20세기의 국학과 21세기의 한국학, 동아시아학

Abstract

This essay is presented to celebrate the fiftieth anniversary of Daedong Institute for Korean Studies in Sungkyunkwan University hosted international conference titled the Renovation of 21st humanities and University. At last year 2000, DIKS was amplified and reorganized as Academy of East Asian Studies. As one branch of AEAS, DIKS is remained as the center of Korean studies and, in research fields, regional studies is also fortified. In the middle of this transitional 21st century situation, the purpose of this essay is to seek the orientation of Korean studies within regional studies and DIKS in AEAS. During the last 20th century, National Studies(國學) was required as the sollen in Korean actuality. For appropriate update to global circumstances of 21st century, National Studies should be renovated as Korean studies but it will not be abandoned. In the process of National Studies' renovation, East Asian studies can be fundamental resource. About East Asian studies, its relation to Korean studies should be differential: it should not be come from that of conventional regional studies but new academic paradigm as Regional Cognition. Regional Cognition is strategy for Deconstruction to the hierarchy between the center and the margin, presupposing the hurdling of Euro-centrism.