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.
The Politics of Coalition in Korea: Between Institutions and Culture
1st Edition
By Youngmi Kim
January 03, 2014
This book examines how inter- and intra-party coalition-building affects governability in South Korea. Focusing on the Kim Dae-jung administration (1998-2003) as a case study in the failure of a government to turn electoral success into stable governability, or ability to implement reform policies,...
South Korean Social Movements: From Democracy to Civil Society
1st Edition
Edited
By Gi-Wook Shin, Paul Chang
June 07, 2013
This book explores the evolution of social movements in South Korea by focusing on how they have become institutionalized and diffused in the democratic period. The contributors explore the transformation of Korean social movements from the democracy campaigns of the 1970s and 1980s to the rise of ...
Political Protest and Labor Solidarity in Korea: White-Collar Labor Movements after Democratization (1987-1995)
1st Edition
By Doowon Suh
December 06, 2012
East Asia has undergone an intense period of economic development and accompanying social change in recent years and among the unforeseen social phenomena that have emerged are new forms of trade unions. This book analyzes the importance of such a new union movement in Korea by focusing on the ...
Legal Reform in Korea
1st Edition
By Tom Ginsburg
November 14, 2012
Law in Korea has historically been viewed as merely a tool of authoritarian rule, but since the transition to democracy in 1987 it has served a more important and visible role as a force for social change. With contributions from leading US and Korean scholars, Legal Reform in Korea explores this ...
The Global Korean Motor Industry: The Hyundai Motor Company's Global Strategy
1st Edition
By Russell D. Lansbury, Chung-Sok Suh, Seung-Ho Kwon
October 10, 2012
This book examines the experiences of the globalizing Korean automobile industry, with particular focus on the Hyundai Motor Company (HMC), one of the most prominent of the new Korean multinational corporations. It provides an overview of the changing nature of the global automobile industry, ...
Korea's Developmental Alliance: State, capital and the politics of rapid development
1st Edition
By David Hundt
June 13, 2012
South Korea is often cited as a case of miraculous transformation from poverty to prosperity. Korea’s achievement of moving from one of the world’s poorest countries as recently as the early 1960s to the ranks of the ten biggest economies only four decades later has rightly attracted interest from ...
Capitalist Development in Korea: Labour, Capital and the Myth of the Developmental State
1st Edition
By Dae-oup Chang
April 17, 2012
Contrary to the widely-held view that the East Asian "developmental state" is neutral in terms of the relationship between capital and labour – a benign co-operation between state officials and businessmen to organise economic development – this book argues that in fact the developmental state ...
Foreign Direct Investment in Post-Crisis Korea: European Investors and 'Mismatched Globalization'
1st Edition
By Judith Cherry
October 11, 2011
In this book Judith Cherry analyses the impact of economic and cultural globalization on efforts to promote inward foreign direct investment (IFDI) in South Korea over the past four decades. The book traces the development of Korean IFDI policy from one of restriction and control to one of ...
Korea Confronts Globalization
1st Edition
Edited
By Yunshik Chang, Hyun-ho Seok, Donald Baker
March 17, 2011
Korea Confronts Globalization looks at the way in which the phenomenon of globalization has impacted on Korean society in terms of national identity, corporate change, labour markets, democracy, tradition and social policy, and the implications for Korea's social cohesion in a continually ...
Korean Workers and Neoliberal Globalization
1st Edition
By Kevin Gray
March 17, 2011
One of the most remarkable aspects of South Korea’s transition from impoverished post-colonial nation to fully-fledged industrialized democracy has been the growth of its independent and dynamic labour movement. Korean Workers and Neoliberal Globalisation examines current trends and transformations...
Industrial Relations in Korea: Diversity and Dynamism of Korean Enterprise Unions from a Comparative Perspective
1st Edition
By Jooyeon Jeong
October 19, 2009
A key factor in Korea's economic success is the nature of industrial relations in Korean business and industry. Joo-Yeon Jeong presents a comprehensive survey of the current state of industrial relations in Korea. He shows how union membership has changed over recent decades, and how the ...
The Development of Modern South Korea: State Formation, Capitalist Development and National Identity
1st Edition
By Kyong Ju Kim
May 26, 2009
The Development of Modern South Korea provides a comprehensive analysis of South Korean modernization by examining the dimensions of state formation, capitalist development and nationalism. Taking a comparative and interdisciplinary approach this book highlights the most ...