Using experimental surveys as a primary source, Kim and Kim compare a wide range of developed countries to assess the determinants of generalized social trust. With data from Belgium, France, Italy, Japan, Singapore, South Korea, the Netherlands, and the United States, Kim and Kim present a detailed picture of trust at the individual level, across different ethnic groups, and across different regions with economic and cultural distinctions. They focus on a range of concepts, including generalized trust and familism; causal relationships among cultural values, particularized trust, and institutional trust at the individual level; and relationships between culture, wealth, and governance at the macro-level. In doing so, they consolidate substantial quantitative data with rigorous theoretical analysis and advance our understanding of social trust and prosociality in general. A valuable resource for researchers and advanced students in political science, sociology, and social psychology around the world.
Using experimental surveys as a primary source, Kim and Kim compare a wide range of developed countries to assess the determinants of generalized social trust. With data from Belgium, France, Italy, Japan, Singapore, South Korea, the Netherlands, and the United States, Kim and Kim present a detailed picture of trust at the individual level, across different ethnic groups, and across different regions with economic and cultural distinctions. They focus on a range of concepts, including generalized trust and familism; causal relationships among cultural values, particularized trust, and institutional trust at the individual level; and relationships between culture, wealth, and governance at the macro-level. In doing so, they consolidate substantial quantitative data with rigorous theoretical analysis and advance our understanding of social trust and prosociality in general. A valuable resource for researchers and advanced students in political science, sociology, and social psychology around the world.
As the two billion YouTube views for “Gangnam Style” would indicate, South Korean popular culture has begun to enjoy new prominence on the global stage. Yet, as this timely new study reveals, the nation’s film industry has long been a hub for transnational exchange, producing movies that put a unique spin on familiar genres, while influencing world cinema from Hollywood to Bollywood. Movie Migrations is not only an introduction to one of the world’s most vibrant national cinemas, but also a provocative call to reimagine the very concepts of “national cinemas” and “film genre.” Challenging traditional critical assumptions that place Hollywood at the center of genre production, Hye Seung Chung and David Scott Diffrient bring South Korean cinema to the forefront of recent and ongoing debates about globalization and transnationalism. In each chapter they track a different way that South Korean filmmakers have adapted material from foreign sources, resulting in everything from the Manchurian Western to The Host’s reinvention of the Godzilla mythos. Spanning a wide range of genres, the book introduces readers to classics from the 1950s and 1960s Golden Age of South Korean cinema, while offering fresh perspectives on recent favorites like Oldboy and Thirst. Perfect not only for fans of Korean film, but for anyone curious about media in an era of globalization, Movie Migrations will give readers a new appreciation for the creative act of cross-cultural adaptation.
This volume comprises papers presented at the 2nd International Conference on Advanced Nondestructive Evaluation (ANDE 2007) held in Busan, Korea, on October 17-19, 2007. Many of the excellent papers included in this book show the current state of nondestructive technologies, which are experiencing rapid progress with the integration of emerging technologies in various fields. As such, this volume provides an avenue for both specialists and scholars to share their ideas and the results of their findings in the field of nondestructive evaluation.
Rights advocacy has become a prominent facet of South Korea's increasingly transnational motion picture output, and today films about political prisoners, undocumented workers, and people with disabilities attract mainstream attention. Movie Minorities offers the first English-language study of Korean cinema's role in helping to galvanize activist social movements across these and other identity-based categories.
This study investigates the controversial motion pictures written and directed by the independent filmmaker Kim Ki-duk, one of the most acclaimed Korean auteurs in the English-speaking world. Propelled by underdog protagonists who can only communicate through shared corporeal pain and extreme violence, Kim's graphic films have been classified by Western audiences as belonging to sensationalist East Asian "extreme" cinema, and Kim has been labeled a "psychopath" and "misogynist" in South Korea. Drawing upon both Korean-language and English-language sources, Hye Seung Chung challenges these misunderstandings, recuperating Kim's oeuvre as a therapeutic, yet brutal cinema of Nietzschean ressentiment (political anger and resentment deriving from subordination and oppression). Chung argues that the power of Kim's cinema lies precisely in its ability to capture, channel, and convey the raw emotions of protagonists who live on the bottom rungs of Korean society. She provides historical and postcolonial readings of victimization and violence in Kim's cinema, which tackles such socially relevant topics as national division in Wild Animals and The Coast Guard and U.S. military occupation in Address Unknown. She also explores the religious and spiritual themes in Kim's most recent works, which suggest possibilities of reconciliation and transcendence.
