Youth for Nation - 9780824855949

Youth for NationCulture and Protest in Cold War South Korea\nAuthor(s): Charles R. Kim\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: University of Hawai'i Press, United States\nImprint: University of Hawai'i Press\nISBN-13: 9780824855949, 978-0824855949\nSynopsis\nThis in-depth exploration of culture, media, and protest follows South Koreas 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 nations youth as the core protagonist of a newly independent Korea. By designating students and young men and women as the hope.