Hak-Soo Kim

• Sogang University

Climate change offers serious challenges to the effectiveness of science, communication, and community. It demands us to look back upon what we have done in regard to science and technology. In addition, it leads us to examine human efforts invested to solve collective, shared problems by communication and community. The process of behavior per se...

Engagement is seen to be the key to understanding the process of behavior. It is a theoretical concept deriving from the universe’s partial order condition. I argue that a problematic situation is the precondition for engagement, and that communicating is effective for enabling that engagement. Engagement is conceptualized as the act sequence of ex...

Public engagement with a problem or an issue relative to science (PEP/IS) is suggested as an alternative and complementary model for understanding the communicative effectiveness of science. PEP/IS is conceptualized as the process of individual and collective problem solving in relation to science and exemplified with South Korean exploratory data....

This study provides a national examination on youths' 'understanding' of irradiated food. The 1,200 subjects of the survey were randomly sampled from male and female students throughout the nation, between grades five and eleven. The survey was conducted toward these samples in November 2000. The number of respondents with exposure to irradiated fo...

Popular belief generally regards Euro-American civic cultures as more democratic than Asian civic cultures. That belief, generally untested, is a potential influence on the effectiveness and satisfactory outcome of intercultural relations. This study investigated first whether this belief, in regard to human rights violations, was shared by 821 uni...

The objective of this study was to test Ting-Toomey's (1988a) theory on conflict face-negotiation. More specifically, the study examined the relationship between face maintenance dimensions and conflict styles in Japan, China, South Korea, Taiwan, and the United States. The results were summarized as follows: (1) Cultural variability of individuali...

The Republic of Korea has experienced military government almost continuously since Park Chung Wee seized power in a May 1961 military coup. In October 1979 President Park was assassinated by the chief of his own Central Intelligence Agency [CIA]. There followed a brief period in which civilian President Choi Kyu Hah nominally headed the government...