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Author : Soong Hoom Kil,Chung-in Moon
Publisher : State University of New York Press
Page : 383 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2010-03-10
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780791491010
Presents an indispensable survey of contemporary Korean politics.
Author : Kwang-Kook Park,Wonhee Lee,Seok-Hwan Lee
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 283 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2016-06-17
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781317359906
Although much has been written about the Korean public administration, the international academic community has little knowledge about it as most of the literature has been written in Korean. This book aims to provide more accessible knowledge internationally by filling that gap, covering both the history and the current status of the Korean public administration. This book is a collaboration of many Korean public administration scholars and would appeal to those interested in the secrets of Korea’s rapid development in such a short span of time. Each chapter covers historical contexts, key to understanding its public administration and an important aspect as Korea is a fast changing society. The book takes on a more pragmatic approach rather than to put the Korean experiences into the western theory. Each chapter therefore provides an extensive discussion on the lessons-learned and practical implications.
Author : Su Yong Han (Researcher of North Korea)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 76 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : Korea
ISBN : 9946013304
Author : JeongHun Han,Ramon Pacheco Pardo,Youngho Cho
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 673 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2023-01-05
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780192646378
South Korea is best-known for its economic development, democratic transition and consolidation, vibrant civil society, and emergence as a cultural powerhouse. The Oxford Handbook of South Korean Politics presents and analyses contemporary South Korean politics, bringing together domestic political, economic, social cultural, and demographic developments and putting them in the context of trends in fellow developed countries. The Handbook is divided into seven sections: introduction; core concepts; institutions, parties, elections, and voters; civil society; culture and media; public policy and policy-making; and the international arena. The overarching premise of the Handbook is that we have to move away from traditional understandings of South Korean politics that considered them to be static, focusing instead on how and why contemporary South Korea is a vibrant and dynamic democracy in which multiple groups and ideas are represented.
Author : Chae-Han Kim
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 238 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2021-06-29
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781000403435
South Korea has been through important changes since its democratization in the late 1980s – most recently in 2016–2017 when the candlelight protests led to the ousting of Park Geun-hye and the election of Moon Jae-in. Taking a thematic approach to understanding South Korean democracy, each chapter in this textbook is written by a leading Korean expert on a different element of South Korean politics and government. Covering themes such as intergenerational differences, the instability of the party system, the role of the president, and the impact of the 2016 demonstrations, this is a vital and lively introduction to Korean politics. This systematic and nuanced approach helps you understand the past, present, and possible futures of South Korea’s democracy. It also helps in understanding South Korea’s system for the purposes of comparing it with other political systems. The New Dynamics of Democracy in South Korea is an invaluable textbook for students of Korean politics, which will also be a useful resource for scholars of comparative democracy.
Author : Yangmo Ku,Inyeop Lee,Jongseok Woo
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2017-12-06
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781317236757
Politics in North and South Korea provides students with a comprehensive understanding of the political dynamics of the two Koreas. Giving equal weight to North and South Korea, the authors trace the history of political and economic development and international relations of the Korean peninsula, showing how South Korea became democratized and how Juche ideology has affected the establishment and operation of a totalitarian system in North Korea. Written in a straightforward, jargon free manner, this textbook utilizes both historical-institutional approaches and quantitative evidence to analyse the political dimensions of a wide variety of issues including: Legacies of early-twentieth-century Japanese colonial rule South Korean democratization and democratic consolidation South Korean diplomacy and North Korean nuclear crises The economic development of both North and South Korea The three-generation power succession in North Korea North Korean human rights issues Inter-Korean relations and reunification This textbook will be essential reading for students of Korean Politics and is also suitable for undergraduate and postgraduate courses on East Asian Politics, Asian Studies, and International Relations.
Author : Geir Helgesen
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 337 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2014-06-03
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781136797576
This controversial new study, breaks with the tradition of basing political studies on analyses of institutions and political personalities, by likening the Republic of Korea to a laboratory for the clash of political cultures. In the late 1940s, the Americans embarked upon a democratization programme designed to create a Western bulwark against the spread of communism in East Asia. The intervening years have seen the advent and demise of military rule, with South Korea now having a democratically-elected government. Although the US strategy thus seems successful, the political crises of 1995 in fact indicate that many obstacles remain here to the adoption of Western-style democracy. This study argues that socialization in general and political socialization in particular are key factors in any analysis of democracy, be it in Korea or elsewhere. Accordingly, the work draws on moral education textbooks, together with surveys and interviews among members of the urban intellectual elite. In this manner, the psychological roots of power and authority - key concepts to an understanding of 'good government' - are explored.
