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Book Review: Late Industrialization, Tradition, and Social Change in South Korea

January 28, 2025

January/February 2025, Foreign Affairs

(Article published on January 7, 2025)

As South Korea underwent rapid industrialization in the 1960s and 1970s, traditional social ties—what Ha and others call neo-familism—became more rather than less important, contrary to what classic modernization theory would have predicted….

Book Author: Yong-Chool Ha, University of Washington

Publisher: University of Washington Press (2024)

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