Korea and the Global Society

Yonson Ahn is Professor, Chair of Korean Studies and Deputy Executive Director of the Interdisciplinary Centre of East Asian Studies (IZO) at the Goethe University of Frankfurt, Germany.

Introduction Part 1: Korea’s Involvement in Overseas Aid and Transition 1. Shaping the Humanitarian Arena: South Korean, American, and Christian NGOs in North Korea 2. Engagement and Encounters with the Global South through Saemaul Undong 3. Ex-Periphery: South Korea’s Position vis-à-vis the Global Society Part 2: Cross-Border Contacts 4. Negotiating Masculinity: Migrant Husbands and Cross-Border ‘Marrying up’ 5. Interactions with Samaritans from the East: Emotion and Korean Nurses in Germany 6. Gendering ‘Return’: Korean American Femininities in South Korea 7. Towards a Multicultural Knowledge Economy? Emerging Issues in Tech Incubation for Immigrants in South Korea Part 3: Interplay of Identities in the Mediascape 8. Neocolonial Ambivalence and Race in 내일 지구가 망해버렸으면 좋겠어 (So Not Worth It) 9. Construction of a ‘Western’ Model Minority in South Korean Television: Portrayals of Germans and Germany in 내 친구의 집은 어딘가 (Where Is My Friend’s Home?) 10. Social Media as Vernacular Politics: YouTube Channels by North Korean Defectors in South Korea