2019, Vol.26, No.3

Structural Change and Economic Growth: Productivity Decomposition of Korean East Sea Rim Countries

CIN BEOM CHEOL | 2019, 26(3) | pp.5~23 | number of Cited : 3

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Chinese Intellectuals’ Debate and Pragmatic Approach to Non-intervention Policy

Kang Su-Jeong | 2019, 26(3) | pp.25~63 | number of Cited : 0

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The “non-intervention” is one of the most important diplomatic principles China has adhered to in international relations since the early 1950s. However, with the rise of China, the need for China’s international intervention has gradually expanded due to its changing international status and environment, and academic debates have emerged at home and abroad over the validity and sustainability of the policy of non- intervention. This study pays attention to the perception and discourse of Chinese intellectuals regarding this debate. Through the discourse analysis of the writings of Chinese intellectuals, especially political scientists, this research attempts to explore China’s internal perspectives and orientations regarding its principle and policy of non-intervention. Through such analysis, this article argues that there are three main positions in the debate about China’s policy of non-intervention. The first is a critical position that raises the need for a change (correcting or scrapping) in China’s policy of non-intervention. The second is a conservative position that the existing principle is still beneficial to China and it should continue to adhere to the principle. And, the third is a pragmatic point of view that it calls for more creativity and flexibility in its implementation and application of the principle. These discourses of Chinese intellectuals are gradually converging into the third pragmatic approach. Thus, the debate within China over its policy of non-intervention is not focused on whether to scrap or adhere to the principle of non-intervention, but rather on how to protect and promote China’s expanding national interests, international status and role as a rising great power through more flexible and pragmatic interpretations and applications of the principle. In this light, the dispute among Chinese intellectuals over the policy of non-intervention can be seen as part of a broader diplomatic and strategic discussion in which China as a rising great power searches for the conditions and ways of legitimate international intervention to protect its national interests and to deal with the many new expectations and demands facing it domestically as well as internationally.

Changes in the Climate Change Discourse of North Korea: A Media Coverage Analysis

Yun, Sun-Jin , Saerom Ahn , Hong， Jong Ho and 1 other persons | 2019, 26(3) | pp.65~101 | number of Cited : 10

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In order to cope with consequences of rapid climate change on the Korean peninsula, active environmental cooperation between North and South is critical. To do this, we need to look at how North Korea understands climate change. This study traces North Korea’s discourse on climate change from 2009 to 2017 through an analysis of North Korean media reports. 968 articles related to climate change were collected from “Rodong Sinmun” and “Minju Joseon,” which are representative media of North Korea. In addition, only nouns were extracted from the headlines of articles containing ‘climate’ or ‘warming’ in the text, and the contents and characteristics of the discussion on climate change over time were reviewed by comparing the yearly word cloud and the keywords network. Analysis of discourses on climate change over time were carried out through news reports, and the contents and characteristics were reviewed by yearly word cloud and key word network analysis. As a result, the biggest change in North Korea’s discourse on climate change was the regime change. Both Kim Jong-il and Kim Jong-un regimes, in general, stress that climate change is a serious problem that can bring about a global food crisis, and that international joint efforts and alternative energy developments are needed. However, unlike the Kim Jong-il regime’s self-rehabilitation and Arctic development discourse, science farming and forest response discourse were formed in the Kim Jong-un regime. In particular, the Kim Jong-un regime is distributing more concrete discourses on the meaning, consequences, and countermeasures of climate change compared to the previous regime, and actively discourses on climate change adaptation. This study can contribute to the search for directions and measures for future North-South climate cooperation by identifying North Korea’s understanding of climate change, its willingness to respond, and its needs.

