Code-Switching and Accents in Diasporic Multiethnic Literature in Min-Jin Lee’s Free Food for Millionaires and Lisa See’s The Island of Sea Women

Set-Byul Moon(Set-Byul Moon) 건국대학교 아시아·디아스포라 연구소 2023 International Journal of Diaspora&Cultural Critici Vol.13 No.1

This article examines the literary representation of codeswitching and various accents between Korean and English in two minority women writers’ fictional territory portraying Korean American characters. Min-Jin Lee’s Free Food for Millionaires and Lisa See’s The Island of Sea Women center around the lives of Korean American women who speak English as a primary language and Korean as a home language or heritage language. The characters’ idea of Korea and “Koreanness” mostly manifests in their identity formation, rather than in their linguistic proficiency or a sense of belonging. Heavily related to the language proficiency and identity of Koreanness, the Korean American protagonists alternate between the languages and accents in linguistic repertoire deeply rooted in sociocultural practices that reflect the concept of diaspora and one’s diasporic identity. Their strategic code-switching signifies how one’s diasporic, immigrant identity affects one’s choice of speech that meticulously synthesizes social values, cultural norms, and ethnic/racial belief systems not only emblematic of mainstream American society but also of a minority community as well.

The use of photographs taken by variation in dog’s heartbeat for emotional measurements

Moon Han Byul,Lim, Yang Kyu,Park, Jin Wan 한국HCI학회 2016 한국HCI학회 학술대회 Vol.2016 No.1

Understanding one’s pet has been an interest among animal owners for a long time. Dogs take up 90% of animals that are kept as pets and dog owners are interested in understanding their dogs in order to form a closer bond. Communication with one’s dog is not only important for a healthy relationship, but it can also prevent possible harms that dogs can do. There are already proceeding works on understanding dogs based on body language, but for ordinary pet owners, the signs that their dogs give can only be vague and confusing. This paper proposes a device that offers a more subjective and easier way to interpret a dog’s emotion by monitoring its heart rate. Heart rate is a possible indication for emotion, and it has been found that heart rate variability patterns are consistently the most dynamic and reflective of changes in one’s emotional state. By measuring a canine’s heartbeat and analyzing it, it would be possible to induce their emotions. By using photograph to capture the situation that makes the dog’s heartbeat change will make it easier for owners to understand what makes the dog undergo emotional changes.

Design, Synthesis, and In Vitro Evaluation of APIO Analogue of Neplanocin A

Moon, Hyung Ryong,Kwon, Sung Hee,Lee, Jeong Ah,Yoo, Byul Nae,Kim, Hea Ok,Chun, Moon Woo,Kim, Hee-Doo,Kim, Joong Hyup,Jeong, Lak Shin 梨花女子大學校 藥學硏究所 2003 藥學硏究論文集 Vol.- No.12

A novel apio analogue of neplanocin A was efficiently synthesized from D-ribose via stereoselective aldol-retroaldol reaction for introducing hydroxymethyl group and RCM reaction for synthesizing carbocycle, and its inhibitory activity against SAH hydrolase was assayed.

Ion-beam nanopatterning of silicon surfaces under co-deposition of non-silicide-forming impurities

Byul MOON,Saeahram YOO,Jae-Sung KIM,Sung Jin KANG,Javier MUNOZ-GARCIA,Rodolfo CUERNO 한국진공학회 2016 한국진공학회 학술발표회초록집 Vol.2016 No.8

A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Black Man

Moon, Set-Byul(문샛별) 새한영어영문학회 2016 새한영어영문학 Vol.58 No.1

This article explores how James Baldwin’s less known novel If Beale Street Could Talk could examine the meaning of black masculinity during the Civil Rights era by analyzing a black male protagonist Fonny’s dream as an artist and his transformation from an artist to an artisan. Here, the notion of Lynn O. Scott’s ‘artist-artisan’ serves an essential framework in this paper. By utilizing Scott’s term as an integrated concept that fulfills Baldwin’s ideal as well as reality, a black man’s dream as an artist and his change (or breakdown) will be closely examined and linked Baldwin’s identity as an artist and masculinity. Leaving Baldwin’s homosexual identity aside, he seems to depict this heterosexual black man, Fonny, in order to give readers leeway to interpret and comprehend how a young black man can possibly build up his presence both in a black community and in a dominant white society.

Synergistic antitumor activity of sorafenib and MG149 in hepatocellular carcinoma cells

Byul Moon,Mijin Park,Seung-Hyun Cho,Kang Mo Kim,Haeng Ran Seo,김정훈,김정애 생화학분자생물학회 2022 BMB Reports Vol.55 No.10

Advanced hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) is among the mostchallenging cancers to overcome, and there is a need for bettertherapeutic strategies. Among the different cancer drugs thathave been used in clinics, sorafenib is considered the standardfirst-line drug for advanced HCC. Here, to identify a chemicalcompound displaying a synergistic effect with sorafenib in HCC,we screened a focused chemical library and found that MG149,a histone acetyltransferase inhibitor targeting the MYST family,exhibited the most synergistic anticancer effect with sorafenibon HCC cells. The combination of sorafenib and MG149 exerteda synergistic anti-proliferation effect on HCC cells by inducingapoptotic cell death. We revealed that cotreatment with sorafeniband MG149 aggravated endoplasmic reticulum (ER) stressto promote the death of HCC cells rather than adaptive cellsurvival. In addition, combined treatment with sorafenib andMG149 significantly increased the intracellular levels of unfoldedproteins and reactive oxygen species, which upregulated ERstress. Collectively, these results suggest that MG149 has thepotential to improve the efficacy of sorafenib in advanced HCCvia the upregulation of cytotoxic ER stress.

