Download or read book The Uncharted Path written by Myung-Bak Lee and published by Sourcebooks, Inc.. This book was released on 2011 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Born poor in the wake of the Korean war, Lee Myung-Bak was destined for a life of poverty. But through intelligence and self-determination, he excelled in school, putting himself through college, hauling garbage six times a day to pay for tuition. He then took a low-level job at Hyundai, an organization of about 90 people at the time. Through a relentless work ethic and inability to compromise his beliefs, he rose to the role of CEO and found himself on a mission not just to expand the Hyundai corporation, but to grow South Korea from a nation of poverty to a G20 economy. The Uncharted Path is the story of a man and nation driven to greatness by a conviction to liberty, commerce, and the belief that at the root of every success lies extreme perseverance and uncompromising principles. These principles and lessons would lead not only to success in business, but also developed a refreshing and unique perspective on the state of our globalizing world, and how nations and businesses must operate together to improve the lives of people everywhere.
Download or read book Lee Myung bak written by Robert Koehler and published by Seoul Selection USA, Incorporated. This book was released on 2008 with total page 62 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Korea's CEO President: Lee Myung-bak" introduces English-speaking readers to Korea's new president. It takes a look at the remarkable life of President Lee, from his poverty-mired youth to his meteoric rise to become Hyundai Construction's CEO at the young age of 35. It also covers his years as Seoul mayor and examines his major policy initiatives and vision. Short and light, the volume gives you the information you need to know in a quick and easy-to-read format.
Download or read book Making Hyundai Remaking Seoul written by Myŏng-bak Yi and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A Success Story Goes on written by and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Global Korea written by Scott A. Snyder and published by Council on Foreign Relations Press. This book was released on 2012-10-01 with total page 102 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume outlines South Korea's progress and accomplishments toward enhancing its role and reputation as a contributor to international security.
Download or read book Challenges and Hope written by and published by . This book was released on 2008* with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Sunshine Policy written by Chung-in Moon and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Persusasion is better than force. This central belief behind late South Korean President Kim Dae-jung s unprecedented policy of engagement with North Korea became a key that promised to unlock half a century of conflict and provocation between North and South Korea. Kim s Sunshine Policy argued that encouraging North Korea to come out of isolation and end confrontation was better than trying to force it to change and it came to define a generation in South Korean politics, allowing millions to dare to believe that half a century of war could be brought to an end. Now this new book by Chung-in Moon, a Yonsei University professor and former South Korean government adviser, presents a definitive analysis of how Kim developed and implemented his revolutionary policy, the challenges it faced and the mistake that Lee Myung-bak s government has made in abandoning it. Moon was a first-hand witness to the events of the Kim years, assisting in drafting the Sunshine Policy, attending the historic inter- Korean Summits in 2000 and 2007 that were fruits of its labors, and chronicling the public, political and global support for the policy. -- from http://www.amazon.com (May 5, 2014).
Download or read book The Lee Myung bak Revolution written by and published by . This book was released on with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As the commander-in-chief and the head of the state, the president appoints the prime minister and the members of the cabinet, including the foreign minister, the minister of unification, the defense minister, and the head of the National Security Council. [...] The Lee Myung-bak Revolution 33 Lee's determined support for the KORUS FTA came under fire in the spring of 2008, when thousands of South Korean citizens took to the streets protesting the Lee administration's lifting of the 2003 U. [...] For instance, security collaboration with the United States, the largest and most important economic actor in the global arena, serves to increase the ROK's international influence; and, closer alliance and policy coordination with Washington was imperative for Lee to ensure the success of ROK's North Korea policy by preventing the DPRK from playing the United States against the ROK in efforts to. [...] Nevertheless, from the pragmatic point of view, they saw the KORUS FTA and the security alliance with the United States as beneficial to the ROK's interests, and chose to demonstrate some level of continuity on these issues with administrations of the past. [...] Lee proposes the establishment of high-level diplomatic channels between the DPRK and the ROK and the opening of liaison offices in the capitals.
