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This work comprises an analysis of cultural abilities that affect the social growth of artisans, The analytical core of the work consists of three qualitative case studies conducted as field investigations by the author of the work. The findings of the case studies carry the following implications for immigrants as culture spreaders. These findings are as follows. Three cultural abilities were found to be related to the social growth of artisans: The ability to discover the value of culture, the creative ability to design a culture amid the mundane of everyday life, and the cultivation of education and learning capabilities in order to socially disseminate and inherit cultural values. The cultural abilities of Japanese artisans may serve as lessons for immigrants who are cultivating their own resources as cultural spreaders and engaging in cultural exchanges socially.

This study aims to describe and analyze Korean and Indonesian object pronouns based on a Korean-Indonesian parallel corpus. Both Korean and Indonesian are categorized as ‘discourse pro-drop languages’ that allow arguments(subjects and objects) to be dropped. However, the object elliption in Indonesian is more restrained because in independent clauses the object cannot be ommited. The results of the Korean-Indonesian parallel corpus showed that there were instances when Korean object pronouns corresponded with Indonesian object pronouns and when they did not. The Indonesian object pronoun is controlled by its verb’s transitivity and therefore can appear even when the object pronoun in the Korean text was expressed using zero anaphor. The Korean object pronoun when overtly expressed, displayed new information, focus or emphasis. In addition, we also observed cases on the account of different language expression, Korean and Indonesian preference on expression was discovered.

The purpose of this study is to explore current status and future task of educational utilization of medical humanities, focusing on narrative medicine in Korea. For this end, firstly, this study explored Korean research literatures on medical humanities. Second, this study reviewed a case of curriculum in a medical school. Lastly, this study provided the implication and future task for education and research. This study is expected to become a reference for developing teaching and learning model to nurture medical professionals, medical humanities educators and researchers.

The purpose of this study is to explore the solidarity experience of Myanmar students in Korea and figure out the meaning of their experience. This study adopted Narrative inquiry among various qualitative methods, and in-depth interview was used for data collection. It seeks to figure out the meaning of solidarity using the narratives lived and told by two research participants studying in Korea. As a result, three specific meanings embedded in the participants’ narratives were discovered. First, the participants recognized their need for solidarity after the military coup. Second, they experienced various types of solidarity. Third, the solidarity experience motivated them to commit to another solidarity. This study expects to reaffirm the importance of solidarity in the international community for Myanmar people and suggests a desirable direction for sustainable solidarity.

The researcher analyzed the life of a female homosexual who had to marry a man in order to adapt without being criticized among many heterosexuals by the postmodern qualitative research method according to Lacan's 'the passage of the act' theory. The participant of this study decided on their own independent life through a divorce after experiencing their father's coercion to marry men, bullying due to homosexual tendencies, fear of sexual identity being discovered in the church, marriage for socialization, fear of sexual behavior, and guilt of cheating and marrying homosexuals. After divorce, the research participant maintained a friendship with her husband, and was disconnected from her parents, and became more friendly with her siblings. She was leaving the church that treats homosexuality as a sin and attending the church that accepts the research participant, and is making a relationship that supports her regardless of sexual identity. The researcher was able to confirm the difficulties of homosexuals living in many heterosexual cultures through the postmodern qualitative research process, and it was difficult to criticize her marriage, even if it was a lie. This was because it was not only a lie of the research participant but also a problem of social gaze. The social perspective should be changed so that 'the passage of the act' does not occur dangerously and subjectivity can appear in discourse.

The purpose of this study is to reveal the mutual cultural experience and meaning between managers of companies in the root industry that hired a large number of foreign workers and foreign workers. To this end, in-depth interviews were conducted with five managers of the company. The contents of the in-depth interview were composed of perceptions of foreign workers that managers usually experienced. In processing the collected data, the meaning of the experience was derived by dividing it into five factors of mutual culture: understanding, empathy, communication, cooperation, and solidarity. As a result of the study, various experiences of managers by factors of mutual culture were collected, and it was confirmed that these experiences contributed to the development of individual mutual cultural sensitivity as well as productivity improvement. In this context, mutual cultural communication competency is an essential competency of modern times living in a multicultural society and a key to coexistence with other cultures.

This study examined self-help groups for married migrant women which have not been discussed from the viewpoint of learning from the perspective of transformative learning and tried to suggest the direction of self-help groups. For this, the research question was set as 'What does married migrant women's experience of participation in self-help groups from the perspective of transformative learning?'. For the study, data were collected by arranging in-depth interviews with 7 married migrant women who participated in self-help groups for more than 2 years in the B Family Center in A City. And based on this, the in-depth meanings in the experience were analyzed. Based on the collected data, each three central meanings were drawn from the categories of experience by conversion stage, the level of conversion and introspection, and the results of the conversion. Married migrant women planned and attempted a meaning life by experiencing dilemmas and experienced problem solving through sympathy and cooperation in their self-help groups. It has found that the level of conversion and introspection appeared in the form of self-awareness, professional competency development, and introspection as migrant women and the results of the conversion appeared in the domain of individuals, families, and society. The above research results show that self-help groups promote the shift in married migrant women's perspectives and become the learning center that they can be expanded to indivisual and social growth. Based on the results of the study, it found educational implications of self-help groups for married migrant women and sought the direction for their development.

Melancholy has been developed as a humanistic and medical term to describe the state of the human body and mind. In the Renaissance era, as the positive aspects of melancholy emerged, the thought and symbol of creativity and harmony of melancholy were emphasized. It can be found that the power of contemplation, harmony and creativity of melancholy like this has the power to dispel sadness and can be a trigger point that leads to mourning. In addition, humans have different ways of resolving sadness and melancholy experienced after loss, and the solution may be different from the way universal society refers to them. The way of expressing human melancholy and mourning from the creativity and diversity of melancholy can be in through the movie <House of Cards>. This movie looked at the sadness and depression that the protagonist, six-year-old Sally, suffers from the death of her father, from the perspective of Cubism, a multiple perspectives of the human environment and experience. In addition, this movie depicts the process of symbolizing the rearranged emotions and memories through the creativity of melancholy to complete the mourning. Accordingly, through the clues presented by the movie, I studied the sadness and melancholy that can not be expressed in words, the cracks and seeking of symbols caused by melancholy, and the mourning that consists in the creation of art as an implicit symbol.