Future Yet to Come : : Sociotechnical Imaginaries in Modern Korea / / ed. by Robert Ji-Song Ku, Sonja M. Kim.
South Korea is home to cutting-edge electronics, state-of-the-art medical facilities, and ubiquitous high-speed internet. The country’s meteoric rise from the ashes of the Korean War (1950–1953) to rank among the world’s most technologically advanced societies is often attributed to state-led promot...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Honolulu : : University of Hawaii Press, , [2021] ©2021 |
| Year of Publication: | 2021 |
| Language: | English |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- PART I RECOLLECTING SOCIOTECHNICAL IMAGINARIES
- 1 Aligning Patterns in the Material World: Sciences in Chosŏn Korea
- 2 Medicine as a Virtuous Art in Chosŏn and Colonial Korea
- 3 Cloning National Pride: Science, Technology, and the Korean Dream of Joining the “Advanced World”
- PART II RESTORING MINDS AND BODIES
- 4 The Suicidal Person: The Medicalization and Gendering of Suicide in Colonial Korea
- 5 In Search of an Anticommunist Nation: The World Health Organization and Public Health Planning in Postwar Korea
- 6 From Ruin to Revival: Mobilizing the Body, Child Welfare, and the Hybrid Origins of Rehabilitative Medicine in South Korea, 1954–1961
- 7 Suffering Longevity: Life, Time, Money, and the Stem Cell Business in the Centenarian Era
- PART III PROSTHETIC ARTS
- 8 Photography, Technology, and Realism in 1950s Korea
- 9 Long-Distance Recall: Nam June Paik and the Prosthetics of Memory
- 10 Affect in the End of Days: South Korean Science Fiction Cinema, Doomsday Book, and Affective Estrangement
- Bibliography
- Contributors
- Index