The passenger. South Korea / [managing editor, Simon Smith].

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Smith, Simon, 1970- editor.

Language:

English

French

German

Italian

Korean

Subjects (All):

Travelers' writings.

travel literature.

Korea (South)--Civilization--21st century.

Korea (South).

Korea (South)--Social life and customs--21st century.

Korea (South)--Social conditions--21st century.

Korea (South)--In literature.

Physical Description:

192 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), color map ; 24 cm.

Edition:

[English-language edition]

Place of Publication:

[ New York] : Europa Editions ; [Milan, Italy] : Iperborea, 2024]

Language Note:

Some selections translated from Korean, French, German, and Italian.

Summary:

"Eighty years ago, at the end of a devastating civil war, South Korea was one of the poorest countries in the world, under constant threat from the Communist regime north of the 38th parallel and completely dependent on the United States for its security and prosperity. Today, it is the world's tenth-largest economy, a dynamic and innovative country with a per capita GDP similar to that of Western Europe, a lively and participatory democracy that stands up to its larger, more powerful neighbors. And above all, the country is the origin of the hallyu--the Korean wave--which has reached every corner of the world and taken the global entertainment, food, and culture industries by storm. This extremely rapid and astonishing transformation has inevitably brought ruptures and contradictions. If the global youth looks to Korea as previous generations looked to Hollywood and New York, young Koreans instead talk about Hell Joseon: a country that is rapidly aging, an economic system dominated by powerful chaebols (family-controlled conglomerates), a fiercely competitive educational system, a generational gap in outlook and behavior and, at the center of it all, the role of women-- one of the keys that The Passenger has chosen to try to decipher a complex, fascinating country, central to the dynamics of today's world, and that is often exoticized and idealized to the same extent. "--Amazon.ca.

Contents:

Some number

The real reason South Koreans aren't having babies

Intimate rivals

A world garlanded with flowers of every kind

The shaman

In the Samsung republic

My mother's stir-fried red anchovies

Listening to K-pop in Phitsanulok

DMZ

The defector's lot

In between

Every legend has a beginning

Rice wine

The playlist

Digging deeper.

Notes:

Place of publication from publisher's website.

Cover title.

Map on front endpapers.

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

1787705153

9781787705159

OCLC:

1422141466

Publisher Number:

90102007737