Routledge Advances in Korean Studies
About the Book Series
Korea is currently experiencing its most significant transformations since the end of the Korean war. This series is a showcase for the latest research on North and South Korea. The series is interdisciplinary in its focus.
South Korea’s Foreign Aid: The Domestic Politics of Middle Power Diplomacy
1st Edition
By Hyo-sook Kim
September 25, 2023
Kim examines the impact of domestic politics in accomplishing South Korea’s middle power diplomacy through the provision of foreign aid. Since the 2000s, the rise of emerging nations as donors has brought about a remarkable transition in the international development community. South Korea has ...
Exporting Urban Korea?: Reconsidering the Korean Urban Development Experience
1st Edition
Edited
By Se Hoon Park, Hyun Bang Shin, Hyun Soo Kang
May 31, 2023
A detailed examination of the “Korean development model” from its urban dimension, evaluating its sociopolitical contexts and implications for international development cooperation. There is an increasing tendency to use the development experience of Asian countries as a reference point for other ...
Interviews with North Korean Defectors: From Kim Shin-jo to Thae Yong-ho
1st Edition
By Lim Il, Adam Zulawnik
May 31, 2023
Originally compiled and written by North Korean defector and author Lim Il, this English-language edition, thoroughly annotated by Dr. Adam Zulawnik, is a fascinating collection of 34 interviews with highly prominent North Korean defectors residing in South Korea, ranging from religious ...
The Candlelight Movement, Democracy, and Communication in Korea
1st Edition
Edited
By JongHwa Lee, Chuyun Oh, Yong-Chan Kim
May 31, 2023
This book examines key features, problems, and implications of the 2016–2017 Candlelight Movement, a historical cornerstone for democracy and social movements in South Korea. The Candlelight Movement brought profound social changes with important lessons and questions for scholars, practitioners,...
The Korean War and Postmemory Generation: Contemporary Korean Arts and Films
1st Edition
By Dong-Yeon Koh
January 09, 2023
This pioneering volume navigates cultural memory of the Korean War through the lens of contemporary arts and film in South Korea for the last two decades. Cultural memory of the Korean War has been a subject of persistent controversy in the forging of South Korean postwar national and ideological ...
Healing Historical Trauma in South Korean Film and Literature
1st Edition
By Chungmoo Choi
August 01, 2022
Through South Korean filmic and literary texts, this book explores affect and ethics in the healing of historical trauma, as alternatives to the measures of transitional justice in want of national unity. Historians and legal practitioners who deal with transitional justice agree that the ...
The Road to Multiculturalism in South Korea: Ideas, Discourse, and Institutional Change in a Homogenous Nation-State
1st Edition
By Timothy Lim
August 01, 2022
This book aims to capture the complicated development of Korea from monoethnic to multicultural society, challenging the narrative of “ethnonational continuity” in Korea through a discursive institutional approach. At a time when immigration is changing the face of South Korea and an increasingly ...
Development Prospects for North Korea
1st Edition
Edited
By Tae Yong Jung, Sung Jin Kang
April 29, 2022
The contributors to this book explore the current situation of North Korea in various aspects and provide policy suggestions for North Korea to become part of the international community and achieve sustainable development. Focusing on three key areas of economic development, namely, international ...
Digital Development in Korea: Lessons for a Sustainable World
2nd Edition
By Myung Oh, James F. Larson
June 30, 2021
Digital Development in Korea explores the central role of digital information and communication technology in South Korea. Analyzing the role of ICT in green growth and sustainability, this new edition also demonstrates how concerns over public safety and the Olympic Games are shaping next ...
The State, Class and Developmentalism in South Korea: Development as Fetish
1st Edition
By Hae-Yung Song
June 30, 2021
This book problematises the statist underpinnings of the concept of the ‘developmental state,’ in terms of both state–society and national–global relations, challenging the notion that the state is the agent of national development qua being autonomous from the domestic and global economies. ...
Defense Planning and Readiness of North Korea: Armed to Rule
1st Edition
By Ryo Hinata-Yamaguchi
April 27, 2021
How has North Korea developed and managed its military readiness to achieve its strategic ends? Hinata-Yamaguchi analyzes North Korea’s defense planning by looking at how political, economic, and societal factors affect the Korean People’s Army’s (KPA) readiness and strategies. He answers four key...
Strategic, Policy and Social Innovation for a Post-Industrial Korea: Beyond the Miracle
1st Edition
Edited
By Joon Nak Choi, Yong Suk Lee, Gi-Wook Shin
March 31, 2021
Export-oriented industrialization has transformed the Korean economy so profoundly that it has become known as the "Miracle on the Han." Yet, this industrial model has become fragile, as Korea’s chaebols are being challenged by Chinese competitors. Attempts to seek out new engines of economic ...