2017, Vol.24, No.2

Journal of Asia-Pacific Studies 2023 KCI Impact Factor : 0.61

pISSN : 1225-8539 / eISSN : 2671-5171
https://journal.kci.go.kr/japs

This research empirically analyzes the effects of trust on political participation of Korean people. Trust, in this paper, is explored into two parts: general trust(on our society and the public) and public trust(on the legislature, judiciary and the executive branch). Types of political participation are divided into voting, party participation, demonstrations, and contacts to public service providers. The results of analyses mainly provide three findings. Firstly, trust on our society has positive effects on citizens’ voting participation. Secondly, trust on the executive body has positive effects on contacts to public officials. Lastly, while education affects all types of political participation positively, the influence of age shows different direction depending on the types of political participation.

This article explores the temporality of international relations, a field that has received much less attention than its spatiality. It will discuss how to utilize the temporal approaches towards international relations, drawing on the philosophical and historical literature and the recent trend of international relations. As a way of shedding light on this discussion, this article analyzes Korea’s anti-Japanese sentiment instigating the indiscriminate antipathy and conflicts vis-a-vis Japan as a result of its structuration as an inalienable part of Korea’s national identity. By analyzing Korea’s anti-Japanese sentiment stemming from the ‘comfort women’ and many other issues from the temporal, philosophical and quantitative perspectives, it will illustrate the structure of reproducing and reinforcing the sentiment and analyze Korea’s national identity exhibiting the ‘excess of the past.’ To illustrate the temporal identity of a nation state, it will offer an extensive review of various concepts and theories, including the ‘longue durée’ of Fernand Braudel, a member of the Annales School, and highlight the necessity of harmonizing the past, the present and the future.

The purpose of this article is to broadly analyse the Joseonjok (Korean Chinese) enclave in Southwest Seoul under citizenship perspective. To do this it focus on the enclave’s geographical and historical background, population of Joseonjok, the citizenship status of Joseonjok since coming to Korea, the changes of citizenship status of Joseonjok in Korea, residence period, family structure, employer-employee relationship between Joseonjok entrepreneurs and workers, and so on. The results of the study are summarized as follows. The Joseonjok enclave constituted with the Joseonjok who under the citizenship status of Korean nationality, permanent residency, overseas Korean, foreign Korean worker. The primary purpose of citizenship policy which authorized to Joseonjok is effective economic contribution to the Korea’s development (or globalization). But paradoxically, the citizenship policy for Joseonjok also provide the conditions of formation of Josoenjok’s socioeconomic relationship so-called “enclave labor market(or Joseonjok enclave service economy)”. So, if we analyse the Joseonjok individuals’ socioeconomic activity together with their citizenship status, then, enclave as a case, not only can be explained by the dual labor market framework, but also can explain a part of the state-citizen (society) relationship of Korea.