Seoul Colloquium in Korean Studies

(Organized by the Seoul Center of the ÉFEO and RAS Korea)

A Field to Work – The Modalities and the Necessity of Scientific Fieldwork in North Korea

SPEAKER: Benjamin JOINAU

DATE: Thursday, November 3, 2022. 6 pm (KST)

We would like to inform you of the November 2022 Colloquium, which will be held as an in-person event in the Grand Conference Room (Room number 310), of the Asiatic Research Institute, Korea University, beginning at 6:00 pm.

[Take Exit 1 from Korea University subway station, turn right onto the footpath leading up onto the campus. Walk straight up the road past LG Posco Hall, the Business School and Main Library (all on the right hand side).  The Asiatic Research Institute is the building next after the Library (Building 39 on the Campus Map http://oia.korea.ac.kr/listener.do?layout=itd_4_1 )]

After 6 pm the front door of the Institute may be locked. If the door is locked, phone to the EFEO Seoul Center (02-921-4526) so that we can let you into the building.

All who wish to participate must register in advance by sending an email to efeoseoul@hotmail.com

Summary:

What is truly known about the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK)? For more than a decade as researchers who have conducted fieldwork via the method of scientific engagement, we have been developing our research on North Korea and working to create direct contacts there. In the book Faire du terrain en Corée du Nord (Doing Fieldwork in North Korea, 2021), which was the result of fieldwork carried out in the fall of 2013 by a team of seven European researchers, we wanted to share our own unique experience, perspective and knowledge about North Korea.

Benjamin Joinau is a doctor of Cultural Anthropology specialized in Korean Studies. He is an associate researcher of the Center of Korean Studies at EHESS, Paris, and assistant professor at the French Language and Literature Department, Hongik University, Seoul. He has been living and working in South Korea since 1994.

We hope that as many as possible of you can join us for this event.

Elisabeth Chabanol

Brother Anthony