Download or read book Korean Science and Technology in an International Perspective written by Jörg Mahlich and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-01-05 with total page 291 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: South Korea has attained spectacular economic success in recent decades. It has reached the status of a Newly Advanced Economy, with challenges increasingly mirroring those faced by other advanced economies. These include the necessary upgrading of the labor force, the frictions of switching to a national system of innovation adapted to leadership in R&D, market-based economic policies that reflect the government’s difficulties in foreseeing future technological developments, and the consequences of social change for the innovation system and policy-making. In the forthcoming book the parallel challenges for innovation and technology for the Republic of Korea and other advanced economies will be analyzed more thoroughly with an international perspective in mind. This comparison and international benchmarking will allow policy makers and scholars to better appreciate how much the country has already moved into the circle of globally leading economies and what can be done to consolidate and strengthen its position.
Download or read book New Challenges of North Korean Foreign Policy written by Kyung-Ae Park and published by Palgrave MacMillan. This book was released on 2010-10-15 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Part 1: Challenges from Within * Socialist Neoconservatism and North Korean Foreign Policy - Ruediger Frank * People's Exit, Regime Stability, and North Korean Diplomacy - Kyung-Ae Park * Food Crisis and North Korea's Aid Diplomacy: Seeking the Path of Least Resistance - Mark Manyin * Military-First (Songun) Politics: Implications for External Policies - Han S. Park * Part 2: Challenges from the Changing International Environment * 'China Rising' and Its Implications for North Korea's China Policy - David C. Kang * Multilateralism and Pyongyang's Foreign Policy Strategy - Gilbert Rozman * Changes in Seoul's North Korea Policy and Implications for Pyonyang's Inter-Korean Diplomacy - Scott Snyder * Domestic Determinants of U.S. Policy toward North Korea and Ramifications for Pyongyang - Gordon Flake * Challenges for North Korea's Nuclear Endgame - Victor D. Cha * Rapprochement in Postwar History: Implications for North Korea - Bruce Cumings.
Download or read book Korea Betrayed written by D. Kirk and published by Springer. This book was released on 2009-12-07 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book recounts the rise of Kim Dae Jung from an oppressed region of Korea, beginning with his schooldays, his activities in the Korean War and his entry into politics and concluding with discussion of his Sunshine policy, his summit with North Korea's Kim Jong Il and his drive for the Nobel.
Download or read book Top Down Democracy in South Korea written by Erik Mobrand and published by University of Washington Press. This book was released on 2019-04-19 with total page 215 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: While popular movements in South Korea rightly grab the headlines for forcing political change and holding leaders to account, those movements are only part of the story of the construction and practice of democracy. In Top-Down Democracy in South Korea, Erik Mobrand documents another part – the elite-led design and management of electoral and party institutions. Even as the country left authoritarian rule behind, elites have responded to freer and fairer elections by entrenching rather than abandoning exclusionary practices and forms of party organization. Exploring South Korea’s political development from 1945 through the end of dictatorship in the 1980s and into the twenty-first century, Mobrand challenges the view that the origins of the postauthoritarian political system lie in a series of popular movements that eventually undid repression. He argues that we should think about democratization not as the establishment of an entirely new system, but as the subtle blending of new formal rules with earlier authority structures, political institutions, and legitimizing norms.
Download or read book Government Translation in South Korea written by Jinsil Choi and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2022 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Government Translation in South Korea: A Corpus-based Study is the first book to investigate and discuss translation processes and translation products in South Korean government institutions, employing a parallel corpus-based approach. Choi identifies different agents and procedures involved in institutional translation practices, discusses linguistic and genre features of translations, and investigates changes made in translations compared to the original documents, during the two Korean presidencies of Lee Myung-bak (2008-2013) and Park Geun-hye (2013-2017). Choi's book explores important facets of Korean government translation in the belief that practices associated with the normative meaning and concept of government translation have to be displaced into the wider understanding of the concept of translation as a social construct. Drawing on the theoretical frameworks of institutional translation and critical discourse analysis-informed corpus-based translation studies, the chapters discuss the practice, process and products of Korean government translation. The Korean-English parallel corpus methodology used introduces a systemic way to analyse changes in Korean government translations, based on a personally built sentence-level tagged corpus, both qualitatively and quantitatively. This volume will be of great interest to scholars and students of translation studies as well as Korean studies.
