Inga Diederich- Defining Ethno-National Identity in Cold War South Korea

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Inga Diederich is a former Ph.D. student at the University of California in San Diego. She specializes in the history of modern Korea. Diederich argues that notions of blood purity became an important focus in Korean society beginning in the Cold War era, and that these notions of "pure" and "impure" resulted in hierarchies that involved race, gender, and class.