The Routledge Handbook of Contemporary South Korea offers a ground-breaking study of the socio-political development of the Korean peninsula in the contemporary period.
The Routledge Handbook of Contemporary South Korea offers a ground-breaking study of the socio-political development of the Korean peninsula in the contemporary period.
Written by an international team of scholars and experts, contributions to this book address key intellectual questions in the development of Korean studies, projecting new ways of thinking about how international systems can be organised and how local societies adapt to global challenges. Academically rigorous, each chapter defines current research and lends the reader greater understanding of the social, cultural, economic, and political developments of South Korea, ranging from chapters on the Korean Wave to relations with North Korea and the Korean language overseas.
The volume is divided into eight sections, each representing a focused area of inquiry:
- socio-political history
- contemporary politics
- political economy and development
- society
- culture
- international relations
- security and diplomacy
- South Korea in international education
This handbook provides an interdisciplinary and comprehensive account of contemporary South Korea. It will be of great interest to students and scholars of Korean history, politics and international relations, culture and society, and will also appeal to policy makers interested in the Indo-Asia Pacific region.
1. Introduction Part 1: SOCIO-POLITICAL HISTORY
2. Educational
Development, Society, and Politics in South Korea
3. Historical Development
of Judicial Independence in South Korea: Focus on Colonial and Post-Colonial
Period Part 2: CONTEMPORARY POLITICS
4. Political Structure Changes in South
Korea since 1948
5. Evolution of Political Parties and the Party System in
South Korea Part 3: POLITICAL ECONOMY AND DEVELOPMENT
6. History of the
Developmental States: The Case of South Korea
7. Chaebl and the Political
Economy of South Korean Development, 1945-Present
8. The Evolution Story of
South Korea from a Fragile State to an International Actor Part 4: SOCIETY
9.
Religion in Contemporary Korean Society: Interactions between the Past,
Present and Future
10. Korean Labour Movement: The Birth, Rise and
Transformation of the Democratic Trade Union Movement Part 5: CULTURE
11.
Culture is Power in Dynamic Korea: Soft Power and Government Involvement in
the Korean Wave
12. Creating Our Culture Together: The Contemporary Audience
for Traditional Korean Music
13. South Korean Film: Commercial Success, Full
Service Cinema and the Crisis-Consciousness
14. The South Korean Literary
Field and Its Recent Evolution Part 6: INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS
15. South
Korean National Identity and Inter-Korean Relations since 1945
16. South
Korean Relations with North Korea
17. The Past, Present and Future of United
States-South Korea Relations
18. Japan-South Korea International Relations
19. Between a Wedge and a Hedge: South Koreas Dilemma over China Relations
Part 7: SECURITY AND DIPLOMACY
20. Security Dimensions in Light of Changing
Dynamics: The Rise of South Korea as a Global Player
21. Continuity and
Changes in South Koreas Middle Power Diplomacy Part 8: SOUTH KOREA IN
INTERNATIONAL EDUCATION
22. Korean Language Overseas
23. South Korea in the
Secondary Education System in the United Kingdom
Sojin Lim is an Associate Professor at the University of Central Lancashire. She has published research on Korea, including Aid Modalities Determinants: South Korea Triangular Cooperation and Implication towards North Korea (2019).
Niki J.P. Alsford is a Professor at the University of Central Lancashire. He has published research on Taiwan, including Transitions to Modernity in Taiwan: The Spirit of 1895 and the Cession of Formosa to Japan (2017).
