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Showing 1 to 15 of 15 for “"South Korean society"”.
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North Korean Migrants' Integration into South Korean Society: Policies, Perceptions and Realities
… practices. In looking at the movement of North Korean migrants to the Republic of Korea (South Korea) and their socio-economic integration experience, this study affirms these patterns exist. In addition, this paper's findings indicate that despite preferential treatment and generous support …
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HEALTH INEQUALITIES AND SOCIAL NETWORK STRUCTURES: A COMPARISON BETWEENSINGAPORE AND SEOUL, SOUTH KOREA
… elderly aged 50 – 69 in Singapore and Seoul, South Korea. Two representative datasets from the joint research project, “A Multi-Disciplinary Approach to Promoting Longevity, Healthy and Successful Ageing” by the National University of Singapore and the Korean Institute for Health and Social …
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Unification of South and North Korean Labor Markets: Problems, Perspectives, and Opportunities
… a study of the historical characteristics of Korean labor follows. The unique feature of Korean labor is that Korean people have generated inner dynamics by the interaction of rigid rules of each time period and people's resistance to those rules. Compared to South Korean society, North Korean …
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The politics of the traditional Korean popular song style T'ŭrot'ŭ
T’ŭrot’ŭ, a traditional Korean popular song style, has existed in the South Korean music scene for more than eight decades. Nowadays, the song style may not be the most popular song style in South Korea in terms of media popularity, which is mostly oriented towards teenaged listeners. However, …
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Vietnamese women marriage migrants in South Korea: A study of their sense of well-being in the process of their settlement
… difficulties in the process of settlement in South Korea through international marriage, and to suggest the directions for achieving a stable settlement by maintaining their sense of well-being, based on the factors overcoming their difficulties. For this purpose, the research question in this …
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Gender Analysis of Politics, Economics and Culture of Korean Reunification: Toward a Feminist Theological Foundation for Reunified Society
… for an eventual reunification of North and South Korea. In this process, Korean political, economic, cultural and religious issues are necessarily present. My study focuses on cultural and religious factors. I adopt the German reunification as a case study. The German reunification process …
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South Korean golden-age comedy film: industry, genre, and popular culture (1953-1970)
This dissertation, “South Korean Golden-Age Comedy Film: Industry, Genre, and Popular Culture (1953 -1970),” examines the socio-cultural and political aspects of comedy films made in South Korea in the 1950s and 1960s, the era in which the South Korean nation mobilized in the name of “development” …
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Constructing Women Who Do Not Reproduce in Global Neoliberalism: Critical Approach to the Abolition of Legal Ban on Abortion and the Struggle in South Korea
… of the legal ban on abortion and the struggle in South Korea, focusing on the <em>construction</em> of the status of “women who do not reproduce”, and accordingly aims to critically analyze how neoliberal reproductive crisis in South Korea has been reorganized into the new order through the …
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Trans-Pacific Popular Mediascape: In Search of Girlhood Through Korean Immigrant Teenage Girls' Image-Production and Webculture
… the cultural practice of teenage U.S. immigrant Korean girls in the specific context of webpages created through a Korean social networking website called Cyworld. Their webpages are understood as personal narratives about what it means to be a Korean girl, which are informed by trans-Pacific …
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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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Ambivalent globalizers, vicarious cosmopolitans: South Korean "geese-dad" academics
… the shifting subjectivities of contemporary South Korean professors, the most prominent, symbolic group of South Korean intellectuals, focusing on the experiences of “geese-dad” professors who respond to the challenges of globalization in both private and public realms. I explore how these …
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Dreams and Agency: The journey of Filipino migrant wives in South Korea
Filipino 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
Filipino 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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Heroes, criminals and good migrants: South Korean transnational entrepreneurs and the makings of moral worlds in the Philippines
This dissertation is an ethnography of South Korean transnational entrepreneurship both as action and ethos in a developing country. Based on approximately a 20-month field research of South Korean small-scale entrepreneurs in the Philippines between 2013 and 2016, this study analyzes South Korean …
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“We will remember you, forever!” – remembering through (active) forgetting of Moo-Hyun Roh in South Korea
… relations, revolving around his personage. South Koreans invest him with certain identities, and in turn, he provides transformation and proliferation of those identities. Most notably, memory as such is composed in good part as forgetting: remembering via dispositif and the identities it …