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Seeking Gender Equality and Inclusiveness for Multicultural Families in South Korea: Focusing on a New Textbook Series by the National Institute of Korean Language

  • The Sociolinguistic Journal of Korea
  • Abbr : 사회언어학
  • 2021, 29(2), pp.1-44
  • DOI : 10.14353/sjk.2021.29.2.01
  • Publisher : The Sociolinguistic Society Of Korea
  • Research Area : Humanities > Linguistics
  • Received : April 30, 2021
  • Accepted : June 21, 2021
  • Published : June 30, 2021

Yuri Kim 1

1연세대학교

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ABSTRACT

In this paper a new textbook series published by The National Institute of Korean Language in 2019 is analyzed for its three shortcomings in promoting gender equality and inclusiveness. First, the new textbook series are still assuming that women are the primary caretakers of the house and children. Second, the series questionably address people’s appearances in the text, in forms such as fat-shaming. Lastly, the new textbook series engage in trying to normalize Koreanness. An interview with a marriage immigrant was conducted to give insight about if these aspects are truly problematic in a perspective of the marriage immigrant.

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