Contrary to the image of Korea as a largely self-contained country until its economy became global during the 1990s, this book shows that transnationalism has firmly been part of modern Korea's national experience throughout its existence.

Joanne Miyang Cho is a professor of History at William Paterson University. She has edited/co-edited Germany and India, Germany and China, Germany and Japan, Germany and Korea, Germany and East Asia, Gendered Encounters, Musical Entanglements, and East Asian-German Cinema. She is a co-editor for Palgrave Series in Asian German Studies.

Lee M. Roberts is a professor of German at Purdue University Fort Wayne specializing in Asian German Studies and Holocaust. Recent publications include chapters in German East Asian Encounters and Entanglements (2021), and The History of the Shanghai Jews: New Pathways in Research (2022).

Sang Hwan Seong is a professor of Germanic linguistics at the Department of German Language Education, Seoul National University. He was a guest professor of Korean Studies at the University of Bonn in Germany (1998-2005). He is the Director of the International Center for Korean Studies at SNU Kyujanggak.

1. Transnationalism, Migration, Historiography, and Organization Part 1: Korea's Transnational Relations to Asia and the West: Politics, Economy, and Prison 2. The Origins of Democratic Republicanism in Korea: The Korean National Association of North America Convention in Riverside (1911) 3. Globalization under Colonialism: Royal Dutch Shell's Korean Oil Business and the Resistance of Colonial Korean Workers 4. A Comparative History of Prisons in Korea and Taiwan under Japanese Colonial Rule 5. Bulgaria's "Humanitarian" Aid to North Korea: Economic Aid, Medical Brigades, and Refugee Assistance, 1950-1962 6. Cold War Politics of the Korean Peninsula in the 1960s: Inter-Korean Conflicts and North Korean Diplomatic Strategies Part 2: Korean Communities in Japan, China, and the Russian Far East since 1945 7. Post-War Korean Diasporas in Sakhalin and Japan: A Comparative Analysis of Media, Education and Arts 8. Japanese and Korean Return Migrants in Sapporo (Japan) and Ansan (South Korea) 9. Recreated Homeland and Space Imagination: The Dilemma of the Left-Behind Korean Community in China 10. Exhibiting Korean-ness: Displays of Ethnic Identity at the "Russian Korean History Museum" Part 3: Korean Communities in the West since the 1960s 11. Memories of Home Mediated through Food: Korean Migrants in Germany 12. The Korean Presence in Spain: A Study of Korean Communities 13. Two Generations of Korean Women's Perspectives on the American Dream