How does knowledge travel? medical doctors and family planning mothers’ clubs in Cold War South Korea

This article examines the transnational flow of knowledge in family planning programmes during the Cold War, focusing on South Korea’s medical doctors and the Family Planning Mothers’ Club. South Korea’s historical trajectory positioned medical doctors to internalise and localise global population control during the Cold War. The Mothers’ Club, established through this process, emerged as a nexus for integrating diverse knowledge production and Western technologies. From a transnational perspective, this work highlights the Mothers’ Club in the global circulation of knowledge, demonstrating the complex interplay between local agency and international population control during the Cold War.