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“Humanities Content” and Its Discontent: Reshaping Digital Humanities in South Korea

“Humanities Content” and Its Discontent: Reshaping Digital Humanities in South Korea

Yongsoo Kim
Copyright: © 2019 |Pages: 22
ISBN13: 9781522571957|ISBN10: 1522571957|ISBN13 Softcover: 9781522586142|EISBN13: 9781522571964
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-5225-7195-7.ch006
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Kim, Yongsoo. "“Humanities Content” and Its Discontent: Reshaping Digital Humanities in South Korea." Digital Humanities and Scholarly Research Trends in the Asia-Pacific, edited by Shun-han Rebekah Wong, et al., IGI Global, 2019, pp. 118-139. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-5225-7195-7.ch006

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Kim, Y. (2019). “Humanities Content” and Its Discontent: Reshaping Digital Humanities in South Korea. In S. Wong, H. Li, & M. Chou (Eds.), Digital Humanities and Scholarly Research Trends in the Asia-Pacific (pp. 118-139). IGI Global. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-5225-7195-7.ch006

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Kim, Yongsoo. "“Humanities Content” and Its Discontent: Reshaping Digital Humanities in South Korea." In Digital Humanities and Scholarly Research Trends in the Asia-Pacific, edited by Shun-han Rebekah Wong, Haipeng Li, and Min Chou, 118-139. Hershey, PA: IGI Global, 2019. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-5225-7195-7.ch006

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Abstract

This chapter provides an overview of the remarkable but peculiar history of digital humanities and its contemporary development in South Korea. Computer-assisted humanities research in Korean studies began with the Wagner-Song Munkwa Project, which was launched in 1967 and lasted for more than three decades. This landmark achievement inspired many database-building projects, including the Sillok Project, in the following years. In the early 2000s, as a new discourse of “digital humanities” emerged in response to the “crisis” of the humanities in South Korean academia, another effort to connect the humanities through digital media to the culture industry gained momentum. “Humanities content” has since dominated the South Korean digital humanities landscape for over a decade. While recovering major digital humanities-related accomplishments, this chapter reveals that constant tension between the non-commercial, academic digital humanities and the commercial, industrial humanities content has been shaping and reshaping computer-assisted humanities scholarship in South Korea.

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