Search Results for South Korean politics

...Donald S. Macdonald South Korean Politics: The Search for Political Consensus and Stability . By Koon Woo Nam . Lanham, Md : University Press of America , 1989 . 363 pp. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1990 1990 BOOK REVIEWS KOREA 667 use of the word wabi...

...Donald N. Clark The North and South Korean Political Systems: a Comparative Analysis . By Sung Chul Yang . Boulder, Colorado : Westview Press , and Seoul: Seoul Press, 1994 . 983 pp., appendices, index. Hardcover, $64.95 or 49,500 Won. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies...

... frustration with the alliances in ways that did not occur during the Cold War. Some of these changes are the result of internal political transformations. South Korean public opinion has become more influential in foreign policymaking. Likewise in Japan, where opinion in Okinawa sometimes has superseded...

...Jong-Chol An Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2017  2017 Regime Transition and the Judicial Politics of Enmity: Democratic Inclusion and Exclusion in South Korean Constitutional Justice . By Justine Guichard . New York : Palgrave Macmillan , 2016...

...Hyung Kook Kim The Politics of Anti-Japanese Sentiments in Korea: Japanese-South Korean Relations under American Occupation on, 1945–1952 . By Sung-Hwa Cheong . New York : Greenwood Press , 1991 . xi, 190 pp. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1993 1993 BOOK...

... . Darcy Robert . 1989 . “The Election of Women to National Legislatures: The Puzzle and the Problem.” Paper presented at a seminar, The Role of Women in Politics and Legislative Participation, July, Seoul, Korea. Darcy Robert , and Hyun Chong-Min . 1994 . “Women in the South Korean...

...Jinyoung Jin Being Political Popular: South Korean Art at the Intersection of Popular Culture and Democracy, 1980–2010 . Edited by Sohl Lee . Seoul : Hyunsil Publishing , 2012 . 208 pp. $30.00 (paper). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2014  2014 Two extremely...

... a politically taboo topic since many of the South Korean political and military elites, including President Park Chung Hee, were former collaborators. Criticism of collaborators could be seen as questioning the legitimacy of the regime. Though some important studies were published during this period, such as Im...

... role in the peaceful power transition from the Fifth to Sixth Republic would be of greater use than the author's chronology of this critical period in South Korean politics. Regarding policy proposals, Gregor stresses the importance of strong U.S.-ROK bilateral ties; however, the reader would also...

... E E S O H . Westport, Conn.: Praeger Publishers, 1991. 184 pp. $39.95. In The Chosen Women in Korean Politics, Chung-Hee Soh makes an important contribution to the study of women in South Korean politics. Through life histories 942 THE JOURNAL OF ASIAN STUDIES elicited by interviews and supplemented...

... movement), a social movement that criticizes and challenges the presence and politics of U.S. military bases in the country. Where existing literature focuses primarily on nationalism and the generational gap within South Korean society as the primary reasons for anti-American activism, Moon criticizes...

..., and leading political change. This is also unique in South Korean politics. Disputing the argument that weak, dysfunctional party politics is a sign of under- or undeveloped democracy, a dominant assumption in the study of politics, Lee suggests that we should acknowledge multiple pathways for democratic...

... how these events affected American and Korean expectations regarding the alliance. Similarly, an investigation of Washington's role in the peaceful power transition from the Fifth to Sixth Republic would be of greater use than the author's chronology of this critical period in South Korean politics...

... provides a timely and fresh look at contemporary Korean politics written by a team of leading political scientists in the United States and South Korea. In introducing the volume, the editors, S. H. Kil and C. I. Moon, identify a set of four legacies from which they claim South Korean politics still...

... of) several major books and serious dissertations written individually by the same authors to deal with various dimensions of South Korean politics of social policy—that is, the state and social policy in political development, state-business relations (in labor and welfare issues), state-voluntary sector...

... of events, documents, reports on North and South Korean politics, economy, and public opinion, translations of leaflets, press summaries, and so on. The materials for these volumes come from a variety of sources. Some reports were generated within the 24th Corps. (For example, we find a detailed account...

... of writing histories of modern Korea. Prominent historians on this theme, Namhee Lee and Kyung Moon Hwang, each identify the so-called New Right as the intellectual engine behind the conservative resurgence in South Korean politics that brought forth Yusin Redux. The striking homology between New Right...

... there, by the way are real and great. Another major problem lies with Dr. Han's concept of 'ideological split.' Nothing is less ideological than South Korean politics, as Dr. Han repeatedly evidences. The South Korean system is not really capitalistic nor is its operation except under Dr. Chang democratic...

... exchange between two individuals who are marginalized from the South Korean political ideology. Hwang knows that true unification begins with change from the South's attitude and stigma against the North. The favorable attitude toward the North in The Old Garden mirrors Hwang's political activities...

... to 1969 represented a time before the democratic promises of Park Chung Hee began to lose resonance. The successes of the KSEC union between 1964 and 1969 occurred at a particular juncture in South Korean history in which not only the state's political and economic strategies but also people's...