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Illegitimate Elites and the Politics of Belonging at a Korean University

Illegitimate Elites and the Politics of Belonging at a Korean University Universities are undergoing a transformation in which higher learning intersects with a class of cosmopolitan elites. Certainly within South Korea, universities are launching international colleges as a way to position themselves as choice institutions that cater to elite students seeking global opportunities. Yet little work has been done to examine what happens to the students within these spaces of globality and privilege. This article reveals the interconnections between globalizing higher education and the global aspirations of Korean youth by focusing on the students who enter into an international learning space of a Korean university that itself desires global status. Not quite accepted by the other students but still considered an elite group, these individuals have to negotiate complex campus-based norms where the risk of marginalization from key social networks is magnified by the university’s pursuit of global status. Meanwhile, the university transforms into an ideological battleground and a critical site in the construction of social membership in South Korea. http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Journal of Korean Studies Duke University Press

Illegitimate Elites and the Politics of Belonging at a Korean University

Kim, Stephanie K.
Journal of Korean Studies , Volume 23 (1) – Mar 1, 2018
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Abstract

Universities are undergoing a transformation in which higher learning intersects with a class of cosmopolitan elites. Certainly within South Korea, universities are launching international colleges as a way to position themselves as choice institutions that cater to elite students seeking global opportunities. Yet little work has been done to examine what happens to the students within these spaces of globality and privilege. This article reveals the interconnections between globalizing higher education and the global aspirations of Korean youth by focusing on the students who enter into an international learning space of a Korean university that itself desires global status. Not quite accepted by the other students but still considered an elite group, these individuals have to negotiate complex campus-based norms where the risk of marginalization from key social networks is magnified by the university’s pursuit of global status. Meanwhile, the university transforms into an ideological battleground and a critical site in the construction of social membership in South Korea.

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Journal of Korean Studies – Duke University Press

