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This book delineates the drive for Korean modernization by cultural
nationalists during the colonial era in the early twentieth
century. The cultural nationalism movement, led by moderate
nationalists, eschewed overt resistance to Japanese imperialism and
advocated self-strengthening programs to lay the foundation for
future Korean independence. To describe this movement, this book
focuses on Kim Songsu and his various projects for Korean
modernization. The author provides a narrative that includes
encapsulated stories and sheds light on the Japanese colonial
policies concerning Korea. A Korean Nationalist Entrepreneur
examines Kim's projects in chronological order, reflecting
historian Carter J. Erkert's statement that Kim's life history has
been so closely intertwined with some of the deepest currents of
modern Korean history itself. The book describes how Kim took over
and developed a post-elementary school, founded Korea's first
modern textile firm, established one of Korea's major newspapers,
and established Posong Junior College (which later became Koryo
University). In 1946, after Korea's liberation from Japan, Kim
became a pivotal figure in the conservative Korean Democratic
Party, which became the main opposition party in Korea in the
1950s. He eventually became vice president in 1951 under Syngman
Rhee.
Since the early 1990s, there has been a critical shortage of
marriageable women in farming and fishing villages in Korea. This
shortage, which has become a major social problem, resulted from a
mass exodus of Korean women to cities and industrial zones. Korea's
efforts to give rural bachelors a chance to marry have succeeded in
providing 120,146 brides from 123 countries. However, the Korean
government has proven to be ill-prepared to deal with the problems
that foreign brides have encountered: family squabbles, prejudice,
discrimination, divorce, suicide, and many adversities. The UN
Commission on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination warned Korea
to stop mistreatment of foreign brides and their children, those of
so-called mixed blood, on account of human rights violations. This
book comprehensively covers Korean multiculturalism, with a focus
on the foreign brides. In a two-pronged ethnographic approach, it
offers a historical account of Korean immigration and
naturalization, while also relating that past to the contemporary
situation. As more and more people cross national boundaries, this
detailed description of Korean multiculturalism serves as a
valuable case study for an increasingly globalized world. Kim tells
the stories of these voiceless women in a compassionate manner.
In spite of Japanese investment in America and the debate on the
competitive edge of Japanese enterprise, we know little about the
actual people who are managing and working in Japanese plants.
"Japanese Industry in the American South" describes the industrial
cultures found in three Japanese industrial plants in the American
South. Choong Soon Kim discusses why Japanese industries are coming
to the South, to what extent Japanese industrial management in the
South replicates the industrial relations model used in the home
plants in Japan, and examines the reactions of Americans toward the
Japanese expatriates. The Japanese have had a profound effect on
Southerners. Meeting the challenges of the Japanese has led
Americans to rediscover their own strengths and weaknesses.
"Japanese Industry in the American South" offers a different
perspective. Western scholars have emphasized the positive aspects
of traditional values and practices for Japanese industry, and
haveeven romanticized their effects. Utilizing his bicultural
experience, Choong Soon Kim discusses how the American public tends
to over-estimate Japanese knowledge about American culture and the
Japanese ability to be competitive with their American
counterparts. He also talks about the idea many Americans still
have that Japanese industrialists are so knowledgeable about the
South that they can exploit what are seen as southern
characteristics: white, rural, polite and non-union--of people who
are supposedly eager to work hard for low wages. Conversely, the
numerous concessions, compromises, and accommodations required by
the Japanese are exposed and analyzed here. "Japanese Industry in
the" "American South" reveals a morebalanced view of Japan's
success as well as struggles to remain competitive in an American
setting.
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