scholarly journals COVID-19 Pandemic, Transparency, and “Polidemic” in the Republic of Korea

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (2) ◽  
pp. 213-224
Author(s):  
Cheol Kang ◽  
Ilhak Lee
Keyword(s):  
Media Coverage ◽  
Significant Contribution ◽  
Ethical Issues ◽  
Republic Of Korea ◽  
Global Media ◽  
The Public ◽  
Rational Debate ◽  
Policy Measures ◽  
The Republic ◽  
New Perspective

AbstractThis article examines the development of the Republic of Korea’s strategy to prevent the spread of COVID-19 with particular focus on ethical issues and the problem of politicization of public communication. Using prominent examples of stakeholders who have acted and expressed themselves in highly contradictory ways on the topic of the pandemic, we provide an analysis of how the public health policy discourse has entered into the realm of politicization and elaborate on the danger that this phenomenon poses in terms of rational debate and appropriate policy measures geared toward the public’s safety. Considering the role that the Republic of Korea have had in global media coverage of quarantine policies and epidemic prevention, we believe that our study makes a significant contribution to the literature because it provides a new perspective and insights into the forces at work within and around a prevention strategy that has both been lauded and seen as highly controversial.

scholarly journals COUNTRY IMAGE AND FOREIGN INVESTMENT: IMPORTANT ASPECTS OF INTERDEPENDENCE

2020 ◽  
pp. 122-134
Author(s):  
Beruniy ALIMOV
Keyword(s):  
Mass Media ◽  
Foreign Investment ◽  
National Economy ◽  
Media Coverage ◽  
Investment Climate ◽  
Global Media ◽  
The World ◽  
The Republic ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Modern Technologies

This article analyzes the impact of the country's media image on foreign investment flows. Researches show, that the development of any country tensely depends on its reputation in information space. Media coverage of economic reforms and important political changes is the main reason why investors in other states show interest in the country. As a result, it is possible to achieve a multiple increase in the inflow of foreign investments. The investment of foreign investors in the national economy depends not only on the rating of enterprises or on the results of economic activity, but also on the geopolitical location of the country and its domestic and foreign policy. Investors choose the most stable countries to invest capital. That is why all countries around the world are trying to do as much as possible to minimize investment risks. Like all countries in the world, Uzbekistan is making a lot of efforts to improve the attractiveness of the investment climate in the national economy. In particular, in recent years, a special attention has been paid to the investment policy of the Republic. At the same time, mass media in Uzbekistan are trying to spread the information about the great achievements of the country to the world. In this process, modern technologies of national mass media, in particular the Internet and satellite capabilities are being used. However, it would be desirable to increase the effectiveness of the existing information capacity, strengthen mechanisms for enhancing the country's image in the global media space.

scholarly journals Pandemic Communication: Information Seeking, Evaluation, and Self-Protective Behaviors in Vietnam and the Republic of Korea

2021 ◽  
Vol 6 ◽  
Author(s):  
Audra Diers-Lawson ◽  
Sophie Johnson ◽  
Teela Clayton ◽  
Riko Kimoto ◽  
Bach Xuan Tran ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Information Seeking ◽  
Health Sector ◽  
Public Information ◽  
Republic Of Korea ◽  
Protective Behaviors ◽  
Infection Rates ◽  
The Public ◽  
Theory Evaluation ◽  
The Republic ◽  
The Individual

Saliou (Eur J Epidemiol, 1994, 10 (4), 515–517) argued that pandemics are special kinds of crises and requires the public health sector to focus on: 1) reducing uncertainty, 2) rumor mitigation, and 3) ensuring the public reduces their risk of contracting the disease. With this as a backdrop, the central aim of this research is to better understand the connections between public information seeking, evaluation, and self-protective behaviors in the COVID-19 pandemic and focuses on a comparison between the Republic of Korea and Vietnam to provide insights into the influence of the individual, institutional, and information factors influencing people’s experience with COVID-19. Thus, there are two major contributions of this study. First, it provides a cross-theory evaluation of the factors that contribute to information seeking, evaluation, and self-protective behaviors. Second, the study identifies potentially critical differences in information seeking, evaluation, and self-protective behaviors based on acute disease reproduction in countries with a successful pandemic suppression history. Findings suggest that in countries where there are high levels of trust and satisfaction even small changes in the infection rates lead to different information seeking and self-protective behaviors.

scholarly journals TAXATION OF FAMILY INCOME UNDER INDIAN TAXATION LAWS A NEW PERSPECTIVE

2020 ◽  
Vol 8 (12) ◽  
pp. 975-978
Author(s):  
Amit Hedau
Keyword(s):  
Income Tax ◽  
Public Services ◽  
Family Income ◽  
Central Government ◽  
Competent Authority ◽  
Law And Order ◽  
The Public ◽  
The Family ◽  
The Republic ◽  
New Perspective

Since the monarchy pattern of ruling the state to the republic era, one aspect is common i.e taxation. The revenue required for funding the public services and maintaining law and order, various types of taxes are imposed on citizens and organisations by the competent authority. In India, the taxation of income is the exclusive power of Central Government and The Income Tax Act 1961 is the governing Act for the taxation matter. The present paper is conceptual in nature. The author wants to propose a new scheme of taxation of family income. As per the authors proposal the combine income of the family will be charged to tax instead of charging individuals income separately. The authors has given the reference of few prevailing schemes to support his claim. Before writing the conclusion of the paper, the positive and negative aspects of the new proposal are also discussed. The idea behind the new proposal is to condense the disparity in disposal income of individual and family income.

