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Since extensive analyses of the experience of modernization and social change in Korea are attempted using the unique paradigm of “alternative discourses” different from those found in most existing studies in the field, Kim introduces a summary of the contents of those alternative theories and approaches. They consist of an alternative theory of selective adaptation and indigenization of modernization, the redefined meaning of development as an innately value-laden concept emphasizing the pursuit of happiness as the ultimate goal of development, the principles of limit and return, excess versus moderation, and flexibility, adopted from the classical East Asian philosophy of the yin–yang dialectic, as well as what is labeled the thematic approach which identifies the distinctive characteristics of change taking place in modernization.
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Kyong-Dong, K. (2017). Prologue. In: Korean Modernization and Uneven Development. Palgrave Macmillan, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-3494-7_1
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