New Millennium South Korea 1st Edition by Jesook Song 1138862924 9781138862920

Part I Economic and sociological accounts

1 Globalization and social inequality in South Korea

The crisis of the authoritarian developmental state

The economic crisis and neoliberal reform

Casualization of work and social polarization

Conclusion

Notes

Bibliography

2 Neoliberalism, the financial crisis, and economic restructuring in Korea

The 1997 Asian financial crisis and neoliberalism

Debates on the crisis in Korea

Neoliberalism, mismanaged financial liberalization, and the crisis

Neoliberal restructuring and financial liberalization after the crisis

Economic restructuring after the crisis

Restructuring labor markets

Restructuring the financial sector

Restructuring nonfinancial corporations

Economic opening after the crisis

Financial opening and capital inflows

Effects of foreign capital and future concerns

Worsening growth and distribution in the neoliberal development model

Disappointing performances of neoliberal restructuring

Neoliberal Transformation of the Development Model

Conclusions

Notes

Bibliography

3 Neoliberalism in South Korea

Neoliberalism as financialization

“Korea Inc.” and its swift transformation

Recent dynamics of financialization

Concluding remarks

Notes

Bibliography

Part II Ethnographic and historical accounts

4 Contesting legal liminality

The shifting terrain of work and unionism: the legal liminality of irregular employment

The gendered dimensions of irregular employment

The birth of the Korean women’s trade union movement

The explosion of irregular workers’ struggles in the male-dominated labor movement

Divergent approaches to contesting legal liminality

Notes

Bibliography

5 The will to self-managing, the will to freedom

Out of the developmental regime: the path to neoliberal society in Korea

Breaking with the familiar: cultural assemblage of self-management

Enterprising the self, managing the self: the problematization of the self

Science of the self or technologies of self-management

Self-managing individuals as proto-neoliberalist subjects

Notes

Bibliography

6 Educational manager mothers as neoliberal maternal subjects

The neoliberal transformation of education and the private after-school market

The old image of “the swish of a skirt”

Discourse of educational manager mothers

The neoliberal project of self managed citizens, gender, and class

Notes

Bibliography

7 For the rights of “colonial returnees”

The Overseas Korean Act (OKA)

The politics of overcoming the past

Decolonization and state-centrism

Humanism

Conclusion

Notes

Bibliography

8 “Not-quite Korean” children in “almost Korean” families

Multiculturalism as resistance to the myth of homogeneity

State multiculturalism: multicultural families as a site of state intervention

“Not-quite Koreans”: stories of multicultural families

Conclusions: undoing Korean-ness

Notes

Bibliography

9 “If you don’t work, you don’t eat”

Understanding Korean/American short-term missions

Research methodology

The development generation

Prosperity Gospel and a theology of winners

Saemaul Undong as a model of Christian neoliberalism

Lessons from the Canaan Farmer School