{"id":18983,"date":"2025-10-13T01:48:32","date_gmt":"2025-10-13T01:48:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/snuac.snu.ac.kr\/eng\/?p=18983"},"modified":"2025-10-13T01:48:32","modified_gmt":"2025-10-13T01:48:32","slug":"chs-100min-talk-25-6","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/snuac.snu.ac.kr\/eng\/index.php\/2025\/10\/13\/chs-100min-talk-25-6\/","title":{"rendered":"CHS 100 minute Talk 25-6: Critically Capitalist: The Spirit of Asset Capitalism in South Korea"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-18984\" src=\"https:\/\/snuac.snu.ac.kr\/eng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/251027_poster-724x1024.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"724\" height=\"1024\" srcset=\"https:\/\/snuac.snu.ac.kr\/eng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/251027_poster-724x1024.png 724w, https:\/\/snuac.snu.ac.kr\/eng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/251027_poster-724x1024-212x300.png 212w, https:\/\/snuac.snu.ac.kr\/eng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/251027_poster-724x1024-113x160.png 113w, https:\/\/snuac.snu.ac.kr\/eng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/251027_poster-724x1024-400x566.png 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 724px) 99vw, 724px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Date:<\/strong>\u00a0October 27th, Monday, 2025, 15:00 &#8211; 16:40<\/li>\n<li><strong>Online via Zoom<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<hr \/>\n<div>\n<p data-start=\"1470\" data-end=\"1873\">Critically Capitalist\u00a0presents an ethnography of South Korea\u2019s asset seekers, including amateur stock investors, real estate enthusiasts, and money coaches, to demonstrate how financialized asset capitalism is sustained. As they hunt for profit margins, rent, and dividends, they simultaneously critique capitalism and posit their pursuit of assets as a form of resistance. Bohyeong Kim theorizes this new spirit of capitalism in South Korea as \u201ccritical capitalism,\u201d arguing that it reflects the popular discontent with both national development and financial neoliberalism. As a paradoxical critique and legitimation, Bohyeong Kim argues that critical capitalism valorizes the capitalist economy not through a triumphant narrative, but by highlighting the emotional wounds, destroyed communities, and oppressive tactics of modern capitalism. Drawing on multi-sited ethnography and in-depth interviews with a broad community of aspiring millionaires,\u00a0Critically Capitalist\u00a0illuminates how contemporary capitalism thrives by channeling discontent into financial and real estate markets, which in turn has cemented critical capitalism as the cultural and affective backbone of South Korea\u2019s economy.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>Presenter: Bohyung Kim (Vanderbilt University)<br data-start=\"1075\" data-end=\"1078\" \/>Discussants: Youngshin Cho (Dongguk University), Yeran Kim (Kwangwoon University)<br \/>\nModerator:\u00a0Jiyoung Suh (Center for Hallyu Studies, SNUAC)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Date:\u00a0October 27th, Monday, 2025, 15:00 &#8211; 16:40 Online via Zoom Critically Capitalist\u00a0presents an ethnography of South Korea\u2019s asset seekers, including amateur stock investors, real estate enthusiasts, and money coaches, to demonstrate how financialized asset capitalism is sustained. As they hunt for profit margins, rent, and dividends, they simultaneously critique capitalism and posit their pursuit of assets as a form of resistance. Bohyeong Kim theorizes this new spirit of capitalism in South Korea as \u201ccritical capitalism,\u201d arguing that it reflects the popular discontent with both national development and financial neoliberalism. As a paradoxical critique and legitimation, Bohyeong Kim argues that critical capitalism valorizes the capitalist economy not through a triumphant narrative, but by highlighting the emotional wounds, destroyed communities, and oppressive tactics of modern capitalism. Drawing on multi-sited ethnography and in-depth interviews with a broad community of aspiring millionaires,\u00a0Critically Capitalist\u00a0illuminates how&#8230;&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":18984,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18983","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-events"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/snuac.snu.ac.kr\/eng\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18983","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/snuac.snu.ac.kr\/eng\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/snuac.snu.ac.kr\/eng\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/snuac.snu.ac.kr\/eng\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/snuac.snu.ac.kr\/eng\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18983"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/snuac.snu.ac.kr\/eng\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18983\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18985,"href":"https:\/\/snuac.snu.ac.kr\/eng\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18983\/revisions\/18985"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/snuac.snu.ac.kr\/eng\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18984"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/snuac.snu.ac.kr\/eng\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18983"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/snuac.snu.ac.kr\/eng\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18983"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/snuac.snu.ac.kr\/eng\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18983"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}