While popular movements in South Korea rightly grab the headlines for forcing political change and holding leaders to account, those movements are only part of

This book studies the sources of inequality in contemporary South Korea and the social and political contention this engenders. Korean society is becoming more

The Republic of Korea achieved a double revolution in the second half of the twentieth century. In just over three decades, South Korea transformed itself from

Following its introduction to Korea in the late nineteenth century, Protestantism grew rapidly both in numbers of followers and in influence, and remained a dom

The essential account of the South Korean 1980 pro-democracy rebellion On May 18, 1980, student activists gathered in the South Korean city of Gwangju to protes