Globalization and social inequality in South Korea

New Millennium South Korea: Neoliberal Capitalism and Transnational Movements

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 11-28

  Shin, Kwang Yeong ^a  

^a Chung Ang University   (South Korea)

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