scholarly journals Toward an Anthropology of Landmines: Rogue Infrastructure and Military Waste in the Korean DMZ

2016 ◽  
Vol 31 (2) ◽  
pp. 162-187 ◽  
Author(s):  
Eleana J. Kim
Keyword(s):  
South Korea ◽  
Unexploded Ordnance ◽  
Demilitarized Zone ◽  
Imperial Power ◽  
Over Time

Drawing on research in the borderlands of South Korea near the Korean Demilitarized Zone, this essay analyzes the heterogeneous life of landmines in postconflict militarized ecologies. Humanitarian narratives typically frame mines as deadly remnants of war, which aligns with postcolonial critiques viewing them as traces of imperial power and ongoing violence. Given that landmines and other unexploded ordnance can remain live for up to a hundred years, I suggest that mines and minefields become infrastructural when their distributed agency is redistributed over time, bringing into view nonhuman agencies and affordances that might otherwise go undetected in humanitarian or postcolonial critiques. I offer the framework of rogue infrastructure to capture the volatile materiality of mines and their multiple natural, cultural, technical, and political entanglements with the humans who exist alongside them.

Negotiating Masculinity across Borders

2016 ◽  
Vol 20 (3) ◽  
pp. 317-344 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stephen Cho Suh
Keyword(s):  
Human Capital ◽  
South Korea ◽  
Return Migration ◽  
Hegemonic Masculinity ◽  
Qualitative Interviews ◽  
Korean American ◽  
Return Migrants ◽  
A Site ◽  
Ethnic Return Migration ◽  
Over Time

Recent studies of ethnic return migration have explained why (economic, political, and affective) and where (Asia and Europe) this phenomenon has primarily occurred. Of the research available, however, few have examined the manner in which framings and practices of gender impact the experiences of those who participate in these transnational sojourns. This study fills this void by examining how Korean American male ethnic return migrants understand and negotiate their masculine identities, as they “return” to their ancestral homeland of South Korea. Utilizing data from in-depth qualitative interviews, this study finds that respondents initially configure South Korea as a site where they may redeem their marginalized masculine identities by taking advantage of the surplus human capital afforded to them by their American status. Over time, however, “returnees” come to realize the fluidity of masculinity and its ideals, exposing the tenuousness of their claims to hegemonic masculinity even in South Korea.

Corruption control and prevention in the Korean government

2018 ◽  
Vol 7 (3) ◽  
pp. 303-314 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jin-Wook Choi
Keyword(s):  
South Korea ◽  
Qualitative Analysis ◽  
Design Methodology ◽  
Institution Building ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Korean Government ◽  
Policies And Measures ◽  
Control And Prevention ◽  
High Level ◽  
Over Time

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to examine how corruption has changed over time in South Korea and to explore how the corruption control and prevention efforts of the Korean government have been successful and failed. Design/methodology/approach This paper draws on institutional theory to formulate a qualitative analysis to assess the effectiveness of anti-corruption policies and measures, and to identify the strengths and weaknesses of anti-corruption reform efforts in South Korea. Findings This paper argues that while the Korean government has been quite successful in building anti-corruption institutions to control low-level petty corruption, it has failed to institutionalize anti-corruption institutions to curb high-level grand corruption. Originality/value While many studies have attempted to identify the successful factors of fighting corruption, this paper draws a theoretical distinction between institution-building vs institutionalization to examine the success and failure of corruption control and prevention efforts in South Korea.

The Clash of Security and Sovereignty in Quasi-Alliance

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-28
Author(s):  
Kil Joo Ban
Keyword(s):  
South Korea ◽  
United Nations ◽  
Korean War ◽  
Trade Off ◽  
Power Growth ◽  
The Korean War ◽  
The United Nations ◽  
Over Time

Abstract Which is needed more: sovereignty or security? The autonomy–security trade-off model sees this as a trade-off between a client and a patron. A client surrenders some measure of autonomy to a patron and, in turn, receives security. This paper explores whether the underlying logic is applicable to quasi-alliances between a state and a multinational regime, such as the United Nations Command (UNC). South Korea has maintained a quasi-alliance with the UNC since the outbreak of the Korean War in 1950. The level of trade-off between South Korea and the UNC, however, has been changing over time, particularly while being affected by the power growth of South Korea, a client, and the preference changes of the US, the most important actor of the UNC, a patron. This paper attempts to explain why South Korea is much more enthusiastic in seeking full sovereignty and more autonomy in the 2018–2019 détente era.

scholarly journals Characteristics of kidney transplantation recipients over time in South Korea

2020 ◽  
Vol 35 (6) ◽  
pp. 1457-1467
Author(s):  
Sehoon Park ◽  
Myoungsuk Kim ◽  
Ji Eun Kim ◽  
Kwangsoo Kim ◽  
Minsu Park ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Kidney Transplantation ◽  
South Korea ◽  
Over Time

scholarly journals Wild boar harbouring African swine fever virus in the demilitarized zone in South Korea, 2019

2020 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 628-630 ◽  
Author(s):  
Seon-Hee Kim ◽  
Jisoo Kim ◽  
Kidong Son ◽  
Yongjun Choi ◽  
Hye-Sung Jeong ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
South Korea ◽  
Wild Boar ◽  
African Swine Fever Virus ◽  
African Swine Fever ◽  
Fever Virus ◽  
Demilitarized Zone

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.

