Introduction : proletarianizing sexuality and race -- Surrogate military, subempire, and masculinity : South Korea in the Vietnam war -- Domestic prostitution : from necropolitics to prosthetic labor -- Military prostitution : gynocentrism, racial hybridity, and diaspora -- Migrant and immigrant labor : redefining Korean identity -- Postscript : the exceptional and the normative in South Korean modernization
Summary
Service Economies presents an alternative narrative of South Korean modernity by examining how working-class labor occupies a central space in linking the United States and Asia to South Korea's changing global position from a U.S. neocolony to a subempire. Making surprising and revelatory connections, Jin-kyung Lee analyzes South Korean military labor in the Vietnam War, domestic female sex workers, South Korean prostitution for U.S. troops, and immigrant/migrant labor from Asia in contemporary South Korea
