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A Semantic Network Analysis on the Corporate Management System in North Korea: Focusing on the Papers of Gyeongjeyeongu from 1986 to 2018

  • Journal of Asia-Pacific Studies
  • Abbr : JAPS
  • 2020, 27(1), pp.107-141
  • DOI : 10.18107/japs.2020.27.1.004
  • Publisher : Institute of Global Affairs
  • Research Area : Social Science > Social Science in general
  • Received : February 10, 2020
  • Accepted : March 10, 2020
  • Published : March 30, 2020

Geechan Park 1

1북한대학원대학교

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ABSTRACT

This paper is intended to comprehend the semantic network of the reform policy of corporate management system in North Korea, through the language network analysis on 204 papers in Gyeongjeyeongu for 33 years. The language network analysis is the quantitative research methodology which analyzes the adjacent key words or concepts in order to identify the contextual meaning from the texts. ‘Socialist Corporate Management System’ became the new main principle of corporate management system in 2010s, substituting the previous ‘Dae-an Corporate System’ and ‘Independent Profit System’. The Socialist Corporate Management System, connecting and leading the various concepts and issues under the corporate management system, has been institutionalized into the core corporate system. The result of this analysis implies that under the Kim Jung Un government the role of supreme leader’s authority in the corporate management system has changed from a direct policy leader’s to a policy connector’s or facilitator’s. This research could provide some important implications on the strategy of Inter-Korean economic cooperation as well as the prediction of the economic reform policy under Kim Jong Un government.

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