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Profile Information

Affiliation: Assistant Professor, The Hakubi Center for Advanced Research / Institute for the Research in Humanities, Kyoto University

Degree: Doctor of Letters(Mar, 2024, Kyoto University)

Contact information: vierthaler.patrick.7akyoto-u.ac.jp
ORCID iD: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1823-4257
J-GLOBAL ID: 202401006558894508
researchmap Member ID: R000067770

External link: https://kyoto-u.academia.edu/PatrickVierthaler

Research Interests

Research Areas

Major Research History

Apr, 2024 - Present

Assistant Professor, The Hakubi Center for Advanced Research / Institute for the Research in Humanities, Kyoto University
Apr, 2021 - Present

Part-Time Lecturer, Faculty of Foreign Studies Department of German Studies, Kyoto University of Foreign Studies
Aug, 2023 - Sep, 2023

Research Fellow, The Academy of Korean Studies

Major Education

Apr, 2018 - Mar, 2024

Ph.D. in Contemporary History, Graduate School of Letters, Kyoto University
Apr, 2016 - Mar, 2018

M.Litt. in Contemporary History, Graduate School of Letters, Kyoto University
Oct, 2010 - Aug, 2014

Department of Korean Studies, Faculty of Philological and Cultural Studies, University of Vienna
Oct, 2010 - Aug, 2014

Department of Japanese Studies, Faculty of Philological and Cultural Studies, University of Vienna

Papers

3

The National Museum of Korean Contemporary History: A Contested Site of Cultural Memory

Patrick Vierthaler

European Journal of Korean Studies, 23(2) 117-146, Sep, 2024
12

Founding Father or National Traitor? Contested Memories of Syngman Rhee in Mid-1990s South Korea

Patrick Vierthaler

Korean Studies, 48 373-420, Jul 2, 2024 Peer-reviewed
Die Errichtung und Debatten zum "Haus der Geschichte Österreich": kontrastierende Geschichtsbilder im zeitgenössischen Österreich, 1999-2018

Patrick Vierthaler

Brücke, 26 15-34, Mar, 2024 Peer-reviewedInvited
Asymmetric Remembering in Post-Authoritarian South Korea The Contested Cultural Memory of Liberation, Division and State Foundation, 1987-2022

Patrick Vierthaler

Doctoral Thesis (Kyoto University Graduate School of Letters, Dept. of Contemporary History), Mar, 2024 Peer-reviewed
6

The Anti-Chosun Movement: Journalism, Activism, Politics, and Historical Memory in Post-Authoritarian South Korea, 1998–2002

Patrick Vierthaler

European Journal of Korean Studies, 21(2) 111-162, Apr 1, 2022 Peer-reviewed
5

The New Right and the 1948 Foundation View: A Failed Revision of South Korean Cultural Memory

Patrick Vierthaler

Vienna Journal of East Asian Studies, 13 1-33, Dec 1, 2021 Peer-reviewed
4

A Reconsideration of the New Right’s Formative Period (2003–2008): Conservative Experiences, Mass Media and Cultural Memory in Post-Authoritarian South Korea

Patrick Vierthaler

European Journal of Korean Studies, 20(1) 35-84, Oct 1, 2020 Peer-reviewed
4

Austrians in Korea 1945–53

Patrick Vierthaler, Werner Koidl

Andreas Schirmer, ed., Central Europeans in Korea: Alice Schalek, Alma Karlin, Fritz Hansgirg, and many others. Vienna: Praesens (Koreans and Central Europeans: Informal Contacts up to 1950; 3), 245-280, 2020
12

The Life of Francesca Donner-Rhee: A Biographical Sketch of an Austrian who Became South Korea’s First Lady

Patrick Vierthaler

Andreas Schirmer, ed., Central Europeans in Korea: Alice Schalek, Alma Karlin, Fritz Hansgirg, and many others. Vienna: Praesens (Koreans and Central Europeans: Informal Contacts up to 1950; 3), 313-356, 2020
30

Disputing the Republic of Korea’s “Foundation”: The South Korean “History Wars” and the New Right Movement as a Struggle over Hegemonic Cultural Memory

Patrick Vierthaler

Twentieth Century Studies, 19 53-82, Dec, 2019 Peer-reviewed
5

How to Place August 15 in South Korean History? The New Right, the “1948 Foundation” Historical View, and the 2008 Kŏn’gukchŏl Dispute

Patrick Vierthaler

Vienna Journal of East Asian Studies, 10(1) 137-174, Dec 1, 2018 Peer-reviewed
4

Der Yasukuni-Schrein als Huldigungsstätte des Militarismus: Ein kurzer Abriss der Nachkriegszeit aus innen- und außenpolitischer Sicht

Patrick Vierthaler

MINIKOMI: Austrian Journal of Japanese Studies, 86 36-48, 2017 Peer-reviewed

Misc.

