Korea and Globalization

Politics, Economics and Culture
1. Auflage 2016
ISBN: 978-1-138-97407-4
Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd (Sales)

Buch, Englisch, 256 Seiten, Format (B × H): 129 mm x 198 mm, Gewicht: 254 g

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.
Moving outwards in concentric circles, chapters address Korea's connections with its region and Koreans' contributions to the wider world. Relations with Japan, Korea's most difficult bi-lateral relationship, are surveyed to identify both patterns and images. The thirteenth century Tripitaka Koreana is the most complete collection of Buddhist scripture in Chinese and its recent digitization points towards a renaissance of this world religion. South Korea's pursuit of a Nobel Prize in Literature is put in perspective when one considers Korean contribution to the pre-modern Sinitic literary world. South Korea may owe its existence to the United Nations, but since entering the UN in 1991, it has taken to heart the altruistic urge of global peacekeeping.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Lewis, James B

Sesay, Amadu

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Stadt- und Regionalsoziologie
• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Volkskunde
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Mentalitäts- und Sozialgeschichte
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaften Interdisziplinär Regionalwissenschaften, Regionalstudien

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction, James Lewis; Chapter 1 Globalization and Recent Changes to Daily Life in the Republic of Korea, Yi Jeong Duk; Chapter 2 Labor, Capital, and the Globalization of the Korean Economy, Yin Bao Yun; Chapter 3 From Insularity to segyehwa, Nahzeem Oluwafemi Mimiko; Chapter 4 Commonalities and Differences between the Cultures of North and South Korea and the Unification of the Peninsula, Jin Jing Yi; Chapter 5 The Japan That Does Not Exist and The Ugly Korean, James Lewis; Chapter 6 The Tripitaka Koreana, Kim Jong-myung; Chapter 7 The Re-globalization of Korean Literature, Alexander Fedotoff; Chapter 8 In the Global Arena, Amadu Sesay;

Über Autor(innen)

James B. Lewis, Amadu Sesay