Author : Gi-Wook Shin,Paul Y Chang
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2011-05-31
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781136708053
This book explores the evolution of social movements in South Korea by focusing on how they have become institutionalized and diffused in the democratic period. The contributors explore the transformation of Korean social movements from the democracy campaigns of the 1970s and 1980s to the rise of civil society struggles after 1987. South Korea was ruled by successive authoritarian regimes from 1948 to 1987 when the government decided to re-establish direct presidential elections. The book contends that the transition to a democratic government was motivated, in part, by the pressure from social movement groups that fought the state to bring about such democracy. After the transition, however, the movement groups found themselves in a qualitatively different political context which in turn galvanized the evolution of the social movement sector. Including an impressive array of case studies ranging from the women's movement, to environmental NGOs, and from cultural production to law, the contributors to this book enrich our understanding of the democratization process in Korea, and show that the social movement sector remains an important player in Korean politics today. This book will appeal to students and scholars of Korean studies, Asian politics, political history and social movements.
Author : Byong-Man Ahn,Pyŏng-man An
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Elite (Social sciences)
ISBN : 1840649712
This text examines problems related to Korea's political and ruling systems. It places the Korean government in a global context and explores Korea's cultural and political matrix, going on to analyze political power, political parties and the elites in terms of their contribution to the ongoing cycle of dominance. An understanding of Korean government is developed, with particular attention paid to the unique pattern of its administrative system vis-a-vis those of other systems. should appeal to scholars, public officials and politicians interested in Korean affairs, and also scholars and students in the field of Korean studies. A comparative perspective of Korea's party politics and bureaucracy will be found here for those interested in East Asian affairs.
Author : Chunghee Sarah Soh
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 163 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2021-12-24
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781000011210
A study of women in South Korean politics. Through life histories elicited by interviews and supplemented by published materials, Soh studies 29 women who were elected or appointed to the South Korean legislature. She asks who these chosen women are, how they attained their positions, and what motivated them. In doing so, she attempts to illuminate the systematic limits to female life in Korean culture.
Author : Kenneth M. Wells
Publisher : University of Hawaii Press
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 1995-11-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780824864392
The minjung (people's) movement stood at the forefront of the June 1987 nationwide tide that swept away the military in South Korea and opened up space for relatively democratic politics, a more responsible economy, and new directions in culture. This volume is the first in English to grapple specifically with the nature of a national development that lies at the center of the last three decades of tumult and change in South Korea.
Author : John Kie-chiang Oh
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0801484588
The 'trial of the century'
Author : Michael J. Seth
Publisher : University of Hawaii Press
Page : 318 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2002-09-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9780824862305
In the half century after 1945, South Korea went from an impoverished, largely rural nation ruled by a succession of authoritarian regimes to a prosperous, democratic industrial society. No less impressive was the country's transformation from a nation where a majority of the population had no formal education to one with some of the world's highest rates of literacy, high school graduates, and university students. Drawing on their premodern and colonial heritages as well as American education concepts, South Koreans have been largely successful in creating a schooling system that is comprehensive, uniform in standard, and universal. The key to understanding this educational transformation is South Korean society's striking, nearly universal preoccupation with schooling-what Korean's themselves call their "education fever." This volume explains how Koreans' concern for achieving as much formal education as possible appeared immediately before 1945 and quickly embraced every sector of society. Through interviews with teachers, officials, parents, and students and an examination of a wide range of written materials in both Korean and English, Michael Seth explores the reasons for this social demand for education and how it has shaped nearly every aspect of South Korean society. He also looks at the many problems of the Korean educational system: the focus on entrance examinations, which has tended to reduce education to test preparation; the overheated competition to enter prestige schools; the enormous financial burden placed on families for costly private tutoring; the inflexibility created by an emphasis on uniformity of standards; and the misuse of education by successive governments for political purposes.
Author : Donald Stone Macdonald
Publisher : Westview Press
Page : 348 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 1990-09-10
Category : History
ISBN : 0813309670
This readable & informative introductory survey of Korea covers the history, military matters, & diplomacy and puts special emphasis on the political affairs of the 2 Korean states. Korean culture, economics & reunification prospects are also disscussed.
Author : Chung-in Moon
Publisher : 연세대학교출판부
Page : 332 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Political Science
ISBN : UOM:39015047577716