[Feature] How Should We Think About Korea in the Current Era of a Civilizational Transformation? / Lee Nam Ju
The Quarterly Changbi 201, Autumn 2023
Abstract
The feature in this issue strives to find creative paths and narrative possibilities for Korea, based on discursive diagnoses and criticisms about how to think of Korea in the era of civilizational transformation. While emphasizing that Korea’s developments and achievements should be connected to the tasks of this new era of transformation, political scientist Lee Nam Ju tries to find a new path for discursive thinking about the country. He analyzes how discourses about Korea as a global hub state and its diplomacy, and the security policy by the current administration, are fundamentally connected to a plan to re-consolidate the division system. Going forward, he proposes that we forge new possibilities for Korea through the overcoming of the division system.