Korea Betrayed
Title | Korea Betrayed PDF eBook |
Author | D. Kirk |
Publisher | Springer |
Pages | 257 |
Release | 2009-12-07 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 0230101844 |
This book recounts the rise of Kim Dae Jung from an oppressed region of Korea, beginning with his schooldays, his activities in the Korean War and his entry into politics and concluding with discussion of his Sunshine policy, his summit with North Korea's Kim Jong Il and his drive for the Nobel.
Conscience in Action
Title | Conscience in Action PDF eBook |
Author | Kim Dae-jung |
Publisher | Springer |
Pages | 943 |
Release | 2018-06-20 |
Genre | Political Science |
ISBN | 9811076235 |
This book is an English translation of the authoritative autobiography by the late South Korean President Kim Dae-jung. The 2000 Nobel Peace Prize winner, often called the Asian Nelson Mandela, is best known for his tolerant and innovative “Sunshine Policy” towards North Korea. Written in the five years between the end of his presidency and his death in 2009, this book offers a poignant first-hand account of Korea’s turbulent modern history. It spans the pivotal time span between the Japanese colonial period (1910-1945) and reconciliation in the Korean Peninsula (2000-2009). In between are insightful insider descriptions of everything from wars and dictatorships to the hopeful period of economic recovery, blooming democracy, peace, and reconciliation. Conscience in Action serves as an intimate record of the Korean people’s persistent and heroic struggle for democracy and peace. It is also an inspiring story of an extraordinary individual whose formidable perseverance and selfless dedication to the values he believed in led him to triumph despite more than four decades of extreme persecution.
South Korea
Title | South Korea PDF eBook |
Author | Young-Chan Kim |
Publisher | Elsevier |
Pages | 303 |
Release | 2008-12-30 |
Genre | Business & Economics |
ISBN | 1780632517 |
South Korea: Challenging globalisation and the post-crisis reforms examines the major economic issues flowing from the Korean financial crisis of 1997 and covers such issues as industrial relations, macroeconomic sectors, the role of administrations, and corporates' globalisation process by over-expanded foreign direct investment. The chapters contained in this book are written by a wide variety of contributors, including a former government technocrat, president's advisory board member, plus leading Korean economy specialists. - Includes empirical surveys from the leading academics in Korea - Exclusively research methodology on each topic - First attempt to explain limited but historically important period economic policy
The Kwangju Uprising
Title | The Kwangju Uprising PDF eBook |
Author | Henry Scott-Stokes |
Publisher | M.E. Sharpe |
Pages | 292 |
Release | 2000 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 9780765606365 |
In Kwangju, South Korea, in 1980 a student uprising ended in the brutal suppression and massacre of protestors, an event burned into the minds of all South Koreans. This text presents original South Korean accounts of the incident, along with the reports of Western journalists who witnessed events.
Sunshine in Korea
Title | Sunshine in Korea PDF eBook |
Author | Norman D. Levin |
Publisher | Rand Corporation |
Pages | 163 |
Release | 2003-02-26 |
Genre | Political Science |
ISBN | 0833033999 |
The debate in South Korea over the government's engagement policy toward North Korea (the "sunshine" policy) did not start with Pyongyang's recent admission that it has been secretly pursuing a nuclear weapons program in violation of multiple international commitments. However, the evolution of the debate will be an important determinant of how the South Korean and broader international response to this latest North Korean challenge ultimately ends. This book provides a framework for viewing South Korean responses to this challenge, examining the South Korean debate over policies toward the North, analyzing the sources of controversy, and assessing their implications.
Spies for Hire
Title | Spies for Hire PDF eBook |
Author | Tim Shorrock |
Publisher | Simon and Schuster |
Pages | 451 |
Release | 2008 |
Genre | Law |
ISBN | 0743282248 |
Reveals the formidable organization of intelligence outsourcing that has developed between the U.S. government and private companies since 9/11, in a report that reveals how approximately seventy percent of the nation's funding for top-secret tasks is now being funneled to higher-cost third-party contractors. 35,000 first printing.
The Political Economy of the Small Welfare State in South Korea
Title | The Political Economy of the Small Welfare State in South Korea PDF eBook |
Author | Jae-jin Yang |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | 269 |
Release | 2017-09-28 |
Genre | Political Science |
ISBN | 1108248438 |
This book explains why the Korean welfare state is underdeveloped despite successful industrialization, democratization, a militant labor movement, and a centralized meritocracy. Unlike most social science books on Korea, which tend to focus on its developmental state and rapid economic development, this book deals with social welfare issues and politics during the critical junctures in Korea's history: industrialization in the 1960–70s, the democratization and labor movement in the mid-1980s, globalization and the financial crisis in the 1990s, and the wind of free welfare in the 2010s. It highlights the self-interested activities of Korea's enterprise unionism at variance with those of a more solidaristic industrial unionism in the European welfare states. Korean big business, the chaebol, accommodated the unions' call for higher wages and more corporate welfare, which removed practical incentives for unions to demand social welfare. Korea's single-member-district electoral rules also induce politicians to sell geographically targeted, narrow benefits rather than public welfare for all while presidents are significantly constrained by unpopular tax increase issues. Strong economic bureaucrats acting as veto player also lead Korea to a small welfare state.