Oriental Languages and Cultures

The exam focuses on Knowledge and understanding (Descriptor 1) The course provides knowledge of methodological aspects of everyday history through "history from below," microhistory, and "Eigen-Sinn" approaches. It develops over 12 weeks (October-December 2025, Thursdays 16-18 CET online) in three phases: theoretical foundations (weeks 1-2), chronological analysis of Korean everyday life from colonial period to Korean War (weeks 3-9), transformations in postwar South Korea focusing on gender, rural development, and industrialization (weeks 10-12). Applying knowledge and understanding (Descriptor 2) The course develops the ability to connect everyday history with other fields: colonial and postcolonial history, gender studies (comfort women, militarization), social and economic history (reconstruction, industrialization, Saemaul movement), conflict studies (Korean War), historical anthropology. Transversal competencies (Descriptors 3-5) Students develop: • Autonomy of judgment: critical analysis of primary sources (testimonies, archival documents, reportage) • Communication skills: discussion of complex topics in international contexts (rotating hybrid mode Tübingen-Malaga-Rome) • Learning skills: historical research methodologies applicable to other contexts of everyday life studies

To be enrolled in a master's degree in Oriental Languages and Civilization, LM-36 who will choose to follow the Korean curriculum.

The course uses a selection of essays and book chapters covering the everyday history of Korea from the colonial period to industrialization. The texts explore various dimensions of daily life: Japanese colonial rule, wartime mobilization, comfort women testimonies, the impact of the Korean War on civilians, postwar reconstruction in North Korea, urban and rural transformations in South Korea, gender issues, and factory labor. The bibliography emphasizes microhistory and history-from-below methodological approaches, using sources such as testimonies, reportage, photographs, and archival documents to reconstruct the lived experience of ordinary people. The texts come from international academic journals and edited volumes dedicated to everyday life in mass dictatorships, offering comparative and interdisciplinary perspectives.

Highly recommended frequency in presence.

The assessment is based on the student's active participation in the intensive educational experience and includes: • Contribution to the exchange of knowledge, ideas and proposals on specific topics • Participation in debates and ability to stimulate new ideas • Involvement in networking activities between partner universities, academic staff and students • Contribution to collaborative activities and shared strategies in the field of learning and research The assessment results in a pass/fail judgment based on the student's commitment, participation and contribution to course activities.

