Encounting Joseonjok immigrants in London, who seemed eager to earn money outside their land, I found myself confronting one of the most profound problems created by globalization. That is, joseonjok are often defined as either Chinese as political perspective, or Korean as ethnic perspective. It is a conventional way of affiliating minority into majority, […]
I first met Boram, MRes student from CSM when I was invited to give a presentation from Richard Layzell at Wimbledon College of Arts as a part of Korean Town exhibition. She kindly sent me an email afterwards, showing big interest on my research. She said she was writing her final MA thesis on East Asian […]
SAT 10th June 2017, 12:30pm The Palace Korean Restaurant 183-185 High Street, New Malden KT3 4BH Kwon, June Hee (2015) THE WORK OF WAITING: Love and Money in Korean Chinese Transnational Migration Lee, Byoungha, Jun Young Choi and Jungmin Seo (2014) Korean–Chinese Migrant Workers and the Politics of Korean Nationalism As a part of an exhibition […]