Dream Psychology of North Korean Defectors in South Korea: Implicit Learning and Social Adjustment

This paper applies the theoretical framework of Fromm’s humanistic psychology to examine the reported content of North Korean defectors’ dreams during sleep and considers what the psychological data suggests about the defectors\u27 past social experience in authoritarian North Korea and their present social situation as adults learning to adjust to a new life in neo-liberal South Korea

“Awl is piercing me and society”: Webtoon as a Popular Adult Education Tool in South Korea

The study illustrates the role of popular culture as an informal learning for both North and South Koreans to engage with unfamiliar, unpopular, and unvoiced themes in a public sphere

“I Embrace my ashes”: North Korean migrants learning about entrepreneurship from failure

Migrants’ workplace experiences in their host society shape their social adjustment, yet how migrants learn from failures is under-investigated. This study examined how North Korean migrants in South Korea sought to learn from failures in their workplaces and everyday life. The paper draws on nine months of ethnographic research in South Korean social enterprises (restaurants, cafes) that employ North Korean migrants. Data sources include informal conversations and loosely structured interviews with five purposefully selected women who started, or planned to start, their own enterprise. The findings revealed that migrants experienced failure in five inter-related spheres: financial, relational, physical, psychological, and professional. Participants developed perspectives to understand failure as an integral part of learning in a new society and adopting unfamiliar role expectations and responsibilities. They also applied knowledge from their failures to change their approach to their career and strengthen their personal and business capacity to obtain a legitimate social position. Paradoxically, failures that were beyond their control, such as legal problems, created opportunities to receive practical support from, and increase trust in, South Koreans. These findings contribute to adult education scholarship on migrants’ situated learning in their host societies and challenge the discourse that portrays North Korean defectors as deficient

Dancing Between Neoliberal and Nordic: Lifelong Learning in South Korea

The paper argues that the South Korean model is neither Nordic nor Neoliberal as many have claimed. The South Korean model may serve as a model for other Asian countries

Understanding and Managing the Emotional Labor of Qualitative Research

Um Lösungen für qualitative Forscher*innen anzubieten, die an der Überwindung emotionaler Arbeit arbeiten, haben wir uns auf Daten aus der Feldforschung mit marginalisierten Bevölkerungsgruppen konzentriert, darunter Mütter von Kindern mit Behinderungen, nordkoreanische Flüchtlinge und Pädagog*innen, die in unterfinanzierten und abgelegenen ländlichen Schulbezirken arbeiten. Es ist wichtig, die Bedeutung emotionaler Arbeit in qualitativen Studien anzuerkennen, da sie persönliche Konsequenzen für die Forscher*innen haben und auch die Erfahrungen von vulnerablen Teilnehmer*innengruppen sowie die Datenanalyse beeinflussen kann. Mittels einer dreiteiligen Form der Autoethnografie reflektierten wir unsere eigenen Erfahrungen mit emotionaler Arbeit. Anhand von Feldnotizen und Diskussionen während und nach der Feldarbeit untersuchten wir, wie wir die Belastungen der emotionalen Arbeit durch persönliche, beziehungsbezogene und pädagogische Ansätze überwinden können. Indem wir potenzielle Bereiche herausarbeiten, in denen Wissenschaftler*innen sich vor Schwierigkeiten schützen und persönlich und kollaborativ wachsen können, können unsere Ergebnisse Forschenden, Lehrenden und Studierenden helfen, sich besser auf die Untersuchung der Herausforderungen vorzubereiten, mit denen marginalisierte Bevölkerungsgruppen konfrontiert sind, und gleichzeitig soziale Gerechtigkeit und Fürsprache zu fördern.To offer solutions for qualitative researchers who are working to overcome emotional labor, we have drawn on data from fieldwork focused on marginalized populations including mothers of children with disabilities, North Korean defectors, and educators working in under-resourced, remote rural school districts. It is important to recognize the significance of emotional labor in qualitative studies as its effects can have personal consequences for the researchers, can influence the experiences of vulnerable participant populations, and can shape data analysis. Through a tripartite form of autoethnography, we explored our own experiences of emotional labor. Based on field notes and discussions both during and after fieldwork, we investigated ways to overcome the burdens of emotional labor through personal, relational, and instructional approaches. By elaborating potential areas where scholars can protect themselves from difficulties and grow personally and collaboratively, our findings can help researchers, educators, and students better prepare themselves for investigating the challenges facing marginalized populations while promoting social justice and advocacy

Low-velocity anisotropic Dirac fermions on the side surface of topological insulators

We report anisotropic Dirac-cone surface bands on a side-surface geometry of the topological insulator Bi$_2$Se$_3$ revealed by first-principles density-functional calculations. We find that the electron velocity in the side-surface Dirac cone is anisotropically reduced from that in the (111)-surface Dirac cone, and the velocity is not in parallel with the wave vector {\bf k} except for {\bf k} in high-symmetry directions. The size of the electron spin depends on the direction of {\bf k} due to anisotropic variation of the noncollinearity of the electron state. Low-energy effective Hamiltonian is proposed for side-surface Dirac fermions, and its implications are presented including refractive transport phenomena occurring at the edges of tological insulators where different surfaces meet.Comment: 4 pages, 2 columns, 4 figure

3D Arbitrary Channel Fabrication for Lab on a Chip Applications using Chemical Decomposition

This article demonstrate a simple method to use of three-dimensionally (3D) printed molds that are chemically decomposable for rapid fabrication of complex and arbitrary microchannel geometries. These complex microchannel are unachievable through existing soft lithography techniques. The molds are printed directly from hand held 3D printing pen that can print in midair, making rapid prototyping of microfluidic devices possible in hours. PLA based copper filament is used to print the arbitrary channels. The printed channels are then placed inside PDMS and PDMS is cured. The cured sample is then immersed in chemical solution (Acetic Acid + Sodium Chloride+ Hydrogen peroxide), which decomposes the PLA based copper channel thus leaving an empty channel inside the PDMS block. This method enable precise control of various device geometries, such as the profile of the channel cross-section and variable channel diameters in a single device