[lg policy] "English in the Korean Job Market: competence, distinction, and the neoliberal worker"

[Harold Schiffman]

The Center for Korean Studies Event
Korean Studies Colloquium
proudly presents a talk by:

Joseph Sung-Yul Park
 Assistant Professor in the Department of English Languages and Literature
(National University of Singapore)



 "English in the Korean Job Market: competence, distinction, and the
neoliberal worker"

In the South Korean job market, competence in the English language
plays a major role in determining one's access to corporate
white-collar jobs. This talk presents a brief overview of how
different modes of assessing English language skills have emerged as
popular means for evaluating employees in the corporate job market
over the past two decades, and discusses how such changes served as an
important link in the justification of class-based inequalities and
the construction of the image of an ideal employee in the Korean
neoliberal workplace.

Date: Monday, December 7, 2009
Time: 4:30 pm
Location: Annenberg School, Room 111 (3620 Walnut Street)

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