This volume comprises papers presented at the 2nd International Conference on Advanced Nondestructive Evaluation (ANDE 2007) held in Busan, Korea, on October 17-19, 2007. Many of the excellent papers included in this book show the current state of nondestructive technologies, which are experiencing rapid progress with the integration of emerging technologies in various fields. As such, this volume provides an avenue for both specialists and scholars to share their ideas and the results of their findings in the field of nondestructive evaluation.
Relations between the two Koreas continue to be hostile, volatile and unpredictable with North Korea’s nuclear issue remaining as untamed as ever. As such, there is a growing urgency for security cooperation in Northeast Asia to be given immediate attention. The key players in the region - the US, China, Japan and Russia - are keenly aware of the security threat of an armed clash between North and South Korea and are committed to denuclearization of the Korean peninsula. This book explores the domestic factors of the two Koreas and the four major powers that influence their security policies towards North Korea and Northeast Asia. This well thought out and consistently analysed volume has huge potential to frame the conversation on Northeast Asian relations in the coming years.
This book asks what strategies women’s movements can employ to induce law and policy changes at the national level that will assist women’s equality without sacrificing their feminist energy, movement cohesiveness and core feminist commitments. The book takes up this question in order to emphasize the need not only to recognize the accomplishments of women’s movements through political participation, but also to analyze the process through which feminist organizations interact with formal politics. It examines the institutionalization of the Korean women’s movement under the progressive presidencies of Kim Dae Jung (1998-2002) and Roh Moo Hyun (2003-2007), focusing on three major pieces of legislation concerning women’s rights that were enacted during this time, and looks at the process of gender politics and the strategic bargains that needed to be made between the women’s movement and other political forces in order to advance their agenda. It questions whether the institutionalization of the women’s movement inevitably results in demobilization and deradicalization, and goes on to examine the relationship between the women’s movement and the government over the two most women-friendly administrations in South Korean history, a period marked by flourishing civil society activism and participatory democracy.
How did a country with a dearth of natural resources, a sprawling population congested in a limited arable land transform itself to a modern industrial state within a generation? How could these have been achieved given the lingering geopolitical threats to its very survival as a state, as evidenced by the Korean War and the internecine aggressive posturing of its neighbor from the north? This book looks at strategies, institutional arrangement, role of entrepreneurs and workers in this odyssey, and on how those factors have worked together through effective leadership to transform South Korea’s economic fortunes.
A permanent peace regime on the Korean peninsula has yet to be achieved even though the Korean War came to a halt more than half a century ago. Without a peace treaty formally ending the Korean War, the two Korean states are technically still at war. The current situation on the Korean peninsula is extremely tense and precarious, and tensions and distrust between the two Koreas and between the U.S. and North Korea escalated in the wake of North Korea's second underground nuclear weapons testing in 2009. The editors of this volume conceptually present a two-track (inter-Korean and international) approach to Korean peninsula peace-regime building. They argue that an inter-Korean and international approach should be pursued simultaneously for the construction of a permanent peace regime on the Korean peninsula. The contributing authors are established specialists and experts on Korean foreign relations and Northeast Asian international relations. As natives of the U.S., Korea, China, and Japan, they provide objective, scholarly and diverse perspectives on the Korean peace regime building.
In the post-Cold War era, US relations with the two Korean states - the Republic of Korea (ROK) and the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) - have been undergoing profound changes, with critical and immediate repercussions for peace and security in the Korean Peninsula and Northeast Asia. This volume examines the key political, security and economic aspects of US-ROK and US-DPRK relations, focusing on the current status, salient issues and future prospects. Drs Kwak and Joo are distinguished professionals in the field and their volume constitutes a very interesting addition to the available literature.
Despite recent achievements in the South Korean economy and development within welfare institutions, new forms of precarious work continue to prevail. This book introduces the concept of ‘melting labour’, which refers to the blurring of boundaries between traditional forms of work and workplace and the dissolution of standard employment relationships. Presenting a theoretical framework at the intersection of ‘melting labour’ and institutional protection of workers, it addresses how and why the Korean welfare state has failed to protect precarious workers. Based on rich, in-depth interviews with over 80 precarious workers in Korea, from subcontracted manufacturing workers to platform workers, it provides a real depiction of how workers lose control over their lives and experience precariousness in labour markets.
