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@article{ART002431024},
author={Song, Kyungah and Hoon C. Shin},
title={Governing the Atom: State, Society, and the Nuclear Power System in South Korea},
journal={The Journal of Northeast Asia Research},
issn={2005-4432},
year={2018},
volume={33},
number={2},
pages={333-367},
doi={10.18013/jnar.2018.33.2.012}

TY - JOUR
AU - Song, Kyungah
AU - Hoon C. Shin
TI - Governing the Atom: State, Society, and the Nuclear Power System in South Korea
JO - The Journal of Northeast Asia Research
PY - 2018
VL - 33
IS - 2
PB - The Institute for Northeast Asia Research
SP - 333
EP - 367
SN - 2005-4432
AB - Since the construction of the first nuclear power reactor in 1970, the Korean state has played an entrepreneurial role not only in expanding the material scale of nuclear power system but in also crafting ideology and organizations to maintain a large-scale technological infrastructure. Building on the observation that the last two democratic governments (2003-2008; 2008-2013) adopted divergent approaches to the management of nuclear power system, this article tackles the following questions: how and why they chose different policies; how did the structure of Korean nuclear power system change as a result? To answer these questions, this article presents an analytical framework whose underlying idea is that a nuclear policy is formed through the intertwined dynamics of the state, societal contexts, and a technological system. In the Korean context where state-led development of technology coexists with a changing democratic environment, the state is situated both within a technology and in society. This dual position of the Korean state leads us to a better understanding of a nuclear policy in relation to the interaction between technology and society mediated by the state. This article finds that the two governments eventually contributed to entrenching the Korean nuclear power system despite their policy discrepancies.
KW - South Korea;Nuclear Power System;Nuclear Policy;State;Technological System;Society
DO - 10.18013/jnar.2018.33.2.012
ER -

Song, Kyungah and Hoon C. Shin. (2018). Governing the Atom: State, Society, and the Nuclear Power System in South Korea. The Journal of Northeast Asia Research, 33(2), 333-367.

Song, Kyungah and Hoon C. Shin. 2018, "Governing the Atom: State, Society, and the Nuclear Power System in South Korea", The Journal of Northeast Asia Research, vol.33, no.2 pp.333-367. Available from: doi:10.18013/jnar.2018.33.2.012

Song, Kyungah, Hoon C. Shin "Governing the Atom: State, Society, and the Nuclear Power System in South Korea" The Journal of Northeast Asia Research 33.2 pp.333-367 (2018) : 333.

Song, Kyungah, Hoon C. Shin. Governing the Atom: State, Society, and the Nuclear Power System in South Korea. 2018; 33(2), 333-367. Available from: doi:10.18013/jnar.2018.33.2.012

Song, Kyungah and Hoon C. Shin. "Governing the Atom: State, Society, and the Nuclear Power System in South Korea" The Journal of Northeast Asia Research 33, no.2 (2018) : 333-367.doi: 10.18013/jnar.2018.33.2.012

Song, Kyungah; Hoon C. Shin. Governing the Atom: State, Society, and the Nuclear Power System in South Korea. The Journal of Northeast Asia Research, 33(2), 333-367. doi: 10.18013/jnar.2018.33.2.012

Song, Kyungah; Hoon C. Shin. Governing the Atom: State, Society, and the Nuclear Power System in South Korea. The Journal of Northeast Asia Research. 2018; 33(2) 333-367. doi: 10.18013/jnar.2018.33.2.012

Song, Kyungah, Hoon C. Shin. Governing the Atom: State, Society, and the Nuclear Power System in South Korea. 2018; 33(2), 333-367. Available from: doi:10.18013/jnar.2018.33.2.012

Song, Kyungah and Hoon C. Shin. "Governing the Atom: State, Society, and the Nuclear Power System in South Korea" The Journal of Northeast Asia Research 33, no.2 (2018) : 333-367.doi: 10.18013/jnar.2018.33.2.012