North Korea is not an average low-income state with a moribund national economy. The outcome of the state’s Suryŏngist-Sŏn’gun ideological and economic structure is a well-run, sector-specific economy within a neglected national economy, all ordered around the maintenance of the ruling system, which is led and tightly controlled by the Kim family. However, the pockets…
This paper provides a history of North Korea’s telecommunications system which was first introduced in 2002 and analyses the emergence of a dual network system: the official network fully controlled by the Government, and the unofficial network which was begun for business communications by Chinese residents in North Korea and now is used by the…
What will be the formative factors for the situation on the Korean peninsula in 2032? This article presents a conjecture against the theoretical backdrop that local social-political processes are conditioned by major changes in the power structure of international relations. It envisages environmental crises, both global and regional, as one of the most decisive elements…
During the reign of Kim Jong Il, strategies and projects focussed upon environmental development in North Korea were often claimed to incorporate elements of a developmental approach rooted in paradigms of conservation and preservation. The DPRK’s environmental focus has moved towards floral and faunal conservation, growth in an interest in low-carbon and alternative forms of…
This essay explores the Republic of Korea’s transition from the embrace of neo-liberal globalisation to a commitment toward building a twenty-first century green economy. It explores South Korea’s place within twenty-first century global challenges, the importance of twenty-first century urbanisation for understanding those challenges, the conceptualization and building of New Songdo City, and a c……
Once I began telling people I was going to Korea, I realised how little known Korea was in Britain, even immediately after three years of [the] Korean War in which British soldiers had fought and died. Few English people had any idea where Korea was. Great-Aunt Jenny of Handscomb End Farm even asked what part…
Abstract This paper discusses the rationale and the specific circumstances related to the introduction and development of multiculturalism in South Korea from the mid-2000s. It will explicate the confusion and the debates which have arisen around the proliferation of discourses on multiculturalism in South Korea. In doing so, this article highlights the centrality of the…
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