Gender, Family, and Social Change in Contemporary South Korea

I highly recommend taking the course to anyone who wishes to learn more about Gender, Family and Social Change in Contemporary South Korea.

Interesting course, especially to learn of Korea today in comparison to 50 years ago when I lived there about a year.

For everyone who is interested in the success of Korea, its economic development, education model and social changes; this course provide a solid and wide introduction with historical perspective to understand the evolution of the country, focusing on gender roles, traditional family conception, the profound confucian heritage, sexuality construction, women empowerment movements and evolution of Korea during the XX century.Instructors Hyun Mee Kim & Yoo Theodore Jun made an amazing job preparing the material and explaining the most important aspects of the evolution of the country and the historical background behind all the social realities of Korea.

I was unimpressed at how much of the women's history portion of the course was covered completely from a male perspective, by a male professor using examples of fiction by men.

I would put 5 stars because it's amazing but too short :'( Good overview of how things stand in South Korea.

It really gives valuable insight to why the Korean societal structure is the way that it is, from a long-standing historical standpoint up to modern day ideas and opinions.

It does show a point of view I wasn't expecting to learn about Korea and it really opened my mind and eyes a bit.

Although attempts were made to be critical of this view, I felt that they did not go far enough.

Slightly hard to understand as it is taught by Koreans with Korean accents.