Biopolitical Ethics in Global Cinema takes a new approach to world cinema through critical theory. Whereas world cinema often refers to non-American films deemed artistic or peripheral, Seung-hoon Jong examines its mapping frames: the territorial 'national frame,' the deterritorializing 'transnational frame,' and the 'global frame.' If world cinema studies have mostly displayed national cinemas and their transnational mutations, his global frame highlights two conflicting ethical facets of globalization: the 'soft-ethical' inclusion of differences in multicultural, neoliberal systems and their 'hard-ethical' symptoms of fundamentalist exclusion and terror. Reflecting both, global cinema draws attention to new changes in subjectivity and community that Jeong investigates in terms of biopolitical 'abjection' and ethical 'agency.' In this frame, the book explores a vast net of post-1990 films circulating in both the mainstream market and the festival circuit. Jeong comparatively navigates these films, highlighting less essentialist particularities than compatible localities that perform universal aspects of biopolitical ethics by centering the narrative of 'double death': the abject as symbolically dead struggle for lost subjectivity or new agency until physically dying. This narrative pervades global cinema from Hollywood blockbusters and European art films to Middle Eastern dramas and Asian genre films. Ultimately, the book renews critical discourses on global issues--including multiculturalism, catastrophe, sovereignty, abjection, violence, network, nihilism, and atopia--through a core cluster of political, ethical, and psychoanalytic philosophies.
도서에 포함된 MP3(CD) 음원은 다락원 홈페이지(www.darakwon.co.kr)에서 무료 다운로드 가능합니다. ‘Korean Made Easy – Starter (2nd Edition)’는 독학용 한국어 교재 중 베스트셀러로 자기매김하고 있는 ‘Korean Made Easy for Beginners (2nd Edition)’의 전 단계 교재로서 ‘Korean Made Easy – Starter’를 최신 트렌드에 맞춰 보완한 개정판이다. 이 책은 한국어를 처음 접하는 독학 학습자들을 위한 입문서로 한글의 형태와 발음을 가장 쉽게 학습할 수 있도록 한 최적의 교재이다. ‘도입-학습-읽기-듣기-활동’의 5단계 학습법을 통해 쉽고 재미있게 한글과 발음, 기초 어휘, 핵심 표현을 학습하고 이해하기 쉽도록 고안됐다. 단 20시간 만에 한글을 완벽하게 익힐 수 있으며, QR 코드를 통해 제공된 음성 파일로 정확한 발음을 확인하고 연습할 수 있다. 그리고 다양한 형태의 연습 문제를 통해 재미있게 한글과 기초 어휘를 학습할 수 있고, 한글 브로마이드와 휴대하며 바로 확인할 수 있는 표현 카드를 수록하여 학습자가 언제 어디서든 한글과 한국어 표현에 익숙해질 수 있도록 하였다. <출판사 리뷰> - 기초 한국어 독학 학습자들을 위한 맞춤 한국어 교재! 독학용 한국어 베스트셀러 ‘Korean Made Easy - Starter’의 개정판으로, 한국어 기초 학습자들을 위한 맞춤 설명을 제공하고 있다. - 한국어를 처음 학습하는 학습자들을 위한 한글 문자와 발음에 대한 구체적인 설명! 기초 한국어 학습자들에게는 생소한 한글을 효과적으로 학습할 수 있도록 문자의 제자원리를 설명하고 학습자가 쉽게 이해할 수 있도록 유사 발음을 제시함으로써 새로운 문자를 친숙하게 익힐 수 있도록 하였다. 또한 정확한 발음을 익힐 수 있도록 원어민의 발음을 QR 코드를 통해 MP3 파일로 제공하고 있다. - 다양한 활동과 재미있는 연습 문제를 통해 한글과 발음을 마스터! 한글과 한국어를 처음 접하는 학습자가 헷갈려하는 발음과 글자를 다양한 활동을 통해 충분히 익힐 수 있으며, 다양한 게임 형태의 연습 문제를 풀면서 재미있게 한글과 발음을 학습할 수 있다. - 들고 다니면서 바로 사용할 수 있는 표현 카드와 한글 브로마이드를 통한 손쉬운 학습! 한국어 초급 학습자에게 꼭 필요한 24개의 유용한 표현을 카드 형태로 제공하였다. 이 유용한 표현 카드를 통해 언제 어디서든 한국어 기초 표현을 익힐 수 있게 하였다. 또한 자음과 모음, 자·모음 결합형, 숫자 등을 수록한 한글 브로마이드를 제공하여 한글을 처음 접하는 학습자가 좀 더 한글에 익숙해지는 것을 돕는다. 머리말 Peface 일러두기 How to Use This Book 차례 Contents 내용 구성표 Table of Contents Part 1 Introduction to Hangeul Part 2 Characteristics of Korean Vowels and Consonants Part 3 Characteristics of Korean Sentences Chapter 1 Six Basic Vowels ㅏ ㅓ ㅗ ㅜ ㅡ ㅣ Chapter 2 Three Basic Consonants ㅁ ㄴ ㄹ Chapter 3 Six Basic Consonants ㅂ ㄷ ㅅ ㅈ ㄱ ㅎ Chapter 4 Final Consonants ㅁ ㄴ ㄹ ㅇ ㅂ ㄷ ㅅ ㅈ ㄱ ㅎ Chapter 5 Four [y] Vowels ㅑ ㅕ ㅛ ㅠ Chapter 6 Two Basic Vowels ㅐ ㅔ & Two [y] Vowels ㅒ ㅖ Chapter 7 Four Aspirated Consonants ㅍ ㅌ ㅊ ㅋ Chapter 8 Seven Compound Vowels ㅘ ㅝ ㅙ ㅞ ㅚ ㅟ ㅢ Chapter 9 Five Tensed Consonants ㅃ ㄸ ㅆ ㅉ ㄲ Chapter 10 Final Consonants ㅍ ㅌ ㅊ ㅋ ㅆ ㄲ & Double Final Consonants Final Review 부록Ⅰ AppendixⅠ 정답 Answers 듣기 대본 Listening Scripts 색인 Index 부록Ⅱ AppendixⅡ 24개의 중요 표현 카드 Twenty-four Useful Expression Cards