Armstrong, Charles "North Korea and the Education of Desire: Totalitarianism, Everyday Life, and the Making of Post-Colonial Subjectivity", in: Alf Lüdtke ed., Everyday Life in Mass Dictatorship: Collusion and Evasion, Palgrave Macmillan, 2016, pp. 165-183. Choi, Chungmoo "The Minjung Culture Movement and the Construction of Popular Culture in Korea", in: Kenneth M. Wells, ed., South Korea's Minjung Movement: The Culture and Politics of Dissidence, Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 1995, pp. 105-118. Choi, Chungmoo / Yang, Hyunah (ed./trans.) Voices of the Korean Comfort Women. History Rewritten from Memories, Routledge, 2023, pp. xix-xxxivii. Chung, Jae Won Edward "Maps of Life and Abjection: Reportage, Photography, and Literature in Postwar Seoul", Journal of Asian Studies, 2020, 79 (2): 335–365. Harootunian, Harry History's Disquiet: Modernity, Cultural Practice, and the Question of Everyday Life, New York: Columbia University Press, 2000, pp. 1-25. Highmore, Ben Everyday Life and Cultural Theory: An Introduction, London: Routledge, 2002, pp. 1-32. ISBN: 978-0415223003 Jung, Byung Wook "1940 Graffiti Incident at an Elementary School and Its Competing Memories" (MS) Kim, Cheehyung Harrison Heroes and Toilers: Work as Life in Postwar North Korea, 1953-1961, New York: Columbia University Press, 2018, pp. 167-199. ISBN: 978-0231546980 Kim, Kyu Hyun "The Politics of National Language and Wartime Mobilisation of Everyday Life in Late Colonial Korea, 1937-1945", in: Alf Lüdtke ed., Everyday Life in Mass Dictatorship: Collusion and Evasion, Palgrave Macmillan, 2016, pp. 112-125. Kim, Michael "Industrial Warriors: Labour Heroes and Everyday Life in Wartime Colonial Korea, 1937–1945", in: Alf Lüdtke ed., Everyday Life in Mass Dictatorship: Collusion and Evasion, Routledge, 2016, pp. 126-146. Kim, Michael "Staging Images of Everyday Life in Late Colonial Korea: Colonial Visuality and the Proliferation of Amateur Photography", Asian Studies Review, September 2021, Vol. 45, Issue 3, pp. 381-399. ISSN: 1035-7823 Kim, Sungjo "Urbanizing the Countryside: The Developmentalist Designs of the New Village and Farmhouse in 1970s Rural Korea", International Journal of Korean History, 2020, 25(1): 193-232. DOI: 10.22372/ijkh.2020.25.1.193 Kim, Suzy Everyday Life in the North Korean Revolution, Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2013, pp. 71-139. ISBN: 978-0801451881 Kim, Taewoo "Limited War, Unlimited Targets: U.S. Air Force Bombing of North Korea during the Korean War, 1950–1953", Critical Asian Studies, 44 (3): 467–92. DOI: 10.1080/14672715.2012.711980 Kim, Taewoo "Overturned Time and Space: Drastic Changes in the Daily Lives of North Koreans during the Korean War", Asian Journal of Peacebuilding, Vol. 2, No. 2 (2014): 241-262. DOI: 10.18588/201411.000030 Kim, Won "Between Autonomy and Productivity: The Everyday Lives of Korean Women Workers During the Park Chung-hee Era", in: Alf Lüdtke ed., Everyday Life in Mass Dictatorship: Collusion and Evasion, Palgrave Macmillan, 2016, pp. 202-218. Koo, Hagen "From Farm to Factory: Proletarianization in Korea", American Sociological Review, 55, no. 5 (1990): 669-681. ISSN: 0003-1224 Koo, Hagen "Labor Policies and Labor Relations during the Park Chung Hee Era", in: Hyung-A Kim and Clark Sorenson, eds., Reassessing the Park Chung Hee Era, 1961-1979, Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2011, pp. 122-141. ISBN: 978-0295990729 Lindenberger, Thomas "Eigen-Sinn, Domination and No Resistance", Docupedia-Zeitgeschichte, 03.08.2015. DOI: 10.14765/zzf.dok.2.646.v1 Lüdtke, Alf (ed., trans. William Templer) The History of Everyday Life: Reconstructing Historical Experiences and Ways of Life, Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1995, Introduction. ISBN: 978-0691006116 Moon, Katherine Sex Among Allies: Military Prostitution in U.S.-Korea Relations, New York: Columbia University Press, 1997. ISBN: 978-0231106412 Moon, Seungsook Militarized Modernity and Gendered Citizenship in South Korea, Durham: Duke University Press, 2005, pp. 44-67. ISBN: 978-0822335665 Moore, Mick "Mobilization and Disillusion in Rural Korea: The Saemaul Movement in Retrospect", Pacific Affairs, 57, no. 4 (1984-85): 577-598. ISSN: 0030-851X Nishino, Rumiko / Kim, Puja / Onozawa, Akane (ed.) Denying the Comfort Women: The Japanese State's Assault on Historical Truth, Routledge, 2018. ISBN: 978-1138389991 Port, Andrew I. "History from Below, the History of Everyday Life, and Microhistory", in: International Encyclopedia of the Social & Behavioral Sciences, 2nd edition, Amsterdam: Elsevier, 2015, pp. 108-113. ISBN: 978-0080970868 Schmid, Andre "Comrade Min, Women's Paid Labour, and the Centralising Party-State: Postwar Reconstruction in North Korea", in: Alf Lüdtke ed., Everyday Life in Mass Dictatorship: Collusion and Evasion, Palgrave Macmillan, 2016, pp. 184-201. Schmid, Andre North Korea's Mundane Revolution: Socialist Living and the Rise of Kim Il Sung, 1953-1965, University of California Press, 2024. ISBN: 978-0520391697 Woo, Susie Framed by War: Korean Children and Women at the Crossroads of US Empire, New York University Press, 2019. ISBN: 978-1479809288

The lessons of the Civil e-school project are provided in telematics, with the exception of the Anthropology of Korea, which will be provided in the presence for the students of Sapienza and in telematics for students from partner universities.

