The State and Elite Lawyers: Internal Status Competition and Social Closure by the Seoul Jeil Bar Association in South Korea (1960~80)

2019 ◽  
Vol 123 ◽  
pp. 127-165
Author(s):  
Chunwoong Park
Keyword(s):  
South Korea ◽  
The State ◽  
Social Closure ◽  
Status Competition ◽  
Bar Association

scholarly journals Bypassing the Technocratic State in South Korea

2021 ◽  
Vol 16 (1) ◽  
pp. 36-57
Author(s):  
James Flowers
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
South Korea ◽  
Traditional Medicine ◽  
Herbal Medicines ◽  
The State ◽  
Financial Resources ◽  
Cultural Resources ◽  
Korean Medicine ◽  
Treatment Plans ◽  
Rapid Transmission

Abstract This article reveals an important, yet hidden, Korean response to the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020 that goes beyond the actions of the state. It focuses on the Korean medicine doctors who were excluded from any government-led public health or treatment plans for COVID-19. Bypassing the state, they used telehealth to provide herbal medicines to 20 percent of COVID-19 patients in South Korea. Traditional medicine doctors volunteered their services and financial resources to fill a gap in COVID-19 care. Most observers attribute Korean success in controlling COVID-19 to the leadership of the technocratic state with buy-in from the population. However, the case of Korea offers an example of bottom-up healthcare in a community where people chose their own native cultural resources and helps to explain how doctors were able to take the initiative to autonomously work with people in the community to help to stop the otherwise rapid transmission of the virus.

The state in the development of South Korea

1992 ◽  
Vol 5 (4) ◽  
pp. 411-412
Author(s):  
James Cotton
Keyword(s):  
South Korea ◽  
The State

Citizen Duty and the Ethical Power of Communities: Mixed-Method Evidence from East Asia

2018 ◽  
Vol 50 (3) ◽  
pp. 1047-1065 ◽  
Author(s):  
Aram Hur
Keyword(s):  
South Korea ◽  
East Asia ◽  
Political Theory ◽  
Statistical Modeling ◽  
Mixed Method ◽  
The State ◽  
Nation State ◽  
Ethical Obligation ◽  
Method Evidence ◽  
Expected Payoffs

Why do citizens choose to comply in democracies, even when coercion is limited? Existing answers focus on contractual trust or expected payoffs. I show that a different pathway exists in the ethical pull of the nation. A large literature in political theory argues that special communities, such as the nation, can instill an ethical obligation to the collective welfare, even in the absence of formal rules. I argue that when the identities of one’s nation and the state are seen as closely linked, this national obligation is politicized towards the state and motivates a sense of citizen duty to comply. Through statistical modeling and a pair of experiments in South Korea versus Taiwan – two otherwise similar democracies that contrast in nation-state linkage – I show that this ethical pathway is likely real and highly contextual. The findings help us better understand the varied bases of citizen compliance in democracies.

Enterprising State and Entrepreneurial Self

Homing ◽  
2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ji-Yeon O. Jo
Keyword(s):  
South Korea ◽  
The State ◽  
Global Capitalism ◽  
Economic Mobility ◽  
Ethnic Nationalism ◽  
South Korean ◽  
Entrepreneurial Strategies ◽  
Korean State ◽  
And Shifts

I trace how conceptions of citizenship have transformed in post-1990 South Korea, focusing on the major formations of and shifts in Korean citizenship, as well as on the evolution of nationality laws concerning diaspora Koreans. I also examine legacy migrants’ perspectives on citizenship and legal belonging. The process of citizen-making, which unfolds through the dynamics between an “enterprising” South Korean state and the “entrepreneurial” strategies incorporated by the legacy migrants in this study, largely rests on the interplay between emotionally charged ethnic nationalism and economic mobility driven by neoliberal global capitalism, both of which in turn have rearticulated and reconfigured the borders of South Korean citizenship and belonging. As a result, various forms of conditional and contingent citizenship—statuses that are neither fully admitted by the state nor fully committed to by returnees—have been produced.

Sex, corruption and killer heels: footwear in the Korean corporate crime drama

2021 ◽  
pp. 213-228
Author(s):  
Kate Taylor-Jones
Keyword(s):  
South Korea ◽  
Corporate Crime ◽  
The State ◽  
The Self ◽  
Crime Drama ◽  
Ethnic Tensions

Focusing on Im Sang-soo’s The Taste of Money (2012), this chapter explores the interplay between gender, corporate corruption, age, nationhood and footwear. The film directly references a series of social and cultural debates that have taken place inside South Korea in the last decades, highlighting the sexual, class and ethnic tensions that exist inside the state. The chapter also examines the filmmaker’s 2010 film The Housemaid. Both films show how women are trapped between the neo-liberal agenda of defining the self and the desire/need to maintain a more traditional female narrative.

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