The MP3 (CD) sound source included in the book can be downloaded free of charge from the attic website (www.darakwon.co.kr) Korean Made Easy - Intermediate (2nd Edition) is the sequel to the best-selling Korean textbook for self-study Korean Made Easy for Beginners (2nd Edition). This book is carefully designed and structured for intermediate Korean learners to easily and enjoyably learn vocabulary, expressions, and grammar. The textbook is divided into 15 topics and each respective topic is presented in 3 situations based on practical grammar and vocabulary. These vocabulary and expressions are also covered in the additional vocabulary corner and the Sino-Korean character learning corner. In addition, grammar explanations and grammar usage tables necessary for intermediate learners are included in detail in the appendix, and translations of new vocabulary and expressions from the conversations are provided. This book is an ideal, comprehensive intermediate Korean self-study textbook. ▪ This best-selling, self-study integrated textbook contains practical grammar and vocabulary necessary for intermediate Korean learners! The sequel to the best-selling Korean textbook for self-study, ‘Korean Made Easy for Beginners (2nd Edition)’. Grammar and vocabulary are carefully selected and presented based on the topic in each conversation so that learners can acquire practical usage. ▪ Detailed grammar explanations with vivid and diverse visuals, and natural English translations! Illustrations vividly express the situations and expressions, making it easy to understand conversational situations and the context in which vocabulary is used. Detailed, natural English translations simplify intermediate Korean grammar, which can oftentimes be complicated. ▪ Visual aids improve Sino-Korean vocabulary retention! Intermediate learners can easily grasp the meaning of Sino-Korean vocabulary, improve their understanding, and expand their learning by visualizing Sino-Korean characters while studying Korean with English translations. ▪ Effective learning aids with a variety of exercises and activities! The grammar and vocabulary covered throughout the textbook can be practiced immediately through a variety of exercises and activities. Thereby, enhancing learning and retention. 도서에 포함된 MP3(CD) 음원은 다락원 홈페이지(www.darakwon.co.kr)에서 무료 다운로드 가능합니다. ‘Korean Made Easy – Intermediate (2nd Edition)’은 독학용 한국어 교재 베스트셀러인 ‘Korean Made Easy for Beginners (2nd Edition)’의 후속작으로, 기존의 ‘Korean Made Easy – Intermediate’의 내용을 트렌드에 맞게 수정 보완하여 중급 한국어 학습자를 위해 출간되었다. 중급 한국어 학습자에게 필요한 실용 문법 및 어휘를 15개 주제로 나누고, 각 주제 별로 3개의 담화 상황 속에서 제시하고 있다. 더불어 주제와 담화 상황 속에서 사용된 어휘 및 관련 표현을 추가 어휘 코너와 한자어 학습 코너를 통해 제시함으로써, 중급 학습자가 어렵게 느낄 수 있는 한자어와 표현들을 쉽고 재미있게 학습할 수 있도록 구성하였다. 또한 부록에서 중급 학습자에게 필요한 문법 설명과 문법 활용표를 제시하여을 보다 자세히 수록하고 있고, 대화에 나온 새 어휘와 표현 번역을 제공하여 학습자들의 이해를 도운 중급 한국어 독학용 교재의 완성판이다. <출판사 리뷰> - 중급 한국어 학습자들에게 필요한 실용 문법과 어휘를 수록한 최적의 독학용 통합 교재! 베스트셀러 독학용 한국어 교재 중 베스트셀러인 ‘Korean Made Easy for Beginners (2nd Edition)’의 후속작으로, 중급 한국어 학습자들에게 필요한 문법 사항과 어휘를 선별, 주제에 맞게 대화를 통해 문법과 어휘의 실제 용례를 익힐 수 있다. - 생생하고 다양한 시각 자료와 자연스러운 영어 번역으로 문법 설명을 자세하게 담았다! 상황과 표현을 생생하게 표현한 삽화를 통해 대화 상황 및 어휘가 사용되는 맥락을 쉽게 이해할 수 있고, 자세하고 자연스러운 영어 번역을 통해 복잡하게 느껴질 수 있는 중급 한국어 문법에 대한 설명을 학습자가 쉽게 파악할 수 있도록 하였다. - 중급 한국어 학습자들이 어려워하는 한자어를 시각화하여 보다 쉽게 한자어 어휘 실력을 향상시킬 수 있다! 