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Colonial Rule and Social Change in Korea, 1910-1945

Colonial Rule and Social Change in Korea 1910-1945 highlights the complex interaction between ind...

Over the Mountains Are Mountains

Clark Sorensen presents a description of the economic and ecological organization of rural Korean...

Reassessing the Park Chung Hee Era, 1961-1979

The Republic of Korea achieved a double revolution in the second half of the twentieth century. I...

Spaces of Possibility

Spaces of Possibility, which arose from a 2012 conference held at the University of Washingtons S...

Flowering Plums and Curio Cabinets

The social and economic rise of the chungin class (middle people who ranked between the yangban a...

Beyond Death

Suicide and martyrdom are closely intertwined with Korean social and political processes. In this...

Top-Down Democracy in South Korea

While popular movements in South Korea rightly grab the headlines for forcing political change an...

The Shaman’s Wages

Breaking from previous scholarship on Korean shamanism, which focuses on mansin of mainland Korea...

International Impact of Colonial Rule in Korea, 1910-1945

In recent years, discussion of the colonial period in Korea has centered mostly on the degree of ...

Korean Skilled Workers

South Koreas triumphant development has catapulted the countrys economy to the eleventh largest i...

Peace Corps Volunteers and the Making of Korean Studies in the United States

From 1966 through 1981 the Peace Corps sent more than two thousand volunteers to South Korea, to ...

Late Industrialization, Tradition, and Social Change in South Korea