[KS] Fwd: Petition; "Make U.S. high school curriculums more inclusive of Japanese War Crimes during WW II" (Yoo Kwang-On)

Thu Feb 6 08:49:49 EST 2014

As we know well, in the concentration camps managed by Japanese in various
countries, often Koreans worked as staff - under the guidance of Japanese
management, of course - I mean the dirty work is better to perform by the
hands of others. This way these crimes against humanity include also
anti-Korean element. Should we include this also in the school curriculums?

Victoria Ten
Leiden University
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>>    1. Petition; "Make U.S. high school curriculums more inclusive
>>       of Japanese War Crimes during WW II" (Yoo Kwang-On)
>>    2. Re: Teaching on International Summer Schools in South Korea
>>       (Otfried Cheong)
>>    3. Re: More on 'hangughag' for clarifying the -g & -k problem
>>       (Charles Muller)
>>    4. Re: Teaching on International Summer Schools in South Korea
>>       ("Hilary V. Finchum-Sung")
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>> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
>> From: Yoo Kwang-On <almakoreana at gmail.com>
>> To: Korean Studies Discussion List <koreanstudies at koreanstudies.com>
>> Cc:
>> Date: Thu, 30 Jan 2014 20:46:34 -0600
>> Subject: [KS] Petition; "Make U.S. high school curriculums more
inclusive of Japanese War Crimes during WW II"
>> I have taken the liberty of including a link to a petition calling for
the Obama Administration "to make high school curriculums more inclusive of
Japanese War Crimes during WW II" and "should be taught just as rigorously
as the horrors of the Holocaust."
>>
>> http://wh.gov/l5BPA
>> If you are interested in signing the petition you can do so either by
logging into your account, if you already have an account with the
Whitehouse.gov  or by creating an account with them.
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>> You do not need to be a U.S. resident to sign the petition.
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>> Sincerely,
>>
>> Yoo Kwang-On
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>> From: Otfried Cheong <otfried at airpost.net>
>> To: Korean Studies Discussion List <koreanstudies at koreanstudies.com>
>> Cc:
>> Date: Sat, 01 Feb 2014 08:54:33 +0900
>> Subject: Re: [KS] Teaching on International Summer Schools in South Korea
>> On 01/31/2014 12:46 AM, Robinson, Michael E. wrote:
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>>> There is tremendous competition among SK universities to draw students
>>> into their summer schools.  They run them for a mixture of
>>> issues….prestige, money, etc.
>>
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>> University rankings give points for "globalization", such as the
percentage of foreign students.   Most Korean universities, since they
teach in Korean, have very few foreign students.  By counting the foreign
students who participate in the summer program, they improve the number of
foreign students they can report a lot.
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>> I once asked our dean of international relations what the point was of
having a summer program where we invite faculty from overseas to teach
students from overseas, without any involvement of our own students or
faculty.  His answer was: "Everybody does it".
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>> Otfried Cheong
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>> From: Charles Muller <acmuller at l.u-tokyo.ac.jp>
>> To: Korean Studies Discussion List <koreanstudies at koreanstudies.com>
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>> Date: Sat, 01 Feb 2014 11:37:31 +0900
>> Subject: Re: [KS] More on 'hangughag' for clarifying the -g & -k problem
>> Sangoak Lee wrote:
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>>> When I wrote the previous email, there were many squares as shown in
>>> the original Busan Univ. site. However, they were disappeared on the
>>> way of transferring and look like scrambled. Please refer to the
>>> original ENGLISH interface:
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>>>>  http://roman.cs.pusan.ac.kr/input_eng.aspx
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>> Thanks to Sangoak for this clarification. Perhaps in the future another
field for "actual use" of RR conversion might be added to this.
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>> Regards,
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>> Chuck
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>> A. Charles Muller
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>> From: "\"Hilary V. Finchum-Sung\"" <finchumsung at snu.ac.kr>
>> To: Korean Studies Discussion List <koreanstudies at koreanstudies.com>
>> Cc:
>> Date: Sat, 1 Feb 2014 11:59:30 +0900
>> Subject: Re: [KS] Teaching on International Summer Schools in South Korea
>>
>> Hi Aidan Foster-Carter and list members,
>>
>>
>> I am faculty at SNU and, for the past three years, have taught as a part
of the university's International Summer Institute.
>>
>>
>> Yes, it is true the function of such summer programs appears to be to
boost the ranking of respective universities in the global ranking system.
Every summer, students from all over the world participate, and I am
positive this serves to boost SNU's international ranking. The summer
program for me is refreshing since I get the opportunity to teach students
highly proficient in English. While my international students (typically as
exchange students) are increasing in number, the number of the academic
year international students does not compete with the number of summer
program student participants. Add to that, many of these students come to
Korea super excited to be here--they are ready to learn and don't think
things like, for example, field trips are hokey. The summer program, for
most, is a an experience in which they desire to participate. As a teacher,
this is very refreshing.
>>
>>
>> Regarding benefits for faculty coming from abroad, the majority of
people who come from abroad to teach in the SNU program (some of whom are
on this list) seem to participate because it provides them airfare and
accommodation in Korea for a period of time. The teaching time is not
demanding (my class is two credits and I only teach 2 mornings a week; 3
credit classes require 3x a week) and the pay is really, really good.  If
you focus research on Korea, it is a perfect opportunity to do some
research as well as make a good bit of money.  From the SNU side, it
