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Photo image: ‘Festival (Chukje 祝祭)’, directed by Im Kwon-taek, 1996.

 

Seoul Colloquium in Korean Studies
(Organized by the Seoul Center of the ÉFEO and RAS Korea)

We would like to inform you of the November 2020 Colloquium, which will be held as a physical presentation, not using Zoom

Because of the current situation only 10 people will be permitted to attend the presentation. All who wish to attend MUST register in advance by sending an email to efeoseoul@hotmail.com

Date: Thursday, November 26, 2020 starting at 6 pm.
Speaker: Byungki SONG (Seoul National University Hospital Biomedical Research Institute)
Venue: Grand Conference Room (Room #310), of the Asiatic Research Institute, Korea University

**[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)]

An Anthropological Perspective on the End of Life

How does the social & cultural background of Korea respond to medical treatment, especially to tube feeding, for elderly patients?
In 2017, according to the National Statistical Office, 8 out of 10 Koreans died in hospitals. It means a dramatic change not only in the place of death (from home to hospital) but also in our social relationships which are closely connected with the economy, policies, technology and ethics. In order to seize a contemporary meaning for the end of life and death in Korea, it is necessary to explore the socio-cultural dimensions of the field of medicine. In this conference, we will focus on the issues of tube feeding (or artificial nutrition and hydration) to help a person who is unable to eat and drink on their own or with the help of others in nursing home and palliative care unit contexts.

Byungki Song is a researcher in medical anthropology who has conducted fieldwork in France, Japan and South Korea. Currently, he is attached to the Seoul National University Hospital Biomedical Research Institute. He is a writer for the weekly magazine the SisaIN. His recent article in collaboration with medical doctors is The Effect of Education on Preference of Parenteral Nutrition for Patients in Palliative Care Unit: Quantitative and Qualitative study with an Anthropological approach (Annals of Palliative Medicine). He is interested in the questions pertaining to how our end of life and death are reshaped in the era of medicalization and financial neo-liberalism..

We hope that as many as possible of you can come to this event.

Elisabeth Chabanol
Brother Anthony

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