"Nearly one hundred years after the Great Depression, Dorothea Lange's indelible photographs remain vivid in our collective memory as the face of unemployment. Her portraits showed down and out men waiting in breadlines and the desperation of families living through the trauma of job loss....

"Korean society, once characterized by a high degree of intergenerational social mobility, faces increasing pessimism over the significance of one's efforts in moving up the social ladder. Rising skepticism is being cast on the role of education as a pathway to social ascent, given how...