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.
Commons Perspectives in South Korea: Context, Fields, and Alternatives
1st Edition
Edited
By Hyun Choe, Ja-Kyung Kim, Hun-Gyo Jang, Yea-Yl Yoon, Suh-Hyun Park
September 25, 2023
Since its founding in 2011, the Research Center on the Commons and Sustainable Society has been at the forefront of Commons Research in South Korea. This book brings together the discoveries and insights the Center has produced in its first decade, as a contribution to international commons ...
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
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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 ...
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...
Public Management in Korea: Performance Evaluation and Public Institutions
1st Edition
Edited
By Soonae Park
December 18, 2020
Many books on performance management or evaluation are about the public sector in general or specifically about some programs or organizations. Only a few of them target the public institutions. This book addresses what types of challenges that performance evaluations of public institutions ...
The Failure of Socialism in South Korea: 1945-2007
1st Edition
By Yunjong Kim
November 22, 2017
Despite the fact that socialist parties have proved to be a major political force across the world, this has not been the case in Asian countries. Socialism in South Korea is a quintessential example of this failure. Despite the existence of a socialist party and what would seem to be the right ...