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DESCRIPTION:This panel explores the transformation of the Korean peninsula 
 from the Korean War to the late twentieth century\, foregrounding migratio
 n\, rural reconstruction\, knowledge exchange\, and environmental activism
 . Moving beyond state-centered and security-driven narratives\, it highlig
 hts how everyday actors and transnational networks reshaped the Korean soc
 iety and environment across and beyond Cold War geopolitics. The panel rei
 nterprets the peninsula not as a static site of ideological confrontation\
 , but as a dynamic hub of circulation\, exchange\, and contestation.\n\nJa
 ehyung Kim reveals the porous character of the North Korea–China frontie
 r during the Korean War\, showing how refugee movements and smuggling netw
 orks endured despite militarization. James Podgorski situates South Korea
 ’s postwar Community Development programs within Korean–American colla
 borations\, demonstrating how rural modernization served as a key arena fo
 r advancing liberal developmental visions. Man Joong Kim traces the circul
 ation of urbanism through U.S. academic networks\, illustrating how cities
  such as Gwangju were reframed within transnational circuits of expertise 
 and dissent. Yejun Kweon examines environmental activism in the two Koreas
 \, arguing that housewives’ domestic labor functioned as a care-based ec
 ological infrastructure linking grassroots anti-pollution campaigns in the
  South with women-led conservation practices embedded in North Korea’s s
 ocialist mobilization.\n\nCollectively\, the panel’s significance lies i
 n its transnational framework linking wartime mobility\, intellectual exch
 ange\, and ecological politics. Methodologically\, the panel centers invis
 ible and understudied actors\, demonstrating how global Cold War structure
 s were localized\, negotiated\, and reshaped in the daily lives of people.
  In doing so\, it transcends the view of the peninsula as a geopolitically
  isolated island\, instead integrating it into broader continental and glo
 bal networks. It contributes to Korean studies\, Cold War history\, and en
 vironmental history by framing mobility\, knowledge circulation\, and care
 -based social reproduction as the key forces that bridged the peninsula wi
 th the world.
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LOCATION:Room 403 PC Desk (Seats 30)
SUMMARY:Reframing Korea’s Cold War: Environmentalism\, Migration\, and Kn
 owledge-Exchange across Borders - Yejun Kweon\, Cheehyung Harrison Kim\, J
 aehyung Kim\, Man Joong Kim\, James Podgorski\, Junghyun Nam
URL:https://pretalx.com/wha-annual-meeting-korea-2026/talk/ETRBNJ/
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