Published: Mar 1, 2018

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    Abelmann, Nancy Kang, Jiyeon
  • College Rank and Neo-liberal Subjectivity in South Korea: The Burden of Self-Development
    Abelmann, Nancy Park, So Jin Kim, Hyunhee
  • English-Medium Teaching in Korean Higher Education: Policy Debates and Reality
    Byun, Kiyong Chu, Huijung Kim, Minjung Park, Innwoo Kim, Suhong Jung, Juyoung
  • Quest for Building World-Class Universities in South Korea: Outcomes and Consequences
    Byun, Kiyong Jon, Jae-Eun Kim, Dongbin
  • Shifting Patterns of the Government’s Policies for the Internationalization of Korean Higher Education
    Byun, Kiyong Kim, Minjung
  • The Spec Generation Who Can’t Say ‘No’: Overeducated and Unemployed Youth in Contemporary South Korea
    Cho, Hae-joang
  • Global Fatigue: Transnational Markets, Linguistic Capital, and Korean-American Male English Teachers in South Korea
    Cho, John (Song Pae)
  • The Encroachment of Globalization into Intimate Life: The Flexible Korean Family in ‘Economic Crisis.’
    Cho, Uhn
  • Multivocal Post-diasporic Selves: Entangled in Korean Dramas
    Choi, Julie
  • Language Travels and Global Aspirations of Korean Youth
    Chun, Jennifer Jihye Han, Ju Hui Judy
  • Globalising Higher Education in and through Urban Spaces: Higher Education Projects, International Student Mobilities, and Trans-local Connections in Seoul
    Collins, Francis
  • Theories of Reproduction and Resistance in the New Sociology of Education: A Critical Analysis
    Giroux, Henry A.
  • Learning to Live with League Tables and Rankings: The Experience of Institutional Leaders
    Hazelkorn, Ellen
  • Negotiating Privilege
    Howard, Adam Polimeno, Aimee Wheeler, Brianne Howard, Adam Polimeno, Aimee Wheeler, Brianne
  • ‘Interculturality’ in Higher Education as Student Intercultural Learning and Development: A Case Study of South Korea
    Jon, Jae-Eun
  • Realizing Internationalization at Home in Korean Higher Education: Domestic Students’ Interaction with International Students and Intercultural Competence
    Jon, Jae-Eun
  • The Emergence of a Regional Hub: Comparing International Student Choices and Experiences in South Korea
    Jon, Jae-Eun Lee, Jenny J. Byun, Kiyong
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    Kang, Jiyeon Abelmann, Nancy Lo, Adrienne Abelmann, Nancy Kwon, Soo Ah Okazaki, Sumie
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    Kang, Jiyeon Abelmann, Nancy
  • ‘State-Guided’ University Reform and Colonial Conditions of Knowledge Production
    Kang, Myungkoo
  • Transnational Motherhood in the Making of Global Kids: South Korean Educational Migrants in Singapore
    Kang, Yoonhee Plüss, Caroline Chan, Kwok-bun
  • Korea’s Internationalization of Higher Education: Process, Challenge, and Strategy
    Kim, Eun Young Choi, Sheena Chapman, David W. Cummings, William K. Postiglione, Gerard A.
  • ‘Downed’ and Stuck in Singapore: Lower/Middle Class South Korean Wild Geese (Kirogi) Children in Public School
    Kim, Jeehun Hannum, Emily Park, Hyunjoon Butler, Yuko Goto
  • English Is for Dummies: Linguistic Contradictions at an International College in South Korea
    Kim, Stephanie K.
  • Framing the Globalisation Debate in Korean Higher Education
    Kim, Stephanie K. Frank, Rüdiger Hoare, James E. Köllner, Patrick Pares, Susan
  • An International College in South Korea as a Third Space between Korean and US Models of Higher Education
    Kim, Stephanie K.
  • Western Faculty ‘Flight Risk’ at a Korean University and the Complexities of Internationalisation in Asian Higher Education
    Kim, Stephanie K.
  • Changing Facets of Korean Higher Education: Market Competition and the Role of the State
    Kim, Sunwoong Lee, Ju-Ho
  • Globalization and Higher Education in South Korea: Towards Ethnocentric Internationalization or Global Commercialization of Higher Education?
    Kim, Terri King, Roger Marginson, Simon Naidoo, Raijani
  • ‘I Am a Kirogi Mother’: Education Exodus and Life Transformation among Korean Transnational Women
    Lee, Hakyoon
  • Elite Education and Social Capital: The Case of South Korea
    Lee, Sunhwa Brinton, Mary C.
  • ‘Wild Geese Fathers’ and a Globalised Family Strategy for Education in Korea
    Lee, Yean-Ju Koo, Hagen
  • Early Wave Returnees in Seoul: The Dilemmas of Modernity and Morality
    Lo, Adrienne Kim, Jenna Lo, Abelmann, Kwon, Okazaki,
  • Linguistic Competency and Citizenship: Contrasting Portraits of Multilingualism in the South Korean Popular Media
    Lo, Adrienne Kim, Jenna
  • The Global University, Area Studies, and the World Citizen: Neoliberal Geography’s Redistribution of the ‘World.’
    Looser, Tom
  • Ethnicizing, Capitalizing, and Nationalizing: South Korea and the Returning Korean Chinese
    Lu, Melody Chia-Wen Shin, Hyunjoon Xiang, Biao Yeoh, Brenda S. A. Toyota, Mika
  • Dynamics of National and Global Competition in Higher Education
    Marginson, Simon
  • White Privilege and Male Privilege: A Personal Account of Coming to See Correspondences through Work in Women’s Studies
    McIntosh, Peggy
  • Internationalisation without Cultural Diversity? Higher Education in Korea
    Moon, Rennie J.
  • South Korean Higher Education Internationalization Policies: Perceptions and Experiences
    Palmer, John D. Cho, Young Ha
  • The Promise of English: Linguistic Capital and the Neoliberal Worker in the South Korean Job Market
    Park, Joseph Sung-Yul
  • Language Ideologies in Educational Migration: Korean Jogi Yuhak Families in Singapore
    Park, Joseph Sung-Yul Bae, Sohee
  • Contention in the Construction of a Global Korean Community: The Case of the Overseas Korean Act
    Park, Jung-Sun Chang, Paul Y.
  • Educational Manager Mothers: South Korea’s Neoliberal Transformation
    Park, So Jin
  • Educational Manager Mothers as Neoliberal Maternal Subjects
    Park, So Jin Song, Jesook
  • Class and Cosmopolitan Striving: Mothers’ Management of English Education in South Korea
    Park, So Jin Abelmann, Nancy
  • The Global Competition in Higher Education
    Rust, Val D. Kim, Stephanie
  • Ethnic Return Migration and Hierarchical Nationhood: Korean-Chinese Foreign Workers in South Korea
    Seol, Dong-Hoon Skrentny, John D.
  • Everyday Racism in Canadian Schools: Ideologies of Language and Culture among Korean Transnational Students in Toronto
    Shin, Hyunjung
  • Building World-Class Research University: The Brain Korea 21 Project
    Shin, Jung Cheol
  • World-Class University in Korea: Proactive Government, Responsive University, and Procrastinating Academics
    Shin, Jung Cheol Jang, Yong Suk Shin, Jung Cheol Kehm, Barbara M.
  • The Struggle over Class, Identity, and Language: A Case Study of South Korean Transnational Families
    Song, Juyoung
  • Success and Education in South Korea
    Sorensen, Clark W.
  • Internationalization as a Response to Globalization: Radical Shifts in University Environments
    Stromquist, Nelly P.
  • Mission Diversity and Reputation in Higher Education
    van Vught, Frans
  • Immobile Transnationalisms? Young People and Their in situ Experiences of ‘International’ Education in Hong Kong
    Waters, Johanna Leung, Maggi