Kim Kyong Dong: 4 books
Confucianism and Modernization in East Asia
Critical Reflections
Language: English
Release Date: May 6, 2017
Spanning the 19th and 20th centuries and identifying multiple waves of modernization, this book illustrates how principles originating in Chinese Confucianism have impacted the modernization of East Asia, especially in Korea. It also analyzes how such principles are exercised at personal, interpersonal...
Alternative Discourses on Modernization and Development
East Asian Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 2017
This cutting edge work offers an alternative perspective on existing paradigms of modernization and development that originated in the West from the vantage point of non-western, late-modernizing societies. It considers how East Asian philosophical ideas enrich the reformulation of the concept of...
Korean Modernization and Uneven Development
Alternative Sociological Accounts
Language: English
Release Date: May 10, 2017
Offering an alternative discourse on modernization and development viewed specifically from the East Asia perspective, this book focuses its analysis on the Korean experience of modernization and development. It considers the broad range of societal transformations which have occurred over the past...
Communication, Digital Media, and Popular Culture in Korea
Contemporary Research and Future Prospects
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2018
In recent decades, Korean communication and media have substantially grown to become some of the most significant segments of Korean society. Since the early 1990s, Korea has experienced several distinctive changes in its politics, economy, and technology, which are directly related to the development...