The Politics of Democratization in Korea: The Role of Civil Society. By Sunhyuk Kim. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2000. 196p. $19.95 paper.

2001 ◽  
Vol 95 (4) ◽  
pp. 1020-1021
Author(s):  
Aie-Rie Lee
Keyword(s):  
Civil Society ◽  
South Korea ◽  
Primary Sources ◽  
Theoretical Argument ◽  
University Of Pittsburgh

This book is well written and enjoyable to read, in part because of the good use of primary sources and in part because of the deliberate and thoughtful way that Sunhyuk Kim develops the theoretical argument. Certainly, this is a welcome addition to the growing literature on democratization in general and in South Korea in particular.

scholarly journals Europeanization and Modernization of the Discourse of Civil society and Political Parties

2020 ◽  
Vol 9 (6) ◽  
pp. 18-23
Author(s):  
S. P. Mitrakhovich
Keyword(s):  
Civil Society ◽  
Political Parties ◽  
Social Processes ◽  
The State ◽  
Primary Sources ◽  
Present Stage ◽  
Brics Countries ◽  
Western Influence ◽  
The Subject

The article examines the evolution at the present stage of theoretical and normative ideas about the role of civil society and political parties in their relationship with the state and their influence on social processes and the economy. Most concepts, offering theoretical reflexion on this issue, appeared in the West, and due to Western influence was borrowed by Russia and other countries, where the discourse of civil society and political parties itself was Europeanized. However, the formal adherence to European intellectual fashion in the most ambitious BRICS countries has now led to the formation of its own analytical and regulatory views on the subject, only externally resembling Western primary sources. At the same time, the use of rethought European views in modernising the own discourse of civil society and political parties allows to give this discourse a respectable image and to be effectively used by the state both for domestic political purposes and in conceptual foreign policy disputes with Europe itself.

Insurgency and Advocacy: Unauthorized Foreign Workers and Civil Society in South Korea

2003 ◽  
Vol 12 (3) ◽  
pp. 237-269 ◽  
Author(s):  
Joon Kim
Keyword(s):  
Civil Society ◽  
South Korea ◽  
Structural Changes ◽  
Manufacturing Sector ◽  
Foreign Workers ◽  
South Korean ◽  
Governmental Organizations ◽  
Non Governmental Organizations ◽  
Contract Labor

Due to major structural changes in the 1980s, South Korea initiated an international contract labor program known as the industrial trainee system in 1991. Started ostensibly as a temporary measure to deal with domestic labor shortage in the declining manufacturing sector, the program has spread recently to other sectors, including fisheries, construction and agriculture. Currently, over 300,000 unskilled foreigners reside in South Korea, of which two out of every three persons are identified as unauthorized workers. This article examines how the South Korean industrial trainee program systematically produces unauthorized workers and highlights the role of non-governmental organizations (NGOs) in protecting the human rights of foreign workers. The successful collaboration of South Korea's civil society stems from its unique historical formation, rooted in democracy movements of earlier decades. It also implicates strong prospects for substantive integration of foreign workers and, as a consequence, suggests important changes in the country's social and economic structures.

scholarly journals The Comparative Study of civil Society Organizations in Combat Corruption in I.R.I and South Korea with Overview to the United Nations Convention against Corruption (UNCAC)

2017 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. 222
Author(s):  
Abutaleb Motallebi Varkani ◽  
Amir Nezam Barati
Keyword(s):  
Civil Society ◽  
South Korea ◽  
Good Governance ◽  
Civil Society Organizations ◽  
Civil Society Organization ◽  
United Nations Convention ◽  
In The Beginning ◽  
The Comparative Study ◽  
Political Economic

Corruption is a social, political, economic and even security phenomena that defect the democratic institutions and it make a lot of problem for governance (private, civil society and government sectors). Combating corruption is one of the most important factors for establishment of Good Governance. In combat corruption different actor such as government, private sector and civil society have functions, but the role of civil societies are very effective than others.This study using analytical–descriptive, analyses the role of civil society in combat corruption in I.R. of Iran and South Korea.Findings of this study shows that in south Korea the role of special civil society organization in combat corruption have remarkable efficiency but in Iran, specialized civil society organizations are in the beginning of the path to tackle corruption or this kind of NGO is not established until now, while the parliament ratified the law of UN Convention against corruption and it is necessary to execute and recognize the role of these NGOs in this hard struggle.

scholarly journals Winning Conditions of Precarious Workers’ Struggles: A Reflection Based on Case Studies from South Korea

2017 ◽  
Vol 72 (3) ◽  
pp. 524-550 ◽  
Author(s):  
Byoung-Hoon Lee ◽  
Sophia Seung-Yoon Lee
Keyword(s):  
Civil Society ◽  
South Korea ◽  
Employment Status ◽  
English Language ◽  
Active Role ◽  
Unexpected Finding ◽  
Organizational Sustainability ◽  
Labour Movement ◽  
Successful Outcomes

In South Korea, many struggles of non-regular workers, who attempted to organize their unions and engage in militant action to protest against employers’ inhumane discrimination and illegal exclusion, have failed to achieve the desired outcomes, due to their vulnerable employment status and their lack of action resources. In this light, our study examines the conditions that lead to victory in precarious workers’ struggles, by focusing on three attributes: internal solidarity with regular workers, external solidarity from labour and civil society groups outside the workplace, and mobilized protest repertoires. Specifically, this study seeks to identify the configurations of these three conditions that produce successful outcomes in precarious workers’ struggles, in terms of bargaining gains and organizational sustainability. We do this by employing fs/QCA modelling to examine 30 major cases of non-regular worker struggles occurring over a 16-year period from 1998 to 2013. Our analysis presents the finding that the conditional configuration of strong external solidarity, strong internal solidarity, and fewer struggle repertoires constitutes a significant causal path to successful outcomes. This reaffirms the idea that strong solidarity bridging, whether with regular workers that have a different employment status in the segmented workplace, or with labour and civil society groups outside the workplace, is the crucial causal condition for precarious workers to achieve their desired outcomes from struggle. An unexpected finding, however, is that when precarious worker struggles mobilize fewer struggle repertoires, they are likely to achieve the successful outcomes of bargaining and organizational gains. Our study contributes to the theoretical elaboration of labour movement revitalization for the precariat class, by shedding light on the activism of precarious workers, considering that the English-language literature that pays attention to the active role of such atypical workers in staging protests against employers’ inhumane treatments and the neoliberal labour regime is limited.

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