Bullying and Violence in South Korea

This book provides a fully-contextualised, multidisciplinary examination of bullying and violence in South Korean society. Bullying and violence has been a pressing societal issue since 2011, having been labelled as a 'social evil' to be eradicated by the government. However, the issue has been incorrectly confined to schools when in fact it is widespread in society and in professional settings, as Bax argues in this original new text. Throughtwenty in-depth case studies and original case material from a Juvenile Detention Centre, Bax examinesthehistorical, cultural, political and social contexts of bullying and violence to better understand the nature of these crimes, the perpetrators, and how they come together in thebroader cultural landscape within which the individual, the family, the school and the community are embedded.