Health Food Sports In Modern Korean History

AY2021/2022 Semester 1

This course teaches modern Korean history by focusing on a set of key topics. 1. History of traditional medicine in modern Korea 2. History of biomedicine and its contested use by Koreans. 3. Korean food and its invented tradition during the Cold War. 4. The use of sports in the nationalist movement 5. Cultures of dieting, birth control, and cosmetic surgery, and other issues in Korea