1st Edition

De-Bordering Korea Tangible and Intangible Legacies of the Sunshine Policy

256 Pages 26 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

254 Pages 26 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

256 Pages 26 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

As tensions remain on the Korean peninsula, this book looks back on the decade of improved inter-Korean relations and engagement between 1998 and 2008, now known as the ‘Sunshine Policy’ era. Moving beyond traditional economic and political perspectives, it explores how this decade of intensified cooperation both affected and reshaped existing physical, social and mental boundaries between the... Read more

Introduction  Part I: Places 1. Life on the Lines: People and Places on the Korean Border, Valérie Gelézeau 2. Crossing the Border: South Korean Tourism to Mount Kŭmgang, Christian J. Park 3. Heritage Management in the Kaesŏng Special Economic Zone, Élisabeth Chabanol 4. Swinging Borders: the Sino-Korean Border During the Sunshine Policy, Sébastien Colin  Part II: People 5. North Korean Defector Activism and South Korean Politics, Danielle Chubb 6. The Hard Life of North Korean Migrants in South Korean Society, Éric Bidet 7. Confronting Korean Identities in Post-Soviet Kazakhstan, Eunsil Yim  Part III: Representations 8. Facts or Acts? Korean News Agencies Reporting on Inter-Korean Relations, Perrine Fruchart-Ramond 9. South Korea’s Encounter with North Korean Art: Between Barbershop Painting and True Art, Koen De Ceuster 10. Sleeping with the (Northern) Enemy: South Korean Cinema and the Autistic Interface, Benjamin Joinau 11. The End of Romanticism? Teaching the ‘Other’ Korea in the Sunshine Era, Alain Delissen Postscript: Debordering, Rebordering, Unbordering, Charles K. Armstrong

Biography

Valérie Gelézeau is Associate Professor at the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales (EHESS, Paris), and Director of EHESS' Center for Korean Studies.

Koen De Ceuster is Associate Professor at the Centre for Korean Studies, Leiden University, The Netherlands

Alain Delissen is Korean Foundation Professor of Korean Studies (Modern History) at EHESS, Paris and current director of its China, Korea, Japan CNRS Joint-Lab. He also teaches at Geneva University, Switzerland.

"What is attractive about this volume is that it provides sorely needed information in a condensed format. Chapters are very short, and can easily be digested in an hour." - Sem Vermeersch, Associate Professor, Dept. of Religious Studies, Seoul National University