Bilateralism, Multilateralism, and the Making of an Alliance Consensus

2019 ◽  
pp. 25-56
Author(s):  
Andrew Yeo
Keyword(s):  
Cold War ◽  
South Korea ◽  
The Philippines ◽  
Political Elites ◽  
The Us ◽  
The 1960S ◽  
The Cold War ◽  
Over Time

Chapter 2 recounts the origins of bilateralism in Asia and the legitimization of the US-led hub-and-spokes system among Asian elites during the Cold War. It also outlines the rise of ASEAN in the 1960s. Exploring postwar US alliances forged with the Philippines, Japan, South Korea, Australia, and Thailand, I demonstrate how material threats, institutions, and ideas interact to produce an alliance consensus among political elites in Asia. Despite periodic domestic opposition to US alliances, and the weakness of ASEAN, the hub-and-spokes system and ASEAN become entrenched over time.

The Microeconomics of Engagement

Hard Target ◽  
2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stephan Haggard ◽  
Marcus Noland
Keyword(s):  
South Korea ◽  
Dispute Settlement ◽  
Informal Institutions ◽  
Business Environment ◽  
State Control ◽  
South Korean ◽  
Cross Border ◽  
Cast Doubt ◽  
Trade And Investment ◽  
Over Time

This chapter draws on two unprecedented surveys of firms based in China and South Korea engaged in trade and investment with North Korea. It examines both the nature of cross-border exchange as well as the formal and informal institutions that underpin it and provides evidence of ongoing state control. Chinese firms in particular report that the business environment is highly corrupt; a consideration of dispute settlement and measures of trust suggest how the development of cross-border exchange is limited by the regime's overall economic strategy. South Korean firms operate in an enclave setting that imports South Korean property rights, and China my be moving to such a model over time. These findings cast doubt on the engagement model.

scholarly journals Two Distinct Genotypes of KPC-2-Producing Klebsiella pneumoniae Isolates from South Korea

Antibiotics ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 10 (8) ◽  
pp. 911
Author(s):  
Jee Hong Kim ◽  
Yun Young Cho ◽  
Ji Young Choi ◽  
Yu Mi Wi ◽  
Kwan Soo Ko
Keyword(s):  
Klebsiella Pneumoniae ◽  
South Korea ◽  
Continuous Monitoring ◽  
Serum Resistance ◽  
Macrophage Infection ◽  
Minimum Inhibitory Concentrations ◽  
Different Characteristics ◽  
Over Time

In this study, we investigated the characteristics of KPC-2-producing Klebsiella pneumoniae (KP-Kp) isolates from a hospital in South Korea. Among the 37 KP-Kp isolates, two main clones were identified—ST11 and ST307. ST11 isolates showed higher minimum inhibitory concentrations for carbapenems than ST307 isolates. All ST307 isolates were resistant to gentamicin and trimethoprim–sulfamethoxazole, but ST11 isolates were not. However, most tigecycline-resistant or colistin-resistant isolates belonged to ST11. The two KP-Kp clones showed different combinations of wzi and K serotypes. Plasmids from ST11 KP-Kp isolates exhibited diverse incompatibility types. Serum resistance and macrophage infection assays indicated that ST11 may be more virulent than ST307. The changes in the main clones of KP-Kp isolates over time as well as the different characteristics of these clones, including virulence, suggest the need for their continuous monitoring.

scholarly journals Is China's Pollution the Culprit for the Choking of South Korea? Evidence from the Asian Dust

2019 ◽  
Vol 129 (624) ◽  
pp. 3154-3188 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ruixue Jia ◽  
Hyejin Ku
Keyword(s):  
Air Pollution ◽  
South Korea ◽  
The Elderly ◽  
Temporal Variations ◽  
Asian Dust ◽  
South Korean ◽  
Cross Border ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Over Time ◽  
Meteorological Phenomenon

Abstract This paper studies the impact of air pollution spillover from China to South Korea. To isolate the effects of cross-border pollution spillover from that of locally generated pollution, we exploit within-South Korea and over-time variation in the incidence of Asian dust—a meteorological phenomenon exogenous to district–time cells in South Korea—together with temporal variations in China's air quality. We find that conditional on being exposed to Asian dust, increased pollution in China leads to increased mortality from respiratory and cardiovascular diseases in South Korean districts, with the most vulnerable being the elderly and children under five.

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