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Abstract
The intention of this project is to help Korean Americans to create a positive Korean-American identity in the United States through mindam sharing education. There are three major pedagogical purposes in the development of this project. The first is to inform Korean Americans of their immigration history and their painful life experiences in the United States; in short, to make Korean Americans aware of their realities in the United States and look back on their history. The next purpose is to provide them with a positive theological understanding of their realities and experiences. In this new theological formation, the painful experiences of Korean Americans will be interpreted as the wilderness experience. However, in this project, the wilderness is not always understood in negative ways such as thirst, hunger, pain, discrimination, injustice, and death. Rather it is interpreted as a place of transformation through the han sublimation process. In the midst of the economic and political injustice and racial discrimination in American society, Korean Americans will never give up their lives in the wilderness, but they will realize that they are called to the wilderness to encounter God. The last purpose is to apply the traditional mindam sharing to Korean-American church education. This mindam sharing education will enable Korean Americans to love their hanful realities, to sublimate their han, and to create a positive Korean-American identity in the United States. At the end of this project, in order to show Korean-American church educators how mindam sharing education is exercised in the church setting, an educational curriculum of mindam sharing education is provided.
