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IV. South Korea
a. Authoritarian rule of Syngman Rhee
b. The Rise of Park Chung Hee (1961)
c. State-led industrialization
d. Authoritarianism and the drive for democracy (1970s)
e. Minjung Movement (1980s)
f. Globalization in South Korea (1990s to the present)
V. Nuclear issue and reunification
a. North Korea in the 1990s
b. Nuclear conflict under Clinton and Bush
c. “Pivot to Asia” and Obama
d. Trump and Korea
e. Future of reunification
VI. Historical legacy and Korea
About speaker: Albert L. Park is an associate professor of history at Claremont McKenna
College (California, USA) and Co-Principal Investigator of EnviroLab Asia—a Henry Luce
Foundation-funded initiative at the Claremont Colleges that studies environmental issues in Asia
through an interdisciplinary lens. As a historian of modern Korea and East Asia, his current
research interest is centered on the relationship between culture and political economy and
alternative forms of modernity. He is the author of Building a Heaven on Earth: Religion,
Activism and Protest in Japanese Occupied Korea and is the co-editor of Encountering
Modernity: Christianity and East Asia. His current research project is on the origins of
environmental movements and consciousness in modern Korea. He is the recipient of three
Fulbright Fellowships and fellowships from the Korea Foundation and the Center for East Asian
Studies at the University of Chicago. A native of Chicago, he received his B.A. with honors from
Northwestern University, an M.A. from Columbia University and Ph.D. in History from the
University of Chicago.
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