An imagined middle class : the birth of the ideal national subject, 1961-1979 -- The rise of Gangnam style : real estate and middle-class dreams, 1978-1996 -- The betrayed dream of the Korean middle class, 1997-2015 : status anxiety and the collapse of middle-class myths
Summary
Myungji Yang's From Miracle to Mirage is a critical account of the trajectory of state-sponsored middle-class formation in Korea in the second half of the twentieth century
