The Routledge Studies on Modern Korea Series aims to accomplish the urgent task of advancing and bringing new prosperity to the field of Korean Studies by publishing high quality manuscripts on a variety of topics pertinent to modern day Korea, such as social governance, democratization, education, and multiculturalism.
The Series is advised and edited by Hyuk-Rae Kim of the Graduate School of International Studies at Yonsei University, Korea.
By Sun-Chul Kim
February 04, 2016
South Korea provides an intellectual challenge in the fields of social movements and democracy in that intense mobilization and the strong influence of social movements have accompanied steady democratization for more than two decades, despite major theories having predicted otherwise. This book ...
By Hyuk-Rae Kim
February 27, 2015
In this interdisciplinary study of governance, Hyuk-Rae Kim traces how civil society and NGOs have evolved over time, how they differ in motivation from their Western counterparts, and the role civil society NGOs have played in consolidating democracy as the governance system in Korea changes from ...