“None of seed has Naomi got”: Parenthesizing the Female Body and Denying Women’s Sexual Citizenship in V. S. Reid’s New Day

Set-Byul Moon 새한영어영문학회 2021 새한영어영문학회 학술발표회 논문집 Vol.2021 No.5

자동변속기용 유량제어 오일펌프의 회전속도 변화에 따른 성능 해석

문한별(Moon, Han-Byul),조홍현(Cho, Hong-Hyun) 한국산학기술학회 2015 한국산학기술학회논문지 Vol.16 No.5

본 연구는 자동변속기용 유량제어 오일펌프의 성능을 해석하는데 목적이 있다. 이를 위하여 유량제어 오일펌프의 해석적 모델을 개발하였으며 회전속도 변화에 따른 토출유량, 구동토크, 캐비테이션 발생량 등의 내부 유동특성을 분석하여 고찰하였다. 해석결과, 회전속도가 높아짐에 따라 캐비테이션 발생율이 증가하였으며 체적효율은 2200 RPM에서 90%이상으 로 나타났지만 회전속도가 상승함에 따라 감소하여 5000 RPM에서 81%까지 줄어드는 것으로 나타났다. 또한 흡입부 초기에 챔버 내 캐비테이션 비율이 20%∼30%로 매우 높은 비율을 보였는데 압축에 의해 붕괴 이후의 캐비테이션 비율은 13% 이하 로 낮게 형성되었다. 하지만 고속인 5000 RPM에서 17%로 빠른 속도로 발생량이 증가하는 현상도 확인되었다. The purpose of this study is to analyze the performance of the flow control oil pump for automatic transmission. The numerical model for analysis the performance of the flow control oil pump was develop and the characteristics of the internal flow, discharge flow rate, displacement of outer ring, driving torque, generation of cavitation was investigated according to rotating speed. As a result, the cavitation generation increased as the rotating speed increased. The volumetric efficiency was 90% for 2200 rpm and it decreased rapidly, then it decreased about 81% for 5000 rpm. Besides, the cavitation generation was 20%∼30% for inlet of suction part, but it reduced below 13% owing to the compression. However, it shows higher cavitation generation for high rotating speed like 5000 rpm.

Mapping the Terrain of New Black Fatherhood in Contemporary African American Literature

Set-Byul MOON 이화여자대학교 이화인문과학원 2017 탈경계인문학 Vol.10 No.1

This paper explores the trajectories of black manhood and fatherhood in modern and contemporary American literature and literary criticism and contemplates a possible space for “good” black fathers. As we investigate how earlier discourses and discussions on black manhood have been constructed, and have remained and developed, there certainly is a change or progress in reading and creating different types of representations of black men — without focusing too much on body and sexuality — in American literature and literary criticism, starting from a ragged image considered problematic, violent, dangerous, or bereft, and under institutionalized destitution. This denigration of the black male has intensified and solidified myths of the black family — a black matriarchal family that lacks a desirable father figure, consequently leading to the effeminized, castrated black masculine presence in their communities — but has come to be questioned, leading to a somewhat hopeful, positive, and even philosophical depiction by questioning the core of defining good and bad under the dire circumstances within which African American men find themselves. By scrutinizing innocuous, caregiving father figures dwelling at home in African American novels, this paper looks back at how literary criticism and literature itself have exercised creative power in order to give birth to the “good” black men, who were deemed nonexistent or insufficient before, through re-reading, re-tracing, and re-looking at black fathers/men in novels written by renowned literary figures from Richard Wright, Ralph Ellison, James Baldwin, and Toni Morrison to contemporary — and relatively young — authors such as Leonard Pitts Jr. and Bernice L. McFadden.

Superheroes Do Not Live on the Rez : The Nomadic Identity for Native Indian Young Adults in Sherman Alexie’s The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian

Set-Byul MOON 이화여자대학교 이화인문과학원 2016 탈경계인문학 Vol.9 No.1

Sherman Alexie’s 2007 young adult fiction, The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian, depicts the life of a young Spokane Indian boy named Arnold Spirit Jr., and the writer tries to show how this young protagonist deals with his identity issues both on the reservation and at a white school. Off the poor reservation where limitations make him a loser, he needs to balance his Indian identity and agency with the white American identity he has come into contact with. The final answer, outcome, or resolution of his long search and struggle is to become a nomad (an old-time Indian way of life) or to become Nomad (an alternative superhero identity of Captain America). Following Junior’s track, Alexie implies that there should be a new form of identity for the young generation, because obviously there is none, for them, available now. Giving them a reachable, accessible form of identity and heroic figure would lead young readers like Junior to dreams of being someone important.