Download or read book The Park Chung Hee Era written by Byung-Kook Kim and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2013-03-11 with total page 753 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1961 South Korea was mired in poverty. By 1979 it had a powerful industrial economy and a vibrant civil society in the making, which would lead to a democratic breakthrough eight years later. The transformation took place during the years of Park Chung Hee's presidency. Park seized power in a coup in 1961 and ruled as a virtual dictator until his assassination in October 1979. He is credited with modernizing South Korea, but at a huge political and social cost. South Korea's political landscape under Park defies easy categorization. The state was predatory yet technocratic, reform-minded yet quick to crack down on dissidents in the name of political order. The nation was balanced uneasily between opposition forces calling for democratic reforms and the Park government's obsession with economic growth. The chaebol (a powerful conglomerate of multinationals based in South Korea) received massive government support to pioneer new growth industries, even as a nationwide campaign of economic shock therapy-interest hikes, devaluation, and wage cuts-met strong public resistance and caused considerable hardship. This landmark volume examines South Korea's era of development as a study in the complex politics of modernization. Drawing on an extraordinary range of sources in both English and Korean, these essays recover and contextualize many of the ambiguities in South Korea's trajectory from poverty to a sustainable high rate of economic growth.
Download or read book Japanese and Korean Politics written by T. Inoguchi and published by Springer. This book was released on 2015-01-22 with total page 309 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume examines Japanese and Korean politics from both Japanese and Korean angles, exploring why the two countries do not cooperate bilaterally or consult one another, despite their geographical closeness and a number of common features that are central to both countries' domestic politics and foreign policies.
Download or read book Igniting the Internet written by Jiyeon Kang and published by University of Hawaii Press. This book was released on 2016-06-30 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Igniting the Internet is one of the first books to examine in depth the development and consequences of Internet-born politics in the twenty-first century. It takes up the new wave of South Korean youth activism that originated online in 2002, when the country’s dynamic cyberspace transformed a vehicular accident involving two U.S. servicemen into a national furor that compelled many Koreans to reexamine the fifty-year relationship between the two countries. Responding to the accident, which ended in the deaths of two high school students, technologically savvy youth went online to organize demonstrations that grew into nightly rallies across the nation. Internet-born, youth-driven mass protest has since become a familiar and effective repertoire for activism in South Korea, even as the rest of the world has struggled to find its feet with this emerging model of political involvement. Igniting the Internet focuses on the cultural dynamics that have allowed the Internet to bring issues rapidly to public attention and exert influence on both domestic and international politics. The author combines a robust analysis of online communities with nuanced interview data to theorize a “cultural ignition process”—the mechanisms and implications for popular politics in volatile Internet-driven activism—in South Korea and beyond. She offers a unique perspective on how local actors experience and remember the cultural dynamics of Internet-born activism and how these experiences shape the political identities of a generation who has essentially come of age in cyberspace, the so-called digital natives or millennials. South Korea’s debates on the nature of youth-driven Internet protest reverberated around the world following the events in Tahrir Square in 2010 and Zuccotti Park in 2011. Igniting the Internetoffers numerous points of comparison with countries following a path of technological development and urban youth formation similar to that of South Korea with a thorough consideration of general structural changes and locally specific triggers for Internet activism. Readers interested in social movement theory and new media in social context as well as students and scholars of Korean studies will find the work both far-reaching and insightful.
Download or read book Mr Lee Comes to Washington written by and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: South Korean President Lee Myung-bak's April 15, 2008, trip to the U.S. is a valuable opportunity to affirm the strategic importance of the U.S.-South Korea bilateral partnership and repair the strains wrought by the previous South Korean administration's policies.
