TY - GEN AB - This book offers a fresh look at the global apparel industry, focusing on Korean multinational corporations (MNCs) and their growing role in building regional connections and shaping economic and social development in Asia. Focusing on the multinationalization of Korean apparel firms over the past decades and their upgrading to first-tier suppliers in apparel global value chains, this edited volume highlights a host of new challenges these emerging MNCs confront in the rapidly changing global apparel industry and provides an in-depth view of their expanding role and adaptive strategies in configuring regional connections in post-Pandemic Asia. Joonkoo Lee is an Associate Professor in the School of Business at Hanyang University, Seoul, Republic of Korea. Hyunji Kwon is a Professor of Sociology at Seoul National University, Seoul, Republic of Korea. Hyun-Chin Lim is a Professor Emeritus of Sociology and Director of the Civil Society Program in Asia Center at Seoul National University, Seoul, Republic of Korea. AU - Yi, Chun-gu, AU - Kwŏn, Hyŏn-ji, AU - Im, Hyŏn-jin, CN - HD9940.K62 DO - 10.1007/978-981-99-3764-6 DO - doi ID - 1476193 KW - Clothing trade KW - International business enterprises KW - Globalization LK - https://univsouthin.idm.oclc.org/login?url=https://link.springer.com/10.1007/978-981-99-3764-6 N1 - Includes index. N2 - This book offers a fresh look at the global apparel industry, focusing on Korean multinational corporations (MNCs) and their growing role in building regional connections and shaping economic and social development in Asia. Focusing on the multinationalization of Korean apparel firms over the past decades and their upgrading to first-tier suppliers in apparel global value chains, this edited volume highlights a host of new challenges these emerging MNCs confront in the rapidly changing global apparel industry and provides an in-depth view of their expanding role and adaptive strategies in configuring regional connections in post-Pandemic Asia. Joonkoo Lee is an Associate Professor in the School of Business at Hanyang University, Seoul, Republic of Korea. Hyunji Kwon is a Professor of Sociology at Seoul National University, Seoul, Republic of Korea. Hyun-Chin Lim is a Professor Emeritus of Sociology and Director of the Civil Society Program in Asia Center at Seoul National University, Seoul, Republic of Korea. SN - 9789819937646 SN - 9819937647 T1 - Knitting Asia, weaving development :globalization of the Korean apparel industry / TI - Knitting Asia, weaving development :globalization of the Korean apparel industry / UR - https://univsouthin.idm.oclc.org/login?url=https://link.springer.com/10.1007/978-981-99-3764-6 ER -