Spanish version Number 7 / Agosto 2010
Activities
Congress, seminars and courses
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Scholarships, positions, exchanges and papers
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Suggested Readings
China, the building of a “big country” Dr. Jorge Malena
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Burocrats and entrepreneurs. The state and the in Korea Yun Tae Kim
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Digital Korea Tomi Anohen and Jim O´Reilly
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News of the region
New Ambassador Carlos Alberto Argañaraz View +

The South Korean government is decided to attract more foreign students View +

North Korean plane crashes in China View +

Local News
IV Meeting on Korean Studies in Latin America View +

Visit to Argentina of the Korean National University of Arts delegation View +

Editorial
This new issue of our Newsletter continues with the aim of promoting academic knowledge about ideological and cultural aspects of East Asian countries, in history, and in the current context. We intend to move in the consolidation of certain spaces of intercultural social production between Korea and our country, View + info
Analysis and Opinion
Challenging orthodoxies

Lytton L. Guimaraes

An International Forum – “Recasting the Korean Model of Development: Issues, Debates, and Lessons” – took place in Washington, DC, 30 June and 1 July, 2010, co-sponsored by the Asia Foundation´s Center for U.S. Korea Policy, the Korean Economic Association, and the Korean Political Science Association. View + info
The conception of disease in Korean shamanism

Prof. Silvia Seligson.
Social anthropologist. Researcher and curator at the National Museum of Cultures, INAH, México

The traditional beliefs of Musok or Korean shamanism, the Korean autochthonous religion, attribute to supernatural powers all the acts, conflicts or problems of human beings, including life and death, and disasters and disease as well. View + info
Globalization and culture notes on the korean cinema in Buenos Aires

Paula Iadevito
Instituto de Investigaciones Gino Germani FSOC, Universidad de Buenos Aires, CONICET

As a result of globalization, national cinemas which have not been part of the core of development of cinema in the twentieth century demand to be integrated into the universal history of cinema.View + info
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