Challenges of Modernization and Governance in South Korea

1. Introduction: Sinking the Sewol, Drowning Korea? Compressed Modernization and Compounded Risks
Jae-Jung Suh

2. The Sewol Disaster: Predictable Consequences of Neoliberal Deregulation
Yoonkyung Lee

3. Institutionalized Irresponsibility: Understanding the Sewol Disaster from the Perspective of the Addictive Organization Theory
Su-Dol Kang

4. National Crisis and Democratic Consolidation in South Korea
Taehyun Nam

5. Capturing Collusion: The Industry and the Government in Ferry Safety Regulation
Jong-sung You, Youn Min Park

6. “Stay Still”: Sewol, a Tale of Fatal Censorship, Fatal Paternalism
K. S. Park

7. Disciplining High-School Students and Molding Their Subjectivity in South Korea: A Shift in Disciplinary Paradigm
Seungsook Moon

8. Foreign to Disaster or New Point of Solidarity? A Vietnamese Victim’s Family in the Sewol Aftermath
Hyunok Lee

9. From Passive Citizens to Resistant Subjects: The Sewol Families Stand Up to the State
Hyeon Jung Lee

10. Epilogue: The Wreck of the Sewol
John Lie

Keywords: Social Sciences, Environmental Sociology, Sustainable Development, Development Economics