Oral histories of Korean Americans depict cross-cultural and transnational experiences. The oral interviews of first-generation, 1.5, and second-generation Korean Americans add to the importance of collecting such oral histories in order to document and share them with the public. Most Korean Americans have a close connection to South Korea. Their Korean heritage is stressed in their challenges and successes of living and/or growing up in America. Korean Americans have contributed to education, workforce, economy, medicine, religion, politics, and the arts in the United States. Despite their efforts, information about their contributions is not shared nationwide. Hence, there should be a website that provides public access to information about Korean American history and culture. In order to achieve this goal, a digital humanities website that is comprised of oral interviews, images, descriptions, narratives, maps, timeline, and crowdsourcing is in progress. As a Digital Humanities scholar, I emphasize the mentioned elements by creating a user-friendly website for public access while preserving and documenting Korean American history and culture for current and future generations. According to the editors of Oral History and Digital Humanities: Voice, Access, and Engagement, “we now have incredible technologies that can disseminate oral history to a global audience almost instantaneously” (Boyd and Larson 2014). This results in a perfect combination of oral history and digital humanities. Tracing Korean American history and culture from the 1960s to present on a digital platform provides insight into the different lives of Korean Americans and their ties to Korea while highlighting their cross-cultural and transnational experiences in oral interviews.
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Abstract Introduction Starting with Oral History Why Korean American History? Oral History Meets Digital Humanities Methods Interviews Goals of the Digital Public Humanities Website Moving forward References
<한국구술사학회(Korean Oral History Association)>는 2009년 113명의 발기인이 중심이 되어, 구술사 연구와 관련된 학제 간 학술 연구와 회원 상호간의 지적교류를 촉진하며, 구술사의 사회적 효용성을 높여 학문적 발전과 역사의 민주화에 기여하는 것을 궁극적인 목적으로 창립되었다.
간행물
간행물명
한국구술사학회 학술대회
간기
반년간
수록기간
2017~2025
십진분류
KDC 911DDC 951
이 권호 내 다른 논문 / 한국구술사학회 학술대회 2019 한국구술사학회 창립 10주년 국제학술대회