TY - JOUR
T1 - The domestication of South Korean pre-college study abroad in the first decade of the millennium
AU - Kang, Jiyeon
AU - Abelmann, Nancy
PY - 2011
Y1 - 2011
N2 - This essay examines a shift in the newspaper discourse on South Korean pre-college study abroad (chogi yuhak) - The education exodus of pre-college students- in order to consider how South Koreans are managing the considerable social pressure to globalize their children. While in the early years of Pre-College Study Abroad (PSA) in the 1990s, there was a robust media discourse about the promise of alternative human development through PSA, as the phenomena grew dramatically into the 2000s, the discourse increasingly asserts that PSA success relies on technical preparation at home, the student's pre-existing character, and parental assets. PSA has thus been "domesticated" in that it is understood not as a discrete education field abroad, but instead an extension of South Korea's highly stratified and competitive education market. This shift reflects escalating social and economic anxieties, and as such, the discourse constitutes a conversation about inequality in contemporary South Korea.
AB - This essay examines a shift in the newspaper discourse on South Korean pre-college study abroad (chogi yuhak) - The education exodus of pre-college students- in order to consider how South Koreans are managing the considerable social pressure to globalize their children. While in the early years of Pre-College Study Abroad (PSA) in the 1990s, there was a robust media discourse about the promise of alternative human development through PSA, as the phenomena grew dramatically into the 2000s, the discourse increasingly asserts that PSA success relies on technical preparation at home, the student's pre-existing character, and parental assets. PSA has thus been "domesticated" in that it is understood not as a discrete education field abroad, but instead an extension of South Korea's highly stratified and competitive education market. This shift reflects escalating social and economic anxieties, and as such, the discourse constitutes a conversation about inequality in contemporary South Korea.
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U2 - 10.1353/jks.2011.0001
DO - 10.1353/jks.2011.0001
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:84857957819
SN - 0731-1613
VL - 16
SP - 89
EP - 118
JO - Journal of Korean Studies
JF - Journal of Korean Studies
IS - 1
ER -