appears the desire to invite faculty from abroad is perhaps only slightly
based on increasing global networks and really concertedly focused on
raising the university's global status.
>>
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>> I will say, however, that the majority of faculty in the SNU summer
program appear to be home-based; that is, SNU full-time faculty.  This
makes the SNU program a bit different from other summer programs.
>>
>>
>> From my own experience, there are no apparent cons.  You may consider
teaching during the summer 'break' a con, but other than that, I really
don't see any.  Every program is different, but in my experience teaching
at SNU and, earlier, at Hankuk University of Foreign Studies (외대) I've
found teaching summer an enjoyable experience and certainly worth my time.
>>
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>> 새해 복 많이 받으세요~
>>
>>
>> Hilary Finchum-Sung
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>>
>> Associate Professor
>> Department of Korean Music
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>>> 제목 : Re: [KS] Teaching on International Summer Schools in South Korea
>>> I've only heard good things about KoDae and yonDae. Cheers,
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>>> John Sager
>>> HKPU
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>>> Sent from my iPhone
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>>> On Jan 29, 2014, at 6:53 PM, Aidan Foster-Carter <afostercarter at aol.com>
wrote:
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>>>> Dear friends and colleagues,
>>>>
>>>> The invitation below has just been sent to me.
>>>> I imagine others will have received it also.
>>>> The breezy directness is quite refreshing, in its way.
>>>>
>>>> One is tempted to apply. But are there hidden pitfalls?
>>>> Can anyone comment from experience?
>>>>
>>>> As I understand, there are now quite a number of
>>>> summer schools of this kind held in South Korea.
>>>> Is there a central register of them? Could colleagues kindly
>>>> advise on the pros and cons of particular programmes?
>>>>
>>>> All advice gratefully received, whether to the List or directly.
>>>>
>>>> Happy Seollal to one and all,
>>>>
>>>> Aidan FC
>>>>
>>>> Aidan Foster-Carter
>>>> Honorary Senior Research Fellow in Sociology & Modern Korea, Leeds
University, UK
>>>>
>>>> E: afostercarter at aol.com     afostercarter at yahoo.com   W:
www.aidanfc.net
>>>> Skype:  Aidan.Foster.Carter                          Twitter:
@fcaidan
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> __________________
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>>>>
>>>>
>>>> -----Original Message-----
>>>> From: Dep. Vice-President <dvp.international at jbnu.ac.kr>
>>>>
>>>> Sent: Wed, 29 Jan 2014 9:42
>>>> Subject: Final Call for Proposals ISS 2014
>>>>
>>>> Subject: Final Call for Course Proposals, ISS 2014 (Please spread this
information to relevant colleagues)
>>>> To whom it may concern,
>>>> Greetings from Chonbuk National University, Republic of Korea. My name
is Prof. Kwang Ho Chun, Deputy Vice-President for International Affairs,
Chonbuk National University.
>>>>
>>>> I would like to show my sincere gratitude for your application. I am
very happy that we have a lot of applications for opening courses for ISS
2014. We already have more than 40 courses applied and I decided to extend
it to 60 courses.
>>>> Chonbuk National University's International Summer School (ISS)
programme invites international students and professors to learn and teach
a variety of intensive courses. Over the last few years this programme has
continued to gain reputability and as such, we are preparing for a huge
expansion in 2014.
>>>>
>>>> The International Summer School 2014 will run from Monday 30th June to
Friday 18th July lasting a total of 3 weeks. Over this period students will
be provided with 45 hours of teaching (3 hours per weekday) and 3 credits
per course.
>>>> For this year’s International Summer School, we looked to invite more
professors to teach courses relating to Korean studies, East Asian studies,
and other regional studies of which professors have expertise. However,
since we have many courses applied in the field of regional studies and
history, we strongly encourage our lfinal call for course specific experts
to apply. Since we have a lot of inquiries for course choice, I apologize
that I cannot reply to each one o f you. Also, please make your course
title fancy and apply only 1 course. Since many of you are asking multiple
choices, but we cannot decide ourself which will fit better.
>>>>
>>>> We would like to take this opportunity to invite you and your
colleagues to teach at ISS 2014. We are particularly encouraging young
researchers and teachers to join ISS 2014 with their own courses to
build-up their teaching careers. All professors and lecturers running
courses in 2014 will be provided with $3,000 USD of teaching compensation,
economy class round trip airfare and accommodation during their stay at
CBNU.
>>>> It is our recommendation that courses are kept to be at a moderate
level to make them as accessible as possible in order that we are able to
introduce the most students to the above fields of study. Each course
should have generated enough interest that a minimum of 10 students are
enrolled by 19th May, 2014, however if this is not the case we will need to
discuss further the feasibility of its running. As soon as the number of
students exceeds 10, I will send you a confirmation letter.
>>>> It would be greatly appreciated if you could reply your intentions to
teach in ISS 2014 by 7th February, 2014. If you would like to teach at ISS
2014, please send me the course title, and a syllabus by the same day. This
is our last call for proposals in ISS 2014.
>>>>
>>>> One last thing, I will introduce the website as soon as the
application starts, and I would like you to spread the words to your
students. If there are students register for ISS 2014 with professors whose
teaching at ISS 2014, we would like to waive the tuition fee. Literally,
you can open your own course in our campus with your students.
>>>>
>>>> I look forward to hearing from you at your earliest convenience.
>>>>
>>>> Thank you.
>>>> Yours sincerely,
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Kwang Ho Chun
>>>> Deputy Vice-President for International Affairs
>>>> Chonbuk National University
>>>> Republic of Korea
>>>>
>>>>
>>>
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