[KS] Monash Beyond Borders Korean Studies Seminar Series Seminar 5

[Sandy Nguyen]

Dear KS list members, please note the following event. You can attend in
person or remotely. If attending remotely please register using the Google
form and a ZOOM link will be sent to you one day prior to the seminar. Hope
to see you there.

All the best,
Sandy

*Monash University Korean Studies Research Hub (MUKSRH) presents:*



*Monash Beyond Borders Korean Studies Seminar Series*


*Seminar 5*

'Junian Tetrad: Hangeul as a vertex of nation-building'

Dr Eldin Milak (Korea Foundation Postdoctoral Fellow, Curtin University)





Monash University (Clayton Campus)

G03 LTB (Learning & Teaching Building)

19 Ancora Imparo Wy, Clayton VIC 3168

10th October 12:30pm






*Bio*

Dr Eldin Milak is the 2023 Korea Foundation Postdoctoral Fellow for
research in Australia and New Zealand and a Visiting Research Fellow at the
School of Media, Creative Arts, and Social Inquiry at Curtin University. He
completed his PhD in sociolinguistics at Sungkyunkwan University as a
Global Korea Scholar (GKS), while also serving as a Brain Korea 21+ (BK
21+) researcher. His work explores the intersection of language and society
in contemporary South Korea, with a particular focus on script and writing
practices and policies in the country, as well as other sociolinguistic
issues, including naming and addressing, public spaces and landscapes, and
pop culture. Eldin is a Fulbright Alumnus (Montclair State University, NJ),
and the 2022 International Research Foundation (TIRF) Doctoral Dissertation
Grant (DDG) recipient.


*Abstract*

In this talk, I map out the trajectory by which Hangeul has come to
function as a vertex of nation-building in contemporary South Korea.
Building on the discussion of the historical rise of Hangeul through the
writings of one of the founding figures in Korean linguistics, Ju
Si-gyeong, I position Hangeul within the national development project of
South Korea, theorizing it as one of the four central elements of the
nation-state, alongside ‘language’, ‘people’, and ‘land’. I label this
fourfold construct as the ‘Junian Tetrad’ (a reworking of the ‘Herderian
Triad’) and explore how it evolved from its earliest formulations in Ju’s
‘Grammar of the National Language’ (국어문법, 2010) to its contemporary
manifestations in the semiotic landscapes of Seoul. Triangulating the
landscape data with a discursive analysis of the public laws and
legislations enforced in the city, I exemplify how the ‘Junian Tetrad’
surfaces in modern language and script policies, and discuss its continued
influence on the Korean national imagination. By focusing on Hangeul in
particular, I demonstrate how script can reify the nation-state construct
through the ubiquitous and mundane practice of sign-making in public
spaces. I conclude the talk by arguing that such symbolic power is derived
from a set of co-constructed paradoxical principles, which allow for the
consolidation and simultaneous deployment of dialectically opposed
concepts, such as ‘preservation’ (보전) and ‘development’ (발전).


Register here <https://forms.gle/8YqMUyU2wP4LQ3Gq9> for a ZOOM link.

Please contact Monash University Korean Studies Research Hub Coordinator
Ms Sandy Nguyen for further details.

Sandy.Nguyen1 at monash.edu <Sandy.nguyen1 at monash.edu>
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