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Bridging the Sound of Korea’s Language and the Letters of China

November 6, 4:30pm - 6:00pm
Mānoa Campus, Center for Korean Studies

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Conspicuous in historical accounts of early Choson Korea is the dynasty’s preoccupation with language. The ruling house was obsessively devoted to learning the spoken and written language of China and, at the same time, developing a systematized vernacular alphabet in King Sejong's Hunmin Chongum. The dominant nationalist discourse on “National Language” has treated this as an inherent contradiction impossible to explain.

In this colloquium, Prof. Daham Chong of Sangmyung University will argue that it becomes possible to explain this apparent contradiction only if we stop thinking of “Sinicization” and “Desinicization” in Choson as contradictions and instead de-construct the imaginary discursive demarcation line between them as an “invention of tradition” and start re-thinking of them as inseparably translative faces of a single coin.

Event Sponsor
Center for Korean Studies, Mānoa Campus

More Information
Merclyn Labuguen, (808) 956-7041, merclyn@hawaii.edu,

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Wednesday, November 6
10:00am	Food Truck Stop Honolulu Campus, Building 2, Campus Mall
10:00am	MSW Program Application Information Meetings Mānoa Campus, 2430 Campus Road, GARTLEY HALL 018 Conference Rm
10:30am	Ohana Resource Fair Mānoa Campus, Campus Center Courtyard
11:30am	Graduation Check/Transfer Workshop Honolulu Campus, Building 5, Room 203
1:30pm	UH Common Scholarship/Personal Statement Honolulu Campus, Building 5, Room 203
3:00pm	East Asian Languages & Literatures Korean (Final Oral) Mānoa Campus, Moore 423
3:00pm	Mathematics Final Oral Mānoa Campus, Keller 401
3:15pm	Ocean and Resources Engineering Seminar Mānoa Campus, Sakamaki B101
3:15pm	ORE Seminar: Acoustics: From Cavitation to Detection in Clutter Mānoa Campus, Sakamaki B101
3:30pm	Dr. Betsy Gilliland of SLS speaks on studying Russian outside Russia Mānoa Campus, 252 Moore Hall
3:30pm	Atmospheric Sciences Seminar Mānoa Campus, Marine Sciences Building, MSB 100
4:00pm	Law School Information Session Mānoa Campus, William S. Richardson School of Law Courtyard
4:30pm	Bridging the Sound of Korea’s Language and the Letters of China Mānoa Campus, Center for Korean Studies
5:00pm	KBA Parade Kalihi Union Church, 2214 N King St, Honolulu, HI 96819
6:30pm	Gina Apostol: A Reading and Discussion of Insurrecto Mānoa Campus, Kuykendall 410