Hyung-A Kim | London Korean Links

Selected publications by Hyung-A Kim

Korean Skilled Workers: Toward a Labor Aristocracy, University of Washington Press 2020
Korea’s Development Under Park Chung Hee, Routledge 2003

Collections that include work by Hyung-A Kim

Reassessing the Park Chung Hee Era, 1961-1979: Development, Political Thought, Democracy, and Cultural Influence, University of Washington Press 2011
The Park Chung Hee Era: The Transformation of South Korea, Harvard University Press 2011
South Korea’s Minjung Movement: The Culture and Politics of Dissidence, University of Hawai'i Press 1995

Scottish CKS Distinguished Lecture Series: November talks

event date 10 Nov - 24 Nov 2021 venue University of Edinburgh Scottish Centre for Korean Studies posted 7 Nov 2021

The Scottish Centre for Korean Studies has announced its November series of lectures. I’ve yet to find a web page where details in good old-fashioned text can be found, but poster images are posted on their Facebook page, where you can also find registration links for the Zoom meetings. This month we have: Wed 10 … [Read More]

Kim Dae-jung and the Quest for the Nobel: How the President of South Korea Bought the Peace Prize and Financed Kim Jong-il’s Nuclear Program by Donald Kirk, Kim Kisam pub Palgrave 2013 (updated 08 Aug)

Emotions in Korean Philosophy and Religion: Confucian, Comparative, and Contemporary Perspectives ed Edward Y. J. Chung, Jea Sophia Oh pub Palgrave 2022 (updated 05 Aug)

Song of Arirang: The Story of a Korean Rebel Revolutionary in China by Kim San, Nym Wales tr Dongyoun Hwang pub Kaya 2024 (updated 31 Jul)

Comfort Women of the Japanese Empire: Colonial Rule and the Battle over Memory by Park Yuha tr Cambridge Translation Team pub Routledge 2024 (updated 31 Jul)

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