Changing Korea

Author : OECD
Publisher : OECD Publishing
Page : 210 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2019-10-28
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9789264637382

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Rejuvenating Korea: Policies for a Changing Society by OECD Pdf

Korean families are changing fast. While birth rates remain low, Koreans are marrying and starting a family later than ever before, if at all. Couple-with-children households, the dominant household type in Korea until recently, will soon make up fewer than one quarter of all households. These changes will have a profound effect on Korea’s future. Among other things, the Korean labour force is set to decline by about 2.5 million workers by 2040, with potential major implications for economic performance and the sustainability of public finances.

Author : Theresa Youn-ja Shim,Min-Sun Kim,Judith N. Martin
Publisher : Peter Lang
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1433101939

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Changing Korea by Theresa Youn-ja Shim,Min-Sun Kim,Judith N. Martin Pdf

In the last fifty years, Korea has transformed itself from an agrarian, Confucian-based culture into a global and technological powerhouse, and one of the most important political and economic forces in the world. Based on previous research and face-to-face interviews, the book shows how contemporary Koreans negotiate traditional Confucian values and Western capitalistic values in their everyday encounters - particularly in business and professional contexts. This is a useful companion book for courses in international business, intercultural communication, and Asian studies.

Author : Wonjae Hwang
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : Democratization
ISBN : 1498531849

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South Korea's Changing Foreign Policy by Wonjae Hwang Pdf

This book theoretically and empirically explores recent internal and external challenges to South Korea's foreign policy. It analyzes how democratization and economic globalization have changed domestic politics in South Korea and reshaped its foreign policies.

Author : Jrgen Kleiner
Publisher : World Scientific
Page : 452 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9812799958

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Korea, a Century of Change by Jrgen Kleiner Pdf

This book provides an evenhanded coverage of Korea''s turbulent history during the last one hundred years, from seclusion to division. It focuses particularly on the development of the two different and antagonistic states on the peninsula since 1945. The author sees both countries through the windows of their possibilities and interests. He supplements his narrative, which makes use of rich source material, with observations he has made in South Korea, where he spent more than ten years from the 1970s to the 1990s, and where he had access to politicians and opinion leaders. The book starts by describing how the Hermit Kingdom was exposed to the greed of foreign powers at the end of the 19th century and how it became the victim of imperialistic Japan, then account is given of the country''s division and the hardening of that division through the Korean War. The rule of the military and the final triumph of civilian democrats in South Korea are analyzed in much detail. One chapter is devoted to the rise and intermittent decline of the South Korean economy. The history of North Korea under Kim II Sung and under his son is told, before the foreign relations of both Koreas are explained. A chapter on the so far overwhelmingly antagonistic South-North relations concludes the book. Sample Chapter(s). Foreword (95 KB). Chapter 1: The Hermit Kingdom (172 KB). Contents: Korea and the Modern Age: The Hermit Kingdom; Within Reach of the World Powers; The Japanese Rule; Divided Korea: The Origins of the Division of Korea; The Korean War Phase One: Towards Reunification; The Korean War Phase Two: The Division Hardens; Politics and Economics in the Republic of Korea: Syngman Rhee''s Korea; The Rise of Park Chung Hee; The Yushin System; Steps to Power; No Better Country?; OC Down with Military DictatorshipOCO The Beginnings of Democratic Rule; Civilian Leadership; The Economy; The Democratic People''s Republic of Korea: The State of Kim II Sung; North Korea Under the Son; Foreign Relations: South Korea''s Great Partner; The Neighbor in the East; Northern Policy; North Korea''s Foreign Partners; Nuclear Dangers and Beyond; South-North Relations: Confrontation and Dialogue. Readership: General."

Author : East-West Center
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 589 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:488459523

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A Changing Korea in Regional and Global Contexts by East-West Center Pdf

Author : Timothy C. Lim
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2020-12-13
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781000289947

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The Road to Multiculturalism in South Korea by Timothy C. Lim Pdf

This book aims to capture the complicated development of Korea from monoethnic to multicultural society, challenging the narrative of “ethnonational continuity” in Korea through a discursive institutional approach. At a time when immigration is changing the face of South Korea and an increasingly diverse society becomes empirical fact, this doesn’t necessarily mean that multiculturalism has been embraced as a normative, policy-based response to that fact. The approach here diverges from existing academic analyses, which tend to conclude that core institutions defining Korea’s immigration and nationality regimes—nd which, crucially, also reflect a basic and hitherto unyielding commitment to racial and ethnic homogeneity—ill remain largely unaffected by increasing diversity. Here, this title underscores the critical importance of “discursive agency” as a necessary corrective to still dominant power and interestbased arguments. In addition, “discursive agents” are found to play a central role in communicating, promoting, and helping to instill the ideas that create a basis for change on the road to remaking Korean society. The Road to Multiculturalism in South Korea will be of interest to students and scholars of Asian studies, immigration and migration studies, race and ethnic studies, as well as comparative politics broadly.

