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Critically Capitalist: The Spirit of Asset Capitalism in South Korea

Critically Capitalist: The Spirit of Asset Capitalism in South Korea

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Series: Perspectives on Contemporary Korea

Business GeneralEconomicsKorean History

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ISBN10: 047205726X
ISBN13: 9780472057269
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
Published: Jan 15 2025
Pages: 202
Weight: 0.61
Height: 0.47 Width: 6.18 Depth: 8.93
Language: English
Critically Capitalist presents an ethnography of South Korea's asset seekers, including amateur stock investors, real estate enthusiasts, and money coaches, to demonstrate how financialized asset capitalism is sustained. As they hunt for profit margins, rent, and dividends, they simultaneously critique capitalism and posit their pursuit of assets as a form of resistance. Bohyeong Kim theorizes this new spirit of capitalism in South Korea as critical capitalism, arguing that it reflects the popular discontent with both national development and financial neoliberalism. As a paradoxical critique and legitimation, Bohyeong Kim argues that critical capitalism valorizes the capitalist economy not through a triumphant narrative, but by highlighting the emotional wounds, destroyed communities, and oppressive tactics of modern capitalism.

Drawing on multi-sited ethnography and in-depth interviews with a broad community of aspiring millionaires, Critically Capitalist illuminates how contemporary capitalism thrives by channeling discontent into financial and real estate markets, which in turn has cemented critical capitalism as the cultural and affective backbone of South Korea's economy.

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