The Revival of ‘Big Government’ Discourse in South Korea, 2017

2019 ◽  
Vol 54 (6) ◽  
pp. 913-929
Author(s):  
Inhye Heo
Keyword(s):  
South Korea ◽  
Political Discourse ◽  
Political Power ◽  
The Political ◽  
Economic Factors ◽  
Critical Factors ◽  
Economic Discourse ◽  
Policy Influence ◽  
Authoritarian State ◽  
Political Economic

After the democratisation of South Korea in 1987, political discourse on ‘big government’ nearly disappeared, largely because it recalled past authoritarianism. Authoritarian states are highly likely to employ ‘big government’ – exerting policy influence over the distribution of private resources – to sustain their political power, and Korea’s authoritarian state was no exception. Thus, newly inaugurated President Moon Jae-in’s official implication that he would pursue big government is notable, because he claimed to represent pro-democracy groups that opposed both historical authoritarianism and the former president’s undemocratic governance. In this context, this study examines external and internal political-economic factors behind the revival of big government discourse in Korea. Results show that critical factors included the lack of pressure in the global capitalist market and the dominance of governmentalists over marketists in the political-economic discourse influencing the administration’s maintenance and expansion of its political foundation.

scholarly journals Factors Influencing the Success of Participatory Egovernment Applications in Romania and South Korea

2012 ◽  
Vol 27 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-21
Author(s):  
Im Tobin
Keyword(s):  
Social Context ◽  
South Korea ◽  
Social Factors ◽  
The Political ◽  
Economic Factors ◽  
Contextual Features ◽  
Factors Influencing ◽  
Study Results ◽  
Similarities And Differences ◽  
Political Economic

While participatory e-government is increasingly advocated, few studies have investigated whether it is feasible across all national contexts. This study investigates how certain contextual features influence the success of participatory applications of e-government. In particular, it assesses how the political, economic, and social context in which a particular government operates influence the introduction of participatory e-government, and compares participatory e-government applications in Romania and South Korea. These nations possess important similarities and differences in their political, social, and economic contexts. The study results suggest that the success of participatory e-government projects is to a large extent contingent upon political and economic factors and less related to social factors.

scholarly journals Building ships while breaking apart

Focaal ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 2021 (89) ◽  
pp. 12-24
Author(s):  
Elisabeth Schober
Keyword(s):  
South Korea ◽  
The Philippines ◽  
First Century ◽  
The Political ◽  
Economic Factors ◽  
Maritime Industry ◽  
Industrial Enterprises ◽  
Economic Actor ◽  
Political Economic ◽  
Risky Business

With the center of gravity of the maritime industry over recent decades progressively moving eastwards, South Korea is today a giant in both shipping and shipbuilding. Its largely family-controlled industrial enterprises are nowadays increasingly engaged in risky business experiments abroad, which on occasion fail in a spectacular manner. By following the story of how one family-run economic actor invested unsuccessfully in the Philippines, I combine an exploration of the political-economic factors involved in this failure with an investigation of how these larger structures are entangled with a complex family story inside a Korean conglomerate. The forced separation between family and business that ensued in this case illuminates changing and competing ideals of “waterborne” capitalism in the twenty-first century.

Understanding the State in South Korea

1992 ◽  
Vol 24 (4) ◽  
pp. 512-531 ◽  
Author(s):  
JAMES COTTON
Keyword(s):  
South Korea ◽  
Political System ◽  
World System ◽  
Economic Transformation ◽  
The State ◽  
The Political ◽  
Social Character ◽  
Authoritarian State ◽  
The World ◽  
The 1960S

South Korea cannot be seen as an example of the bureaucratic-authoritarian state type. Neither its position in the world system nor its industrialization strategy can be used to give a sufficient explanation of its political and social character. Although these factors have played a part, particular historical, political, and cultural circumstances have permitted the state to enjoy a degree of autonomy during the period of rapid social and economic transformation from the 1960s to the 1980s. The determinants and character of the transition to democratization generally support this analysis, but also indicate that limits exist to the degree of liberalization to be expected in the political system.

scholarly journals DIRECTIONS AND TRENDS OF STUDYING POLITICAL DISCOURSE IN MODERN CONDITIONS OF DIGITALIZATION (LINGUISTIC AND PRAGMATIC ASPECTS)

2021 ◽  
Vol 1 (11(79)) ◽  
pp. 72-75
Author(s):  
Olena Ilienko ◽  
Liudmyla Shumeiko
Keyword(s):  
Political Communication ◽  
Political Discourse ◽  
The Political ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Internet Communication ◽  
Political Activities ◽  
Rapid Spread ◽  
New Material ◽  
Political Economic ◽  
Pragmatic Aspects

