Cultivating Korean Youth Volunteers as Global Citizens with Regional Expertise Through Sport for International Development

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2024-07-01

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Na, Dongkyu
Dallaire, Christine

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This chapter addresses South Korea's leading aid agency, the Korea International Cooperation Agency (KOICA) and its 30-year history of designing and implementing sport volunteer programs in developing countries in the Global South. Using Foucault's concepts of the formation of strategies, subjectivation and governmentality, we examine how KOICA sport volunteers, as subjects of the Korean sport for international development discourse, are constituted through their interaction with the domestic policy and political schemes of the neoliberal Korean state. The findings reveal that Korean sport volunteers abroad are influenced by the domestic policies and political schemes of the neoliberal Korean state in such ways as to transform themselves into the desired subjects and subjectivities of Korean neoliberalism: responsible global citizens, output-oriented volunteers, sports experts and Korean nationalists (or as KOICA calls them “cultural ambassadors”). These neoliberal linkages date back to governing technologies of 1970s- and 1980s-era authoritarian regimes.

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https://hdl.handle.net/11511/116471

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