The result of a seminar, the essays are a comprehensive study of Korea from different perspectives. They provide insights into Indo-Korea interactions and ties at the historical, cultural and political levels. They view the global economic crisis and recovery from it by India and Korea, offering a comparative study. They deal with mostly comparative studies of India and Korea in terms of their political economy, women and the labour market, higher education scenario, and traditional medicine. They take up patent policy and conditions in Korea, corporate social responsibility initiatives of Korean companies in India, the transnational imagination and historical geography of twenty-first century Korean novels. The cooperation between the culture industry in the two countries is examined as well as the nature of exchanges between India and South Korea taking into consideration the role of external actors like the USA and China.