Youna Kim is Professor of Global Communications at the American University of Paris, France.

• Introduction Part I Formation of Korea1. Compressed Modernity in South Korea: Constitutive Dimensions, Manifesting Units, and Historical Conditions2. Militarized Modernity and Gendered Mass Mobilization3. The Socioeconomic Foundations of South Korea’s Democracy Movement4. The Seventy-Year History of North Korean Cultural Formation5. Religion in Twenty-first Century Korean LivesPart II Transforming Korea 6. The Muddled Middle Class in Globalized South Korea7. South Korean Youth across Three Decades8. The Korean Family in Transition9. Immigrant Subempire, Migrant Labor Activism and Multiculturalism in Contemporary South Korea10. North Korea Now: Turning Point for a Regime of Rightlessness? Part III Digital Korea 11. How to Understand the Emergence of Digital Korea12. Modern Korean Literature and Cultural Identity in a Pre- and Post-Colonial Digital Age13. South Korean Cinema Story in the Digital Age: 21st Century Success on a 20th Century Medium? 14. Digital Media and Democratic Transition in Korea15. Digital Media and the Rise of Connected Individuals in KoreaPart IV Global Korea 16. Korean Diaspora and Diasporic Nationalism17. An Overview of Korean American Women’s Writing: "Skin Upon Skin"18. The Korean Wave: Korean Popular Culture in a Digital Cosmopolitan World 19. K-Pop Music and Transnationalism20. Transnational Sport and Expressions of Global Koreanness

Youna Kim is Professor of Global Communications at the American University of Paris, France.

• Introduction Part I Formation of Korea1. Compressed Modernity in South Korea: Constitutive Dimensions, Manifesting Units, and Historical Conditions2. Militarized Modernity and Gendered Mass Mobilization3. The Socioeconomic Foundations of South Korea’s Democracy Movement4. The Seventy-Year History of North Korean Cultural Formation5. Religion in Twenty-first Century Korean LivesPart II Transforming Korea 6. The Muddled Middle Class in Globalized South Korea7. South Korean Youth across Three Decades8. The Korean Family in Transition9. Immigrant Subempire, Migrant Labor Activism and Multiculturalism in Contemporary South Korea10. North Korea Now: Turning Point for a Regime of Rightlessness? Part III Digital Korea 11. How to Understand the Emergence of Digital Korea12. Modern Korean Literature and Cultural Identity in a Pre- and Post-Colonial Digital Age13. South Korean Cinema Story in the Digital Age: 21st Century Success on a 20th Century Medium? 14. Digital Media and Democratic Transition in Korea15. Digital Media and the Rise of Connected Individuals in KoreaPart IV Global Korea 16. Korean Diaspora and Diasporic Nationalism17. An Overview of Korean American Women’s Writing: "Skin Upon Skin"18. The Korean Wave: Korean Popular Culture in a Digital Cosmopolitan World 19. K-Pop Music and Transnationalism20. Transnational Sport and Expressions of Global Koreanness

Youna Kim is Professor of Global Communications at the American University of Paris, France.

• Introduction Part I Formation of Korea1. Compressed Modernity in South Korea: Constitutive Dimensions, Manifesting Units, and Historical Conditions2. Militarized Modernity and Gendered Mass Mobilization3. The Socioeconomic Foundations of South Korea’s Democracy Movement4. The Seventy-Year History of North Korean Cultural Formation5. Religion in Twenty-first Century Korean LivesPart II Transforming Korea 6. The Muddled Middle Class in Globalized South Korea7. South Korean Youth across Three Decades8. The Korean Family in Transition9. Immigrant Subempire, Migrant Labor Activism and Multiculturalism in Contemporary South Korea10. North Korea Now: Turning Point for a Regime of Rightlessness? Part III Digital Korea 11. How to Understand the Emergence of Digital Korea12. Modern Korean Literature and Cultural Identity in a Pre- and Post-Colonial Digital Age13. South Korean Cinema Story in the Digital Age: 21st Century Success on a 20th Century Medium? 14. Digital Media and Democratic Transition in Korea15. Digital Media and the Rise of Connected Individuals in KoreaPart IV Global Korea 16. Korean Diaspora and Diasporic Nationalism17. An Overview of Korean American Women’s Writing: "Skin Upon Skin"18. The Korean Wave: Korean Popular Culture in a Digital Cosmopolitan World 19. K-Pop Music and Transnationalism20. Transnational Sport and Expressions of Global Koreanness