Author : Gi-Wook Shin
Publisher : University of Washington Press
Page : 249 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2014-06-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780295805122

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Peasant Protest and Social Change in Colonial Korea by Gi-Wook Shin Pdf

The period from 1876 to 1946 in Korea marked a turbulent time when the country opened its market to foreign powers, became subject to Japanese colonialism, and was swept into agricultural commercialization, industrialization, and eventually postcolonial revolutionary movements. Gi-Wook Shin examines how peasants responded to these events, and to their own economic and political circumstances, with protests that shaped the course of postwar revolution in the north and reform in the south. Utilizing interviews, documentary research, and statistical analysis, Shin analyzes variation in peasant activism and its historical, political, and socioeconomic roots, and offers a major revisionist interpretation. The study contributes to an understanding of Korea’s rural political economy during the colonial era, Japanese agricultual policy, and the historical legacy of colonialism for post war social and political change in Korea.

Author : Hong Yung Lee,Sunil Kim
Publisher : Logos Verlag Berlin GmbH
Page : 158 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2016-10-20
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9783832543327

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The Changing Role of the Korean State by Hong Yung Lee,Sunil Kim Pdf

How and why has the Korean state changed its way of handling the society and its markets over the past two decades? The Changing Role of the Korean State finds that the explosion of contentious civil society after democratization coeval with the outbreak of the financial crisis following rapid economic growth, are closely associated with the decline of developmentalism. Despite these profound changes, however, the Korean state has not totally relinquished its control over the society and the market. Rather, although its methods have been altered it remains to be highly interventionalist and regulatory in nature. The state continues to use its influence to restructure the socio-economic system and rationally manage spatial arrangements. The book amply demonstrates the residual legacy of the developmental state in Korea, and it is unlikely that Korea will ever accept the western liberalist concept of a state which limits its function to that of a referee for the spontaneous operation of the civil society and the market. The contributors of this edited volume delineate the shifting role of the Korean state from the developmental state, which led economic development by guiding investment in strategic industries through various means, to a slightly subtler role as a regulator, supervising the operation of the market in the changing economic environment. Individual chapters presented here address this changing but nonetheless vital role that the state plays in managing the variety of modern socio-economic life in South Korea. Hong Yung Lee is Professor Emeritus of Political Science at University of California, Berkeley. Sunil Kim is Assistant Professor of International Studies at Kyung Hee University.

Author : Institute for Unification Education, Ministry of Unification (South Korea),Koh Jung-sik
Publisher : 길잡이미디어
Page : 154 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2014-11-26
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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Is North Korea really changing? by Institute for Unification Education, Ministry of Unification (South Korea),Koh Jung-sik Pdf

CHAPTER 1: Approachin g the Subject of Chan ge in North Korea 1. Definition of Change 6 2. Perspectives of Change 11 CHAPTER 2: Changing North Korea 1. Marketization of the Economy 26 2. External Cultural Influence 37 3. Change in the People’'s Value System 48 CHAPTER 3: Unchan ging North Korea 1. One-Person Dictatorship and Hereditary Power Succession 62 2. Market Control and Currency Reform 72 3. State Control Over the People and Violations of Human Rights 83 4. North Korea’'s Policy Towards South Korea 100 5. Development of Weapons of Mass Destruction and Brinkmanship Tactics 111 CHAPTER 4: Prospects for Chan ge 1. Drivers of Change 122 2. Inhibitors of Change 129 3. Assessment and Prospects for The Future 136

Author : Hong Yung Lee,Yong-Chool Ha,Clark W. Sorensen
Publisher : University of Washington Press
Page : 392 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2013-07-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9780295804491

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Colonial Rule and Social Change in Korea, 1910-1945 by Hong Yung Lee,Yong-Chool Ha,Clark W. Sorensen Pdf

Colonial Rule and Social Change in Korea 1910-1945 highlights the complex interaction between indigenous activity and colonial governance, emphasizing how Japanese rule adapted to Korean and missionary initiatives, as well as how Koreans found space within the colonial system to show agency. Topics covered range from economic development and national identity to education and family; from peasant uprisings and thought conversion to a comparison of missionary and colonial leprosariums. These various new assessments of Japan's colonial legacy may open up new and illuminating approaches to historical memory that will resonate not just in Korean studies, but in colonial and postcolonial studies in general, and will have implications for the future of regional politics in East Asia.

