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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... student activist who was killed in 1987 during prodemocracy demonstrations. The relatively obscure location of a museum dedicated to a prodemocracy martyr is a contrast to everyday life at the time. Throughout the 1980s and into the ...
... student activist who was killed in 1987 during prodemocracy demonstrations. The relatively obscure location of a museum dedicated to a prodemocracy martyr is a contrast to everyday life at the time. Throughout the 1980s and into the ...
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... student activists. And, the few times South Korea made the international news headlines throughout much of the 1980s were when particularly large-scale confrontations broke out between the masked students demonstrators and the helmeted ...
... student activists. And, the few times South Korea made the international news headlines throughout much of the 1980s were when particularly large-scale confrontations broke out between the masked students demonstrators and the helmeted ...
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... student demonstrations helped overthrow Syngman Rhee. Trading on the prestige that his independence activities during the colonial period gave him with the South Korean public, and armed with extraordinary powers under the anti ...
... student demonstrations helped overthrow Syngman Rhee. Trading on the prestige that his independence activities during the colonial period gave him with the South Korean public, and armed with extraordinary powers under the anti ...
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... students in higher education. Unemployment rates, however, remained high for university graduates, and economic ... student protests. “Anti-communist” groups that had been fostered by Rhee clashed violently with students on April 18 ...
... students in higher education. Unemployment rates, however, remained high for university graduates, and economic ... student protests. “Anti-communist” groups that had been fostered by Rhee clashed violently with students on April 18 ...
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... students who had participated in the April Revolution agreed with the assertion that “Western” democracy was ... student activists, who questioned the legitimacy of the elections, especially those of 1967 and 1971. a Park needed ...
... students who had participated in the April Revolution agreed with the assertion that “Western” democracy was ... student activists, who questioned the legitimacy of the elections, especially those of 1967 and 1971. a Park needed ...
Contents
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23 | |
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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