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A Critical Exploring of the Discourses on East Asian Cultural Community in Korea

Wook Yon Lee

Sogang Institute for East Asian Studies, Sogang University

Published: February 2007 · Vol. 26 No. 1 · pp. 5-28

DOI: https://doi.org/10.33334/sieas.2007..52.5

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Abstract

This article focuses on the critical exploring of the discourses on East Asian cultural community in Korea from 1990's. This article explores the possibility and the problems of East Asian cultural community by analysis of the discourses on East Asian cultural community in Korea. This article focuses on three themes. First, The concept of building a East Asian cultural community based on East Asia's cultural homogeneity is very widely spread in Korea, but the direction of the East Asian cultural community should be determined after acknowledging historical experience and identifying the heterogeneity and differences between East Asian countries. Second, After Hallyu(Korean Wave) phenomenon in East Asian countries, dome Koreans expected that it would serve as a source of create a common identity and solidarity within East Asia. But It is a Korea -centered thinking. Third, Considering upon the situation of East Asian nations, East Asian cultural community should based on the paradoxic tension of nationalism and trans-nationallism.
Keywords: East Asian cultural communityCultural Exchange in East Asia