Sook Jong Lee

Sook Jong Lee
Sungkyunkwan University | SKKU · Graduate School of Governance

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The South Korean government has sought an active partnership with domestic NGOs in pursuing international development cooperation. Their partnership can be categorized in two ways. One, the more common type, is that NGOs work with government offices by participating in established programs. In the second type of partnership, NGOs take a more indepe...
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As early as 1589, Bartolous of Sassoferrato, the Italian post-glossator, divided states into three types: small city states, medium states, and great states. It is interesting to note that he said, “middle-sized states are the most lasting, since they are exposed neither to violence by their weakness nor to envy by their greatness, and the wealth a...
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The importance of Korea’s positioning as a middle power comes as the international environment has undergone major changes, where the traditional US-led hierarchical power structure has given way to emerging horizontal transnational networks focused on diverse issues and diffusing power. This change in the global structure of relations has allowed...
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South Korea’s history and political system. As Koreas is located in Northeast Asia and surrounded by larger countries such as China, Japan, and Russia, its foreign policy has long been focused on guaranteeing its independence. The Korean War and the country’s subsequent division into two Koreas forced South Korea to engage in active public diplomac...
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Most studies of governance have emphasized that trust in government enhances government-citizen cooperation and induces the compliance of citizens with public policies. However, the scope of government-citizen collaboration has been limited to the trust that citizens hold toward their government. True collaborative governance would not work effecti...
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The notion of soft power has emerged as an important ingredient in foreign policy in the last decade or so. Jan Melissen writes that it was during the First World War that professional image cultivation across national borders was started and that international politics woke up to see the importance of soft power.1 Today, as Melissen points out, th...
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This paper introduces the special issue that addresses the challenges of globalisation that face contemporary South Korea. Before briefly introducing each of the articles that comprise the special issue, this paper provides some basic contextualisation, suggesting that Korea is a useful case for understanding the pressures and resistances associate...
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Korea's developmental state had long maintained the principle of “separation between industrial capital and financial capital,” whereby the nation's industrial conglomerates – the chaebol – were restricted from having controlling ownership of financial institutions, especially banks. The financial crisis of 1997-98 renewed calls for regulating the...
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The growing number of non-governmental organizations (NGOs) is fundamentally reshaping the balance of power and the roles of NGOs in democratic governance in Japanese and Korean politics, but in distinctive ways. Korean advocacy NGOs influence policymaking by focusing on politics at the center, while Japanese NGOs achieve influence by focusing on l...
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Korea and Japan have experienced a rapid rise in the number of foreign workers since the late 1980s due to a significant labor shortage in the manufacturing industries. With the immigration policy permitting foreign workers as a last resort, both countries have accepted foreign workers on a temporary basis and have attempted to curtail the inflow o...
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Changes in Japanese security policy and institutions over the past decade and a half nullify cultural and institutionalist views of Japan's postwar pacifism. The boundary of the Self-Defense Force (SDF)'s activity - which had been understood exclusively as defending Japan's own territorial integrity - was expanded to UN peacekeeping activities in t...
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This article provides a partial analysis of the socio-political impact of the so-called IMF reforms that were implemented by the South Korean government in response to the financial crisis of 1997–98. We find that at least in one key area — namely policies related to foreign investment — the IMF reforms fundamentally altered and reshaped Korea's de...
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Today's young Koreans were brought up under an affluent and democratized society. Proud of their Korean nationality, they embrace ethnic nationalism in two dimensions: on the one hand, assertive nationalism to the world and toward the United States in particular, and on the other hand, inter-Korean nationalism with the people of North Korea. With n...
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The U.S.-ROK alliance has been strained over recent years. New challenges are facing both South Korea and the United States. Growing discontent and grievances over the presence of U.S. forces on Korean soil is complicating the management of the alliance. Bolder opposition from Korean politicians and civil society to Washington's North Korea policy...
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This article identifies and analyzes economic and political factors behind the polarization of Korean civil society. Both the growing economic disparity between the rich and the poor and the tightened job market for the younger generation since the 1997-1998 financial crisis have contributed to a sharp divergence in views on how best to approach re...
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South Korea and Japan responded to their financial crisis of the late 1990s by restructuring financial institutions. Also, financial authorities were created to supervise financial institutions and lead financial restructuring. Financial restructuring focused on the resolution of non-performing loans that had been contributing to financial failures...

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