Youth for Nation: Culture and Protest in Cold War South Korea

by Charles R. Kim

Book Overview

This in-depth exploration of culture, media, and protest follows South Korea's transition from the Korean War to the start of the political struggles and socioeconomic transformations of the Park Chung Hee era. Although the post-Korean War years are commonly remembered as a time of crisis and disarray, Charles Kim contends that they also created a formative and productive juncture in which South Koreans reworked pre-1945 constructions of national...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0824879384
• ISBN13: 9780824879389
• Release Date: October 2018
• Publisher: University of Hawaii Press
• Length: 284 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.9" x 9.0"