Globalization and Divergent Paths of Industrial Development: Mobile Phone Manufacturing in China, Japan, South Korea and Taiwan

2015 ◽  
Vol 46 (2) ◽  
pp. 222-246 ◽  
Author(s):  
Joonkoo Lee ◽  
Jong-Cheol Kim ◽  
Jinho Lim
Keyword(s):  
South Korea ◽  
Mobile Phone ◽  
Industrial Development

Introduction. The Problematic: Territorial State, International Capital, and Uneven Industrial Development in Thailand

2004 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jim Glassman
Keyword(s):  
South Korea ◽  
Environmental Sustainability ◽  
Industrial Development ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Basic Question ◽  
Past Century ◽  
Authoritarian State ◽  
State Involvement ◽  
Standards Of Living ◽  
Lay Reader

Thailand presents a vexingly ‘hybrid’ image of both success and failure. A lay reader of journalistic and academic literature on Thai development could readily be excused for concurring with the opinion of renowned Thai scholar David Wilson, who long ago insisted ‘What damn good is this country—you can’t compare it to anything!’ (Anderson 1978: 193). Indeed, so contradictory are the varying images of the country and the events taking place within it that it often seems Thailand can’t even be compared to itself. This sense of identity crisis has only been heightened by the economic crisis that began in 1996. What had been one of Asia’s miracle economies led the region into bust, leaving many analysts gasping for air. Thus, as the twenty-first century begins, and we look back on the events of the past century, there is a sense of urgency and contentiousness surrounding a very basic question that one might have already expected to be answered: what exactly is this multifaceted and volatile phenomenon called ‘development’ in Thailand, and why does it generate such diverse evaluations? To be sure, some of the contention is due to non-negotiable differences in political perspectives. Yet even granting this, there seems to be less agreement about how to assess development in Thailand than development in many other places. For example, few South Korea scholars, of whatever persuasion, disagree that the country exhibited remarkable and sustained economic growth in recent decades, that this has at least laid the foundations for significant improvements in overall standards of living for most of the population, or that in spite of the crisis the Korean political economy still has substantial potential for further development. Nor, for that matter, do many people disagree that the development process in South Korea was driven forward by an authoritarian state and that issues such as social justice and environmental sustainability must still be addressed. In contrast, interpreters of Thailand’s development experience seem to disagree about such fundamental issues as the importance of state involvement in the process, the degree of well-being which it has bequeathed to the general population, and the future prospects of development.

Industrial Development in Singapore, Taiwan, and South Korea

10.1142/4706 ◽  
2001 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kwong Kai-Sun ◽  
Chau Leung-Chuen ◽  
Francis T Lui ◽  
Larry D Qiu
Keyword(s):  
South Korea ◽  
Industrial Development

scholarly journals The Geographic Spread and Preferences of Tourists Revealed by User-Generated Information on Jeju Island, South Korea

Land ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 8 (5) ◽  
pp. 73 ◽  
Author(s):  
David M. Fisher ◽  
Spencer A. Wood ◽  
Young-Hee Roh ◽  
Choong-Ki Kim
Keyword(s):  
South Korea ◽  
Mobile Phone ◽  
Regional Scale ◽  
Recreation Demand ◽  
Jeju Island ◽  
Natural Environments ◽  
Ticket Sales ◽  
Sustainable Tourism Development ◽  
Visitation Rates ◽  
Hiking Trails

Recreation and tourism are important ways that people interact with and derive benefits from natural environments. Understanding how and where nature provides recreational opportunities and benefits is necessary for management decisions that impact the environment. This study develops and tests an approach for mapping tourism patterns, and assessing people’s preferences for cultural and natural landscapes, using user-generated geographic content. The volume of geotagged images and tweets shared publicly on Flickr and Twitter and proprietary mobile phone traffic provided by a telecommunications company, are used to map visitation rates to potential tourist destinations across Jeju Island, South Korea. We find that densities of social media posts and mobile phone traffic are all correlated with ticket sales and counts of gate entries at tourist sites. Using multivariate linear regression, we measure the degree to which attributes of the natural and built environment explain variation in visitation rates, and find that tourists to Jeju Island prefer to recreate near beaches, sea cliffs, golf courses and hiking trails. We conclude that high-resolution and spatially-explicit visitation data provided by user-generated content open the door for statistical models that can quantify recreation demand. Managers and practitioners could combine these flexible and relatively inexpensive user-generated data with more traditional survey data to inform sustainable tourism development plans and policy decisions. These methods are especially useful in the context of landscape or regional-scale ecosystem service assessments, where there is a need to map the multiple ecological, economic, and cultural benefits of the environment.

