Language Travels and Global Aspirations of Korean Youth
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12423799 |
|---|---|
| Authors | J J Chun (0000-0002-0216-6376, corresponding author), Ju Hui Judy Han (0000-0002-5205-9333) |
| Year | 2015 |
| Volume | 23 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 565-593 |
| Publication date | 2015-08-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | positions asia critique (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1067-9847 • E-ISSN: 1527-8271 |
| Publisher | Duke University Press (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1215/10679847-3125913 |
| OpenAlex | W2141640843 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 15 |
| References cited | 12 |
The so-called English fever and the international mobility of South Korean youth are linked to the popular pursuit of English-language education in the United States, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, and the Philippines. From the perspective of young overseas travelers, these are short-term, semistructured “international experiences” beyond mere language training, and they are widely perceived as necessary for enhancing one's value and career prospects in the competitive job market back home. Based on an in-depth study of temporary Korean residents in Vancouver, this article explores the everyday experiences and subjective transformations produced by English-language travel overseas. Drawing upon surveys, interviews, and focus groups, the authors find that temporary sojourns to English-speaking destinations such as Vancouver represent more than rational, instrumental strategies to enhance one's future employability and socioeconomic advancement. They constitute a critical evaluative terrain in which Korean youth assess and reassess their mobility strategies, life trajectories, and identities in the context of Korea's seemingly relentless pursuit of individual and national advancement in an economically and racially stratified world order. In this sense, overseas language travels operate as spaces that both reinscribe as well as destabilize existing social hierarchies along race, class, and nation
Context (archaeology · Destinations · Employability · Geography · Pedagogy · Political science · Public relations · Sociology · Tourism · Gender Studies · International Student and Expatriate Challenges · Migration and Labor Dynamics · Migration, Ethnicity, and Economy
Factors influencing Korean students’ choice of study abroad destination short-term and long-term by destination country
Language for success
Global Aspirations, Domestic Choices
Strategic Occidentalism
Voluntary Outsiders in Their Anthropocentric Nation
Segmented pathways of educational mobility
A Língua Coreana Como Recurso Em Famílias Transnacionais
In and out of South Korea
Transperipheral Educational Mobility
Cosmopolitan pathways from the Global South
Introduction
Legitimating the Philippines as a language learning space
On reproductive straightening
Escaping obsolescence? The shift from subject to skill based education in a South Korean international school
Global Identifications
The Domestication of South Korean Pre-College Study Abroad in the First Decade of the Millennium
Modernity at large
The Social Life of Things
The promise of English
Introduction
The Intimate University
The Confucian Transformation of Korea
Globalizing Canadian Education from Below
Rediscovering Manchuria
Changing Trends of Work in South Korea
Naturalization of Competence and the Neoliberal Subject
Working on Holiday
| Unique citing works | 15 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 1,88 |
| Citation span | 2018 - 2026 (9) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 15 |