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동북아 여성과 인권 문제에도 관심을 기울여주길
Women and Human Rights Issues in Northeast Asia At an election held in New York on June 22, 2017, Professor Chung Chin-sung became the first South Korean to be elected as a member of the UN Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination (CERD). Shortly afterward in early July, the video footage about "Joseon comfort women" Professor Chung's research team discovered at the United States National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) attracted considerable attention. As such, this month's interview features Professor Chung who has dedicated her academic career to studying women's rights, human rights, and the Japanese military "comfort women" issue.
Chung Chin-sung (Professor, Seoul National University)
일본의 만주(중국 동북지방) 침략과 한.중 양 민족의 연합항전
Japan's Invasion of Manchuria and the Korean-Chinese Joint Resistance Northeast China (Manchuria) is well known to Koreans as a place that served as a major base for independence movements and the center stage for armed resistance against Japan. The independence movements carried out from the region therefore constitute a major part of modern Korean history and holds considerable significance for the modern to contemporary history of Northeast China as well. Armed struggles against Japan created huge ripple effects since they were an intense form of resistance toward Imperial Japan's colonial rule of Korea and its forced occupation of Northeast China. Poet Hwang Ji-woo once recited "Who on earth were those who gave up their home town, children, elderly parents, and even their own lives to follow a path without promise, whose nameless bodies have been buried in ice?" Those words imply just how dangerous it was to take part in independence movements under Imperial Japan's rule, especially armed struggles, because it placed not only the life of oneself, but the lives of their family and loved ones at risk as well. No wonder people used to say that "joining independence movements is bound to ruin up to three generations of a family."
Chang Se-yun (Director, NAHF Institute of Japanese Studies)
2017년 백두산 국제 학술회의 “만주 역사지리 연구와 백두산” - 백두산 역사지리를 통한 한·중 국경 문제의 새로운 연구 방향 모색 -
2017 International Conference "Baekdu Mountain and Historical Geographic Studies on Manchuria" - The Historical Geography of Baekdu Mountain and Korea-China Border Issues - On June 23, 2017, the Northeast Asian History Foundation's Research Institute of Korea-China Relations held an international conference at the Foundation's grand conference room under the theme "Baekdu Mountain and Historical Geographic Studies on Manchuria." The conference was part of the Foundation's continued efforts to facilitate forums to academically discuss border issues between Korea and China, including those surrounding Baekdu Mountain, which is why it also hosted a conference back in 2012 to commemorate the third centennial of the boundary monument's installation on Baekdu Mountain. Such efforts have been aimed at helping adjoining countries look beyond their immediate interests and overcome exclusive nationalism to associate peace and co-existence with their ideas of territory, nation, and exchange and consider them in a broader context of "frontiers of East Asia."
Department of Research Coordination
16~17세기 동북아 국제 질서 - 다시 세계사 속으로 -
16-17th Century International Order in Northeast Asia Joseon's foreign relations play a major role in understanding the historicity of the kingdom's relations with China. Nevertheless, the dichotomous notion of Chinese versus non-Chinese and a discourse of "China as an empire" based on hierarchical Sinocentrism continues wield a great influence on those studying the period not only in east Asia, but in the West as well. Moreover, China has been trying to disseminate Sinocentrism as widely as possible since the 2000s. For instance, the Qing History Project (淸史工程) has been aimed as currently justifying China's prominence by highlighting the diplomatic relations with its neighboring tributaries prior to the nineteenth century. This signifies the possibility for the histories of Korean kingdoms such as Koguryo or even Joseon to become sucked into a black hole of historical distortion. Before the West began to extend its powers into the East by the nineteenth century, the sixteenth and seventeenth century made up the second half of the East Asian intercontinental order as Joseon became invaded by Japan and then the Qing in between Later Jin's establishment, Ming's fall, and the Qing's establishment. It was a time familiar to Koreans as when an "traditional East Asian order" unfolded. The period can therefore be considered as the key to tracing the origin of conflicts surrounding history in East Asia. And the present seems to be an apt time to newly consider historical facts pertaining to the dynamics in East Asia, including the Korea-China relations, during the traditional era.
Lee Jeong-il (Research fellow, NAHF Research Institute of Korea-China Relations)
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