A study on the legislative process of the Republic of Korea

1986 ◽  
Vol 1 (0) ◽  
pp. 181-189
Author(s):  
Jae Hoon Chin
Keyword(s):  
Executive Branch ◽  
Republic Of Korea ◽  
Legislative Process ◽  
National Assembly ◽  
The Public ◽  
Legislative Procedures ◽  
Controlling Mechanism ◽  
Legislative Procedure ◽  
The Republic ◽  
Characteristic Features

In view of the importance of Parliamentary System and legislation, this paper tries to examine the formal legislative procedure and its actual workings in the National Assembly of the Republic of Korea in order to find out some characteristic features of the legislative process and to suggest some improvements of the current practices. We found that the characteristic features of legislative procedure in the Korean National Assembly are as follows; First, deliberations at the standing committees occupy the central importance in the entire legislative process. Second, those legislative procedures which require open-door sessions have usually been inaccessible by the public due to short notice and lack of practice of public hearings. And thus the sub-committees have been held either at a closed-session, or at a corner of the lobby, excluding many aspirants of observers. Third, judicial review and presidential veto as a check and controlling mechanism on the law making process have played very insignificant role. Fourth, the Executive Branch has the superior position in the legislative process compared with the Legislative Branch; that is, the Executive Branch can exert greater influence in the submission, deliberation, and passage of the bills. Finally, the 38.1% 1,467 laws of the total 3,853 laws promulgated by the president have been propose by non-representatives. This may be one of the reasons why the general public has low respect and trust in the legislative process and the parliamentary democracy.

scholarly journals Media’s Role in Televised Media Coverage and Its Influence on Terrorist Attacks in Nairobi County, Kenya

2021 ◽  
Vol 1 (6) ◽  
pp. 81-86
Author(s):  
Kenwilliams Nyakomitah ◽  
Panuel Mwaeke ◽  
Lydia Mareri
Keyword(s):  
Civil Society ◽  
Media Coverage ◽  
Focal Point ◽  
Terrorist Attack ◽  
Terrorist Attacks ◽  
Global Media ◽  
Chi Square ◽  
The Public ◽  
Terrorist Groups ◽  
The Media

With the turn of the century, Kenya’s capital, Nairobi, has had its share of terrorist activity. Due to their nature, global media houses have centred on these occurrences as they have formed the focal point during their immediacy. This has led to the rise of media; in all its variety, as a reliable ate truthful source of information: on the other hand, terrorists have used the media as a veritable and strong propaganda tool. This is in line with the main aim and intent of terrorism; the spread of fear and it also feeds to the belief by various terrorist groups that media is one of their biggest investments. This study sought to examine media’s role in televised media coverage and it’s influence on terrorist attacks in Nairobi County, Kenya. The sample size for the study was derived from 110 officers from the Anti-Terror Police Unit, a section of the Directorate if Criminal Investigations and informants numbering to 14 from television editors, freelance reporters, and across civil society. The data was collected through questionnaires and interview guides for the officers from ATPU and respondents from the media and civil society respectively. It was further analysed using SPSS and presented through the use of frequency distribution tables and bar graphs; other modes include inferential statistics of linear regression and Chi square. The study revealed that there was a significant effect on the security situation in Nairobi due to televised media coverage of terrorist attacks. The study revealed a significant relationship between media coverage of terrorist incidents and increased insecurity in Nairobi. (χ2 = 9.499a, p = 0.023). The recommendations include the development of proportionality in the reporting on terrorist attacks. This is because an overemphasis on terrorist threats has an inadvertent advancement of terrorism and terrorist activities. There is therefore a need for care by journalists lest they be used as vehicles of propaganda by terrorists. This is due to the power that is inherent in misinformation in denying the general public independent reporting and the resultant understanding that comes with it. It is recommended that there be a limit as to the amount and type of information released to the media and eventually to the public in the event of a terrorist attack; this helps in averting the spread of terrorist propaganda and the misinformation of the public.

scholarly journals Public-Private Partnerships in Republic of Korea: Experience and Results

2015 ◽  
pp. 217-224
Author(s):  
Lee Jae Sung
Keyword(s):  
Capital Investment ◽  
Republic Of Korea ◽  
Public Private Partnerships ◽  
The Public ◽  
Energy Environment ◽  
Implementation Guidelines ◽  
Sea Ports ◽  
The Republic ◽  
The Government ◽  
Education Culture

The Republic of Korea came to realize the acute necessity of launching the public-private partnership (PPP) at the turn of the 90s, the country happened to fall short of such infra facilities as roadways, railroads, sea ports and airports and the government found itself unable to fully finance their construction works. Although the PPP institutional framework started to get purposely and mostly formed in the first half of the 90s in Korea the PPP itself actually came into occasional practice even before, owing to some legislation, covering roadways and sea ports. There are four main stages to be noted in the development of PPP, consecutively ranging from 1968 to 1994, from 1994 to 1999, from 1999 to 2004 and since 2005 till now. The PPP periods are much related to various amendments to the basic PPP law, initially adopted in August 1994 as the Act on Promotion of Private Capital Investment in Social Overhead Capital which was transformed into the Act on Private Participation in Infrastructure (briefly called the PPP Act) in December 1998. Along with this Act, Korea's PPP institutional basis currently laid by the Enforcement Decree of the Act on Public-Private Partnerships in Infrastructure, the PPP Basic Plan and the PPP Implementation Guidelines. It is the PPP Act that determines 49 types of PPP project-eligible infra facilities, categorized into 15 groups such as roads, railroads, ports, airports, communications, water resources, energy, environment, forestry, logistics, welfare, public housing, military housing, education, culture/tourism. In the aspect of the globally-recognized types of PPP procurement methods, the PPP Act primarily determines the use of such mechanisms as BTL, BTO, BOT, BOO.

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