Images of South Korea and Russia in the Mutual Representations of the Student Youth of Both Countries

2021 ◽  
Vol 23 (2) ◽  
pp. 287-304
Author(s):  
Anna A. Sorokina ◽  
Anastasiia M. Katrich ◽  
Anna N. Shilina
Keyword(s):  
South Korea ◽  
Korean Student ◽  
Korean Students ◽  
Geographic Factors ◽  
South Korean ◽  
Intercultural Communications ◽  
Two Sides ◽  
Depth Interviews ◽  
Cultural Features ◽  
Common Perception

The perspectives of modern South Korean youth on Russia and perspectives of Russian youth on South Korea respectively are reconstructed and interpreted in this article. The research was conducted on the basis of analysis of 100 in-depth interviews with Russian and South Korean student youth (50 students in each group), specializing in Russian-Korean relations, intercultural communications and language of the country studied. Natural and geographic factors, historical and cultural associations, the image of the countrys citizens are found to be the main South Korean students perspectives on Russia. Economic system, the image of the countrys citizens, historical and cultural features of the country represent the main Russian students perspectives on South Korea. In general, mutual images of each country contain many stereotypes which are mediocre for common perception. Such stereotypical thinking and the lack of knowledge about modern socio-economic realities among future specialists in Russian-Korean relations may be a serious obstacle that places under risk effectiveness of further cooperation between the two sides.

The role of social solidarity in the rise and decline of the South Korean student movement in the 1970–1990s

2020 ◽  
Vol 9 (3) ◽  
pp. 375-385
Author(s):  
Sung-Lim Park
Keyword(s):  
South Korea ◽  
Student Movement ◽  
Pivotal Role ◽  
Social Solidarity ◽  
The South ◽  
Korean Student ◽  
Korean Students ◽  
Content Type ◽  
South Korean ◽  
South Korean Students

PurposeThe purpose of this paper is to identify the cause how the student movement in South Korea enjoyed the golden age in the 1970–1990s and could not be revived since the late 1990s and cannot be played a pivotal role again.Design/methodology/approachThis study adopts historical analysis as primary methodology, traced the historical evolution of South Korean student activism in the 1970–1990s through analyzing secondary Korean literature and newspaper on the particular struggle cases in the period.FindingsSocial solidarity between society and student had played a pivotal role in the South Korean students' long activism in the struggle of the 1970–1990s. In the 1970–1980s, democratic election and constitutional reform set in the main purpose of struggle that attracted wide support from society and enjoyed maintaining a new member supply and their commitment despite authoritarian government's persistent oppression. When the sixth constitution was passed in 1987 with Democratization, the student decided to choose continuing struggle and set social cooperation with North Korea as the new goal, the sensitive issue in South Korea that confronted fierce criticism. Society chose to withdraw their support to the activism in the Yonsei University incident of 1996, rung a knell of long struggle since the 1970s.Originality/valueThe research identified the cause how South Korean students in university could persist long strike without particular internal resource production during three decades and ended the long struggle in the late 1990s; the existence of social solidarity between student and society was the main reason of continued new member supply and their commitment in the battle.

Pyongyang will press its advantage at Trump summit

2019 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
South Korea ◽  
Korean War ◽  
The United States ◽  
Content Type ◽  
South Korean ◽  
The Korean War ◽  
Key Issues ◽  
Two Sides

Significance Eight months on, there is little progress on the key issues discussed at the Singapore summit: there has been no formal end to the Korean War, and the two sides are yet to agree on what ‘denuclearisation’ means in practice. Impacts As part of a deal in Hanoi, Trump may offer sanctions relief that allows inter-Korean initiatives to proceed. Seoul and Tokyo fear a deal that removes the threat to the United States but leaves Pyongyang’s regional capabilities intact. Serious deterioration of relations between Japan and South Korea strengthens Pyongyang’s position. If inter-Korean initiatives fail, the prospects rise of South Korean conservatives recapturing the legislature in next year's election.