The rapid spread of Internet communication nowadays has changed the conditions under which political communication takes place, although its purpose remains the same – influence for the sake of power. The article analyzes and summarizes the directions and trends in the study of political discourse, which is the context of political utterance, utterance itself and its perception. It is noted that the Internet has proved to be a new effective way of informing, persuading, arguing and manipulating the mass consciousness, accelerating the process of providing information and changing its format, including for manipulative purposes. It is revealed that the Internet has formed new genres and forms of political communication, providing an opportunity to get feedback from the political message and creating the appearance of direct communication between politicians and the public. The study of political discourse by researchers today is multi-vector: in a purely linguistic direction (the language of political statements); in linguistic and pragmatic direction (how the functions of political discourse are realized); anthropocentric (political personality); sociolinguistic (society’s reaction to the political activities of the subjects) and others. As the field of politics is constantly changing, responding to global, socio-political, economic circumstances, its analysis, including by linguists, provides and will always provide new material for further research.

scholarly journals Achieving Sustainable And Inclusive Economic Growth In Latin America: National Development During The Commodity Boom

2020 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
David R. Mares
Keyword(s):  
Income Inequality ◽  
Latin American ◽  
National Development ◽  
The Political ◽  
Economic Factors ◽  
Economic Determinants ◽  
Resource Wealth ◽  
America Latina ◽  
Political Economic ◽  
The Impact

ABSTRACTThis article examines how government policy affects the sustainability and inclusiveness of national development after the boom. The impact of the latest commodity boom (2003-2014) on the sustainability and inclusiveness of Latin American national development varies, but not by whether governments were ideologically left. I present the economic results of the commodity boom for the major Latin American countries, followed by the social results as measured by the reduction in poverty rates and income inequality. I examine potential countervailing economic factors that could mitigate the importance of the political economic determinants of the use of resource wealth. Finding the countervailing economic factors inadequate to explain the variation in social results, I propose that the political economy of linking resource wealth with economic and social outcomes is the key determinant. I conclude the paper with a discussion of current challenges post-commodity boom.Keywords: Commodity Boom; Poverty; Income Inequality. RESUMOEste artigo examina como a política do governo afeta a sustentabilidade e a inclusão do desenvolvimento nacional após o boom. O impacto do último boom das commodities (2003-2014) na sustentabilidade e inclusão do desenvolvimento nacional da América Latina varia, mas não pelo fato de os governos serem ideologicamente de esquerda. Apresento os resultados econômicos do boom das commodities para os principais países da América Latina, seguidos pelos resultados sociais medidos pela redução das taxas de pobreza e desigualdade de renda. Examino os possíveis fatores econômicos compensatórios que podem mitigar a importância dos determinantes político-econômicos do uso de recursos financeiros. Considerando os fatores econômicos compensadores inadequados para explicar a variação nos resultados sociais, proponho que a economia política de vincular os recursos financeiros a resultados econômicos e sociais seja o principal determinante. Concluo o artigo com uma discussão dos desafios atuais do pós boom das commodities.Palavras-chaves: Boom de Commodities; Pobreza; Desigualdade De Renda.

The political economic factors of migration to Bangkok

1987 ◽  
Vol 17 (1) ◽  
pp. 76-89 ◽  
Author(s):  
Douglas Porpora ◽  
Mah Hui Lim
Keyword(s):  
The Political ◽  
Economic Factors ◽  
Political Economic

scholarly journals EXPLORING THE POLITICAL-ECONOMIC FACTORS OF PARTICIPATORY JOURNALISM

2010 ◽  
Vol 4 (3) ◽  
pp. 285-296 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marina Vujnovic ◽  
Jane B. Singer ◽  
Steve Paulussen ◽  
Ari Heinonen ◽  
Zvi Reich ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
The Political ◽  
Economic Factors ◽  
Participatory Journalism ◽  
Political Economic

scholarly journals Lucia Sava, Les fêtes – instrument de justification du discours politique dans les sociétés totalitaires / Public Holidays as an Instrument for Justifying Political Discourse Within Totalitarian Societies

2013 ◽  
Vol 1 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 120-130
Keyword(s):  
Political Discourse ◽  
Political Power ◽  
Group Cohesion ◽  
The Political ◽  
Political Regimes ◽  
The Public ◽  
The Individual ◽  
Public Holidays

The study aims to analyze a multidimensional perspective of holidays and how they get to be part of the process of legitimation of political power. Being the space of the exceptional and relaxation, the public holidays are meant to «remove» the individual from the daily and usual life and switch to another plan: at the show, the grandeur and ceremony fixed to certain symbols and rituals that contribute to group cohesion. Therefore, in certain historical eras, under different political regimes, but particularly, the totalitarian, the political power tried to wear of charms and symbolic atmosphere of holidays to legitimize the ideology, to promote new values and ideals, to strengthen the group over which it extends.

South Korea in 2004: Peninsular Flux

Asian Survey ◽  
2005 ◽  
Vol 45 (1) ◽  
pp. 33-40 ◽  
Author(s):  
Victor D. Cha
Keyword(s):  
South Korea ◽  
War On Terror ◽  
Grand Strategy ◽  
The Political ◽  
Fundamental Change ◽  
Global War On Terror ◽  
South Korean ◽  
Global War ◽  
Political Economic ◽  
The U.S

The variables presaging fundamental change on the Korean Peninsula are many. This assessment of South Korea seeks to lay out the political, economic, and military events of 2004 and their relationship to South Korean grand strategy. It also seeks to analyze the linkages between Seoul's grand strategy and the U.S.-led global war on terror.

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