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

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Author(s): Yongsoo Kim (Hallym University, South Korea)
Copyright: 2019
Pages: 22
Source title: Digital Humanities and Scholarly Research Trends in the Asia-Pacific
Source Author(s)/Editor(s): Shun-han Rebekah Wong (Hong Kong Baptist University, Hong Kong), Haipeng Li (University of California – Merced, USA)and Min Chou (New Jersey City University, USA)
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-5225-7195-7.ch006

Keywords: Digital Humanities / Information Science Reference / Library & Information Science / Research Methods

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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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