Please note: the next Seoul colloquium in Korean Studies will take place on Wednesday November 22

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

Controlling Narratives: 1919 Seoul Press Pamphlets and the March First Movement 

 SPEAKER: Deborah Solomon 

 The November 2023 session of the “Seoul Colloquium in Korean Studies” organized jointly by the Seoul Center of the EFEO and RAS Korea will be held as an in-person event on Thursday, November 23th in the Grand Conference Room (Room number 310), of the Asiatic Research Institute, Korea University, beginning at 6:00 pm.

[Image: The March 1st Movement (@February 25, 2019_The Financial news)]

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

DATE: Wednesday. November 22, 2023. 6:00PM
VENUE: Grand Conference 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 (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.  

SUMMARY:

In 1919, the Seoul Press, an organ of the Government-General of Korea, published a series of English-language pamphlets about the March First Movement that emphasized Japanese administrative efficiency, discredited Korean independence activism, distanced the government from reported violence, and appealed to Westerners’ imperialist sensibilities so as to better align them with the colonial state. I argue that these pamphlets mark a critical turning point in how the Government-General both monitored and produced English-language writing about Korea.

BIO:

Deborah Solomon studies Korea under Japanese rule. She received her History PhD from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor and served as a joint postdoctoral fellow at the Reischauer Institute for Japanese Studies and the Korea Institute at Harvard University before joining Otterbein University, where she is now an associate professor of East Asian history.

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

Élisabeth Chabanol, Head of the Seoul Center, French School of Asian Studies/École française d’Extrême-Orient (EFEO)

Brother Anthony, President Emeritus, Royal Asiatic Society Korea