A Note on Economic Development in North Korea: Call for a Comprehensive Approach

2019 ◽  
Vol 12 (1) ◽  
pp. 247-259
Author(s):  
Yong-Shik Lee
Keyword(s):  
Economic Development ◽  
South Korea ◽  
North Korea ◽  
Industrial Development ◽  
Mineral Resources ◽  
Comprehensive Approach ◽  
Advanced Economies ◽  
History Of ◽  
The 1960S ◽  
Political Economic

Abstract North Korea is currently one of the most impoverished countries with a history of famine, but the country has a significant potential for economic development that could lift its population from poverty. Neighbored by some of the largest and most advanced economies in the world (South Korea, Japan, and China) and endowed with abundant mineral resources, industrial experience, and a history of successful economic development in the past, North Korea can embark on the path to rapid economic development, as its southern counterpart (South Korea) did so successfully since the 1960s. Yet, the successful economic development of North Korea requires a comprehensive approach, including obtaining a fund for development; normalizing relations with the West and the neighboring countries; improving its human rights conditions; prioritizing key industrial development; and reforming its political-economic system. This note discusses the comprehensive approach necessary for the successful economic development of North Korea.

Are Adolescents Addicted to Smartphones?

2019 ◽  
pp. 219-238
Author(s):  
Geunyong Park ◽  
Jisun Lim
Keyword(s):  
Panel Data ◽  
Empirical Study ◽  
South Korea ◽  
Mobile Phone ◽  
The Other ◽  
Positive Externality ◽  
Smartphone Use ◽  
Micro Level ◽  
Rational Addiction Model ◽  
Over Time

This empirical study shows how people use their smartphones by employing the rational addiction model of Becker and Murphy. The analysis uses micro-level panel data on the monthly usage of smartphone applications (so-called “apps”) derived from 10,337 users in South Korea, from 2012 to 2016. The authors find that smartphone users are “addicted” to mobile phone apps, in the sense that their prior usage has significantly influenced their current use. Nonetheless, people in the sample seem to use their smartphones in a forward-looking manner, adjusting consumption over time to maximize their utility. On the other hand, the study's result rejects the conventional belief that younger individuals behave more myopically than older ones. Furthermore, only the mother's smartphone use was found to generate a positive externality for her children.

Third World indebted industrialization: international finance and state capitalism in Mexico, Brazil, Algeria, and South Korea

1981 ◽  
Vol 35 (3) ◽  
pp. 407-431 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jeff Frieden
Keyword(s):  
South Korea ◽  
Multinational Corporations ◽  
Financial Institutions ◽  
Industrial Development ◽  
Third World ◽  
Developed Countries ◽  
Bank Loans ◽  
Industrial Growth ◽  
The Third ◽  
Role Of The State

The past fifteen years have seen two important developments in the international economic system: the rapid industrialization of many less developed countries (LDCs) and their increasing indebtedness to private financial institutions. Massive bank loans have been used to fund industrial growth in many LDCs; international financial markets have replaced multinational corporations as the Third World's most important source of private foreign capital. In four major borrowing countries—Mexico, Brazil, Algeria, and South Korea—the process of indebted industrialization has its roots in the internationalization of finance, the increasing role of the state, and the use of funds raised on the international capital markets to finance industrial development. The results include rapid expansions of LDC industrial production and LDC exports of manufactured products, as well as the formation of an implicit partnership between private financial institutions and state-capitalist elites in the Third World.

scholarly journals Addictive Internet Gaming Usage among Korean Adolescents before and after the Outbreak of the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Comparison of the Latent Profiles in 2018 and 2020

