2019, Vol.62, No.1

Studies in Humanities and Social Sciences 2023 KCI Impact Factor : 0.39

pISSN : 1598-4230 / eISSN : 2586-7601
https://journal.kci.go.kr/ihss

In 2019 we commemorate the centennial of a year of dashed hopes and clashing identities. The conflicts were so disheartening in part because they arose from the failure of expectations ignited around the world that the end of the Great War would facilitate the creation of a new, more just and liberal world order allowing control over the future through self-determination. The focus on self-determination meant that the year’s conflicts would involve a range of incarnations of identity, some assertive, including national-ethnic, anti-imperialist, and racial movements, some predominantly defensive, notably through bonds with a presumed national past to erect barriers against change. Often the most effective identities were the most narrow, as indicated by the limitations of class identity revealed in the pushback against strikes and other worker initiatives and by the repudiation by the U.S. Senate of President Woodrow Wilson’s League of Nations. Many of the same identity conflicts still plague the world today, but the main lesson of 1919 for the present may simply be that whatever crises may confront humanity over the next century, it is likely that at their crux we will find questions of identity.

In this paper, I test the relationship between economic growth and income distribution in the Korean economy. In recent years, a widening gap between wage-earners and income distribution has become an important issue in the Korean economy. Thus, the VAR/VEC framework, which takes account of the historical pattern of wage inequality in Korea, is used to investigate a complicated effect of income distribution on economic growth in recent decades. In this paper, I identify the cointegrating vectors to establish the long-term relationship between the variables and the use of the impulse responses of each variable for investigating the short-term effects of each exogenous shock using the VAR approach. This study suggests that the income-led growth perspective will not inspire research about the Korean economy if the income-led growth perspective should not be enough to account for Korea’s wage inequality.

This paper deals with human rights as content for global citizenship. The general notion of global citizenship defines it as a citizen's role and duty in the global society, beyond the boundaries of the nation state. However, in relation to these obligations and roles, there is still criticism that the obligations and roles outside the national state are too limited and abstract in the reality of the international society, which is still centered on the nation state. This paper intends to materialize the concept of human rights as a concrete content of global citizenship. The concept of human rights has been continuously changed, and its concrete contents have been expanded as a reflection of the times. What is remarkable in this process is the universality and specificity of human rights. In other words, the change of the concept of human rights, the contents of which have been so far focused on universality based on the specificity of human rights. At this level, we want to embody global citizenship based on the concept of human rights. To this end, this paper seeks specifically to clarify how the concept of human rights can shape global citizenship in the Republic of Korea vis-à-vis the Yemen refugee situation on Jeju Island.