{"id":2085,"date":"2026-10-04T20:41:51","date_gmt":"2026-10-04T11:41:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/inequality.kr\/en\/?p=2085"},"modified":"2026-10-04T20:41:51","modified_gmt":"2026-10-04T11:41:51","slug":"belonging-to-the-world-how-kids-grow-up-out-of-place","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/inequality.kr\/en\/2026\/10\/04\/belonging-to-the-world-how-kids-grow-up-out-of-place\/","title":{"rendered":"Belonging to the World: How Kids Grow Up Out of Place"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Colloquium in Early October 2026<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Eunjoo Cho (Jeonbuk National University)<\/strong><!-- notionvc: 3d3fbfd1-7b21-4965-93ad-e3a8776538fa --><\/p>\n<p><em><span data-token-index=\"0\" class=\"notion-enable-hover\">Belonging to the World<\/span><\/em> follows ordinary young people into adulthood, drawing on years of interviews and fieldwork with teenagers and young adults, as well as teachers and parents. It asks how and why Korean society so systematically fails to give its members a sense of belonging.<\/p>\n<p>Urged to have dreams\u2014a demand that individualizes responsibility for shaping a life\u2014young people learn at school what it means to inhabit a world they are part of but never quite feel they belong to. School repeatedly fails to make its members feel that they belong, and what gives young people a real place within it is not school itself but the family.<\/p>\n<p>The disjunctures and contradictions that run through dreams, school, and family are not incidental; they are produced by the very principles on which this society operates. The expansion of universal education and the ideal of equality have yielded a paradox: a classificatory order intertwined with meritocracy, within which a thin conception of equality relentlessly teaches ordinary young people to feel shame.<\/p>\n<p>Yet young people retain a tentative sense of what a good life might be. That orientation points to what is at stake: the conditions needed to sustain it must lie in society rather than within the individual.<!-- notionvc: e853ebde-a813-4ac8-9474-ee885d98f315 --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Colloquium in Early October 2026 Eunjoo Cho (Jeonbuk National University) Belonging to the World follows ordinary young people into adulthood, drawing on years of interviews and fieldwork with teenagers and young adults, as well as teachers and parents. It asks how and why Korean society so systematically fails to give [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2086,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4],"tags":[21,17,36],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/inequality.kr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2085"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/inequality.kr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/inequality.kr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/inequality.kr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/inequality.kr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2085"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/inequality.kr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2085\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2087,"href":"http:\/\/inequality.kr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2085\/revisions\/2087"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/inequality.kr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2086"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/inequality.kr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2085"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/inequality.kr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2085"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/inequality.kr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2085"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}