South Korea: The Price of Economic Miracle

South Korea is generally associated with supermodern technologies and multinational corporations, beautiful cars and skyscrapers reaching for the sky, charming K-POP singers and groups. It seems that these images have come from the future. However, this beautiful "cover" has another... side: Korean media are full of stories about internal crises, scandals, and a constant competitive race; Koreans often complain about life and, if surveys are to be believed, are quite unhappy. At what cost does the admiring world of success come? Oleg Kiryaynov is an international journalist, political scientist, historian of Korea, and candidate of historical sciences. He graduated from the Korean department of the Faculty of Oriental Studies at St. Petersburg State University, as well as from the bachelor's and master's programs at Seoul National University. He specializes in the history and contemporary issues of the Korean Peninsula, and has been living and working in Seoul for over 20 years. He invites the reader to look at Korea through different eyes, largely through the eyes of the Koreans themselves.