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Resisting And Transforming: Pastoral Theology And Care Of Korean Military Wives, Bocheol Chang
Resisting And Transforming: Pastoral Theology And Care Of Korean Military Wives, Bocheol Chang
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Korean military wives have been symbolized as "dirty," "nothing," and "evil" by Koreans, Korean Americans, and their American families. They also experience same level of oppression and discrimination within Korean American congregations. In Korea, the women suffered poverty, sexual violence, and Confucian gender discrimination. They have also experienced racial and sexual oppression, intercultural familial conflicts and violence, and identity crisis in America. All of those experiences are caused the sense of not belonging of Korean military wives.
The sense of not belonging and desperation can be explained well by Andrew Sung Park's theology of han. The theology of han …