Disputes over the Memory of Division and Anti-Communist Dictatorship in 1990s South Korea: Focusing on the Changing Memory of Progressives

Patrick Vierthaler

60 1-4, 2023
Disputes over the Memory of the Promulgation of the Government and Division in Early 1990s South Korea: Focusing on the Changing Collective Memory of Progressives

Patrick Vierthaler

Newsletter of the Research Society for Korean History, 2023
The South Korean "History Wars" as a Global History: On Parallels in the Construction of Museums of Contemporary History in South Korea and Austria

Patrick Vierthaler

The 4th RIKS Academy Proceedings, 135-145, Aug, 2019
Conflicting Historical Awareness of How to Evaluate August 15 in South Korea: Focusing on the Emergence of the So-Called "Foundation View" and the 2008 "Foundation Day Dispute"

Patrick Vierthaler

Newsletter of the Research Society for Korean History, 214 4-6, 2019
Korean Bathing Culture: Tracing the Roots and Variations of Public Bathing Culture in Korea

Patrick Vierthaler

93-109, Apr, 2016

Major Presentations

(Panel Presentation and Organizer) The Alternative Founding Father: The Kim Koo Memorial Hall and its Place in Democratic South Korea’s Cultural Memory

Patrick Vierthaler

The Asian Studies Conference Japan 2025
(Panel Presentation and Organizer) “My Wish is Unification”: Commemorating Kim Ku in Democratic South Korea

Patrick Vierthaler

32nd Association for Korean Studies in Europe (AKSE) Conference, Edinburgh University
(Presentation) Korean Division and the Origins of the Korean War in South Korean History Museums: An Examination of Conflicting Interpretations of the Past

Patrick Vierthaler

Society of Historical Research Regular Academic Meeting, Apr 19, 2025 Invited
(Presentation) Contested Historical Memories of August 15 in Democratic South Korea: A Long-Term Perspective

Patrick Vierthaler

Korea Journal Fall 2025 Special Issue: "Liberation, 1945" Conference, Feb 21, 2025
(Presentation) Discourses on Reunification in 2000s–10s South Korea and 1970s–80s West Germany: Parallels, Differences, and Historical Lessons

Patrick Vierthaler

2025 IKSU Annual International Conference: The Korean Peninsula and Other Divided Nations, Feb 17, 2025
(Presentation) How have liberation and division been remembered? A social history of historical memory in post-authoritarian South Korea

Vierthaler Patrick

Korean Studies Camp 2024, Nov 2, 2024
Presentation: The cultural memory of August 15 in South Korea: focusing on state-led commemorations and conservative-internal changes from the 1990s to the mid-2000s

Patrick Vierthaler

104th Humanities and Societz Research Meeting of the ISKSJ, Feb 29, 2024 Invited
Fellowship Colloquium: The Contested Memory of Liberation, Division and Foundation South Korea’s “History Wars” in a Mid-Durée, 1988–2022

Patrick Vierthaler

178th AKS Fellowship Colloquium, Sep 26, 2023 Invited
Panel Presentation and Organizer: Transcending the Movement Sphere: Progressive Memories of Liberation, Division and Anti-Communism in the late 1980s and early 1990s

Patrick Vierthaler

AAS in Asia 2023, Kyungpook National University, Jun 26, 2023
Panel presentation: Cold War triumphalism, transitional justice and high school textbooks: the Japanese and South Korean right-wing backlash and its influence in the corridors of power since the 1990s

Patrick Vierthaler

The Korean Peninsula – A Multidisciplinary Perspective, Bar-Ilan University, Jun 22, 2023
Panel presentation: Korean Conservative Historical Consciousness after Democratization: the Post-Cold War Era and the “Re-Discovery ” of Syngman Rhee in the early 1990s

Patrick Vierthaler

Cultural Memory of Past Dictatorships: Narratives of Implication in a Global Perspective, University College Cork, May 19, 2022
Presentation: (Not) Coming to Terms with the Past: Mnemonic Disputes over Contemporary History in Post-Authoritarian South Korea in a Domestic and Global Context

Patrick Vierthaler

Ostasienforum, University of Vienna, Apr 21, 2021 Invited
Panel presentation and organizer: Beyond Revisionism: A Reconsideration of Korean Conservative Historical Consciousness in the Mid 2000s

Patrick Vierthaler

AAS in Asia 2020, Aug 31, 2020
Presentation: The conflict over the Republic of Korea's origins as a "Cultural trauma": focusing on the co-existence of two memory communities in post-democratization South Korea

Patrick Vierthaler

The 25th Gendaishi Kenkyukai, Jul 27, 2019 Invited

Teaching Experience

Apr, 2023 - Present

German Area Studies 3/4 (Introduction to German and Austrian contemporary history) (Kyoto University of Foreign Studies)
Mar, 2021 - Present

German (Kyoto University of Foreign Studies)
Mar, 2020 - Mar, 2020

Between nostalgia and nausea: Attitudes towards the past in contemporary Korea (Palacký University Olomouc)

Professional Memberships

Social Activities

Kyoto Prefecture Honorary Friendship Ambassador

Guest, Other

Kyoto Prefecture, Jun, 2023 - Present

Media Coverage

Südkoreas Rückschritt in die Zukunft

Der Standard, Dec 4, 2024 Newspaper, magazine