Korean Gender Reader

(While you were sleeping 10 by Shin Sun Mi, 2011. Source)

As I missed last week’s KGR, I decided to add last week’s links here too. Ending up with roughly one hundred and thirty of them though, rest assured I won’t ever be doing that again!

Announcements

— Factory Girl Literature: Sexuality, Violence and Representation in Industrializing Korea — Presentation by Ruth Barraclough, 4-5:30pm, Monday October 22 2012, University of Minnesota

— BOOb Crawl : 붑 투어, Saturday October 13, Itaewon 9pm (Bras for a cause)

— The Sae Gil Womens Shelter Charity Drive (Busan Haps)

Body Image, Health

— Defending My Daughters from the Media/Fashion-Industry Complex (Thick Dumpling Skin)

— SECRET’s Hyosung asks portal sites to edit her weight (Omona They Didn’t!)

— Shin So Yul of ‘Reply 1997′ reveals her weight loss story on ‘Strong Heart’ (Allkpop)

— More Men Opt for Plastic Surgery (Korea Realtime; Jezebel)

— Vignettes on Weight-Loss: 1, 2, 3 (My Journal)

— Gap in Receiving Health Care Services (Human Rights Monitor)

— Diabetes Creates More Stress for Married Korean Women (Newswise)

— Breast cancer quadruples in 15 years (The Korea Herald)

— Is Korea the most beauty obsessed country? (Whatawaygook)

— Dr. Wang Shuping: How I Discovered the HIV Epidemic and What happened to me Afterwards (Seeing Red in China)

— Cosmetic surgery bookings surge over the holiday week (Want China Times)

Censorship, Media

— Can the Government Stop the Objectification of Minors in K-pop? (Seoulbeats)

— “Previewing” MVs (Angry K-pop Fan)

— Banned: Is the KMRB’s Intervention a Good Idea? (MTVK)

— JYJ’s Xia Junsu Denied Coverage From SBS? (MTVK)

— The National Para Games apologizes to JYJ’s Junsu and his fans (Omona They Didn’t!)

— K-Data Blackout: A Necessary Measure? (Seoulbeats)

— YG Disappointed in KBS Review Standards for G-Dragon (Soompi)

— Psy’s “Right Now” and 2PM’s “Hands Up” cleared of previous ban (Allkpop)

— MOGEF Gives Second Chances to Banned Tracks (MTVK)

— Appeal by 8 Members of Tajinyo Rejected and Declared Guilty Ending Tablo′s Controversy (Enewsworld)

— Media reliance on Naver growing concern (The Korea Herald)

— Don’t believe the 하이프 (The Marmot’s Hole)

— Asia Institute Seminar with Robert McChesney “Korean Media in Comparative Perspective” (Korea: Circles and Squares)

— Why is Lee Min Jung considered a victim in her relationship with Lee Byung Hun? Netizens! (Asian Junkie)

— Asia Institute Seminar with Noam Chomsky: “The Problem of the Media in Korea” (Korea: Circles and Squares)

— Korea: Wired (AlJazeera English Video)

Crime

— New crime stats for teachers, both Korean and foreign (Gusts of Popular Feeling)

— On-street questioning revives after a series of sex crimes (Human Rights Monitor)

— Korean police crack down on men who hit their foreign wives (Asian Correspondent)

— Convicted rapist claims he was treated unfairly because of his nationality (The Marmot’s Hole)

— For Whom Does the Death Penalty Exist? (Human Rights Monitor)

— Hawaii job offer becomes a nightmare for women (Korea Joongang Daily)

Dating, Relationships, Marriage

— Korean girl seeks fake apartment to fool protective parents (Asia News Network)

— BIFF Movie Review: In Another Country (Busan Haps)

— Familiar ad trope: Pairing white men and Asian American women (Tales of Wonderlost)

— Uzbek Wife Married to South Korean Man a Hit on Korean TV (KoreaBANG)

— Seeking: Attractive Asian male. Why you’ll never find the above on Craiglist (The Daily Pennsylvanian)

— Give Us A Chance! Why You Should Date an Asian Man (The Steel Closet)

— I am an Asian Woman and I Think Asian Boyfriends Are Superior (Well, Mine Is Anyway) (xoJane)

— Korean lonely-hearts feel cheated by pricey matchmakers (The Korea Herald)

— [Movie] “Time” (시간) by Kim Ki-duk, 2006 (Out of Korea)

— Interracial Dating in China is Not Just for White Men (Speaking of China)

Education, Parenting, Demographics

— Academy seeks local role models to help young Koreans (The New Zealand Herald)

— School where South Korea’s dropouts flourish (BBC)

— What makes Korean unwed mothers give up their children? (Ilda)

— What to do with Anti-Japan Sentiments in ESL Classes? (Ask a Korean!)

