Clark W. Sorensen is professor of international studies and anthropology in the Jackson School of International Studies at the University of Washington, where he is also director of the Center for Korea Studies. He is the author of Over the Mountains Are Mountains: Korean Peasant Households and Their Adaptations to Rapid Industrialization (University of Washington Press, 1988) and coeditor of Reassessing the Park Chung Hee Era, 1961-1979: Development, Political Thought, Democracy and Cultural Influence (Center for Korea Studies, University of Washington, 2011).
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Erik Mobrand: Top-Down Democracy in South Korea
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 the story of the construction and pract …
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Kyoim Yun: The Shaman’s Wages
Breaking from previous scholarship on Korean shamanism, which focuses on mansin of mainland Korea, The Shaman’s Wages offers the first in-depth study of simbang, hereditary shamans on Cheju Island of …
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Charles R. Kim & Hwasook B. Nam: Beyond Death
Suicide and martyrdom are closely intertwined with Korean social and political processes. In this first book-length study of the evolving ideals of honorable death and martyrdom from the Chosŏn Dynas …
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Yong-Chool Ha: International Impact of Colonial Rule in Korea, 1910-1945
In recent years, discussion of the colonial period in Korea has centered mostly on the degree of exploitation or development that took place domestically, while international aspects have been relati …
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Hyung-A Kim & Clark W. Sorensen: Reassessing the Park Chung Hee Era, 1961-1979
The Republic of Korea achieved a double revolution in the second half of the twentieth century. In just over three decades, South Korea transformed itself from an underdeveloped, agrarian country int …
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Hong Yung Lee & Clark W. Sorensen: Colonial Rule and Social Change in Korea, 1910-1945
Colonial Rule and Social Change in Korea 1910-1945 highlights the complex interaction between indigenous activity and colonial governance, emphasizing how Japanese rule adapted to Korean and missiona …
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Clark W. Sorensen: Over the Mountains Are Mountains
Clark Sorensen presents a description of the economic and ecological organization of rural Korean domestic groups and an analysis of their adaption to the changes brought about by Korea’s rapid indus …
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Clark W. Sorensen & Andrea Gevurtz Arai: Spaces of Possibility
Spaces of Possibility, which arose from a 2012 conference held at the University of Washington’s Simpson Center for the Humanities, engages with spaces in, between, and beyond the national borders of …
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Hyung-A Kim: Korean Skilled Workers
South Korea’s triumphant development has catapulted the country’s economy to the eleventh largest in the world. Large family-owned conglomerates, or chaebŏls, such as Samsung, Hyundai, and LG, have b …
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Sunglim Kim: Flowering Plums and Curio Cabinets
The social and economic rise of the chungin class (“middle people” who ranked between the yangban aristocracy and commoners) during the late Chosŏn period (1700–1910) ushered in a world of materialis …
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Seung-kyung Kim & Michael Robinson: Peace Corps Volunteers and the Making of Korean Studies in the United States
The bonds forged in Peace Corps service shaped the field of Korean studies From 1966 through 1981 the Peace Corps sent more than two thousand volunteers to South Korea, to teach English and provide h …
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Yong-Chool Ha: Late Industrialization, Tradition, and Social Change in South Korea
Examines how primary social ties fueled economic growth South Korea’s rapid industrialization occurred with the rise of powerful chaebǒl (family-owned business conglomerates) that controlled vast swa …
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