Shrimp to whale : South Korea from the forgotten war to K-Pop /
"South Korea has the most remarkable of histories. Born from the ashes of colonialism, partition and a devastating war, back in the 1950s there were real doubts about its survival as an independent state. Yet South Korea did survive, and first became known globally for the export of cheap toys,...
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| Language: | English |
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New York, NY :
Oxford University Press,
2022.
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| Online Access: | Connect to the full text of this electronic book |
Table of Contents:
- Prologue : brief history of Korea
- 1. Independence, war and poverty, 1948-60
- 2. The Park Chung-hee era, 1961-79
- 3. On the road to riches and democracy, 1980-87
- 4. Freedom and crisis, 1988-97
- 5. The Liberal decade, 1988-2007
- 6. Global South Korea, 2008-22
- Epilogue : the future of South Korea
- Chronology : 1945-2022.