Kim Kyong-Dong Libri

Focusing on the Korean experience, this book provides an alternative perspective on modernization and development in East Asia. It explores the societal transformations of the past fifty years, using everyday vernacular to interpret and characterize these changes. By globalizing the understanding of these complex social dynamics, the author aims to enhance the pedagogical approach to the human implications of modernization in Korea, offering deeper insights into the region's unique journey.

This book explores the influence of Confucianism on the modernization of East Asia, particularly Korea, from the 19th to the 20th century. It examines the principles' relevance at personal and organizational levels and analyzes historical significance in China, Korea, and Japan, highlighting Western perceptions during modernization.

This cutting edge work offers an alternative perspective on existing paradigms of modernization and development that originated in the West from the vantage point of non-western, late-modernizing societies. It considers how East Asian philosophical ideas enrich the reformulation of the concept of development or societal development, and how influential principles of traditional culture such as yin-yang dialectic interact with modern ideas and technology. It addresses the significance of alternative discourses as culturally independent scholarship, and the problems of pervasive mechanisms of social, political, economic, and cultural dependence in the global academic world.