A study on the legislative process of the Republic of Korea

1986 ◽  
Vol 1 (0) ◽  
pp. 181-189
Author(s):  
Jae Hoon Chin
Keyword(s):  
Executive Branch ◽  
Republic Of Korea ◽  
Legislative Process ◽  
National Assembly ◽  
The Public ◽  
Legislative Procedures ◽  
Controlling Mechanism ◽  
Legislative Procedure ◽  
The Republic ◽  
Characteristic Features

In view of the importance of Parliamentary System and legislation, this paper tries to examine the formal legislative procedure and its actual workings in the National Assembly of the Republic of Korea in order to find out some characteristic features of the legislative process and to suggest some improvements of the current practices. We found that the characteristic features of legislative procedure in the Korean National Assembly are as follows; First, deliberations at the standing committees occupy the central importance in the entire legislative process. Second, those legislative procedures which require open-door sessions have usually been inaccessible by the public due to short notice and lack of practice of public hearings. And thus the sub-committees have been held either at a closed-session, or at a corner of the lobby, excluding many aspirants of observers. Third, judicial review and presidential veto as a check and controlling mechanism on the law making process have played very insignificant role. Fourth, the Executive Branch has the superior position in the legislative process compared with the Legislative Branch; that is, the Executive Branch can exert greater influence in the submission, deliberation, and passage of the bills. Finally, the 38.1% 1,467 laws of the total 3,853 laws promulgated by the president have been propose by non-representatives. This may be one of the reasons why the general public has low respect and trust in the legislative process and the parliamentary democracy.

scholarly journals COVID-19 Pandemic, Transparency, and “Polidemic” in the Republic of Korea

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (2) ◽  
pp. 213-224
Author(s):  
Cheol Kang ◽  
Ilhak Lee
Keyword(s):  
Media Coverage ◽  
Significant Contribution ◽  
Ethical Issues ◽  
Republic Of Korea ◽  
Global Media ◽  
The Public ◽  
Rational Debate ◽  
Policy Measures ◽  
The Republic ◽  
New Perspective

AbstractThis article examines the development of the Republic of Korea’s strategy to prevent the spread of COVID-19 with particular focus on ethical issues and the problem of politicization of public communication. Using prominent examples of stakeholders who have acted and expressed themselves in highly contradictory ways on the topic of the pandemic, we provide an analysis of how the public health policy discourse has entered into the realm of politicization and elaborate on the danger that this phenomenon poses in terms of rational debate and appropriate policy measures geared toward the public’s safety. Considering the role that the Republic of Korea have had in global media coverage of quarantine policies and epidemic prevention, we believe that our study makes a significant contribution to the literature because it provides a new perspective and insights into the forces at work within and around a prevention strategy that has both been lauded and seen as highly controversial.

Legislative Process in International Organizations

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Courtenay R Conrad ◽  
Nathan W Monroe
Keyword(s):  
International Organizations ◽  
World Politics ◽  
Legislative Process ◽  
Power Politics ◽  
Legislative Procedures ◽  
Fertile Ground ◽  
Legislative Procedure ◽  
Legislative Outcomes ◽  
The U.S

Abstract In this analytical essay, we advance a simple but powerful claim: scholars can better understand outcomes of international organizations (IOs) by developing theories that explicitly make assumptions about legislative process. Because process assumptions powerfully explain domestic legislative outcomes and many international assemblies demonstrate similarities to domestic legislatures, scholars could usefully employ legislative-process-centric approaches when theorizing about outcomes in world politics. Following an explication of why scholars might focus on legislative procedure, we describe several legislative procedures and highlight variance across those procedures within several well-known IOs. We also suggest that this variance and the shadow of power politics cast over IOs provides fertile ground for comparative legislative scholars—including scholars of the U.S. Congress—to develop and test new theories of legislative procedure.

scholarly journals CHARACTERISTICS, STRUCTURE AND SUSTAINABILITY OF DEBT OF THE REPUBLIC OF SRPSKA

2018 ◽  
Vol 1 (16) ◽  
pp. 65
Author(s):  
Miloš Grujić ◽  
Perica Rajčević
Keyword(s):  
Research Question ◽  
Relevant Literature ◽  
Currency Board ◽  
National Assembly ◽  
Economic Growth And Development ◽  
The Public ◽  
Gdp Growth Rate ◽  
Analysis And Synthesis ◽  
The Republic ◽  
Different Sources

