Way back into Korea : A new insight by a native anthropologist come home

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Тематические рубрики

• Социология - Социология общественного мнения
• Korea - Social life and customs
• Korea - Civilization
• Korea - Social conditions

Аннотация

What allowed South Korea to make an economic leap forward in such a short period of time? How did the Koreans manage to build large automobile factories abroad, pave the Great Man-made River in Libya and become the most wired nation in the world, at the forefront of information technology? Why are so many Korean students studying at the best universities in Europe and North America? So many books have been published on Korean issues and the identity of Koreans. But you have to learn a lot more about Korea than you already know. Let's discover the dynamics of modern Korea from the unique perspective of anthropologist Chung Sung Kim, who is both an insider and an outsider.