An Analysis on the Hanoi Summit Meeting between the US and North Korea with Implications

Hweerhak Park | 2019, 26(3) | pp.103~132 | number of Cited : 10

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A Study on the Possible Results of Brexit and its Significance: Focusing on the Korean Economy

Shin Sang Hyup | 2019, 26(3) | pp.133~164 | number of Cited : 3

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Abe Cabinet’s Economic Statecraft: Multilateral Hedging, Competitive Engagement, and Strategic Binding

Dae-yeob Yoon | 2019, 26(3) | pp.165~196 | number of Cited : 6

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A Study on the Public-Private Cooperation System of ODA in Japan

Kyungyon Moon , Hyun-Ah Park | 2019, 26(3) | pp.197~224 | number of Cited : 3

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Through the analysis of the history, institutions and recently published literature and major policy documents of Japan, this paper aims to find out how Japan actually recognizes foreign aid, how this perception has evolved, especially how it links ODA, which is referred to as development cooperation, to economic cooperation projects with recipient countries. To this end, we examine Japan’s ODA-related policies and laws, systems and promotion systems to explain the process of Japan’s ODA policy transformation in terms of coordination of development cooperation and economic cooperation, and analyze the mechanisms used to encourage effective participation by the private sector through case-in-depth analysis and how these mechanisms actually work. Through this, the paper confirmed that since World War II, Japan has continuously taken a strategy to link its economic cooperation with development cooperation, and later put forward humanitarian purposes with the introduction of the concept of human security in the 1990s and 2000s, but it has again returned to the aid policy considering previous economic and national interests since 2010 as the Japanese economy entered a prolonged recession. In the process, the Japanese government set up a strategy and promotion system to systematically link its development cooperation, or ODA funds, with Japanese companies’ exploration and advance into overseas markets, in which Japan publicly declared its policy of linking development cooperation with economic cooperation and equipped with necessary policy documents and organizational systems. The low level of civic group’s resistance to Japan government ODA strategy is attributable that Japan civil society got used to link ODA with economic interests since World War II, and the government’s ability to form a consensus on this stance as the country entered a long-term economic recession in the 2000s.

Text Mining Network Analysis on Intellectual Structure of Myanmar Research

DANIEL LEE , Choi Young Jun | 2019, 26(3) | pp.225~252 | number of Cited : 4

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The Effects of Authentic Leadership on Turnover Intention in the Korea Shipbuilding Industry: The Moderating Effect of Job Engagement

Sung Yoon Dong , Chang Je wook , Yoon, Dong-Yeol | 2019, 26(3) | pp.253~286 | number of Cited : 7

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The purpose of this study is to identify the effect of authentic leadership on turnover intention of foreign workers in South Korea with analysing the moderating effect of job engagement. In this research, job engagement consists of three factors such as vigor, dedication, and absorption. For the empirical analysis on turnover intention for the target sample, this study carried out the survey for the in-house subcontracting foreign workers working at the shipbuilder located in Ulsan area. The survey questionnaire are translated into four languages and distributed anticipated samples. There were 176 valid respondents. Result from the factor analysis and the hierarchical regression model indicate that a higher level of authentic leadership is negatively related to the turnover intention of foreign workers. The results also show that vigor among three core constructs of job engagement is positively related to the turnover intention of foreign workers. however the coefficients of other core constructs of job engagement such as dedication and absorption not statically significant relationship. Considering the moderating effect of job engagement on turnover intention of foreign workers, the variable, vigor has negative coefficient, however the variable, dedication has found that positive coefficient. Results shows that strong support for the hypothesis of effect of authentic leadership on the turnover intention of foreign workers. These findings have critical implications for providing leadership practices in reducing turnover rate of foreign workers. Therefore, corporate leaders need to consider personal characteristics of foreign workers such as job engagement, home country culture, ethnicity, Korean language proficiency, and psychological contracts to reduce the turnover rate of their foreign workers. And these efforts will be helpful to solve the manpower shortage and improve competitive advantages of SMEs in South Korea.

Local Characteristics of Municipality and Local Representatives’ Legislative Behaviors in Korea

Young Hwan Park | 2019, 26(3) | pp.287~315 | number of Cited : 4

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