2021 ◽  
Vol 18 (14) ◽  
pp. 7275
Author(s):  
Dongil Kim ◽  
Junwon Lee
Keyword(s):  
South Korea ◽  
Mobile Phone ◽  
Latent Profile Analysis ◽  
Statistical Significance ◽  
Internet Gaming Disorder ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Internet Gaming ◽  
Before And After ◽  
Internet Games ◽  
The Impact

Since the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic, the heightened risk of school closures and mental disorders has made adolescents particularly vulnerable to developing internet gaming disorder (IGD). There have been reports of increased time spent playing games on the internet among adolescents during the pandemic, and the risk of developing IGD may be higher for adolescents in South Korea as the majority of them play games on the internet. However, to the best of our knowledge, no studies have examined the impact of the pandemic on adolescents’ internet gaming behavior in South Korea. This study aimed to explore the different profiles of addictive internet gaming behavior among adolescents before and after the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic and examine how the pandemic influenced addictive internet gaming usage and time spent playing games on the internet. Nationally representative survey data from the Ministry of Gender Equality and Family with 3040 and 2906 responses from 2018 and 2020, respectively, were analyzed. Using seven factors of a maladaptive gaming usage scale (tolerance, withdrawal, excessive usage, control impairment, compulsive usage, neglecting daily activity, and gaming despite negative consequence), a four-profile model was selected in both 2018 and 2020 for latent profile analysis: ‘casual’ gamer, ‘moderate’ gamer, ‘potential-risk’ gamer and ‘addictive’ gamer. The results from the two-way ANCOVA showed significant interaction between the cohorts (2018 cohort vs. 2020 cohort) and the four profiles on addictive internet gaming usage (F = 119.747, p < 0.001, η2 = 0.05), including time spent playing internet games on a PC (F = 22.893, p < 0.001, η2 = 0.013), and time spent playing games on a mobile phone (F = 3.245, p < 0.05, η2 = 0.02). The results indicated that the increase of addictive internet gaming usage and gameplay time differed by profile. The results imply that the increase in gameplay time was higher for profiles with higher scores in addictive internet gaming usage for internet games played on a PC while the relationship was not obvious for games played on a mobile phone. Despite the statistical significance, there was only 1.2% to 4.9% of mean difference in addictive internet gaming usage between the 2018 and 2020 cohorts, which implies little clinical significance. While adolescents of the four profiles showed no significant signs of increased addictive internet gaming usage, the addictive gamer profile demonstrated a significant increase in game time after COVID-19.

Understanding the movement predictability of international travelers using a nationwide mobile phone dataset collected in South Korea

2022 ◽  
Vol 92 ◽  
pp. 101753
Author(s):  
Yang Xu ◽  
Dan Zou ◽  
Sangwon Park ◽  
Qiuping Li ◽  
Suhong Zhou ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
South Korea ◽  
Mobile Phone

A Review of Industrial Clusters, Industrial Policy, and Industrialization in South Korea

2020 ◽  
pp. 649-672
Author(s):  
Sanghoon Kim ◽  
Hah-Zoong Song
Keyword(s):  
Economic Development ◽  
South Korea ◽  
Development Strategy ◽  
Industrial Development ◽  
Manufacturing Sector ◽  
Industrial Clusters ◽  
South Korean ◽  
Agrarian Society ◽  
Industrial Complexes ◽  
History Of

The development of South Korea, due to relevant and effective industrial policies, is unique in the modern history of industrialization. Within one generation, the country transformed itself from a poor agrarian society into a modern industrial power, all the more remarkably in that its rapid economic development was broad-based and supported by all stakeholders. From 1962, the South Korean government aggressively pursued an economic development strategy that centred on manufacturing-sector growth, driven largely by industrial complexes. Lately, more than 900 industrial clusters account for 62 per cent of the country’s manufacturing production and 80 per cent of total exports. South Korea’s policies designate physical sites and facilitate growth platforms that reinforce cooperation and coordination between industries, academia, and research. This chapter reviews the path of industrial development that South Korea took, with attention to the industrial complexes and clusters scattered across the country, and the measures and policies that enabled them.

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