RECASTING THE ‘INTER-KOREA’ IN NATIONAL RECONCILIATION

다국어 초록 (Multilingual Abstract)

This essay aims to provide a critical view of South Korean intellectuals and unification policy makers who stress the undisputed role of nationalism, across the diverse ideo-logical spectrums, in constructing ‘inter-Korea’ reconciliation in South Korean society. They contend that meanings of counter-hegemonic practice against anti-North Korean ideology are already determined within the politics of national identification. However, this mode of thinking remains a predicament of the South Korean public’s critical engagement with the way in which a moral claim to national identification is conflated with inter-Korea economic collaboration along the lines of neo-liberalism. But I also want to illuminate the connection that neo-liberalism and new conservatism in South Korea make in the attempt to help anti-North Koreanism survive democratic challenges. My critical evaluation of the connection suggests a discursive condition of what I call ‘inter-Korea sociability’, in which the South Korean public can appropriate social and historical claims about the inter-Korea relationship that range from the atrocious and violent events in the war to the so-called North Korean human rights crisis. I argue that two Koreas’ reconciliation can come through resisting the romanticization of Koreans’ own normative commitment to idealized national authenticity and liberal human rights.

참고문헌 (Reference)

1 홍석률, "민족주의 논쟁과 세계체제, 한반도 분단 문제에 대한 대응" 역사문제연구소 80 (80): 149-172, 2007

2 Rancière, Jacques, "Who is the Subject of the Rights of Man?" 103 : 297-310, 2004

3 Asad, Talal, "What Do Human Rights Do? An Anthropological Enquiry" 4 : 1-56, 2000

4 Huyssen, Andrea, "Twilight Memories" Routledge 1995

5 Sung, Minkyu, "The ‘Truth Politics’ of Anti-North Koreanism: The Post-Ideological Cultural Representation of North Korea and the Cultural Criticisms of Korean Nationalism" 10 : 439-459, 2009

6 성민규, "The psychiatric power of neo-liberal citizenship: the North Korean human rights crisis, North Korean settlers, and incompetent citizens" ROUTLEDGE JOURNALS 14 (14): 127-144, 2010

7 Cho, Hee-Yeon, "The Structure of the South Korean Developmental Regime and Its Transformation: State Mobilization and Authoritarian Integration in the Anticommunist Regimentation" 1 : 408-426, 2000

8 Gronbeck, Bruce E., "The Rhetorics of the Past: History, Argument, and Collective Memory, In Doing Rhetorical History: Concepts and Cases" The University of Alabama Press 47-60, 1998

9 Arendt, Hannah, "The Origins of Totalitarianism" Harvest Books 1973

10 Im, Chong-Myong, "The Making of the Republic of Korea as a Modern Nation-State, August 1948-May 1950" University of Chicago 1948

11 Lee, Namhee, "The Making of Minjung: Democracy and the Politics of Representation in South Korea" Cornell University Press 2007

12 Myers, B. R., "The Cleanest Race: How North Koreans See Themselves—and Why It Matters" Melville House 2010

13 Hanley, Charles J., "The Bridge at No Gun Ri: A Hidden Nightmare from the Korean War" Henry Holt & Company 2001

14 Agamben, Giorgio, "State of Exception" University of Chicago Press 2005

15 Paik, Nak-chung, "South Korea: Unification and the Democratic Challenge" 197 : 67-84, 1993

16 Nye, Jr, Joseph E., "Soft Power: The Means to Success in World Politics" Public Affairs 2004

17 Spivak, Gayatri Chakravorty, "Righting Wrongs" 103 : 523-581, 2004

18 Radice, Hugo, "Responses to Globalization: A Critique of Progressive Nationalism" 5 : 5-19, 2000

19 Brown, Wendy, "Regulating Aversion: Tolerance in the Age of Identity and Empire" Princeton University Press 2006

20 Jay, Martin, "Refractions of Violence" Routledge 2003

21 Moellendorf, Darrel, "Reconciliation as a Political Value" 38 : 205-221, 2007

22 Park Soon-Sung [Pak Sunsŏng], "Pundan ch’eje ŭi mirae wa Tongbuga chilsŏ [The Future of the Division System of the Korean Nation and East Asian Regional Politics]" 103 : 313-331, 1999

