scholarly journals The Effects of Civil Society Organization’s Intervention on Public Conflicts in South Korea: Focused on Duration and Intensity

2019 ◽  
Vol 17 (1) ◽  
pp. 75-105
Author(s):  
Jae Hyoung Lim
Keyword(s):  
Civil Society ◽  
South Korea

Global Capital, Business Groups and State Coordination: the Changing Profile of Chaebol-State Relations in South Korea

2016 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Soyon Kim
Keyword(s):  
Civil Society ◽  
South Korea ◽  
Developmental State ◽  
Government Control ◽  
South Korean ◽  
Financial Behaviour ◽  
State Coordination ◽  
Korean State ◽  
State Relations ◽  
Political Economic

This article examines the effects of global capitalism and state coordination on the financial behaviour of <em>chaebol</em> (business conglomerates) in South Korea. This study focuses on the evolution from controller to coordinator in the post-developmental South Korean state. In recent times, the Korean government has been studied as the exemplar of the Asian newly industrializing economies (NIEs) based on its ability to <em>control</em> economic development. As civil society pressures outgrew government control in the 1990s, the government’s mission shifted from control to <em>coordination </em>– the state sought to accommodate newly emerging or enlarged bargaining domains of key political-economic actors. However, the emergent post-developmental state is buffeted by the growing strength of the private sector, domestically and transnationally. While civil society strived to mobilize mass movements to further social democracy, the neoliberal evolution of capitalist class interests generated institutional configurations favouring the hegemony of finance capital.

scholarly journals Expansion of Religious Pluralism in Korean Civil Society: A Case Study of Conscientious Objection in South Korea

Religions ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 9 (11) ◽  
pp. 326
Author(s):  
Kwang Yoo
Keyword(s):  
Civil Society ◽  
South Korea ◽  
Cultural Adaptation ◽  
Public Discourse ◽  
Religious Pluralism ◽  
Conscientious Objection ◽  
Social Implication ◽  
Operational Principle ◽  
Narrow Concept

This paper analyzes a socio-cultural adaptation of the concept of religious pluralism, focusing on the matter of conscientious objection in Korean pluralistic situation. The issue of conscientious objection in Korea has extended from a religious and philosophical field to a political, diplomatic, and international problem, being influenced heavily by IRFR and UNHRC. Regardless of their numerical marginality, its social implication is revealed more clearly in recent decisions of local or higher courts and triggers another significant public discourse on how Korean civil society should expand a concept of pluralism to integrate them. The paper concludes that the concept of pluralism advances into an operational principle to prop up the civil society of Korea beyond the narrow concept of religious pluralism.

Democratic Transition and Environmental Civil Society: Japan and South Korea Compared

2002 ◽  
Vol 11 (2) ◽  
pp. 57-64 ◽  
Author(s):  
Miranda A. (Miranda Alice) Schreurs
Keyword(s):  
Civil Society ◽  
South Korea ◽  
Democratic Transition
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