While popular movements in South Korea rightly grab the headlines for forcing political change and holding leaders to account, those movements are only part of

This book studies the sources of inequality in contemporary South Korea and the social and political contention this engenders. Korean society is becoming more

Following its introduction to Korea in the late nineteenth century, Protestantism grew rapidly both in numbers of followers and in influence, and remained a dom

In 1961 South Korea was mired in poverty. By 1979 it had a powerful industrial economy and a vibrant civil society in the making, which would lead to a democrat

Thirty years have passed since in 1987 formal democratization was achieved in South Korea. Since then the country has undergone the two turnover test (Huntingto