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[Cedar]

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The Korean Studies Program and the Institute for Modern Korean Studies at the Graduate School of International Studies, Yonsei University are pleased to invite you to attend the 55th Yonsei-KF Korean Studies Forum, which will be held on Tuesday, March 28th at 6:00 pm in Room 702 of New Millennium Hall. The speaker will be Cornell University Ph.D. Candidate in Anthropology Amy Levine. Her talk will be "Risk and Responsibility? The Double-Sided Coin of Transparency in Contemporary South Korean Non-Governmental Organizations." The abstract of her paper can be found at the end of this email.

The presention will be followed by a dinner reception. I hope you will come to enjoy the presentation, the discussion, and the reception.Contact Cedar Bough Saeji at 016-525-3239 for further inquiries.



Sincerely,

Hyuk-Rae Kim

Professor of Korean Studies

GSIS, Yonsei University



Abstract:



Transparency is matter-of-factly proffered as the basis of good governance, organizational management, and ethico-moral values such as integrity (����, seongsil), honesty (����, jeongjik), trust (�ŷ�, sinroe), and cleanliness (������, ggaeggeutham). The concept has not only spread across the globe, but across private and public sector distinctions over the last twenty years. This has happened in a characteristically ��compressed�� (������, apchukjeok) way in South Korea with post-IMF era financial restructuring from ��above�� and anti-corruption legislation and pact-formation from ��within.�� South Korea, for example, became the first and still is the only nation in the world with a civil-society led social pact on anti-corruption with the signing of the ��Korean Pact on Anti-Corruption and Transparency (K-PACT, ������ȸ����, tumyeongsahoehyeopyak)�� in March 2005. South Korean civil society, and specifically its non-governmental organizations (NGOs), are self-appointed and increasingly self-reflective leaders in the spread of transparency. Are they themselves transparent, though, and what does being so mean? This paper will attempt to answer both of these increasingly present questions by treating transparency as a ��double-sided coin (������ ���, dongjeone yangmyeon)�� of risk and responsibility. Drawing upon fieldwork in progress, this paper argues that Korean NGOs are grappling with both sides of the coin as modern institutions with economic development, financial management, political advocacy, professional ethics and expertise at stake. Transparency, for them, is less matter of fact and more matter of ��method�� (����, sudan) and ��process�� (����, susun).

[OiGirl]

Are they every any more interesting than this? Is there a list of part or future topics or abstracts anywhyere? In general, I like the idea, but I couldn't stay awake long enough to read the abstract...

[Cedar]

They are quite varied-- we will have one on NK this term, one on Confucianism and Christianity, one on traditional music, etc. I will come back and post the final list with titles etc. Next week, okay? And even the really boring sounding ones are sometimes quite interesting... you'd be surprised. Like Amy Levine's talk, I expect it to be very good, she's an anthropologist, which means the way she'll look at it should be similar to how I would, also, she's articulate and smart as a whip.

[freebeerandchicken]

Thanks for posting this Cedar, sounds interesting.