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Special Issue
Reconsidering Relations between Vietnam and Korea: Historical and Regional Perspectives beyond Southeast Asia
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Junko Koizumi, Masako Ito2010 Volume 48 Issue 3 Pages 235-241
Published: December 31, 2010
Released on J-STAGE: October 31, 2017
JOURNAL FREE ACCESSAfter political democratization in South Korea and the Doi Moi reforms of Vietnam started and proceeded concomitantly from the late 1980s, South Korea and Vietnam formally resumed diplomatic relations in 1992, and have been rapidly strengthening their political, economic, as well as cultural ties ever since then. This special issue will look into various aspects of relations between South Korea and Vietnam from both contemporary and historical perspectives; by doing so, it intends to cast a new light on the complex layers of dynamism in East and Southeast Asian regions from a perspective that may not be reduced solely to China and U.S. contexts. Moreover, three of the articles included in this issue were presented at a joint-symposium titled “Interdependency of Korea, Japan and Southeast Asia: Migration, Investment and Cultural Flow,” organized by the Center for Southeast Asian Studies, Kyoto University and the Korean Association of Southeast Asian Studies, and held at Gyeongsang National University, Jinju City, in June 2009. Considering the growing interest in Southeast Asian Studies in South Korea, we hope that this issue will contribute to further collaboration between Korean, Japanese and Southeast Asian scholars working in the field of Southeast Asian Studies.View full abstractDownload PDF (369K) -
Government Policies, Social Capital, Labor Exporting Agencies, and Chain MigrationHorim Choi2010 Volume 48 Issue 3 Pages 242-264
Published: December 31, 2010
Released on J-STAGE: October 31, 2017
JOURNAL FREE ACCESSThis study investigates the sustaining background of Vietnamese labor migration to Korea based on the interpretation of political and social contexts found in Vietnam. It also focuses on national policies, the social capital of locality, chain-migration process, and the roles of agencies as key factors in Vietnam’s transnational labor migration. International labor migration is one of the most important parts of the state’s projects for socio-economic development of Vietnam, which has been extensively shaped, directed, and promoted by government policies since the 1980s. However, international migration is a kind of family and community business arbitrarily operating at a local level. Labor recruiting activities have been maintained in the context where local actors have been afforded significant capacity to mediate and manipulate the framework of policies and agreements created by governments. Even since the Korean Language Proficiency Test became the sole official qualifying procedure for labor migration under the Employment Permit System of Korea, private recruiting businesses have still been operating by relying on the support of networks of locality to smoothly negotiate the processes of gaining certificates. In attempting to gain this support, the building and cultivation of social ties with local state officials has constituted an important mechanism. In addition, “chain migration” has raised the possibility of successful migration to and settlement in Korea.View full abstractDownload PDF (817K) -
The Export of Korean Television Dramas to Vietnam and ThailandMiji Lee2010 Volume 48 Issue 3 Pages 265-293
Published: December 31, 2010
Released on J-STAGE: October 31, 2017
JOURNAL FREE ACCESSSince 2000, the popularity of South Korean popular culture known as Korean Wave or Hallyu has increased significantly in Southeast Asia. The Korean Government now recognizes cultural industries as one of the top key industries of the nation. The purpose of this paper is to review the cultural export promotion policies of the South Korean Government which are the basic backgrounds of the spread of Korean Wave, and to investigate how Korean Wave is being accepted and developed in Southeast Asia by drawing on the examples of Vietnam and Thailand. Among many genres, such as music and film, this paper focuses on Korean TV dramas as they are the most important driving force in the Korean Wave industries. By examining push and pull factors in both importing and exporting countries, it indicates that in Vietnam and Thailand, the carefully-planned strategic economic support of the Korean government for these industries and the rapid expansion of multi-channel TV and multi-media industries, which are in want of attractive content, are the most important factors that have contributed to the Hallyu expansion.View full abstractDownload PDF (1144K) -
Korean NGO Recovery of “Non-Official Memory”Masako Ito2010 Volume 48 Issue 3 Pages 294-313
Published: December 31, 2010
Released on J-STAGE: October 31, 2017
JOURNAL FREE ACCESSThis paper aims to examine how reconciliation is developed through apologies towards damages by war, comparing the actions of nation-state, damaged areas and NGOs concerning the Vietnam War. The second aim is to consider official and non-official memories about Vietnam War both in the damaged country and the country that caused damages, further investigating the relationship between a variety of memories and political systems.
