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Showing 1 to 14 of 14 for “"Korean State"”.
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The City as a national growth machine : city-building and the role of urban development in South Korea's political and economic transitions
… an emphasis on space, I found that the South Korean state worked actively to develop synergies between spatial and economic development, thus fortifying its role as both an industrial and urban developmental state. At consecutive stages since the late 1960s, the South Korean state deployed a …
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The North Korean Security State: Examining the North Korean Population through Michel Foucault's Theories of Discipline and Punishment
… what type of disciplinary techniques North Korean citizens are subjected to by the North Korean state. This paper will define several disciplinary strategies discussed by Foucault and then show how these strategies are deployed against the North Korean population through multiple examples. …
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Dreams and Agency: The journey of Filipino migrant wives in South Korea
… migrant wives occupy a unique space in South Korean society. They are pioneers of South Korea's distinct version of multiculturalism, having been among the first wave of migrant wives to enter Korea. Some have broken through intersectional barriers to become politicians, civil servants and …
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Dreams and Agency: The journey of Filipino migrant wives in South Korea
… migrant wives occupy a unique space in South Korean society. They are pioneers of South Korea's distinct version of multiculturalism, having been among the first wave of migrant wives to enter Korea. Some have broken through intersectional barriers to become politicians, civil servants and …
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The Queer Threat: National Security, Sexuality, and Activism In South Korea
… threats also emerge from within the nation-state, often in the margins and treated as national others. The experiences of gender and sexual minorities represent the complexities of these margins, national othering, and internal threats. Focusing on what I call the queer threat, I argue that …
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Damming the Nation: How Engineers Transformed Rivers into Water Tanks for Modern South Korea
… and it is commonly found across the modern Korean landscape. Since the 1960s, under the name of "Comprehensive Water Resources Development," South Korean state engineers have constructed more than a dozen large multi-purpose dams on rivers in the nation. The prevailing Korean narrative tends …
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Military band musicians on the border: crossing over musical genres in the transnational space of the Korean War
This dissertation examines Korean War period music and explains the musical encounters and developments that resulted from the military collaboration between South Korea (the Republic of Korea) and the United States in the initial stage of the Cold War. In particular, this dissertation looks …
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Globalization of a U.S. community college and the politics of belonging in the time of upheaval: Remaking of race and class of Korean international community college students
… positions of lower middle- and working-class Korean international students are reshaped as they are made into transnational, adrift, cheap laborers. This study specifically examines the complicated interrelationships among (1) the emerging identity politics in neoliberal South Korea where …
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A Family Affair: The Political Economy of Media Ownership in the Republic of Korea (1998-2012)
This dissertation investigates the nature of Korean media giants among members of Asian media conglomerates in the era of media marketization. Since the 1980s, each state in Asia has adopted neoliberal media laws and policies that have made its media systems more market-driven. This neoliberal …
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"Serving to secure ""Global Korea"": Gender, mobility, and flight attendant labor migrants"
… “safety” fashioned “Global Korea”: an ongoing state-sponsored project aimed at promoting the economic, political, and cultural maturation of South Korea from a once notoriously inhospitable, “backward” country (hujin’guk) to a now welcoming, “advanced country” (sŏnjin’guk). Through physical …
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Adoption Wars: American Missionaries and International Adoption in Twentieth-Century South Korea
Since the informal end of the Korean War in 1953, nearly 200,000 South Korean children have been sent to Western nations for adoption, with the vast majority, roughly two-thirds, being placed in the United States. From the beginning, these children were largely assumed to be the progeny of Korean …
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National aspirations, imagined futures, and space exploration: The origin and development of Korean Space Program 1958-2013
… is to describe the history of the South Korean1 space program and to use it to offer some insights on reframing space history from a global point of view. South Korea is a new player among the space faring nations. While some of the necessary infrastructure was put in place in the 30 …
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Kim Dae-Jung's Leadership as Relevant to the Sunshine Policy (1998-2003)
… to contribute to permanent peace on the Korean peninsula by improving inter-Korean relations. However, given Korea’s historical, political, and socio-cultural context, comprehensive engagement has proved difficult. Any South Korean leader who adopts overall engagement strategies vis-à-vis …
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In Search of the Constitution: How the Constitution Generated the Public Power in South Korea (1963-1979)
This study challenges the positivist view of the Korean Constitution, which sees it merely as an assemblage of rules and statutes defining its citizens’ status and setting out codes of conduct for the government, or mapping the government’s institutional arrangements. Prevalent in Korean …