Janus face: the imperial but fragile presidency in South Korea

2018 ◽  
Vol 7 (4) ◽  
pp. 426-437
Author(s):  
Jin Seok Bae ◽  
Sunkyoung Park
Keyword(s):  
South Korea ◽  
Political Behavior ◽  
Design Methodology ◽  
Party Politics ◽  
Constitutional Design ◽  
Content Type ◽  
South Korean ◽  
Imperial Power ◽  
Imperial Governance ◽  
Two Sides

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to investigate the paradoxical pattern in which South Korean presidents enjoy imperial power early in their term, but became fragile and impotent as their term comes to an end. Design/methodology/approach Based on the previous literature on Korean presidentialism, this paper introduces and critically compares several competing theories on the Korean presidency and its defects. Findings This paper finds that for Korean presidents, imperial governance and fragility represent two sides of the same coin, like a Janus face. These two seemingly competing descriptions of the Korean presidency are not actually contradictory. Originality/value This paper investigates how Korean presidents are imperial with regard to constitutional design as well as political behavior, and presents a logic of transformation from an imperial president to a fragile one, focusing on party politics and election cycles.

scholarly journals Developing Broadcasting Industry Through Glocalisation and Hybridisation

2019 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-20
Author(s):  
Isaac Mutwiri Mutunga ◽  
Collins Wagumba
Keyword(s):  
Developing Countries ◽  
South Korea ◽  
Descriptive Study ◽  
Business Owners ◽  
South Korean ◽  
Broadcasting Industry ◽  
Production And Distribution ◽  
Qualitative Descriptive ◽  
Digital Broadcast ◽  
Depth Interviews

This article is a qualitative descriptive study that examines South Korean and East Africa Audio-visual production and distribution policies and regulations. Through analysing the results of in-depth interviews with audio-visual (broadcast) policymakers, content producers, and audiovisual business owners, this study found that South Korea reviewed regulations and policies that were protectionist in nature to more open and collaborative policies that were in tune with the digital broadcast environment. It recommended that to create successful broadcast industries, developing countries should review their broadcast policies and regulations to be in tandem with digital and media convergence environment as well as give audio-visual industry prominence by establishing ministries that deals with broadcast-related issues to promote locally, to produce content internationally, and also to source for collaboration between local and international producers.

scholarly journals Culture and paralinguistic features ~!^^:-): East meets West in a virtual exchange between South Korea and England

2020 ◽  
Vol 3 (SI-IVEC2019) ◽  
pp. 49-67
Author(s):  
Michelle Wylie
Keyword(s):  
South Korea ◽  
Cultural Differences ◽  
Communication Skills ◽  
Culturally Diverse ◽  
Online Communication ◽  
Shared Understanding ◽  
Culturally Specific ◽  
Korean Students ◽  
South Korean ◽  
Digital Discourse

This paper investigates whether cultural differences are apparent in the paralinguistic features used by culturally diverse interactants online. Paralinguistic features are used pervasively in digital discourse (Herring & Androutsopoulos, 2015), therefore they play a pivotal role in online communication skills. Paralinguistic features such as the innovative use of punctuation and typographical features as well as emoticons and emojis are used to add nuance, emotional tone, and to manage discourse in online communication. However, the effectiveness of these paralinguistic features is dependent upon a shared understanding of their functions. This study seeks to explore any potential cultural manifestations in the use of paralinguistic features during a semester-long virtual exchange between 21 South Korean students and 25 students studying at a university in England. The dataset of 20,379 words generated during the virtual exchange was examined for cultural manifestations in paralinguistic features. As this study examines potential cultural manifestations online, it adheres to a culturally relativist perspective, therefore an inductive approach to the analysis of the data was taken. The analysis of the data revealed culturally specific paralinguistic features with the emergence of a feature that, to the best of my knowledge, has not been recorded in previous virtual exchange research.

The Precarity and Strategic Navigation of Chosonjok Migrants in South Korea

2021 ◽  
pp. 7-35
Author(s):  
HaeRan Shin
Keyword(s):  
South Korea ◽  
People's Republic Of China ◽  
The South ◽  
Job Market ◽  
Place Making ◽  
Republic Of China ◽  
South Korean ◽  
The Third ◽  
Part Time ◽  
Depth Interviews

