North Korean Refugees SAFETY: South Korean Security Police to Verify the Difference in Empowerment, Working Periods

J-Institute ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 6 (3) ◽  
pp. 21-33
Author(s):  
Sungbae Jung ◽  
Chiyoung Lee ◽  
Sunggu Jo
Keyword(s):  
South Korean ◽  
North Korean Refugees ◽  
The Difference

Bitter Taste of Paradise: North Korean Refugees in South Korea

2006 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
pp. 105-137 ◽  
Author(s):  
Andrei Lankov
Keyword(s):  
South Korea ◽  
Social Adjustment ◽  
Bitter Taste ◽  
Korean Society ◽  
South Korean ◽  
The Past ◽  
The North ◽  
North Korean Refugees ◽  
North Korean Defectors ◽  
To Come

This article deals with the problems of North Korean defectors currently living in South Korea. In the past, most such defectors came from privileged groups in the North Korean population, and their adjustment to the new environment did not pose a significant problem. However, from the mid-1990s, defectors began to come from the far less privileged groups. They experience serious problems related to jobs, education, crime, and social adjustment. Recent years have seen a dramatic but not always openly stated change in the official South Korean attitude toward defectors: from a policy explicitly aimed at encouraging defection, Seoul has moved to the policy of quietly discouraging it. There are fears that encouraging defection will undermine the policy of peaceful engagement with the North. There is also the perception that refugees are outsiders, not quite adjustable to the conditions of South Korean society and thus a social and budgetary burden.

North Koreans in South Korea and Beyond: Transnational Migration and Contested Nationhood

2020 ◽  
Vol 17 (2) ◽  
pp. 325-338
Author(s):  
Jin Woong Kang
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Cold War ◽  
South Korea ◽  
Transnational Migration ◽  
The United States ◽  
Host Countries ◽  
Post Cold War ◽  
South Korean ◽  
The United Kingdom ◽  
North Korean Refugees

This article examines the differentiated identities of North Koreans in South Korea and beyond in terms of transnational migration and contested nationhood. In the post-Cold War era, North Koreans in South Korea have been marginalised as a social minority, and comprise a subaltern group within South Korea, despite having South Korean citizenship. As a result, many North Korean refugees, including those who have already gained South Korean citizenship, have migrated to Western countries for a better life in terms of wealth and welfare. As active agents, they have pursued strategic lives in the host countries’ multicultural societies and Korean communities. Through complex transnational migration to South Korea and elsewhere, North Koreans have reformulated nationhood by contesting the idea of a “homogeneous nation” of Korea. This article focuses on how North Koreans have shaped their own Koreanness in the multicultural societies of the United States and the United Kingdom as well as in the hierarchical nationhood of South Korea. By doing so, it offers an alternative framework for looking at the multifarious identities of North Korean refugees globally.

scholarly journals An Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP) Approach for Sustainable Assessment of Economy-Based and Community-Based Urban Regeneration: The Case of South Korea

2018 ◽  
Vol 10 (12) ◽  
pp. 4456 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jin Hui ◽  
Sangyon Lim
Keyword(s):  
New Deal ◽  
Urban Regeneration ◽  
Community Based ◽  
Local Economies ◽  
Analytic Hierarchy ◽  
South Korean ◽  
The Difference ◽  
Hierarchical Assessment ◽  
Evaluation And Monitoring ◽  
Hierarchy Process

This paper uses South Korean cases to develop an indicator-oriented approach for evaluating the outcome of urban regeneration projects, focusing on the difference between economy-based and community-based urban regeneration projects. By identifying differences in the assessment indicators and weights of two types of urban regeneration projects, we can more successfully recognize a sustainable way to implement economy-based urban regeneration projects. The results of hierarchical assessment models show the differences in critical indicators related to economy-based and community-based urban regeneration projects. Economy-based urban regeneration projects should not only aim to revitalize local economies but also be evaluated using employment- and economic-related indicators, which should receive more weight than indicators concerning community-based regeneration. In this sense, our results suggest that different evaluation and monitoring systems must be developed to separately assess these two types of urban regeneration projects, as approximately 500 urban regeneration new deal projects are being carried out in Korea.

scholarly journals Effectiveness prediction of Evogliptin treatment in type 2 diabetes mellitus in russian-korean population

2018 ◽  
Vol 21 (5) ◽  
pp. 333-343
Author(s):  
Anna A. Mosikian ◽  
Alina Y. Babenko ◽  
Yulia A. Sevastyanova ◽  
Roman V. Drai ◽  
Evgenij V. Shlyakhto
Keyword(s):  
Hba1c Level ◽  
Statistical Power ◽  
Clinical Care ◽  
Statin Treatment ◽  
Linear Regression Models ◽  
South Korean ◽  
Effectiveness Prediction ◽  
The Difference ◽  
Phosphorous Concentration

Background: Individualized treatment has already become a part of a routine clinical care. Many data on the effectiveness prediction of commercially available DPP-4 inhibitors had been published, but not on the effectiveness prediction of evogliptin. Aim: To reveal the clinical characteristics and metabolic predictors of better hypoglycemic response to evogliptin. Matherials and methods: We have conducted a retrospective study, based on the data of a randomized clinical trial comparing effectiveness and safety of evogliptin and sitagliptin in Russian and Korean subpopulations. We provide univariate linear regression models for separate subpopulations and a multivariate stepwise regression model for the combined subpopulation. HbA1c change after 24 weeks of evogliptin treatment was a primary endpoint and a dependent variable in the analysis. Results: The decrease of HbA1c after 24 weeks of treatment with evogliptin in Russian subpopulation negatively correlates with triglycerides/HDL level (p = 0,046). In South Korean subpopulation it correlates positively with HbA1c level at baseline (p 0,0001). In order to increase the statistical power of the analysis the data of both populations were combined. According to the combined data, the decrease of HbA1c after 24 weeks of treatment with evogliptin positively correlates with HbA1c level at baseline (p0.0001) and log(HOMA-B) (p=0.0042), and it negatively correlates with log(triglycerides/HDL) (p=0.0057), blood phosphorous concentration (p=0.014) and statin treatment (p=0.044). No correlation of HbA1c change at week 24 was observed with body mass index, diabetes duration and blood C-peptide concentration. Patients able to achieve HbA1c7,0 % had higher HOMA-B (53.22 36.95 и 39.67 24.74, respectively, р=0.033) and were tend to have higher HDL concentration (1.36 0.28 и 1.26 0.26 mmol/l, respectively, р=0.076) and lower triglycerides to HDL ratio (0.87 0.70 и 1.48 0.95, respectively, р=0.079). Conclusion: A patient, who benefits more when treated with evogliptin, has higher HOMA-B, lower triglycerides to HDL ratio and phosphorous concentration in the 1-2 quartiles of the normal range. Triglycerides to HDL ratio is, probably, a specific effectiveness predictor for Russian, but not for Korean subpopulation. These data prove the difference in effectiveness prediction for different drugs of DPP-4 inhibitors group and reveal the need of further investigation.

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