Seoul: Memory, Reinvention, and the Korean Wave 9780824873318

Seoul is a colossus both in its physical presence and the demand it places on any intellectual effort to understand it.

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English Pages 344 Year 2018

Seoul: Memory, Reinvention, and the Korean Wave
9780824873318

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Ross King

Table of contents :
Contents
Preface
CHAPTER 1. INTRODUCTION: Contested Memory
CHAPTER 2. ERASURE AND REINVENTION: Korea to 1945
CHAPTER 3. RE-IMAG(IN)ING THE NATION: Seoul and Park Chung-hee
CHAPTER 4. ERASURE AS HERITAGE: Reading Seoul
CHAPTER 5. NEW CULTURE: Seoul in the Korean Wave
CHAPTER 6. IMAGINING THE NATION: Reinvention and Its Conditions of Possibility
Appendix
Notes
Glossary
References
Index
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