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Sandra Choe

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Routledge Advances in Korean Studies

This book examines contemporary Korea’s housing crisis through Dongja-dong, a district in central Seoul, exploring how the most vulnerable urban poor navigate precarious housing circumstances and presenting an unconventional yet potentially effective solution to this pressing issue.Readers gain unique insights into the complex conflict between multiple stakeholders: Residents of jjokbang (tiny single-room housing units prevalent in major Korean cities) who have no alternat...

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Elizabeth C. Economy

In The Third Revolution, eminent China scholar Elizabeth C. Economy provides an incisive look at the transformative changes underway in China today. Chinese leader Xi Jinping has unleashed a powerful set of political and economic reforms: the centralization of power under Xi, himself, the expansion of the Communist Party's role in Chinese political, social, and economic life, and the construction of a virtual wall of regulations to control more closely the exchange of ideas and ca...

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Alice H. Amsden

While the rise of Japan in the world economy has been widely chronicled, South Korea has been quietly growing into a major economic force that is even challenging Japan in some industries. This book examines how government in South Korea has worked with selected industries to create companies that compete aggressively in world markets. The author views South Korean growth as an example of "late industrialization," a process in which a nation's industries learn from other innovator nation...

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Bill Dodson

An in-depth look at the forces and trends changing China and its place in the worldChina has dominated the news for nearly a decade and will continue to grab headlines as it moves inexorably toward becoming the world's largest economy. It already has the largest middle class in the world; the most Internet users; the largest army; and is the world's largest polluter. Yet all this growth causes problems as China adapts to the laws of other lands in which it has inve...

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Daniel Jean-Louis, Jacqueline Klamer

Why do poor countries remain poor? Why, after receiving billions of dollars, do poor countries remain poor? Why are failing foreign aid models utilized over and over again? After the devastating 2010 Haiti earthquake, authors Daniel Jean-Louis and Jacqueline Klamer observed first-hand the negative consequences of donations provided with the sincerest of good intentions—donations that ultimately undermined local industries and wiped out jobs. Based on primary research and in-depth case stud...

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Korea Focus

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Korea Focus

KOREA FOCUS is a monthly webzine and a quarterly journal, featuring commentaries and essays on Korean politics, economy, society and culture, as well as relevant international issues. The articles are selected from leading Korean newspapers, magazines, journals and academic papers from prestigious forums.

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The Korea Foundation

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The Korea Foundation

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The Korea Foundation

Korea Focus is a monthly webzine accessible at (www.koreafocus.or.kr), which includes editorials, columns, features, interviews, and essays on Korean current affairs and related international issues. Since its inception in 2000, the journal has served asව໅￰Ɛ脀䀀㜀Meiryoꀐᝪ￰￰Ɛ脀䀀㜀맑은 고딕⻨உ￰ƐĀ䀀㜀Calibri

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Korea Focus

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Korea Focus

KOREA FOCUS is a monthly webzine and a quarterly journal, featuring commentaries and essays on Korean politics, economy, society and culture, as well as relevant international issues. The articles are selected from leading Korean newspapers, magazines, journals and academic papers from prestigious forums.

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Stephan Haggard, Marcus Noland

In the mid-1990s, as many as one million North Koreans died in one of the worst famines of the twentieth century. The socialist food distribution system collapsed primarily because of a misguided push for self-reliance, but was compounded by the regime's failure to formulate a quick response-including the blocking of desperately needed humanitarian relief.As households, enterprises, local party organs, and military units tried to cope with the economic collapse, a grassroots proces...

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The Korea Foundation

Korea Focus is a monthly webzine accessible at (www.koreafocus.or.kr), which includes editorials, columns, features, interviews, and essays on Korean current affairs and related international issues. Since its inception in 2003, the journal has served as䀗ᜠ኿䀗ᢸ኿䀗኿䀗￰Ɛ脀䀀㜀Meiryoꀐᝪ￰ƐĀ䀀✀Vijaya༠ጒ￰Ɛ脀䀀✀맑은 고딕⻨உ￰ƐĀ䀀㜀Calibriව໅￰Ɛ脀䀀✀새굴림딕Аጄ