Join our discussion about the consequences of Korea’s rapid economic development on the family unit and society at large, featuring Seoul National University sociology Professor Chang Kyung-Sup. This program is a collaboration with the Policy Department and the Education Department.
Consequences of Korea's Compressed Modernity
Thursday, February 9, 2023 | 7 PM (EST)
The Korea Society
350 Madison Avenue, 24th Floor
New York, NY 10017
About the Speaker :
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Kyung-Sup Chang is a SNU Distinguished Professor at Seoul National University, teaching sociology since 1991. His work has dealt with comparative development and modernity, Asian citizenship regimes, Korean liberalism, etc. His authored books include: The Logic of Compressed Modernity (Polity, 2022; Korean, Chinese, French, Arabic versions forthcoming); Transformative Citizenship in South Korea: Politics of Transformative Contributory Rights (Palgrave Macmillan, 2022); Developmental Liberalism in South Korea: Formation, Degeneration, and Transnationalization (Palgrave Macmillan, 2019); South Korea under Compressed Modernity: Familial Political Economy in Transition (Routledge, 2010; Chinese version in 2023); The Risk of Compressed Modernity (Polity, forthcoming), etc. |
