Biographical resources of South Korean women

2008 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sylke Bartmann
Keyword(s):  
Korean Women ◽  
South Korean

Mixed-Race Children and Their Korean Mothers

Framed by War ◽  
2019 ◽  
pp. 148-173
Author(s):  
Susie Woo
Keyword(s):  
South Korea ◽  
Mixed Race ◽  
The United States ◽  
Racial Identification ◽  
Korean Women ◽  
South Korean ◽  
Segregated Schools ◽  
Child Placement ◽  
Women And Children ◽  
Identification Practices

This chapter looks at what happened to the Korean women and children who remained in South Korea. It sets the stage by describing how President Rhee’s 1953 directive to remove children with American fathers to the United States heightened the vulnerability of those who stayed. The South Korean government worked closely with Harry Holt and in 1954 established Korea’s first welfare agency, Child Placement Service, expressly to remove mixed-race children. The chapter describes how US racial identification practices used to determine which children were “part-black” were introduced to and became institutionalized in South Korea. It also describes how Korean women were erased in this process. They were coerced to give up their mixed-race children and were offered no support from either government. For the children, solutions ranging from segregated schools to welfare reports that pathologized them as “social handicaps” relegated this population to the margins. The chapter ends with a consideration of how mixed-race children and the mothers who fought to raise them navigated the ongoing legacies of US militarization in South Korea.

Risk factors for premature or early menopause: a comparative study between United States and South Korean women

2017 ◽  
Vol 108 (3) ◽  
pp. e120-e121
Author(s):  
S. Choe ◽  
Y. Kim ◽  
I. Kang ◽  
C. Sim ◽  
J. Heo ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Risk Factors ◽  
Comparative Study ◽  
Korean Women ◽  
Early Menopause ◽  
South Korean

scholarly journals The Association between Eating-Out Rate and BMI in Korea

2019 ◽  
Vol 16 (17) ◽  
pp. 3186
Author(s):  
Hwi Jun Kim ◽  
So Yeon Oh ◽  
Dong-Woo Choi ◽  
Eun-Cheol Park
Keyword(s):  
Odds Ratio ◽  
Multinomial Logistic Regression ◽  
Asia Pacific ◽  
Nutrition Examination Survey ◽  
Korean Women ◽  
Multinomial Logistic Regression Analysis ◽  
South Korean ◽  
Adult Men ◽  
Health And Nutrition ◽  
Eating Out

Previous research suggests that adult men consume larger amounts of calories while eating-out than when eating meals prepared at home. Therefore, this study aimed to investigate the association between the daily eating-out rate and body mass index (BMI) in the Korean population. The study used data from 18,019 individuals aged ≥19 years who participated in the Korea National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (KNHANES) from 2013 to 2016. BMI was measured according to the Asia-Pacific BMI measurement criteria. A multinomial logistic regression analysis was used to examine the validity of the association between the eating-out rate and BMI. In this population, women with higher eating-out rates were found to have higher BMIs. Specifically, the risks of becoming obese or overweight increased among those with a 1%–50% (obesity odds ratio (OR) = 1.28, 95% confidence interval [CI]: 1.09–1.51; overweight OR = 1.38, 95% CI: 1.14–1.64) or 51%–100% daily eating-out rate (obesity OR = 1.51, 95% CI: 1.24–1.84; overweight OR = 1.50, 95% CI: 1.20–1.87), relative to those who reported never eating-out. By contrast, no statistically significant association between the daily eating-out rate and BMI was observed among men. Notably, we observed positive associations of the daily eating-out rate with obesity and being overweight in South Korean women, but not men. Our findings suggest that education about proper habits when eating-out is needed to prevent obesity.

Business Startups and Development of South Korean Women Entrepreneurs in the IT Industry

2020 ◽  
Vol 22 (2) ◽  
pp. 176-188 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yonjoo Cho ◽  
Soo Jeoung Han ◽  
Jiwon Park ◽  
Hyounju Kang
Keyword(s):  
Human Resource Development ◽  
Role Models ◽  
Women Entrepreneurs ◽  
Success Factors ◽  
Technical Expertise ◽  
Korean Women ◽  
Personal Factors ◽  
It Industry ◽  
South Korean ◽  
Positive Outlook

The Problem Research on South Korean women entrepreneurs in the information technology (IT) industry is limited, and thus learning how they start and develop their businesses will address a gap in the literature. In addition, as our previous study on women entrepreneurs in Korea encompassed all industries, we did not sufficiently capture how women entrepreneurs in the IT industry started and developed their businesses. We feel a strong need to conduct a follow-up study on three women entrepreneurs who (a) started an IT business to become independent; (b) have stayed in their businesses for approximately 20 years; and (c) became role models as women entrepreneurs in the industry. The Solution We conducted semi-structured interviews with three women entrepreneurs in the IT industry and analyzed each case on three themes: motivation, challenges, and success factors. Although each case has its distinctive features, we found that all cases had success factors in common: technical expertise, positive outlook, adherence to business principles, work centrality, and networking. Particularly, the three women entrepreneurs’ positive outlook was the key success factor that helped them overcome challenges they faced in business development. The Stakeholders Given the study findings on women entrepreneurs’ personal factors (e.g., positive outlook, technical expertise) and external factors (e.g., networking), human resource development (HRD) practitioners can develop leadership programs to share those success factors with aspiring women entrepreneurs in Korea and other countries so that they can develop their own competencies and strategies from early on.

Career–family strategies and spatial mobility among South Korean women scholars

2018 ◽  
Vol 27 (1) ◽  
pp. 101-120 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hyejin Yoon ◽  
Hyosun Kim
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Social Capital ◽  
Personal Relationships ◽  
Migration Decision ◽  
Korean Women ◽  
Spatial Mobility ◽  
South Korean ◽  
Career Opportunities ◽  
Women Scholars ◽  
Family Strategies

This paper examines the mobility of female South Korean scholars and their career–family strategies for negotiating their relationships. Despite the importance of the relations and social capital of workers, previous studies on the mobility of highly skilled professionals have overlooked their social and personal relationships. South Korean women scholars consider not only career opportunities but also familial relations in the process of migration decision-making. To negotiate their relationships, they adopt strategies to build and maintain their relations at various geographic levels. Their strategies for making networks are complex and vary according to career, personal and familial goals.

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