Toward Democracy

This volume brings together translated essays by fourteen established and emerging South Korean scholars. Using approaches from sociology, political science, history, and literary and cultural studies, the authors offer innovative and nuanced analyses of a wide range of topics—from refugee displacement to street politics, from anti-communism and democracy to militarization—and discuss the links between cultural productions and their sociohistorical contexts. Divided into five parts, the collection begins with the national division in 1945 and devastating civil war and concludes with the May 18 Democratic Uprising in 1980.

Contributors
Authors
Chang Se-jin is Assistant Professor in the Hallym Academy of Science at Hallym University.
Cheon Junghwan is Professor in the Department of Korean Language and Literature at Sungkyunkwan University.
Bruce Cumings is the Gustavus F. and Ann M. Swift Distinguished Service Professor of History and the College at the University of Chicago.
Kim Baek Yung is Professor in the Ingenium College of Liberal Arts at Kwangwoon University.
Kim Dong-choon is Professor in the College of Social Science at SungKongHoe University.
Hyunjoo Kim is Professor in the Department of Korean Language and Literature at Yonsei University.
Kim Jung Han is HK Plus Research Associate Professor in the Critical Global Studies Institute at Sogang University.
Kim Kun Woo is Associate Professor in the Department of Korean Language and Literature at Daejon University.
Kim Miran is a temporary professor in the Undergraduate College at Sungkyungkwan University.
Kim Sunghwan is Research Professor in the Humanities Institute at Pusan National University.
Kim Won is Associate Professor in the Department of Social Sciences at the Academy of Korean Studies.
Yerim Kim is Associate Professor in the Undergraduate College, Yonsei University.
Boduerae Kwon is Professor in the Department of Korean Language and Literature at Korea University.
Lee Bong-beom is a lecturer at Sungkyungwan University.
Hyeryoung Lee is Associate Professor in the Institute for East Asian Studies at Sungkyunkwan University.
John Lie is C. K. Cho Professor in the Department of Sociology at the University of California, Berkeley.
Yoo Sun Young is Professor in the Department of Media and Communications at SungKongHoe University.
Theodore Jun Yoo is Associate Professor in the Department of Korean Language and Literature at Yonsei University.
Translators
Jae Won Edward Chung is Assistant Professor of Korean Studies in the Department of Asian Languages and Cultures at Rutgers University, New Brunswick.
Seunghei Clara Hong is Associate Professor of Asian/Comparative Literature at Underwood International College, Yonsei University.
Susan Hwang is Assistant Professor of Korean Literature in the Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures at the University of Indiana, Bloomington.
I Jonathan Kief is Assistant Professor of Korean Literature in the Department of Asian Studies at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill.
Ann Meejung Kim is a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of English at the University of Wisconsin–Madison.
Kim Yong-bom worked as a managing editor for the Korea Times for many years and is currently a professional translator with Albatross.
Jennifer Wang Medina is Assistant Professor of Korean Literature and Culture in the Department of Russian and East Asian Languages and Cultures at Emory University.