Privilege and anxiety : the Korean middle class in the global era

Koo, Hagen 1941- (author.).

Summary: "Privilege and Anxiety is about the transformation of the Korean middle class over the past four decades. The Korean middle class grew rapidly during the period of industrial development and provided a social base for the political stability and democratic transition in the 1980s. But it began to decline abruptly from the mid-1990s and is now widely believed to be in deep economic and social crisis. Hagen Koo argues that, rather than focusing on the shrinking size of the middle class and the rise of a distinctly inegalitarian society, the more significant change to the middle class is actually qualitative, namely that the Korean middle class has transformed from a relatively homogeneous, fluid, and upwardly mobile class into an internally divided, fractured, and anxiety-ridden class."--

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ISBN: 9781501764943
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Physical Description: 1 online resource (ix, 146 pages) : illustrations, map
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Publisher: Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2022.
Copyright: ©2022

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Formatted Contents Note:	Introduction: The fractured middle -- The rise and fall of the Korean middle class -- Rising inequality -- Consumption and class distinction -- Class making, Gangnam style -- Educational class struggle -- In pursuit of global education.
Source of Description Note:	Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on June 23, 2022).