Communicating Food in Korea

Jaehyeon Jeong is assistant professor (lecturer) of communication at the University of Utah Asia Campus.Joong-Hwan Oh is professor of sociology at Hunter College of The City University of New York.

This edited volume includes a baker's dozen of chapters by scholars at Korean and American institutions, organized around four major themes: moving from colonialism and hunger to food sovereignty; national cuisine in the era of globalization; food practices in multicultural Korea; and food tourism as related to food crisis. Because food and foodways can serve as a marker of social status and belong to the domain of customs and beliefs, as well as offering intersections with many other economic and political factors, this interdisciplinary work collects research from diverse fields including political science, communication studies, geography, and nutrition…the writing throughout is unmistakably scholarly[.] Recommended.

• IntroductionJaehyeon Jeong and Joong-Hwan OhPart I: From Colonialism and Hunger to Food SovereigntyChapter 1: Reclamation Projects and Development of Agricultural Land in Colonial KoreaChaisung LimChapter 2: The Narrative of Post-Childhood and Memories of Food: Study on the Symbolism of Food in Korean Postwar Formation NovelsSoh-yon YiChapter 3: Addressing the Agri-Food Crisis in Korea: Implications of Food Sovereignty and the UN Declaration on the Rights of Peasants Byeong-Seon Yoon and Wonkyu SongPart II: National Cuisine in the Era of GlobalizationChapter 4: Food and Nationalism: Kimchi and Korean National IdentityHong Sik ChoChapter 5: Buddhist Temple Food in South Korea: Interests and Agency in the Reinvention of Tradition in the Age of GlobalizationSeungsook MoonChapter 6: The Reinvention of Traditional Cuisine as CountercultureJeehee KimChapter 7 Taste of Korea: Governmental Discourse on National Cuisine and its Articulation of Nation-nessJaehyeon JeongPart III