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December 17, 2012

S. Korea's Youth: Fearless or Smug?

Joel Brinkley, World Affairs Journal

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South Korea is undergoing a transformative generational change—one that has strong implications for the US. The younger generation, living a comfortable life in a first-world state, cares little about the threat posed by North Korea, which has been the dominant theme of South Korean life since statehood in 1948. The North is a dilemma of their grandparents’ generation that, to them, is no longer relevant.

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