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The emergence and evolution of International Relations studies in postcolonial South Korea

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  30 September 2021

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Young Chul Cho
Jungmin Seo
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Yonsei University, Seoul, South Korea
Young Chul Cho*
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Jeonbuk National University, Jeonju, South Korea
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Abstract

This study investigates how International Relations (IR) as an academic discipline emerged and evolved in South Korea, focusing on the country's peculiar colonial and postcolonial experiences. In the process, it examines why South Korean IR has been so state-centric and positivist (American-centric), while also disclosing the ways in which international history has shaped the current state of IR in South Korea, institutionally and intellectually. It is argued that IR intellectuals in South Korea have largely reflected the political arrangement of their time, rather than demonstrate academic independence or leadership for its government and/or civil society, as they have navigated difficult power structures in world politics. Related to this, it reveals South Korean IR's twisted postcoloniality, which is the absence – or weakness – of non-Western Japanese colonial legacies in its knowledge production/system, while its embracing the West/America as an ideal and better model of modernity for South Korea's security and development. It also reveals that South Korean IR's recent quest for building a Korean School of IR to overcome its Western dependency appears to be in operation within a colonial mentality towards mainstream American IR.

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International Relations (IR) ScholarshipIR HistoriographySouth KoreaColonialismWestern-Centrism
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Review of International Studies , Volume 47 , Special Issue 5: The Multiple Origins of IR , December 2021 , pp. 619 - 636
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Copyright © The Author(s), 2021. Published by Cambridge University Press on behalf of the British International Studies Association

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