Ebook: Korea: the Impossible Country

Acknowledgments, Caveats, and a Note on Names; Introduction; A Brief History of Korea; PART ONE Foundations; 1. Shamanism and the Spirit World; 2. Buddhism; 3. Confucianism; 4. Christianity; 5. Capitalism with a Korean Face; 6. Democracy: Beyond Asian Values; PART TWO Cultural Codes; 7. Jeong -- The Invisible Hug; 8. Competition; 9. Chemyon, or Face; 10. Han and Heung: The Deep Sadness and Pure Joy in the Korean Mind; 11. From Clan to Nuclear Family; 12. Neophilia; PART THREE Hyun-shil: Cold Reality; 13. North Korea: Friend, Foe, or Foreigner; 14. Politics and the Media.;[Long overshadowed by Japan and China, South Korea is a small country that happens to be one of the great national success stories of the postwar period. From a failed state with no democratic tradition, ruined and partitioned by war, and sapped by a half-century of colonial rule, South Korea transformed itself in just fifty years into an economic powerhouse and a democracy that serves as a model for other countries. With no natural resources and a tradition of authoritarian rule, Korea managed to accomplish a second Asian miracle. Daniel Tudor is a journalist who h.