The Routledge Handbook of Korean Culture and Society

Download or read book The Routledge Handbook of Korean Culture and Society written by Youna Kim and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Part I: Formation of Korea -- 1. Compressed modernity in South Korea: constitutive dimensions, manifesting units, and historical conditions -- 2. Militarized modernity and gendered mass mobilization -- 3. The socioeconomic foundations of South Korea's democracy movement -- 4. The seventy-year history of North Korean cultural formation -- 5. Religion in twenty-first century Korean lives -- Part II: Transforming Korea -- 6. The muddled middle class in globalized South Korea -- 7. South Korean youth across three decades -- 8. The Korean family in transition -- 9. Immigrant subempire, migrant labor activism and multiculturalism in contemporary South Korea -- 10. North Korea now: turning point for a regime of rightlessness? Part III : Digital Korea -- 11. How to understand the emergence of digital Korea --12. Modern Korean literature and cultural identity in a pre- and post-colonial digital age -- 13. South Korean cinema story in the digital age: 21st century success on a 20th century medium? -- 14. Digital media and democratic transition in Korea --15. Digital media and the rise of connected individuals in Korea -- Part IV: Global Korea --16. Korean diaspora and diasporic nationalism -- 17. An overview of Korean American women's writing: "skin upon skin"--18. The Korean wave: Korean popular culture in a digital cosmopolitan world -- 19. K-pop music and transnationalism -- 20. Transnational sport and expressions of global Koreaness