I wrote a column for the Nov. 13 edition of The Korea Times titled “Korea’s new jokbo” in which I suggested that since Korea was no longer a “patrilineal society,” the Korean genealogical books called “jokbo” needed to be reoriented and updated. Jokbo that show the male lines of family history are a snapshot of the society at the time. Korea has not always been patrilineal — it became so in the late 17th century. Jokbo describe that kind of society, which was dominated by men. But today’s society has moved away from that tradition, and jokbo need to as well. The president-publisher of The Korea Times liked the article and on my subsequent visit to Korea, he called me into his office and asked if I’d like to organize a The Korea Times Global Forum on the topic of “new jokbo.” I responded that I’d be more than happy to do so. We held the forum on March 3 and it went very well. We had about 100 people attending and I invited four other speakers in addition to myself, with a panel discussion at the end. The theme of the program was modern jokbo and talking about how they can incl
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