— The plight of abandoned Korean babies (The Marmot’s Hole)

— Foreign schools show Korea’s social divide (The Korea Herald)

— 1 in 3 students at Seoul National University is a binge drinker (The Marmot’s Hole)

— Mekong Delta girls “eager” in learning to become wives of Korean men (Vietnam Net)

— A Society Where Multicultural Students Can Live Without Difficulties (Human Rights Monitor)

— Vietnamese Migrant Wives Now Outnumber Chinese (The Chosun Ilbo)

— University Entrance Exams Near, Netizens Share Education Jokes (KoreaBANG)

— Lack of Teachers for Students with Disabilities (Human Rights Monitor)

— No comment necessary. An entire class of high school students receive IV drips while cramming for exams (Ministry of Tofu)

— The Unintended Consequences Of China’s One-child Policy (io9)

Economics, Politics, Workplaces

— New generation quits boring jobs quickly: Report (Korea Joongang Daily)

— SKorea: Elite schools still dominate national prosecutors’ office (Asian Correspondent)

— Leaving the Chaebol (Korea Realtime)

— Women in finance cut off from executive posts (Korea Joongang Daily)

— Young Koreans: Give Us Freedom, Not Mortgages (Korea Realtime)

— Busan vs. Seoul (Meet me at the Wall)

— South Korean Voters Call for Longer Poll Hours (Global Voices)

— Women in China Face Rising University Entry Barriers (The New York Times)

— The Importance of ‘Face’ for Chinese Jobseekers (China Real Time Report)

— Japan’s Lost Art of Innovation (The Diplomat)

Gangnam Style

— AAK’s definitive guide for PSY and Gangnam Style (Ask a Korean!)

— Asian Stars and The USA: A History (Hootvintage)

— Psy tries to trademark “Gangnam style.” Oh, and he gets wasted on stage too. (Korean Law Today)

— Ten things you need to know about PSY’s Gangnam Style and Korean hip-hop (The Telegraph)

— Why China Lacks Gangnam Style (The New Yorker)

— Pop Music Brings a Lot More Readers than Social Science: Follow-up on ‘Kangnam Style’ (Asian Security Blog)

— Gangnam Style Tops Global Charts, Korean Twitter Reactions (KoreaBANG)

— Is ‘Gangnam Style’ the Peak of K-pop’s International Success? (Asianaut)

— South Korea puzzles over oddball success of ‘Gangnam Style’ (Los Angeles Times)

— Gangnam points to our future (Brisbane Times)

— Where to Find Your Gangnam Style (Korea Realtime)

— His Style Is Gangnam, and Viral Too (The New York Times)

— Why BBC Radio 4 Is Wrong about “Gangnam Style” (The Unlikely Expat)

— Where to Find Your Gangnam Style (Korea Realtime)

History

— Power & Gender in the Early Korean State (Korean Gender Cafe)

— The good daughter. The fascinating life of Park Geun-hye. (Korea Law Today)

— On Gisaeng and Ginyeo (Lost in Traffic Lights)

— Reading List: Male Concubinage: Notes on Late Choson Homosexuality by an American Naval Attache (The Kimchi Queen)

— What’s the story behind those hats Korean men used to wear? (Lost in Traffic Lights)

LGBT, Sexuality

— The Number of Room Salons and Hostess Bars at All-Time Highs In Korea (The Korea Times)

— BIFF 2012: Park Chul-soo’s B·E·D (Modern Korean Cinema)

— Gayspeak: Talking About 세이프 섹스 in Korean (The Kimchi Queen)

— Reading List: Memento Mori and Other Ghostly Sexualities (The Kimchi Queen)

— Chongqing University providing free condoms, admits students all be sexing each other (Shanghaiist)

— Watch: Taiwan Pride 2012’s campaign video for same-sex marriage (Shanghaiist)

Miscellaneous

— Report Reveals South Korean Soldiers Fed Poor Quality Food (KoreaBANG)

— What Counts as Racially Offensive in Our Postracial World? (Korean Bodega)

Pop Culture

— Factory Girls: Cultural technology and the making of K-pop (The New Yorker)

— The New Yorker Rides the Hallyu Wave (SNSD-FFA)

— The New Yorker examines K-pop (Korea Law Today)

— K-Town Cast and K-pop Fans (Seoulbeats)

— From Ikea to Korea: Writing for K-pop (Mark Russel’s Website)

— Jun-jin, Joo-hyun, and The Idol Dating Game (Seoulbeats)

— “An argument could be made that, historically, the vibrancy of any given pop scene can be measured by the amount of appropriation going on.” (Occupied Territories)

— Tiger JK’s Sorry, But Where’s the Real Apology? (Seoulbeats)

— ‘Middle Powers’ Like South Korea Can’t Do Without Soft Power And Network Power (Global Asia)

— K-pop’s Rooted Use of Labels: [insert title here] Idols (Seoulbeats)

— “Sometimes I really don’t think K-pop labels know what they have on their hands…” (Occupied Territories)

Social Problems

— What Keeps South Koreans Up at Night? (Korea Realtime)

— Why does Korea interpret netizen comments as public sentiment? (Omona They Didn’t!)

— Our Homeland shows family torn by N Korea-Japan relocation program (Visual Anthropology of Japan)

— The lives of female runaways in Seoul, Part 2 of 6 (The Hankyoreh)

— Why Koreans Are Angry: The Social Cost of Spectacular Growth (KoreaBANG)

— The Good sans the Bad and the Ugly: September (Seoulbeats)

— Social Workers’ Human Rights (Human Rights Monitor)

— Asia Institute Seminar with Dr. Eckhard Schroeter: “Korean Social Welfare in Comparative Perspective” (Korea: Circles and Squares)

— Dogani and South Korean culture’s major problems with abuse (The Unlikely Expat)

(Links are not necessarily endorsements)