of human rights from 1960 to 2005; (3) sources of the evolution of the Korean film industry from 1980 to 2005.
 

 
 


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