중급 학습자들이 한국어를 공부하면서 쉽게 접하게 되는 한자어를 영어 번역과 함께 시각화하여 쉽게 한자어 어휘의 의미를 파악하고, 파생어까지 확장하여 학습할 수 있게 함으로써 중급 학습자들의 어휘력 향상을 돕는다. - 다양한 연습 문제와 활동 자료를 통한 효과적인 학습 도우미! 문법 항목을 바로 연습할 수 있는 연습 문제와 실제 학습한 문법 사항과 어휘를 활용해 볼 수 있는 활동을 통해 다각적인 한국어 학습이 이루어질 수 있도록 하였다. 서문 Preface 일러두기 How to Use This Book 목차 Contents 교재구성표 Table of Contents 등장인물 소개 Main Characters Chapter 01 첫 만남 Meeting Someone for the First Time Chapter 02 일상생활 Everyday Life Chapter 03 약속 Appointments Chapter 04 길 찾기 Asking Directions Chapter 05 음식 Food Chapter 06 공공 규칙 Public Rules Chapter 07 집 In the House Chapter 08 쇼핑 Shopping Chapter 09 한국 생활 Living in Korea Chapter 10 문제 Problems Chapter 11 사람 People Chapter 12 건강 Health Chapter 13 관심사 Interests Chapter 14 여행 Travel Chapter 15 관계 Relationships 부록 Appendix 문법 부록 Grammar Appendix 한국어 활용 Korean Conjugation 문법 활용표 Conjugation Charts 정답 Answers 한자어 색인 Word Web Appendix with Hanja 색인 New Vocabulary & New Expressions
Cinema under National Reconstruction calls for a revisionist understanding of state film censorship during successive Cold War military regimes in South Korea (1961–1988). Drawing upon primary documents from the Korean Film Archive’s digitized database and framing South Korean film censorship from a transnational perspective, Hye Seung Chung makes the case that, while political oppression/repression existed inside and outside the film industry during this period, film censorship was not simply a tool for authoritarian dictatorship. Through such case studies as Yu Hyun-mok’s The Stray Bullet (1961), Ha Kil-jong’s The March of the Fools (1975), and Yi Chang-ho’s Declaration of Fools (1983), the author defines censorship as a dialogical process of cultural negotiations wherein the state, the film industry, and the public fight out a battle over the definitions and functions of national cinema. In the context of Cold War Korea, one cannot fully understand or construct film history without reassessing censorship as a productive feedback system where both state regulators and filmmakers played active roles in shaping the new narrative or sentiment of the nation on the big screen.
This book provides readers with a holistic picture of government reform activity in four countries—namely, South Korea, Cambodia, Laos and Vietnam—located in East and Southeast Asia. The case study of each country offers a detailed understanding of their respective reform trajectories and the context within which actions have been taken.
Based upon extensive fieldwork in India and Korea, this book is a detailed account of the globalization of the Korean automobile industry and Hyundai Motor Company, one of the most prominent of the new Korean multinational corporations.
Bold, sophisticated, engaging, and startlingly modern, Buncheong ceramics emerged as a distinct Korean art form in the 15th and 16th centuries, only to be eclipsed on its native ground for more than 400 years by the overwhelming demand for porcelain. Elements from the Buncheong idiom were later revived in Japan, where its spare yet sensual aesthetic was much admired and where descendants of Korean potters lived and worked. This innovative study features 60 masterpieces from the renowned Leeum, Samsung Museum of Art in Seoul, as well as objects from The Metropolitan Museum of Art, and presents current scholarship on Buncheong's history, manufacture, use, and overall significance. The book illustrates why this historical art form continues to resonate with Korean and Japanese ceramists working today and with contemporary viewers worldwide.
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