During the Vietnam War, South Korea sent the second largest group of armed forces, but recently the Korean’s memories as heroic stories have been confused since Han-kyoreh magazine reported that Korean troops conducted mass killings.
After 30 years, an ex-service Korean’s group visited the Ha My hamlet, Quang Nam Province, where slaughters occurred in 1968. They built a monument for the victims. But when it was completed, the group felt shocked about a poem on the massacre on the monument. After going back to Korea, they demanded revisions. The Vietnamese government, which was asked for revisions by the Korean Embassy, put pressure on the villagers, who finally covered the inscription.
Vietnamese policy is to seal the past and look to the future as at present, the most important issue for the government is to procure development funds from other countries, and to maintain the legitimacy of the Communist Party through economic development. Therefore, the memories of the Ha My, whose villagers did not necessarily contribute to the Revolution, could not become an official memory. Further, those memories are not connected with nationalism. This point is the most different when comparing with the case between Korea or China and Japan.
After the report by the Han-kyoreh, one Korean NGO started volunteer activities for Vietnamese survivors. Through those activities, some survivors have been healed, and for the sake of the Korean NGO, the memory of Ha My, which can never become official memory, is preserved in Vietnam.View full abstractDownload PDF (797K) -
Daeyeong Youn2010 Volume 48 Issue 3 Pages 314-333
Published: December 31, 2010
Released on J-STAGE: October 31, 2017
JOURNAL FREE ACCESSWho was Kim Yung-kun? What made him devote himself to so many things for which he worked in the 1930s and the 1940s? And how should we comprehend the significance of his efforts to blaze a trail in the field of Vietnamese research? These three inquiries are pursued serially in this study. Born in 1910 and graduating in 1927 from Gyeongseong Second Superior School, Kim Yung-kun came to Hanoi in 1931 as an assistant librarian, an experience that would give him a deeper understanding of Vietnamese history and culture with which he might be unfamiliar. Ten years later, he left Indochina and returned to Korea in order not to be involved in the Japanese military occupation of Vietnam.
Back in his country, Kim Yung-kun tried to apply himself to Korean studies, strongly influenced by Mun Il-pyeong and some other Koreanologists. However, after joining in with other leftists, his desire arose for a more active social and political engagement in order to deal with acute n ational problems. Since that time Kim Yung-kun endeavored to integrate academic work with concrete social and political engagement, leading to a number of action research studies covering Korean history, tendency literature, criticism of arts and so forth. These academic interests and militant engagement have originated from Kim Yung-kun’s experiences in Vietnam. Having devoted a part of his life to Hanoi earned Kim Yung-kun the reputation of being an expert on Vietnamese studies and won him the enduring friendship of Lê Dư. In the early 1940s, the Korean Vietnamologist also published in a book his earlier works on Japanese relations with Vietnam, Champa and Cambodia, which he had been continuously writing since about 1936. Years later, he met with numerous difficulties when carrying out a study of Vietnam as he was deeply involved in various political movements. And so, his vision of Southeast Asia turned out to be incomplete.View full abstractDownload PDF (942K) -
From 15th to 18th CenturiesTaro Shimizu2010 Volume 48 Issue 3 Pages 334-363
Published: December 31, 2010
Released on J-STAGE: October 31, 2017
JOURNAL FREE ACCESSDiplomatic relationships with China had been the most crucial issue to Korean and Vietnamese Dynasties throughout history. Korean diplomacy has been well documented, yet the nature of Vietnamese activities are little known, even basic facts such as members of the missions, timing of departure/return, and their tasks in China. Since Korean and Vietnamese missions used Chinese characters as their official letters, there were cultural exchanges among them, especially poem recitation, in the capitals of Chinese Dynasties as a by-product of their diplomacy toward China. It has been found that around 20 cases of such exchanges had taken place from 14th through to 18th centuries. Relationships between Korea/Vietnam and China showed occasional changes, reflecting the times. This paper discusses the cultural and historical significance of the exchanges of Korean and Vietnamese diplomatic missions that occurred in Beijing, a foreign capital.View full abstractDownload PDF (1015K)
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