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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"inherit",serif;color:#050505">Dear colleagues,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"inherit",serif;color:#050505">You are cordially invited to the book launch for ‘Routledge Handbook of Contemporary South Korea’.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"inherit",serif;color:#050505">Date & Time: 10 Nov 2021 (Wed), 3.00 PM (UK Time)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"inherit",serif;color:#050505">- 30% Discount code: ADC21 at Routledge website -<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"inherit",serif;color:#050505"><a href="https://www.routledge.com/Routledge-Handbook-of-Contemporary-South-Korea/Lim-Alsford/p/book/9780367458201">https://www.routledge.com/Routledge-Handbook-of-Contemporary-South-Korea/Lim-Alsford/p/book/9780367458201</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"inherit",serif;color:#050505">< Table of Contents ><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"inherit",serif;color:#050505">1. Introduction (Niki J.P. Alsford)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"inherit",serif;color:#050505">Part 1: SOCIO-POLITICAL HISTORY<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"inherit",serif;color:#050505">2. Educational Development, Society, and Politics in South Korea (Michael J. Seth)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"inherit",serif;color:#050505">3. Historical Development of Judicial Independence in South Korea: Focus on Colonial and Post-Colonial Period (Jong-Chol An)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"inherit",serif;color:#050505">Part 2: CONTEMPORARY POLITICS<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"inherit",serif;color:#050505">4. Political Structure Changes in South Korea since 1948 (Hannes B. Mosler)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"inherit",serif;color:#050505">5. Evolution of Political Parties and the Party System in South Korea (Youngmi Kim)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"inherit",serif;color:#050505">Part 3: POLITICAL ECONOMY AND DEVELOPMENT<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"inherit",serif;color:#050505">6. History of the Developmental States: The Case of South Korea (Taekyoon Kim)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"inherit",serif;color:#050505">7. Chaebǒl and the Political Economy of South Korean Development, 1945 – Present (Eun Mee Kim and Nancy Y. Kim)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"inherit",serif;color:#050505">8. The Evolution Story of South Korea from a Fragile State to an International Actor (Sojin Lim)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"inherit",serif;color:#050505">Part 4: SOCIETY<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"inherit",serif;color:#050505">9. Religion in Contemporary Korean Society: Interactions between the Past, Present and Future (Kevin N. Cawley)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"inherit",serif;color:#050505">10. Korean Labour Movement: The Birth, Rise and Transformation of the Democratic Trade Union Movement (Dae-oup Chang)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"inherit",serif;color:#050505">Part 5: CULTURE<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"inherit",serif;color:#050505">11. Culture is Power in Dynamic Korea: Soft Power and Government Involvement in the Korean Wave (Hannah Michell)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"inherit",serif;color:#050505">12. Creating Our Culture Together: The Contemporary Audience for Traditional Korean Music (Cholong Sung)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"inherit",serif;color:#050505">13. South Korean Film: Commercial Success, Full Service Cinema and the Crisis-Consciousness (Andrew David Jackson)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"inherit",serif;color:#050505">14. The South Korean Literary Field and Its Recent Evolution (Eun Jin Jeong)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"inherit",serif;color:#050505">Part 6: INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"inherit",serif;color:#050505">15. South Korean National Identity and Inter-Korean Relations since 1945 (Sarah A. Son)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"inherit",serif;color:#050505">16. South Korean Relations with North Korea (Lonnie Edge)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"inherit",serif;color:#050505">17. The Past, Present and Future of United States-South Korea Relations (David Hundt)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"inherit",serif;color:#050505">18. Japan-South Korea International Relations (Hyung-Gu Lynn)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"inherit",serif;color:#050505">19. Between a Wedge and a Hedge: South Korea’s Dilemma over China Relations (Ed Griffith)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"inherit",serif;color:#050505">Part 7: SECURITY AND DIPLOMACY<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"inherit",serif;color:#050505">20. Security Dimensions in Light of Changing Dynamics: The Rise of South Korea as a Global Player (Virginie Grzelczyk)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"inherit",serif;color:#050505">21. Continuity and Changes in South Korea’s Middle Power Diplomacy (Marco Milani)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"inherit",serif;color:#050505">Part 8: SOUTH KOREA IN INTERNATIONAL EDUCATION<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"inherit",serif;color:#050505">22. Korean Language Overseas (Seon Jung Kim)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"inherit",serif;color:#050505">23. South Korea in the Secondary Education System in the United Kingdom (Michael Maddison, Aaron Wilkes and Richard McFahn)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"inherit",serif;color:#050505">Thank you!<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"inherit",serif;color:#050505">Sojin<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;color:#1F3864">Dr Sojin Lim </span></b><span lang="KO" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Malgun Gothic",sans-serif;color:#1F3864">임소진</span><b><span lang="KO" style="font-size:10.0pt;color:#1F3864">
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