KAQI

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Vol (number)	4(2)
title	Becoming an Ethical Subject as a Counselor in Qualitative Research Ethics
author(s)	Soyeon Kim (Far East University)
Keywords	qualitative research, counselor, becoming an ethical subject, ethics as a responsibility
Abstract	This study aims to understand the ethical issues that researchers face in the process of conducting qualitative research as counselors and seek relevant countermeasures to address the issue. To this end, the study first explored the existing research ethics guidelines and precedent studies conducted on the topic of research ethics and how ethics are defined in philosophy that studies ethics as a key issue. The study also examined what the basis of ethical behavior is and where the difference stems from to distinguish ethical person from unethical person. As a practicing counselor, the author has interviewed researchers conducting qualitative research in the research field, to identify what kind of ethical problems they are facing and which efforts they are exerting to solve the ethical problems they encounter. The author also interviewed a researcher conducting qualitative research to look into the perspective gap between the researcher conducting the qualitative research and the research participants. In conclusion, qualitative analysis was conducted on the contents of the interviews, based on philosophical discourse and logic. Based on this analysis, this study discussed the ethical stance and practices required for the researchers who conduct qualitative research as a counselor.The result of this study revealed that procedure-based behaviors in ethical practice had their limitations in conducting qualitative research as a councilor, as the behaviors mean following ethical regulations or guidelines provided by predecessors without self-reflection, accepting it as responsibilities to imply universality and identity. The author, therefore, proposed “becoming an ethical subject,” a différance-generative way of existence to become an “alter ego”, as a work ethic required for a researcher conducting qualitative research as a counselor. This can be achieved by introspecting one’s own way of existence that the person adheres in this life of here and now and embracing the implicit request of unconditional hospitality expressed in the face of “the absolute other (totaliter aliter)” facing the self.
file	Soyeon Kim.pdf