Event

Please join us for the Food for Thought Talks Series Fall 2024 with the Asian American Studies Undergraduate Research Fellows 2024-2025. 

ASAM Fellow  Yeeun Yoo presents: Militarized Masculinities: A Case of Military Conscription, Gender Norms, Citizenship, and U.S. Imperialism in South Korea.

Bio:

Yeeun (she/her) is a Korean American junior from Charlotte, NC. She is majoring in Urban Studies and Sociology with the ASAM minor. With experience working with community organizations in both Korea and the U.S., she is passionate about anti-imperialist organizing and mutual aid on a transnational scale and exploring storytelling as a powerful tool for liberation and resistance. At Penn, she is a Civic Scholar, Penn IUR Fellow in Urban Leadership, and is involved in the ASAM Undergraduate Advisory Board. In her free time, she enjoys reading, collecting art prints, and finding new food spots In Philly.

Abstract: 

As tensions between north and south Korea intensify and the U.S. continues to pervasively infect its military presence in the south, military conscription continues to deeply and painfully influence the Korean people globally. This project aims to deconstruct and deviate from glamorized narratives of South Korea’s military conscription and U.S. occupation. The research will examine militarism as a vessel for constructing Korean gender roles and the cisheteropatriarchal, U.S.-aligned South Korean national agenda.