Bipolar Orders: The Two Koreas since 1989North Korea and South Korea are never far from the news headlines - one for the alleged danger it poses to the world, the other for its apparent capitalist success story. In Bipolar Orders, Hyung Gu Lynn analyzes the processes driving both countries since the 1980s. North Korea has experienced severe economic deterioration and increasing international isolation, while South Korea has undergone democratization and witnessed the emergence of a vibrant consumer culture. Paradoxically, this growing gap in ideologies and material standards has led to improved relations between the two countries. Why has this counterintuitive development occurred? Is North Korea really a threat, and if so, for whom? This book provides a substantive, accessible, and timely examination of the complex and compelling histories of the two Koreas. |
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... attempt on Park Chung-Hee; his wife, Yuk Yo ̆ng-Su, is killed 1979 Park Chung-Hee is assassinated by Kim Jae-Kyu 1980 Chun Doo-Hwan's coup; Kwangju uprising; Kim DaeJung arrested 1981 Seoul is awarded the 1988 Summer Olympics 1983 ...
... attempt on Park Chung-Hee; his wife, Yuk Yo ̆ng-Su, is killed 1979 Park Chung-Hee is assassinated by Kim Jae-Kyu 1980 Chun Doo-Hwan's coup; Kwangju uprising; Kim DaeJung arrested 1981 Seoul is awarded the 1988 Summer Olympics 1983 ...
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... attempt to reduce the complex factors behind socio-political changes to a single cause. Nevertheless, the South Korean case is particularly salient in that the gaps and the changes have been greatly augmented by the speed and intensity ...
... attempt to reduce the complex factors behind socio-political changes to a single cause. Nevertheless, the South Korean case is particularly salient in that the gaps and the changes have been greatly augmented by the speed and intensity ...
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... attempts to answer these and other questions. Objectives of the book and the series As part of a series on the “global history of the present,” the analysis in this book is focused on the “present,” defined as the post-1989 years. It ...
... attempts to answer these and other questions. Objectives of the book and the series As part of a series on the “global history of the present,” the analysis in this book is focused on the “present,” defined as the post-1989 years. It ...
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... attempt to occupy the entire peninsula. Unified Silla lasted until 900, when two groups of rebels easily toppled a political and economic system that had become desiccated. One of the rebel groups eventually emerged as the new unifier ...
... attempt to occupy the entire peninsula. Unified Silla lasted until 900, when two groups of rebels easily toppled a political and economic system that had become desiccated. One of the rebel groups eventually emerged as the new unifier ...
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... attempts to unify the political spectrum, which provided additional momentum to the long-term division. In November 1943, the US, Britain, and China noted in the Cairo Declaration that Korea should become independent in “due course ...
... attempts to unify the political spectrum, which provided additional momentum to the long-term division. In November 1943, the US, Britain, and China noted in the Cairo Declaration that Korea should become independent in “due course ...
Contents
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2 Altered States | 56 |
3 Holy Trinity | 91 |
4 Economic Tetralogies | 124 |
5 Decussation Effects? | 154 |
6 Conclusion | 172 |
Notes | 177 |
Suggestions for Further Reading | 195 |
Index | 200 |
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