Cathcart, Moll-Murata, Winstanley-Chesters, (Colonial Academics and Japan’s Inner Asia Ambitions: Keijo Imperial University and Studies of Mengjiang or Inner Mongolia)

Abstract This paper illustrates the role of Seoul-based researchers within Japan’s efforts to expand fieldwork and scholarship into central Inner Mongolia, and the creation of the puppet state of Mengjiang (Mōkyō) in the late 1930s and early 1940s. Academics based at Keijō Imperial University (the antecedent institution to Seoul National University) made efforts to document…

Youngmi Kim – Mirroring Misogyny in Hell Choson – Megalia, Womad and Korea’s Feminism in the Age of Digital Populism – EJKS Volume 20.2 (2021)

Abstract In recent years digital populism has emerged in South Korea as a new type of political behavior, marked by the political use of the internet as both a form of political participation and an instrument of mobilization. Technological advances and the diffusion of social media have enabled social polarization, rooted in post-Asian Financial Crisis…

Youngmi Kim – Coalition Theories and the Dynamics of Coalition Party Politics in Japan and the Republic of Korea – Papers of the British Association of Korean Studies – Volume 10 (2005)

Introduction Debates on the causes of coalition (in)stability date back to more than a century ago; coalition governments have at times been referred to as “structurally weak and unstable” (Lowell, 1896), whereas others (Lijphart, 1994; Rokkan, 1970; Sartori, 1976) have repeatedly emphasised that “multi-party coalition systems are not necessarily unstable and ineffective”. Coalition-building has been…