Joseph Sung-Yul PARK: In pursuit of English: language and subjectivity in Neoliberal South Korea In Pursuit of English presents an incisive aetiology of South Korea’s national obsession with the acquisition of English (“English fever”) and, more broadly, demonstrates the importance of subjectivity—emotions, perceptions, beliefs and the like—in understanding the relationship between language choice and the speaker’s situated environment. Park argues that 1) recent history and policy choices have turned English into an index of wealth, prestige, and good moral character in South Korea; and 2) the resulting subjectivities of language, consisting of such affects as desire, moral responsibility, anxiety, and insecurity, now perpetuate English fever as a neoliberal self-development project. In doing so, Park successfully makes the case for us to examine attitudes toward language-learning as a mechanism born of, and now serving, a particular political-economic and social paradigm. English fever Neoliberalism South Korea Foucault subjectivity angleška mrzlica neoliberalizem Južna Koreja Foucault subjektiviteta true false false Angleški jezik Slovenski jezik Članek v reviji 2026-10-29 14:30:00 2026-11-05 11:57:21 2026-11-06 04:29:12 0000-00-00 00:00:00 2025 0 0 Str. 371-374 suppl. Vol. 13 2025 0000-00-00 Zaloznikova Objavljeno NiDoloceno 0000-00-00 0000-00-00 0000-00-00 2232-5131 10.4312/as.2025.13.sup.371-374 Kim,+review.pdf Kim,+review.pdf 1 846B84116BC7F14F6FB6533147AA6DEA 00da6093deb8a8d61f2dec39aafc038319df178b93e20dfb33194b8933f52b2d d25b714e-d39c-11f1-aea2-0050569b8976 https://repozitorij.uni-lj.si/Dokument.php?lang=slv&id=251978 http://journals.uni-lj.si/as/article/view/19321 0 cfa73140-d39c-11f1-aea2-0050569b8976 https://repozitorij.uni-lj.si/Dokument.php?lang=slv&id=251977 Filozofska fakulteta Asian studies 0 0 0