The exam focuses on Knowledge and understanding (Descriptor 1) The course provides knowledge of methodological aspects of everyday history through "history from below," microhistory, and "Eigen-Sinn" approaches. It develops over 12 weeks (October-December 2025, Thursdays 16-18 CET online) in three phases: theoretical foundations (weeks 1-2), chronological analysis of Korean everyday life from colonial period to Korean War (weeks 3-9), transformations in postwar South Korea focusing on gender, rural development, and industrialization (weeks 10-12). Applying knowledge and understanding (Descriptor 2) The course develops the ability to connect everyday history with other fields: colonial and postcolonial history, gender studies (comfort women, militarization), social and economic history (reconstruction, industrialization, Saemaul movement), conflict studies (Korean War), historical anthropology. Transversal competencies (Descriptors 3-5) Students develop: • Autonomy of judgment: critical analysis of primary sources (testimonies, archival documents, reportage) • Communication skills: discussion of complex topics in international contexts (rotating hybrid mode Tübingen-Malaga-Rome) • Learning skills: historical research methodologies applicable to other contexts of everyday life studies

To be enrolled in a master's degree in Oriental Languages and Civilization, LM-36 who will choose to follow the Korean curriculum.

The course uses a selection of essays and book chapters covering the everyday history of Korea from the colonial period to industrialization. The texts explore various dimensions of daily life: Japanese colonial rule, wartime mobilization, comfort women testimonies, the impact of the Korean War on civilians, postwar reconstruction in North Korea, urban and rural transformations in South Korea, gender issues, and factory labor. The bibliography emphasizes microhistory and history-from-below methodological approaches, using sources such as testimonies, reportage, photographs, and archival documents to reconstruct the lived experience of ordinary people. The texts come from international academic journals and edited volumes dedicated to everyday life in mass dictatorships, offering comparative and interdisciplinary perspectives.

Highly recommended frequency in presence.

The assessment is based on the student's active participation in the intensive educational experience and includes: • Contribution to the exchange of knowledge, ideas and proposals on specific topics • Participation in debates and ability to stimulate new ideas • Involvement in networking activities between partner universities, academic staff and students • Contribution to collaborative activities and shared strategies in the field of learning and research The assessment results in a pass/fail judgment based on the student's commitment, participation and contribution to course activities.

