Education & Corporation
An after-school school to give students an edge as they prepare for college entrance examinations
What is cram school?
When school is not a place of learning but of bullying.
What is school violence?
Based on "cross-border" marriages or marriage migration due to low birth rates in South Korea, and also challenged as a reductive and denigrating term, it refers to an ethnically and nationally diverse Korean family.
What is international family since mid 1990s?
Coined by Mark Simpson in The Independent in 1994, it describes an urban man invested in his grooming and appearance, spending time and money on his appearance.
What is metrosexual?
This 2008 film portrays plastic surgery as not inherently negative but does the leave viewer confused by its message.
What is 200 Pounds Beauty?
A Korean family owned conglomerate such as Hyundai, Daewoo, Samsung, and Lucky Goldstar.
What is chaebŏl?
What was one of the issues that the main character, Jang gu-rae, in Misaeng had to deal with as an outsider at the office?
What is collectivism in corporation culture?
Encompassing both masculine and feminine characteristics.
What is androgyny?
This concept is related to thinking about the body in a very different manner with the advent of plastic surgery.
What is the body in consumer culture?
This 2011 film looks at the story of a young man whose mother is Filipino and whose Korean father is a dwarf.
What is Punch?
This event has led to the rise of intense competition, cram schools, high suicide rates, and the rise of wild goose families
What is college entrance examination?
Rapid economic growth during the Park Chung-hee era (all happening in one generation) pushing South Korea from a pre-industrial to a knowledge based economy.
What is compressed modernization?
Referring to the "empowerment of young femininity ... as an aspect of 'contradictory femininity' by consuming girlie femininity and sexuality"
What is girl power?
Dramas such as Coffee Prince is representative of this code of sexuality.
This 1954 film was the precursor to Shiri, a forbidden love story between a North Korean female agent and a South Korean soldier.
What is Hand of Destiny?
When workers are hired on a temporary basis and do not have any job security. In 2014, there was a salary gap of $1000 a month between such workers and permanent employees.
What are contractors or pi chŏnggyujik?
Related to compressed modernization, it is the birth of state-led industrialization, the nationalization of commerical banks, and the allocation of capital to a small number of entrepreneuers.
What is Korea, Inc?
A new understanding of the family unit that includes divorce, single parent household, single person household, goose father, penguin father, kangaroo family, multicultural family, etc. that began to take hold in the 1990s but really shifted in the 2000s.
What is the post modern family?
The concept that feminism is somehow aged, uncool, and redundant and that women are freed from traditional feminine identities and that the free market will allow for new female identity constructions based on consumer choice.
What is post-feminism?
This best selling 2005 internet manga against Koreans and the Korean Wave reflects neonationalist sentiments among youth in Japan.
What is Kenkanryu?
What might be referred to as a "structure of feeling" that makes up the psychological infrastructure of South Korean society. An ideology resulting from compressed modernization in which authoritative hierarchy, family collectivism, and materialism are valued resulting in both social vitality and social ill.
What is developmentalist mentalite?
From 1961-1972, this controversial figure ruled South Korea with an iron hand, heavily influencing its social, cultural, and economic aspects.
Who is Park Chung-hee?
Based on Judith Butler's work, Gender Trouble, it is the idea that gender is not something inherent or something we are born with but it is something we learn and perform.
What is gender performativity?
Referring to the concept of chogukjeok (as it relates to mugukjeok) in the development of idol male stars.
What is manufactured versatile masculinity?
This term adds to the concept of globalization by recognizing the influence of local or particularizing tendencies of this process.
What is glocalization?