Arkansas NCTA presents "Teaching Korea in a Global World," a hybrid workshop for teachers of grades 5 - 12 taking place on July 16. This workshop equips educators with digital tools and strategies to integrate Korea into their classroom, exploring its rich political, social, and historical contexts behind the global influence of Korean popular culture. Register here!
From Buddhism to K-Pop, the Korean peninsula has long played an important role in the globalization of popular culture, yet even as Korean cultural exports occupy an increasingly central space in our students' lives, Korea itself remains marginal in many world history and civics curricula. This virtual workshop provides teachers with digital resources and concrete strategies to center Korea within world history, literature, and comparative government courses, offering a rich political, social, and historical context behind the music groups, TV dramas, and popular brands that make up the “Korean wave.”
When: July 16, 8:30am - 11:30am, plus asynchronous modules on Google Classroom
Format: Virtual via Zoom
"Ancient Korea and the Silk Road" with Dr. Zach Smith
"Korea's Bloody Path to Democracy" with Dr. Hyo-Won Shin
"Understanding the Rise of K-Culture" with Dr. Katherine Lee
Benefits to Educators:
► 6 hours of PD credit
► 2 FREE books for teaching Korean history and culture
► Access to a suite of classroom-ready digital teaching materials
► Priority registration for future NCTA programs
Presenting Scholars:
Dr. Hyo-Won Shin is an assistant professor in the Government, Public Service, and International Studies department at the University of Central Arkansas. Although a native South Korean, Dr. Shin spent most of her child in Myanmar and completed her elementary to high school education at the International School of Yangon. For her undergraduate and master’s degree she attended Yonsei University in Seoul, Korea and received her PhD in Political Science from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. Her research focuses on democratization in countries where ethnic identities are important. In particular, she is interested in how trust across ethnic groups can encourage people to vote for candidates from different ethnic groups. In her free time, she loves to spend time with her 15-month old daughter and dance to early 2000s pop music.
Dr. Katherine In-Young Lee is Founder of Rise with Clarity, a coaching and consulting business for women of color faculty in higher education. She hosts the Rise with Clarity Podcast. Her book, Dynamic Korea and Rhythmic Form (Wesleyan University Press 2018) explores how a percussion genre from South Korea (samul nori) became a global music genre. Dynamic Korea and Rhythmic Form was recognized with the 2019 Béla Bartók Award for Outstanding Ethnomusicology from the ASCAP Foundation Deems Taylor/Virgil Thomson Awards. Past research topics have included the politicized drumming of dissent and the audible dimensions of a nation branding campaign. Her research on the role of music as scenes of protest during South Korea’s democratization movement was awarded the Charles Seeger Prize by the Society for Ethnomusicology and the Martin Hatch Award by the Society for Asian Music. She received a Ph.D. in Ethnomusicology from Harvard University in 2012 and served as Assistant Professor and Associate Professor of Ethnomusicology at UC Davis (2012-17) and and at UCLA (2017-23), respectively.
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