Korean Women Managers and Corporate Culture: Challenging Tradition, Choosing Empowerment, Creating Change

The typical view of Korean women is not as managers. The stereotype is of Korean women serving and pleasing their men, or more recently as aggressive shopkeepers and bar-owners. Very little has been written to challenge this misconception. However, as this fascinating book reveals, there have always been managers amongst Korean women, particularly in occupations like moneylending, retail and fashion. At the beginning of a new century, after the economic crash, this book illuminates the many roles of women - from management, leadership and policy making, to the more traditional position as homemaker and wife - in order to evaluate the future of women as well as that of Korea itself.