Providing Affirmation?:

Masculinity, Militarization, and Crafting a Male Role in South Korean

Family Planning, 1962—1989

John DiMoia NUS, Department of History & STS

Research Cluster(for AAHM 2014 @ Chicago)

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Context: 1965: 대대 대대 대대 대대 (First FP Poster, PPFK)

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Today’s talk: 1) the Forms of FP Intervention & 2) the ROK’s Desired Image and;

3) Characterizing a Male Role (1962- ) & its ongoing Legacy: Korean Family Dynamics? (1996- )

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I. 대대대대대 : Reaching out, via Public Health

(Urban)

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By 1966: The State Meets the

Individual (rural): Historicizing this

Encounter? (P. Hartman)

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대대대 (1964 대 ) 대 대대 대대대 , (1968) (the technologies,

menu)

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II. FP Desired Image: 가가가 가 (1968 대 - ) (FP Publications)

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Economic links: FP tied to

personal, national goals

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1970 대대 ( 대대 , 대대 ): popular culture

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III. The Male Role? / “Voluntary”

Surgery—for most of the 1960s

http://s-space.snu.ac.kr/handle/10371/6370

• 대대대대대 대대 대대대•Confusion over the surgery?•대대대 , the primary agent

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Dr. Hee-Yong Lee(1962- )

• FP pilot study• Paying clients and subsidized clients Psycho-social issues?

goal of 20,000 “voluntary” subjects a year

(structural issues: doctors in training, clinic / facilities)

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The explanatory context—cigarettes (for time) /

watermelons (J context / for the

surgery)?

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After 1968: targeting the

Home Reserve Army ( 대대대 /

Yebigun)

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From 1973

Material Incentives:

Immediate relief from Reserve Duty

Housing queue, high priority Granted

Personal—national service, patriotism

Apocryphal: education benefits

*Additional context—tied to heroic image, helping to bring women into the workforce?

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1970s: Normalizing FP and its incentives

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1983: TFR approximates (and falls below) replacement rate

Late 1980s? (1989): end of distribution? (But vasectomy numbers continue through early 1990s, peak in the late 1980s—questions about these numbers?)

•1996: Quality and Welfare campaigns

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“Saero Maji Plan,” since 2006

(2010 / 2015) (New Beginning,

New Rendezvous)

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2015

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Thanks~

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