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Biography
I grew up in South Korea and completed my postgraduate degrees of Dip. Ed at Melbourne University, and MA and PhD at the Australian National University. My PhD dissertation was a study of "Park Chung Hee's Self-Reliance Ideology, 1961-1979: Modernization and National Restoration under President Park Chung Hee". I authored Korean Skilled Workers: Toward A Labor Aristocracy (2020) and Korea's Development under Park Chung Hee: Rapid Industrialization 1961-1979 (2004); and co-edited, Reassessing the Park Chung Hee Era, 1961-1979: Development Political Thought, Democracy and Clutural Influence (2011). I published many articles in academic journals, newspapers, international policy forums and online news outlets. Some of the most recent ones include: "A youth revolt is under way in South Korea (2021)," "Out of Power and On Trial: The Corruption of Former Leaders in East Asia" (with Robert Cribb, 2018), and "President Rooh Moo-Hyun's Last Interview and the Roh Moo-Hyun Phenomenon in South Korea" (2013), among other articles. I served as Founding-Director of the Australia-Korea Leadership Forum at the ANU (2008-9) and I taught in the Department of Sociology, Yonsei University, South Korea, as Distinguished Professor (2014).
Career highlights
Associate Professor, Korea Politics and History, and Director of the Australia-Korea Leadership Forum at the Australian National University; Senior Research Fellow at the University of Wollongong (2004); Research Fellow at Wollongong and Newcastle Universities (2002-2003); Visiting Associate Professor, Linfield College, Oregon, USA (1998-99).
Research interests
Korea's contemporary politics and society; the role of the state and the power elite; the politics of networking.
Qualifications
Keywords
- HN Social history and conditions. Social problems. Social reform
- JQ Political institutions Asia
Expertise Areas
- Comparative Government and Politics
- Government and Politics of Asia and the Pacific
- Studies of Asian Society
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South Korean Skilled Workers: From Industrial Warriors to Labor Aristocracy since 1973
Kim, H. & Lew, S.
Asan Institute for Policy Studies
8/09/11 → 30/04/16
Project: Research
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Review of Peter Banseok Kwon "Building Bombs, Building a Nation: The State, Chaebol, and the Militarized Industrialization of South Korea, 1973-1979." The Journal of Asian Studies 79:1 (February 2020): 51-75 [ARTICLE]
Kim, H-A., 2021, United StatesResearch output: Other contribution
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Korean Skilled Workers: Toward a Labor Aristocracy
Kim, H-A., 2020, 1st ed. Seattle: University of Washington Press. 232 p.Research output: Book/Report › Book
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Labour Polarization: Labour Aristocracy Versus Irregular Workers in Post-development Korea
Kim, H-A., 2018, Korea's Quest for Economic Democratization. Youngmi Kim (ed.). 1st ed. Switzerland: Palgrave Macmillan, p. 119-139Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter
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Out of Power and On Trial: The Corruption Trials of Former Leaders in East Asia
Cribb, R. & Kim, H-A., 2018, In: Situations: Cultural Studies in the Asian Context. 11, 1, p. 1-17ppResearch output: Contribution to journal › Article
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President Roh Moo-Hyun's Last Interview and the Roh Moo-Hyun Phenomenon in South Korea
Kim, H-A., 2017, In: Journal of Contemporary Asia. 47, 2, p. 273-298Research output: Contribution to journal › Article