Korea and globalization : politics, economics and culture
Korea faces two challenges in the twenty-first century: unification and globalization. Both entail problems of economic, political and cultural integration. In the past, Koreans successfully 'unified' in various forms, and 'globalized' in many ways. This book is a study of the theme of globalization, addressing various aspects of Korea's integration into the global community from a social scientific or humanistic perspective. This investigation begins with a focus on contemporary South and North Korea: the 'globalized' southern daily life, South Korean labour as a global player, the southern development state, and the cultural division that poses the greatest threat to reunification
x, 320 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.
9780700715121, 0700715126
875039842
Introduction
1. Globalization and Recent Changes to Daily Life in the Republic of Korea
- 2. Labor, Capital, and the Globalization of the Korean Economy
- 3. From Insularity to segyehwa: The Political Economy of Globalization in Korea
- 4. Commonalities and Differences between the Cultures of North and South Korea and the Unifcation of the Peninsula
- 5. The Japan That Does Not Exist and The Ugly Korean: An Essay on the History of Korean-Japanese Relations and their Contemporary Images of Each Other
- 6. The Tropitạka Koreana: Its Computerization and Significance for the Cultural Sciences in a Modern Globalized World
- 7. The Re-globalization of Korean Literature
- 8. In the Global Arena: Korea the United Nations, and Peace-keeping Operations