The Routledge Handbook of Korean Culture and Society

Book excerpt: Part I: Formation of Korea -- 1. Compressed modernity in South Korea: constitutive dimensions, manifesting units, and historical conditions -- 2. Militarized modernity and gendered mass mobilization -- 3. The socioeconomic foundations of South Korea's democracy movement -- 4. The seventy-year history of North Korean cultural formation -- 5. Religion in twenty-first century Korean lives -- Part II: Transforming Korea -- 6. The muddled middle class in globalized South Korea -- 7. South Korean youth across three decades -- 8. The Korean family in transition -- 9. Immigrant subempire, migrant labor activism and multiculturalism in contemporary South Korea -- 10. North Korea now: turning point for a regime of rightlessness? Part III : Digital Korea -- 11. How to understand the emergence of digital Korea --12. Modern Korean literature and cultural identity in a pre- and post-colonial digital age -- 13. South Korean cinema story in the digital age: 21st century success on a 20th century medium? -- 14. Digital media and democratic transition in Korea --15. Digital media and the rise of connected individuals in Korea -- Part IV: Global Korea --16. Korean diaspora and diasporic nationalism -- 17. An overview of Korean American women's writing: "skin upon skin"--18. The Korean wave: Korean popular culture in a digital cosmopolitan world -- 19. K-pop music and transnationalism -- 20. Transnational sport and expressions of global Koreaness