Kankoku Shakai No Shuen Wo Mitsumete-mura Sai INU Shoku Gaikoku Jin

[Machine Translation] Villagers suffering from depopulation, those who protect traditional food under bashing, foreigners who immigrate to Korea as laborers or brides... The author carefully researches the realities of people living on the periphery of Korean society, always at the mercy of the times, and brings the problems that emerge into sharp relief by questioning both the Japanese author and the anthropologist himself. The author, who is both a Japanese citizen and an anthropologist, brings into sharp relief the issues that emerge from this research while reexamining himself.

過疎に苦しむ村人たち、バッシングにさらされながら伝統食を守る人々、労働者や花嫁として韓国に移住してくる外国人たち…そうした韓国社会の周縁で、つねに時代に翻弄されながら生きる人々の実像を丹念に調査し、そこから見えてくる問題を、日本人であり人類学者でもある著者自身を問い直しつつ、鋭く浮き彫りにしてゆく。