02899nam 2200625Ia 450 991078568750332120230825212257.00-8166-7518-X(CKB)2670000000069685(EBL)635544(OCoLC)698111711(SSID)ssj0000473065(PQKBManifestationID)11291268(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000473065(PQKBWorkID)10435826(PQKB)10549486(MiAaPQ)EBC635544(MdBmJHUP)muse29824(Au-PeEL)EBL635544(CaPaEBR)ebr10440592(CaONFJC)MIL525902(EXLCZ)99267000000006968520100128d2010 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrService economies militarism, sex work, and migrant labor in South Korea /Jin-kyung LeeMinneapolis University of Minnesota Pressc20101 online resource (316 p.)Description based upon print version of record.0-8166-5126-4 0-8166-5125-6 Includes bibliographical references and index.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.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. Foregrounding gender, sexuality, and race, Lee reimagines the South Korean economic ""MilitarismKorea (South)Service industriesKorea (South)Sex industryKorea (South)Korea (South)Economic policyKorea (South)Foreign relationsUnited StatesUnited StatesForeign relationsKorea (South)MilitarismService industriesSex industry363.4/4095195Lee Jin-kyung1571709MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910785687503321Service economies3846217UNINA