Author : David I Steinberg
Publisher : Institute of Southeast Asian Studies
Page : 402 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9789812309693

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Korea's Changing Roles in Southeast Asia by David I Steinberg Pdf

The Republic of Korea's global expansion has been mirrored by its interest and presence in Southeast Asia. From trade, investment, aid, tourism, to the cultural "Korean wave", its various roles have blossomed and its influence has grown. The ASEAN region has not only affected Korean foreign policy, but also many aspects of Korean life, from the migration of Southeast Asian industrial workers to marriages and the curricula of academic institutions. This volume explores various aspects of these new relationships and their importance to all concerned parties. It brings together a group of specialists who have documented the growing interlocking roles between Korea and ASEAN and its constituent states in detail. These developments have profound implications for relations in the East and Southeast Asian regions, and for the world as a whole.

Author : Wonjae Hwang
Publisher : Lexington Books
Page : 143 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2017-02-06
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781498531856

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South Korea's Changing Foreign Policy by Wonjae Hwang Pdf

South Korea has experienced new challenges both internally and externally with respect to its foreign policies. Internally, democratization has changed political terrain for domestic and international politics. Democratization and the information revolution have reinvigorated civic life and citizens have become active in expressing very divergent and often polarized views on foreign policies. Democratization also promotes South Korean nationalism. Rising nationalist sentiments make it difficult for the U.S. to effectively handle regional security-related issues such as the North Korean nuclear program, balancing against China, and dealing with the potential Sino-Japanese conflict. Externally, globalization has brought significant changes to South Korea’s foreign policies. Economic dimension and issues rather than security-related issues become salient and important. For example, although security concerns are still dominant in Korean society, economic interests necessitate South Korea improve its relations with China and redefine its political position between the U.S. and China. Globalization has also promoted Korea’s national interests to reach out to other countries. The Korean government has tried to develop new economic partnerships with developing countries for the purpose of securing energy and natural resources and expanding its soft power. Economic globalization and democratization have brought about changes in South Korea that raise many interesting questions with respect to foreign policy. Has South Korea’s rise as an economic power and a democracy changed its relationship with neighboring powers? Does economic integration between South Korea and China reshape their relationship? How about its impact on U.S.-Korea relations? Are geopolitical and security-related concerns still the dominant factor in explaining South Korea’s foreign policies? Does economic integration between Korea and Japan help to reduce tensions or emotional animosities that derive from historical disputes? Has South Korea, as a growing economic power, sought to forge relations with other middle or small powers beyond the confines of its region? Overall, this book theoretically and empirically explores how democratization and economic globalization have changed domestic politics in South Korea and reshaped its foreign policies.

Author : David I Steinberg
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 198 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2019-07-09
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781000305128

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The Republic Of Korea by David I Steinberg Pdf

This book concentrates on the process of economic growth, for which Korea today is renowned. It examines some of the salient forces that helped to produce Korea's remarkable change and explores the evolution of the class structure in Korea and the changes it is now experiencing.

Author : Xiaoke Zhang
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 255 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2003-08-29
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781134426485

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The Changing Politics of Finance in Korea and Thailand by Xiaoke Zhang Pdf

This is the first systematic attempt to explore the causal relationship between financial market reform and financial crisis in an interdisciplinary and comparative perspective. It examines the political underpinnings of financial policy-change and provides an in-depth analysis of market liberalisation processes and their impact on the economic turmoil of 1997-98 in Korea and Thailand. The common crisis stemmed from divergent reform patterns and originated from dissimilar institutional deficiencies and political constraints. The book will be essential reading for both policy-makers and academics concerned with national governance in an era of globalisation.

Author : Susann Schäfer
Publisher : Transcript Publishing
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : Agriculture
ISBN : 3837630579

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Climate Change Adaptation in South Korea by Susann Schäfer Pdf

Climate change will impact ecosystems and production processes. Thus, adaptation to climate change has become a prevalent concept in environmental politics worldwide. In South Korea, climate change is expected to be above the global average. As response, the South Korean government has initiated climate change adaptation in diverse sectors. In this book, the entire process, from formulation and development, implementation and reaction of involved people is examined in a particular sector, agriculture. Theoretically framed as an Actor-Network, this study highlights current developments of South Korean politics, the tensions of urban-periphery development, and the status of agriculture.