This in-depth exploration of culture, media, and protest follows South Korea’s transition from the Korean War to the political struggles and socioeconomic transformations of the Park Chung Hee era. Although the post–Korean War years are commonly remembered as a time of crisis and disarray, Charles Kim contends that they also created a formative and productive juncture in which South Koreans reworked pre-1945 constructions of national identity to meet the political and cultural needs of postcolonial nation-building. He explores how state ideologues and mainstream intellectuals expanded their efforts by elevating the nation’s youth as the core protagonist of a newly independent Korea. By designating students and young men and women as the hope and exemplars of the new nation-state, the discursive stage was set for the remarkable outburst of the April Revolution in 1960.
Kim’s interpretation of this seminal event underscores student participants’ recasting of anticolonial resistance memories into South Korea’s postcolonial politics. This pivotal innovation enabled protestors to circumvent the state’s official anticommunism and, in doing so, brought about the formation of a culture of protest that lay at the heart of the country’s democracy movement from the 1960s to the 1980s. The positioning of women as subordinates in the nation-building enterprise is also shown to be a direct translation of postwar and Cold War exigencies into the sphere of culture; this cultural conservatism went on to shape the terrain of gender relations in subsequent decades.
A meticulously researched cultural history, Youth for Nation illuminates the historical significance of the postwar period through a rigorous analysis of magazines, films, textbooks, archival documents, and personal testimonies. In addition to scholars and students of twentieth-century Korea, the book will be welcomed by those interested in Cold War cultures, social movements, and democratization in East Asia.

Korea has endured a "fractured, shattered twentieth century", and this updated edition brings Bruce Cumings' leading history of the modern era into the present. The small country, overshadowed in the imperial era, crammed against great powers during the Cold War and divided and decimated by the Korean War, has recently seen the first real hints of reunification. But positive movements forward are tempered by frustrating steps backward. In the late 1990s South Korea survived its most severe economic crisis since the Korean War, forcing a successful restructuring of its political economy. Suffering through floods, droughts and a famine that cost the lives of millions of people, North Korea has been labelled part of an "axis of evil" by the current Bush administration and has renewed its nuclear threats. On both sides Korea seems poised to continue its fractured existence on into the new century, with potential ramifications for the rest of the world.

《韩国民主化运动史》(石枕)沿着韩国民主化及民众运动的历史逆流而上，对这段历史进行了系统、综合的整理和分析。在世界民主运动史当中，漫长的韩国民主化运动的一大特点是：始终以学生为主力军。

戦争と混乱、過酷な強権政治と抵抗、経済成長とその破綻。本書は、幾多の困難と屈折をくぐり抜け民主化を求めてきた韓国に住む人びとの経験を伝える。そして今なお残る過去清算問題とは何か。柔らかな筆致でコンパクトに描く韓国現代史の新たなスタンダード。

本书对韩国从出口导向型工业化开始到20世纪90年代末劳工运动的发展历程进行了研究，关注的焦点是文化和政治给第一代产业工人带来的冲击和他们的斗争模式。
《韩国工人》展现了一部令人着迷的历史。描述了发展中国家一种最具战斗性的工人运动在克服不利的文化和专制的工作条件的同时形成阶级意识的过程。同时，具海根恰逢其时的分析也向我们展示，随着向民主制度的过渡，新的大韩劳动组合协议会在政治上的成功，同时伴随着集体认同发生某种程度的削弱。
由于对于社会科学理论的充分了解，具海根对现代韩国的阶级形成作出了分析敏锐且体察入微、富有同情心的论述。由此，他对学术研究作出了杰出的贡献，令世界各地有关的劳工运动活动家和研究人员很感兴趣。

“系统·简明·准确”的大韩民国史
广泛搜罗韩国档案资料、学术成果
展现中国学界“韩国学”研究的最新贡献
这部《大韩民国史》，时间起自1945年8月15日日本战败，终于2014年初，是目前最新和最简明而翔实的当代韩国史。
对于想要了解韩国历史的人来说——外交、外贸了解必备参考，旅游和留学的深入指南。
对于热爱韩国文化的人来说——韩国人的精神和现状是怎样的？读这本书会找到答案。