<CHS 100분 토크 25-6>
Critically Capitalist: The Spirit of Asset Capitalism in South Korea
발표: 김보형 (밴더빌트 대학교)
토론: 조영신 (동국대학교), 김예란 (광운대학교)
사회: 서지영 (서울대학교 아시아연구소 한류연구센터)
일시: 2025년 10월 27일 (월) 15:00–16:40 (KST)
장소: Zoom (온라인)
언어: 한국어
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문의: hallyustudies@gmail.com
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초록:
Critically Capitalist presents an ethnography of South Korea’s asset seekers, including amateur stock investors, real estate enthusiasts, and money coaches, to demonstrate how financialized asset capitalism is sustained. As they hunt for profit margins, rent, and dividends, they simultaneously critique capitalism and posit their pursuit of assets as a form of resistance. Bohyeong Kim theorizes this new spirit of capitalism in South Korea as “critical capitalism,” arguing that it reflects the popular discontent with both national development and financial neoliberalism. As a paradoxical critique and legitimation, Bohyeong Kim argues that critical capitalism valorizes the capitalist economy not through a triumphant narrative, but by highlighting the emotional wounds, destroyed communities, and oppressive tactics of modern capitalism. Drawing on multi-sited ethnography and in-depth interviews with a broad community of aspiring millionaires, Critically Capitalist illuminates how contemporary capitalism thrives by channeling discontent into financial and real estate markets, which in turn has cemented critical capitalism as the cultural and affective backbone of South Korea’s economy.