Korea 2012 Politics Economy and Society 1st Edition by Rüdiger Frank, Jim Hoare, Patrick Köllner, Susan Pares ISBN 9004236287 978-9004236288
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ISBN 10: 9004236287
ISBN 13: 978-9004236288
Author: Rüdiger Frank, Jim Hoare, Patrick Köllner, Susan Pares
Table of contents:
List of Refereed Articles Published since 2007.
South Korea
1 Politics and foreign relations.
2 Economy.
3 Society
North Korea.
1 Politics and foreign relations.
2 Economy.
3 Society..
The Two Koreas: Connections and Comparisons
Chronology of Events in the Korean Peninsula 2011.
South Korea.
North Korea..
Inter-Korean Relations and Six Party Talks
South Korea in 2011:
Domestic Politics, the Economy and Social Issues
Patrick Köllner
1 Introduction
2 The April by-elections and their consequences..
3 The Seoul mayoral election and party mergers on the Left…
4 Parliament and the state budget…
5 After Fukushima: South Korea affirms increased reliance on nuclear energy.
6 South Korea’s economy in 2011: the big picture..
7 Social issues
North Korea in 2011:
Domestic Developments and the Economy.
Rüdiger Frank
1 Introduction
2 The 2011 joint New Year editorial.
2.1 Key topic: improvement of the people’s standard of living..
2.2 Highlights of the editorial..
2.3 Ideology.
2.4 The leader(s)…
3 The annual parliamentary session
3.1 Overview
3.2 Budget report.
3.3 The work of the Cabinet.
4 Death of Kim Jong Il.
5 Other events….
5.1 Trade and investment
5.2 Economic development
5.3 Mining and minerals.
5.4 Telecommunications
5.5 Science and technology
5.6 Tourism
5.7 Environmental issues.
5.8 Traditionalism
5.9 Administrative and personnel changes..
6 Conclusion.
Relations Between the Two Koreas in 2011
Sabine Burghart
Introduction
1 Kim Jong Il’s death: a window of opportunity?.
2 A change in the ROK’s policy: principled flexibility?.
3 A (w)hole of information?.
4 Inter-Korean economic exchanges: a mixed picture.
Mt Kumgang resort: lost forever? 5
Humanitarian aid further scaled down 6
7 Empowerment of ROK’s second-class citizens
8 Defence, provocations and unification.
9 Outlook.
Foreign Relations of the Two Koreas in 2011.
James E. Hoare
Introduction
1 Republic of Korea
1.1 Relations with the United States..
1.2 Relations with China
1.3 Relations with Japan…
1.4 Other relations
2 People’s Democratic Republic of Korea.
2.1 The Six Party Talks and relations with the United States
2.2 Relations with China
2.3 Relations with Russia
2.4 Relations with Japan…
2.5 Other relations
KORUS, KOREU and beyond: South Korea’s Free Trade Drive……
Patrick Flamm and Patrick Köllner
Summary.
1 Export dependence and increasing regional competition
2 South Korea’s Free Trade Agreements
3 Economic expectations and concerns..
4 Political dimensions of the trade agreements.
5 Outlook.
North Korea after Kim Jong Il:
The Kim Jong Un Era and its Challenges.
Rüdiger Frank
1 Introduction
2 From death to funeral: events between 19 and 31 December 2011
3 Does Kim Jong Un have the power, and will he keep it?
4 How is Kim Jong Un’s legitimacy being built?
5 Do the Party and the military compete for power in North Korea?.
6 How will China behave?
7 What will happen to North Korea’s nuclear programme?
8 What will Kim Jong Un’s policies be?…
The Concept of Middle Power and the Case of the ROK:
A Review
Dong-min Shin
1 Introduction
2 Academic discourses on the concept of middle power.
2.1 Early development..
2.2 Trends in existing research..
2.3 Limitations of existing research
3 The Korean context
3.1 The middle power discourse within ROK governments
4 The ROK’s foreign and security affairs in context..
4.1 Vital issues in the ROK’s international relations
4.2 Existing research on the ROK from the middle power perspective.
5 Conclusion
Northerners on Southern Screens:
From Shiri (1999) to The Yellow Sea (2010).
Mark Morris
Prologue
1 Introduction
2 Back story circa 2000.
2.1 Shiri and Joint Security Area.
3 The Sunshine years: Rom-com Northern spies, t’albukja, war comedies..
3.1 Rom-com Northern spies.
3.2 T’albukja: the coming of the defectors/refugees/migrants..
3.3 War comedies.
4 Contemporary visions, 2010-2011: war, life and death up North, refugees, chosõnjok
4.1 War.
4.2 Life and death up North…
4.3 Refugees.
4.4 Chosonjok..
5 Conclusion .
A New Deal: Graphic Novel Representations of Food Issues in Post-famine North Korea…
Martin Petersen
1 Introduction
2 North Korean cultural production in the 2000s.
3 The representation of food in North Korean graphic novels
4 A Strange Letter…
4.1 Meta-authorial reading
4.2 Ironic reading
4.3 Reader-recognisant meta-authorial reading.
5 Conclusion
Special Economic Zones, Trade and Economic Reform:
The Case of Rason Special City
Bernhard J. Seliger
1 Introduction
2 Promises, unfulfilled dreams and failure.
2.1 SEZ: concept and practice..
2.2 Rason: early operations, early failures
2.3 Rason’s economic activities
3 The rebirth of Rason as a transport corridor..
4 Does Chinese investment lead to sustained reform? Evidence from recent years.
4.1 The service structure for a special economic and transport zone
4.2 The administrative response: Rason Economic Administration as a ‘one-stop shop’
4.3 Rason trade fair
4.4 Rason agricultural research centre..
5 Conclusion
The North Korean Philosophy of Foreigners.
Tatiana Gabroussenko
1 Introduction
2 North Korean discourse of the foreign world: political roots, conflicting demands and challenges…
2.1 Soviet-style internationalism: a complex pattern
2.2 Political seclusion of the DPRK.
2.3 ‘National solipsism’ in the North Korean mono-ethnic mentality……
2.4 The paradigm of unfinished war with the United States
3 Tales of ‘good foreigners’ as a special genre in North Korean fiction
3.1 Exoticisation of foreign friends.
3.2 Koreanisation of foreign friends.
3.3 Foreign friends versus North Koreans
4 Americans as ‘good foreigners’: case study of
Kim Chun-hak’s ‘Enchantment’
4.1 The ‘teenage girl’
4.2 A ‘naughty boy’.
4.3 Kim Il Sung and the fictional Carters-mutual sensuality
5 Foreigners as Korean heroes.
6 Conclusion.
About the Authors and Editors
Map of the Korean Peninsula
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