minjok
English
Etymology
From Korean 민족 (minjok).
Noun
minjok (uncountable)
- race, especially a politicized, nationalistic Asian notion of it.
- 1998, Journal of Asiatic studies - Volume 41, page 47:
- Instead, a post-nationalist perspective would recognize minjok to be a modern (and democratic) construct. To say that the minjok was constructed in the modern period means that the attempt to transform women, peasants, and slaves into ...
- 2013, Yung Suk Kim, Jin-Ho Kim, Reading Minjung Theology in the Twenty-First Century, →ISBN, page 91:
- In our history we have a sense of minjok (similar to nation) but not of minjung (the masses). If we think about it from a different perspective, what actually exists is minjung, while minjok is only a related concept; however, what was continually emphasized was minjok and the minjung that made up the minjok were exploited and neglected under the auspice of benefiting minjok.
- 2015, Robert E. Kelly, "Why South Korea is So Obsessed with Japan", Real Clear Defense
- North Korea's real ideology is not socialism but a race-based Korean nationalism in which the DRPK is defending the Korean race (the minjok) against foreign depredation.
- 2015, G Sellar, “The cinematic politics of Bong Joon-Ho”, in Arena Magazine:
- Today, the term 3-8-6 isn't really used much. Neither is the term minjung, for that matter: the concept of minjok has come to dominate over the last twenty years.
- 2015, Suk-Young Kim, DMZ Crossing: Performing Emotional Citizenship along the Korean Border.:
- Historians may find this notion of citizenship somewhat ahistorical, but historians of Korea familiar with the notion of minjok as a homogeneous ethnic nation will find it resonates with Kim's concept of citizenship.
- 2018, “NICHOLAS EBERSTADT TRANSCRIPT”, in Conversations With Bill Kristol:
- The hum in their ideology is the Korean word minjok, which they would translate for us as “nationality,” but is much closer in the way they use it to race.
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