23 Cho-Han, Hae-joang [Cho-Han Hyejŏng], "Pulgyunhyŏng palchŏn sok ŭi chuch‘e hyŏngsŏng [The Subjectification in the Uneven Development]" 37 : 222-247, 1998

24 "Pukhan esŏ 101 sigan, 5-hoe [101 Hours in North Korea, no. 5]"

25 Chen, Kuan-Hsing, "Paik Nak-chung’s Theory of Overcoming ‘Division System’: Rethinking the China-Taiwan Relation with Reference to the Two Koreas" 11 : 566-590, 2010

26 Nietzsche, Friedrich, "On the Uses and Disadvantages of History for Life, In Nietzsche: Untimely Meditations" Cambridge University Press 57-124, 1997

27 Foucault, Michel, "Nietzsche, Genealogy, History, In The Foucault" Pantheon Books 76-100, 1984

28 Paik, Nak-chung, "Namnam kaltŭng esŏ Hanbando sŏnjin sahoe ro [From the Internal Confrontation to Advanced Society]" 134 : 346-362, 2006

29 Munhwa/kwahak p’yŏnjip wiwŏnhoe (Culture/Science Editorial Committee), "Munhwa sahoe ro naaganŭn t’ongil ŭl sangsang haja [Let’s Imagine the Unification toward a Cultural Civil Society]" 42 : 51-77, 2005

30 Cha, Jae-Young, "Media Control and Propaganda in Occupied Korea, 1945-1948: Toward an Origin of Cultural Imperialism" University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign 1948

31 Jeon Sang-In [Chŏn Sangin], "Kogae sugin sujŏngjuŭi [The Decline of Revisionism in the Historical Research about the Korean War]" Chŏnt’ong kwa hyŏndae 2001

32 Dalacoura, Katerina, "Islam, Liberalism and Human Rights" I. B. Tauris 2007

33 Balibar, Étienne, "Is a Philosophy of Human Civic Rights Possible? New Reflections on Equaliberty" 103 : 311-322, 2004

34 "Ikŏt i Pukhan ida! [This Is North Korea!]"

35 Ignatieff, Michael, "Human Rights as Politics and Idolatry" Princeton University Press 2001

36 Koselleck, Reinhart, "Futures Past: On the Semantics of Historical Time" Columbia University Press 2004

37 McCarthy, Thomas A., "From Modernism to Messianism: Liberal Developmentalism and American Exceptionalism" 14 : 3-30, 2007

38 Ch’oe Su-ji, "Chŏngch’aek t’oronhoe rŭl t’onghae pon haksul munhwa hyŏmnyŏk [The inter-Korea Scholarly and Cultural Cooperation Observed through the Participation in the 3rd Policy Panel Discussion of Unification]" Republic of Korea Ministry of Unification Blog

39 Paik, Nak-chung, "Barriers to Recollection in East Asia: The Case of Two Koreas and Its Regional Implications" 11 : 502-510, 2010

40 Lee, Namhee, "Anticommunism, North Korea, and Human Rights in South Korea: “Orientalist” Discourse and Construction of South Korean Identity, In Truth Claims: Representation and Human Rights" Rutgers University Press 43-72, 2002

41 Žižek, Slavoj, "Against Human Rights" 34 : 115-131, 2005

42 Wallerstein, Immanuel, "After Developmentalism and Globalization, What Next?" 83 : 1263-1278, 2005

43 Paik, Nak-chung, "87-yŏn ch’eje ŭi kŭkpok kwa pyŏnhyŏkchŏk chungdojuŭi [Beyond the ’87 Regime to a Middle-Ground Revolutionary Strategy]" 139 : 91-130, 2008