The Expatriate Handbook: Seoul, Korea

This handbook provides as much assistance to you as can expatriate living in Seoul as it has for me in compiling it. This handbook has been designed as a starting point, for the expatriate to receive a quicker, more thorough bearing and understanding of the city in which they live and work. It is aimed that this handbook will allow individuals and families to settle more quickly and smoothly, h…

Korea: A Walk Through the Land of Miracles

Korea is that rare book that actually defines a nation and its people. Winchester’s gift for capturing engaging characters in true, compelling stories provides us with a treasury of enchanting and informed insight on the culture, language, history, and politics of this little-known corner of Asia. With a new introduction by the author, Korea is a beautiful journey through a mysterious country…

Governance reform in Indonesia and Korea : a comparative perspective

Edisi

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ISBN/ISSN

9794207403

Deskripsi Fisik

xiv, 442 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

Judul Seri

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No. Panggil

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Korea Observer Vol. 46 No. 2, Summer 2015

Korea Observer Vol. 46 No. 2, Summer 2015 contents: Another Look At Partisan Polarization In The South Korean Mass Public: Ideological or Affective Polarization by Jae Mook Lee; A Model On The Rise And Decline Of South Korean Anti-American Sentiment by Kisuk Cho; Development Of Publicly-Funded Social Care In Japan and Korea: Policy Linkage Between Social Care Programs and Labor Market Policies …

Palaces of Korea

This book is describing the palaces of Korea. In Korea in particular, palace-building was strongly influenced by Chinnese style, largely due to the geographical proximity and close political relations of the two countries. Since Korea’s unique culture had evolved over a long period of time, it should come as no surprise that it did not simply imitate everything China had to offer. This was mo…

The Making of Minjung: Democracy and The Politics of Representation In South …

Understanding the minjung movement is essential to understanding South Korea’s recent resistance to U.S. influence. Along with its wellknown economic transformation, South Korea has also had a profound social and political transformation. The minjung movement drove this transformation, and this book tells its story comprehensively and critically.

South Korean Strategic Thought Toward Asia

This comprehensive project covers the evolution of strategic thinking in South Korea since the 1980s in regard to China, Japan, Russia, regionalism, and reunification. Following a consistent framework, the book provides detailed analysis of how and why successive presidents chose new approaches. An overview raises broad questions about the turning points from nordpolitik to the Sunshine Policy …

South Korea in the Fast Lane: Economic Development and Capital Formation

This book, as a sequel to Korea under siege, is unrivalled as a single, comprehensive exposition of South Korea’s phenomenal economic success after the Korean War. It provides a coherent blend of historical details and analytical rigor that makes complexities embedded in South Korea’s process of capital formation and its phenomenol economic growth authoritatively comprehensible. This is an …

Power, Interest, and Identity in Military Alliance

The theoretical sophistication of this book sets a new standard for all students of military alliances in general and of the U.S.-Korea alliance in specific. Based on meticulous empirical research, suh’s nuanced analysis develops a compelling ease for the political significance of alliances. Beyond the balance of power, alliance politics trigger processes that construct the identities of alli…

The Korean Way of Tea: An Introductory Guide

This book is contain introductory guide is a welcome addition for anyone interested in tea and its extraordinary contribution to the Korean cultural tradition.

Understanding Koreans and Their Culture

This book approach Korean culture from the limited perspective of religion and arts are the essence of a culture.

Seasonal Customs of Korea

This book is describing the customs of culture is not an easy undertaking, especially if that culture has customs spanning centuries, and indeed, millennia. Korea’s long-observed seasonal customs of the past do still, however, have considerable influence upon the formation of the behavioral and attitudinal patterns of present-day society. In this way, customs of yesteryear live on to influenc…

Images of Korea: 12 Cultural Symbols Showing the True Inside of Korea

This book discover the lure of Korea through 12 keywords. The true nature of Korea is experienced through the introduction of the following inherently Korean keywords: Kimchi, bulgogi, ginsaeng, hanbok, taekwondo, hangeul, talchum, Royal Ancestral Ritual Music, Bulguksa Temple, Seokguram Grotto, Seokraksan Mountain, and World-Class Artist Born out of Korean Culture.

International Business in Korea: The Evolution of the Market in the Globaliza…

In this book, O. Yul Kwon uses an institutional framework to provide a comprehensive evaluation of the environmental and operational dynamic of international business in South Korea from the rapid growth period 1963-1996, through recovery from the 1997 financial crisis, to the present. The study assesses that the South Korean market and business practices will maintain some sui generis charact…

Democracy and The Korean Economy

In this book, each author offers his own approach to addressing the problem of determining abd explaining the economic effects of democracy. Chung-in Moon sees ideology as the dominant force shaping economic policy and performance. Before the 1980s, the dominant economic ideology in Korea was dirigisme, or the developmental state. The findings of this volume illustrate the complicated pattern i…

100 Cultural Symbols of Korea: 100 Windows Showcasing Korea

This book can be regarded as 100 individual windows into the past and present of Korea. In this regard, 100 windows introduced herein provide readers with with an oppotunity to find out who Koreans were and are, what they eat, and what kinds of thoughts have animated them during this long process. This book also offers readers insight into how modern-day Koreans live.

Korean As Knowledge Economy

The republic of Korea has been experiencing rapid, and more importantly, sustained economic growth since 1960s. This has resulted in its real GDP percapita increasing rapidly enabling the once low-income country to join the ranks of high-income industrialized nations within a short time span of four and a half decades.