The Making of Modern Korea Book

Preface     xiii
Map     xvi
Introduction     1
Joined to the empire, 1910-31     13
The consolidation of colonial power     17
The March First Movement     20
The Japanese response     22
Korean society in the 1920s     25
Korean nationalism     28
Conclusion     31
The dark gulf, 1931-45     35
Japanese policy     36
The Korean economy in the 1930s     37
Korean resistance     41
Conclusion     43
Bitter liberty, 1945-48     46
Occupying Korea: the first moves     48
The Moscow Agreement and its aftermath     54
Conclusion     62
The supreme disaster, 1948-53     66
The two Koreas, 1948-50     67
The road to war     70
Negotiations     75
The Koreans' war     76
Conclusion     80
The mastery of despair, 1953-71     86
After the war: the DPRK     87
After the war: the ROK     95
The Second Republic     99
Park Chung-hee and the beginnings of the ROK industrial state     103
Conclusion     111
Reversal of fortunes, 1971-80     115
The talks begin     117
The DPRK in the 1970s     119
The Yushin years in the ROK: Park's authoritarian state     122
The ROK economy in the 1970s     126
ROK society in the 1970s     129
Conclusion     132
Divergent courses, 1980-92     136
The Kim Jong Il ascendancy     138
The ROK Fifth Republic     143
The Roh administration     151
ROK society in the 1980s     157
Conclusion     159
Hallowed by the price, 1992-2006     162
The North in trouble     163
The Kim Young Sam administration     170
The Kim Dae Jung administration     174
The Roh Moo-hyun administration     177
ROK society in the 1990s     179
Concluding remarks     180
Major events, 1910-2006     188
Index     210