Armstrong, Charles "North Korea and the Education of Desire: Totalitarianism, Everyday Life, and the Making of Post-Colonial Subjectivity", in: Alf Lüdtke ed., Everyday Life in Mass Dictatorship: Collusion and Evasion, Palgrave Macmillan, 2016, pp. 165-183. Choi, Chungmoo "The Minjung Culture Movement and the Construction of Popular Culture in Korea", in: Kenneth M. Wells, ed., South Korea's Minjung Movement: The Culture and Politics of Dissidence, Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 1995, pp. 105-118. Choi, Chungmoo / Yang, Hyunah (ed./trans.) Voices of the Korean Comfort Women. History Rewritten from Memories, Routledge, 2023, pp. xix-xxxivii. Chung, Jae Won Edward "Maps of Life and Abjection: Reportage, Photography, and Literature in Postwar Seoul", Journal of Asian Studies, 2020, 79 (2): 335–365. Harootunian, Harry History's Disquiet: Modernity, Cultural Practice, and the Question of Everyday Life, New York: Columbia University Press, 2000, pp. 1-25. Highmore, Ben Everyday Life and Cultural Theory: An Introduction, London: Routledge, 2002, pp. 1-32. ISBN: 978-0415223003 Jung, Byung Wook "1940 Graffiti Incident at an Elementary School and Its Competing Memories" (MS) Kim, Cheehyung Harrison Heroes and Toilers: Work as Life in Postwar North Korea, 1953-1961, New York: Columbia University Press, 2018, pp. 167-199. ISBN: 978-0231546980 Kim, Kyu Hyun "The Politics of National Language and Wartime Mobilisation of Everyday Life in Late Colonial Korea, 1937-1945", in: Alf Lüdtke ed., Everyday Life in Mass Dictatorship: Collusion and Evasion, Palgrave Macmillan, 2016, pp. 112-125. Kim, Michael "Industrial Warriors: Labour Heroes and Everyday Life in Wartime Colonial Korea, 1937–1945", in: Alf Lüdtke ed., Everyday Life in Mass Dictatorship: Collusion and Evasion, Routledge, 2016, pp. 126-146. Kim, Michael "Staging Images of Everyday Life in Late Colonial Korea: Colonial Visuality and the Proliferation of Amateur Photography", Asian Studies Review, September 2021, Vol. 45, Issue 3, pp. 381-399. ISSN: 1035-7823 Kim, Sungjo "Urbanizing the Countryside: The Developmentalist Designs of the New Village and Farmhouse in 1970s Rural Korea", International Journal of Korean History, 2020, 25(1): 193-232. DOI: 10.22372/ijkh.2020.25.1.193 Kim, Suzy Everyday Life in the North Korean Revolution, Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2013, pp. 71-139. ISBN: 978-0801451881 Kim, Taewoo "Limited War, Unlimited Targets: U.S. Air Force Bombing of North Korea during the Korean War, 1950–1953", Critical Asian Studies, 44 (3): 467–92. DOI: 10.1080/14672715.2012.711980 Kim, Taewoo "Overturned Time and Space: Drastic Changes in the Daily Lives of North Koreans during the Korean War", Asian Journal of Peacebuilding, Vol. 2, No. 2 (2014): 241-262. DOI: 10.18588/201411.000030 Kim, Won "Between Autonomy and Productivity: The Everyday Lives of Korean Women Workers During the Park Chung-hee Era", in: Alf Lüdtke ed., Everyday Life in Mass Dictatorship: Collusion and Evasion, Palgrave Macmillan, 2016, pp. 202-218. Koo, Hagen "From Farm to Factory: Proletarianization in Korea", American Sociological Review, 55, no. 5 (1990): 669-681. ISSN: 0003-1224 Koo, Hagen "Labor Policies and Labor Relations during the Park Chung Hee Era", in: Hyung-A Kim and Clark Sorenson, eds., Reassessing the Park Chung Hee Era, 1961-1979, Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2011, pp. 122-141. ISBN: 978-0295990729 Lindenberger, Thomas "Eigen-Sinn, Domination and No Resistance", Docupedia-Zeitgeschichte, 03.08.2015. DOI: 10.14765/zzf.dok.2.646.v1 Lüdtke, Alf (ed., trans. William Templer) The History of Everyday Life: Reconstructing Historical Experiences and Ways of Life, Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1995, Introduction. ISBN: 978-0691006116 Moon, Katherine Sex Among Allies: Military Prostitution in U.S.-Korea Relations, New York: Columbia University Press, 1997. ISBN: 978-0231106412 Moon, Seungsook Militarized Modernity and Gendered Citizenship in South Korea, Durham: Duke University Press, 2005, pp. 44-67. ISBN: 978-0822335665 Moore, Mick "Mobilization and Disillusion in Rural Korea: The Saemaul Movement in Retrospect", Pacific Affairs, 57, no. 4 (1984-85): 577-598. ISSN: 0030-851X Nishino, Rumiko / Kim, Puja / Onozawa, Akane (ed.) Denying the Comfort Women: The Japanese State's Assault on Historical Truth, Routledge, 2018. ISBN: 978-1138389991 Port, Andrew I. "History from Below, the History of Everyday Life, and Microhistory", in: International Encyclopedia of the Social & Behavioral Sciences, 2nd edition, Amsterdam: Elsevier, 2015, pp. 108-113. ISBN: 978-0080970868 Schmid, Andre "Comrade Min, Women's Paid Labour, and the Centralising Party-State: Postwar Reconstruction in North Korea", in: Alf Lüdtke ed., Everyday Life in Mass Dictatorship: Collusion and Evasion, Palgrave Macmillan, 2016, pp. 184-201. Schmid, Andre North Korea's Mundane Revolution: Socialist Living and the Rise of Kim Il Sung, 1953-1965, University of California Press, 2024. ISBN: 978-0520391697 Woo, Susie Framed by War: Korean Children and Women at the Crossroads of US Empire, New York University Press, 2019. ISBN: 978-1479809288

The lessons of the Civil e-school project are provided in telematics, with the exception of the Anthropology of Korea, which will be provided in the presence for the students of Sapienza and in telematics for students from partner universities.