[KS] KS] Seeking panelists for AKSE: In and Out of Korean University: New Inter-Asia Mobility in Higher Education

[YOUNGHAN CHO]

Dear All:



We are also seeking panelists and a discussant to join our panel proposal
for AKSE conference.

Our panel title is “In and Out of Korean University: New Inter-Asia
Mobility in Higher Education”. This panel will tackle both institutional
and individual dimensions in inter-asian mobility, higher education market,
shifting hierarch in global academy and global higher education exchange
circuit. You can find more detailed proposal below.



If interested, feel free to us: Younghan (choy at hufs.ac.kr) or Jiyeon (
jiyeon-kang at uiowa.edu) for sharing your initial thoughts or possible topics
soon, preferably before 6 July.

We are also receiving a 500-word abstract and a brief bio at the same time.



Thank You!



Jiyeon Kang (University of Iowa) & Younghan Cho (Hankuk University of
Foreign Studies)



*Title: In and Out of Korean University: New Inter-Asia Mobility in Higher
Education*



*Abstract:*

This panel examines new inter-Asia mobility with focusing on higher
education as a window to personal and national project of “success.” The
papers on this panel study undergraduate and postgraduate students as well
as Korean educational institutions from critical cultural approaches,
illuminating individual strategies, institutional practices, and national
discourses in response to the marketization and globalization of higher
education.



In South Korea’s neoliberal reforms since the late 1990s, study abroad has
become a joint project through which an individual family envisions
“opportunities abroad” for its middle-class reproduction and simultaneously
imagines South Korea’s participation in the global race. Within a decade,
however, Korean students often withdrew from the English-speaking
countries, realizing the difficulties of becoming cosmopolitans, and
instead some of them head to China for investing their future. Also, South
Korea has emerged another regional hub of higher education among Asian
students. South Korea aggressively recruited international students from
Asian countries (prominently China, followed by Vietnam). On their ways of
pursuing degrees in Korean university, these new Asian students deploy
diverse strategies for success and survival, encounter unexpected
challenges, and experience Korean society, culture and people, which also
constitute one dimension of multicultural Korea.



While individuals were experiencing the global education as a part of their
project for domestic success, South Korea’s higher educational institutions
similarly encountered globalization and marketization in their own rights.
Recruiting international students served a dual purpose. These students
primarily functioned as symbolic capital for Korean universities in the
newly introduced competition to attain the status of world-class
institution. This amplified the existing competition among elite
universities, which used the rankings as both domestic and international
markers of their status. Among the criteria, the number of foreign faculty
and students were relatively attainable targets, compared with other areas
requiring long-term investments. Furthermore, for South Korea’s private
non-elite institutions in particular, international students became
veritable lifelines for survival. The Korean government and its affiliated
instituted such as Korea Foundation and KOICA (Korea International
Cooperation Agency) have sponsored regional elite students into Korea
university for the purposes of at expanding cultural territory and
globalizing Korean language and Korean studies.



The panel attends to the ever-shifting parameters of educational success,
ranging from foreign language proficiency, entrepreneurial subjectivity,
calculation of the future market, and even alternative paths from the
mainstream education systems. The panel develop higher education into an
important category in understanding South Korea and Asia’s modernization,
family experience, and social mobility.




-- 
Professor in Korean Studies(Ph.D in Communication Studies)
Graduate School of International and Area Studies, Hankuk University of
Foreign Studies (Seoul, South Korea)
Homepage: https://hufs.academia.edu/YounghanCho
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