ABSTRACT
The two Koreas have taken different roads to modernization. Although both Koreas gave priority to economic development as a means of achieving legitimacy, their social institutions and political ideologies have developed along different trajectories. The hegemonic struggles of the two Korean regimes over divided nationhood make it difficult to envisage reunification in the near future. However, the new reunification discourse brings the reunification agenda back to the forefront of the state formation project and reopens the question of Korean civilization and culture.
