Korea Section Flashcards
Define Korea under Japanese Colonial Rule
The assassination of Ito Hirobumi remembered in North and South Korea and China. Ito was a Meiji restoration activist, father of Meiji constitution.
The Comfort Women issue:
involves the systematic implementation of a military institution of sexual slavery and forced prostitution which is Japan smearing campaign.
Define Tongak Rebellion and the First Sino-Japanese War
Causes: Peasant movement fueled by poverty, high taxes, corruption.Led by Tonghak ( East Learning) intellectual.
Supression: The rebellion spread quickly. China and Japan intervened, leading to the First Sino- Japanese War.
Consequence: Japan established a new pro-Japan government in the region, which paved the way for the formal annexation.
Define Gender and labor movements in postwar Korea
Define K-pop as transnational popular culture
In the reading, the interiwees of the people on the dance team understand K-pop in terms of cultural inclusiveness, erasure of the ethnic and national specifity, heightened sense of racial and ethnic identity, “creative outlet”, contradictory perceptions of k-pop and American culture.
Define Gender within K-pop
Explain the “Very Short Introduction”
North and South Korea’s modernization and politics. agricultural and industrial development, authoritarianism, economic miracle and democrazation.
Explain the “K-Pop Dance: fandoming yourself on social media”
- kpop dance vs “actual dance” (racialized authenticy)
- dedicated, continuous bodily effort is cultural appropriation
- identity passing “ crossing racial ethnicity and interracial, imitation refekects unique individuality
- emobided labor in the intercultural performance of K-pop cover dance
Example is the difference between Olivia and emily.
differences between south and north korea
south korea was slower in economic advancement compared to North korea
North Korea was faster in building a military. competitiveness in who will represent korea.
korean government gave investment to media.