The aim of the research is to address the challenges that may be a constraint on economic growth and development. In the research, we used the relevant literature and acts that were in front of the delegates at the National Assembly of Republic of Srpska. The research question is: "What are the main characteristics of the Republic of Srpska's debt?" In line with this, the methods employed in this paper are the analysis and synthesis of previous researchs, theoretical findings and publicly accessible documents pertaining to the debt of Republic of Srpska, and an overview of the case studies.  The contribution of the paper is reflected in the explained wideness and the possibilities of using different sources of money, and the limits on which the debts can be used in order to achieve sustainability tasks. We have concluded that this year, the Republic of Srpska bill has reached the largest amount of debt – KM 858 million (755 million principal and 103 million interest). In line with the presented evidence, priority should be given to projects that would be financed by advantageous credit arrangements and to rationalize public spending. Despite the usual opinion, we have proven that the debt of the Republic of Srpska is sustainable - the average interest rate is lower than the GDP growth rate and that, although unpopular, the currency board system corresponds to the position of Republic of Srpska. However, we have pointed out the danger of stereotype that the public debt of less than 60% necessarily indicates that the country is in a good position.

scholarly journals Pandemic Communication: Information Seeking, Evaluation, and Self-Protective Behaviors in Vietnam and the Republic of Korea

2021 ◽  
Vol 6 ◽  
Author(s):  
Audra Diers-Lawson ◽  
Sophie Johnson ◽  
Teela Clayton ◽  
Riko Kimoto ◽  
Bach Xuan Tran ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Information Seeking ◽  
Health Sector ◽  
Public Information ◽  
Republic Of Korea ◽  
Protective Behaviors ◽  
Infection Rates ◽  
The Public ◽  
Theory Evaluation ◽  
The Republic ◽  
The Individual

Saliou (Eur J Epidemiol, 1994, 10 (4), 515–517) argued that pandemics are special kinds of crises and requires the public health sector to focus on: 1) reducing uncertainty, 2) rumor mitigation, and 3) ensuring the public reduces their risk of contracting the disease. With this as a backdrop, the central aim of this research is to better understand the connections between public information seeking, evaluation, and self-protective behaviors in the COVID-19 pandemic and focuses on a comparison between the Republic of Korea and Vietnam to provide insights into the influence of the individual, institutional, and information factors influencing people’s experience with COVID-19. Thus, there are two major contributions of this study. First, it provides a cross-theory evaluation of the factors that contribute to information seeking, evaluation, and self-protective behaviors. Second, the study identifies potentially critical differences in information seeking, evaluation, and self-protective behaviors based on acute disease reproduction in countries with a successful pandemic suppression history. Findings suggest that in countries where there are high levels of trust and satisfaction even small changes in the infection rates lead to different information seeking and self-protective behaviors.

scholarly journals RADIECOLOGICAL MONITORING IN SERBIA

2009 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 59-69
Author(s):  
Gordana Pantelić ◽  
Vedrana Vuletić ◽  
Maja Eremić-Savković ◽  
Ljiljana Javorina ◽  
Irena Tanasković
Keyword(s):  
Drinking Water ◽  
Radioactive Contamination ◽  
Ecological Monitoring ◽  
The Public ◽  
Detection And Identification ◽  
Radiation Sources ◽  
Radiation Contamination ◽  
The Republic ◽  
Characteristic Features ◽  
Radionuclide Activity

Radio-ecological monitoring of the environment encompasses the measures of specific radionuclide activity in the samples from the environment that is relevant for the exposure of inhabitants, first of all in air, drinking water, food and in some typical representatives of flora and fauna with characteristic features of radioactive contamination (the ability of radionuclide to concentrate). The aim of monitoring is: a) timely detection and identification of all uncontrolled radiation sources or radiation contamination; b) assessment of real and possible exposure of the critical group or inhabitants to radioactive matters in the environment due to use of any radiation sources; c) keep the record on the radioactivity level in the environment; d) check if all the legislative regulations and other restrictions are fulfilled; e) inform the public. According to the final results of measuring different samples form the territory of the Republic of Serbia in the period 1986 to 2008, it may be concluded that the level of natural and artificial (long-lived) radionuclides (originating from Chernobyl) was low, in tolerant and acceptable levels.

scholarly journals From the history of uzbek-korean educational relations

2021 ◽  
Vol 2 (7/S) ◽  
pp. 168-171
Author(s):  
Fazilat Nurmetova
Keyword(s):  
Detailed Analysis ◽  
Prime Minister ◽  
Republic Of Korea ◽  
National Assembly ◽  
South Korean ◽  
Head Of State ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Republic ◽  
Further Development

This article provides a detailed analysis of the history of Uzbek-Korean educational relations in the Commonwealth and its further development with the help of Internet data and sources. Research also gives latest information about the head of state also met with the Speaker of the National Assembly and the Prime Minister of the Republic of Korea and took part in the Uzbek-South Korean business forum with the participation of leaders of leading economic and financial structures of the two countries.

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