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Quo Vadis Korea - The Last Custodian of Confucianism and Its Atypical Transformation (Hardcover)
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Quo Vadis Korea - The Last Custodian of Confucianism and Its Atypical Transformation (Hardcover)
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In the mid-20th century, Korea was dubbed the last custodian of
Confucianism, but it is now very hard to even call the country a
truly Confucian society. Following this argument, Quo Vadis Korea?
explores critically how some five decades of breakneck
industrialization and unbridled modernization could ineluctably
change the nation so fundamentally that their repercussions now
sharply negate many basic principles of Confucianism in one way to
another. This study is a critical overview of the politico-economic
as well as socio-cultural characteristics of modern Korea from a
rather different perspective. It discusses why many key objectives
of industrialization and economic development projects were not
really delivered as they were initially promised to the nation.
They all had, consequently, significant ramifications for the
entire Korean society, the way it functions now, and its peculiar
reactions to strangers both inside and outside the peninsula.
Shaped largely by academic studies, constant observation, and
personal experiences, this book is tantamount to a detailed survey
of lengthy and protracted fieldwork in which the author explains
with rare candid clarity an appreciable chasm between the Korea he
knew before landing on the peninsula and the one he studied
incessantly and practically as a detached investigator in the
place. By engaging this book, many unbiased and unprejudiced
readers would have to acknowledge that the modern Korea is not all
about certain brands or economic statistics that we often hear, but
there are also many other social and cultural developments which
the modernity project has imposed, somewhat arbitrarily, upon the
nation.
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