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Record Nr.

UNINA9910786717003321

Titolo

De-bordering Korea : tangible and intangible legacies of the Sunshine Policy / / edited by Valerie Gelezeau, Koen De Ceuster and Alain Delissen

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York : , : Routledge, , 2013

ISBN

1-136-19252-2

0-203-08457-8

1-136-19253-0

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (257 p.)

Collana

Routledge Advances in Korean Studies ; ; 27

Altri autori (Persone)

GelezeauValerie

Disciplina

327.519505193

Soggetti

Korea (South) Foreign relations Korea (North)

Korea (North) Foreign relations Korea (South)

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

De-Bordering Korea Tangible and intangible legacies of the Sunshine Policy; Copyright; Contents; List of figures; List of tables; List of abbreviations; List of contributors; Acknowledgments; A note on transliteration; Introduction; Part 1 Places; 1 Life on the Lines: People and Places of the Korean Border; 2 Crossing The Border: South Korean tourism to Mount Kŭmgang; 3 Heritage management in the Kaesŏng Special Economic Zone; 4 Swinging Borders: The Sino-Korean Border During the Sunshine Policy; Part 2 People; 5 North Korean defector activism and South Korean politics

6 The hard life of North Korean migrants in South Korean society7 Confronting Korean identities in post-Soviet Kazakhstan; Part 3 Representations; 8 Facts or acts? Korean news agencies reporting on inter-Korean relations; 9 South Korea's encounter with North Korean art: between barbershop paintings and true art; 10 Sleeping with the (Northern) enemy: South Korean cinema and the autistic interface; 11 The end of romanticism? Teaching the "Other" Korea in the Sunshine era; Postscript: De-bordering, Re-bordering, Un-bordering; Bibliography; Index

Sommario/riassunto

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 two Koreas, and how this 'de-bordering' and 're-bordering' has changed the respective attitudes towards the other. Based around three key themes, 'Space', 'People', and 'Representations', this