New Millennium South Korea focuses on South Korea's transformation during the early years of the new millennium, the book discusses the key features of recent transformations within the country.

Jesook Song is an Associate Professor at the University of Toronto. As an anthropologist of Korea and a gender studies scholar, her interests include liberal governmentality, financialization, and youth education.

Introduction: Why Korea in the New Millennium? Part I: Economic and Sociological Accounts 1. Globalization and Social Inequality in South Korea 2. Neoliberalism, the Financial Crisis and Economic Restructuring in Korea 3. Neoliberalism in South Korea: The Dynamics of Financialization Part II: Ethnographic and Historical Accounts 4. Contesting Legal Liminality: The Gendered Labor Politics of Irregular Workers in South Korea 5. The Will to Self-Managing, the Will to Freedom: The Self-managing Ethic and the Spirit of Flexible Capitalism in South Korea 6. Educational Manager Mothers As Neoliberal Maternal Subjects 7. For the Rights of "Colonial Returnees": Korean Chinese, Decolonization and Neoliberal Democracy in South Korea 8. "Not-Quite Korean" Children in "Almost Korean" Families: The Fear of Decreasing Population and State Multiculturalism in South Korea 9. "If you don't work, you don't eat": Evangelizing Development in Africa