This paper investigates how ethnic Koreans migrating to South Korea from the People’s Republic of China (PRC) have learned to adapt to precarity, tailoring their strategies to cope with an increasingly uncertain South Korean job market. Using archival analysis, participant observations, and in-depth interviews, the findings of this study demonstrate that the in-betweenness of those migrants’ ethnicity and nationality gives them licence to slip into the South Korean job market. They find employment, albeit part-time or contract-based work, further upsetting an already precarious job market. This research argues that Chosŏnjok, KoreanChinese migrants, have developed strategies to navigate unstable situations and use precarity to their advantage as a tactic to survive, relying on their Korean ethnicity to give them a foot in the door. In this paper, I explore the three strategies they employ to survive in increasingly precarious circumstances. One strategy is their willingness to seek employment through informal and unofficial job markets and broker systems. The second strategy is to engage in circular mobility, allowing Chosŏnjok to reap the benefits of citizenship in both South Korea and the PRC. The third strategy is place-making, and I used the enclave in the Kuro-Taerim area of Seoul, as an example. By engaging in South Korea’s unstable job market, Chosŏnjok’s precarious circumstances are exploited by employers while at the same time the migrants learn to exploit the precarity to their benefit.

On Cultural Differences in Decisions on Pay Allocation: Comparison of Students in Virginia and South Korea

1997 ◽  
Vol 80 (2) ◽  
pp. 562-562 ◽  
Author(s):  
Judith A. Tansky ◽  
Marion M. White ◽  
Kibok Baik
Keyword(s):  
South Korea ◽  
Cultural Differences ◽  
The South ◽  
Korean Students ◽  
South Korean ◽  
South Korean Students

This study compared reward allocations between a group of 168 students from Virginia and 301 students from South Korea. Analysis indicated that the students in Virginia preferred to allocate rewards based on relative contributions (equity) and that the South Korean students tended to allocate rewards more equally.

Small and medium sized enterprise marketing to foreign consumers in Seoul, South Korea

2015 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. 112-129
Author(s):  
David A. English
Keyword(s):  
South Korea ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Service Encounters ◽  
Sampling Frame ◽  
Purposive Sampling ◽  
Language And Culture ◽  
Intercultural Communications ◽  
Seoul Metropolitan Area ◽  
Depth Interviews

AbstractA qualitative case study was used to examine the experiences and perceptions of foreigners during interactions with small- and medium-sized enterprises in the Seoul Metropolitan Area.  Two constructs, intercultural communications and consumer language, were used to identify difficulties that foreigners experienced during service encounters.  In-depth interviews were conducted with 10 participants based on a purposive sampling frame of 62 foreign professors. The transcripts were entered into MAXqda software and coded.  The data across all the cases were compared to identify patterns and themes that emerged using a cross-case synthesis. The implications included Koreans being approach avoidant during interactions with foreign consumers, and foreigners being treated politely.  Limitations of the study included the use of purposive sampling and utilizing participants only in South Korea.  Recommendations for practice included the use of signs and greetings in various languages, creating programs to educate SMEs about the use of English as a competitive advantage, and offering language and culture classes to foreigners.  Recommendations for future research include a mixed method study on the convenience level of spoken Korean for foreign consumers in high- and low-involvement service encounters and a qualitative multivariate regression study to further explore approach avoidance tendencies of SMEs.

Speculative homemaking: Women’s labour, class mobility and the affect of homeownership in South Korea

Urban Studies ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 58 (1) ◽  
pp. 148-163
Author(s):  
Hae Yeon Choo
Keyword(s):  
Real Estate ◽  
South Korea ◽  
Housing Prices ◽  
Urban Transformation ◽  
Class Mobility ◽  
South Korean ◽  
Urban South ◽  
The 1960S ◽  
Apartment Complexes ◽  
Depth Interviews

Since the 1960s, urban South Korea has seen a series of real estate booms characterised by a huge surge in the construction of apartment complexes and skyrocketing housing prices. In this environment, many South Koreans have begun to view their homes as a source of profit-making. Through in-depth interviews, I examine how women in South Korea have emerged as agents of this urban transformation by engaging in ‘speculative homemaking’, an activity that merges the domestic work of household management with the work of real estate speculation. This article investigates how South Korean women’s gendered practices are embedded in the larger landscape of women’s work for class mobility and reproduction, highlighting class-divergent pathways to homeownership that are propelled by distinct affect – fear, anxiety and ease. Demonstrating how speculative logic pervades the domestic and the everyday, this article foregrounds the significance of gendered labour and affect for the study of urban processes and class formation.

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