AKPS NEWSLETTER
May 13, 2003
Published by
The Association of Korean Political Studies
재미 한국정치연구학회 Jaemi Hanguk
Jeongchi Yongu Hakhoe
President: HeeMin Kim, Florida State University; Editor: Seung-Ho Joo, University of Minnesota, Morris
Announcements
New name for the Association: AKPS [재미한국정치연구학회]
The title of our association will change from the Association of Korean Political Studies in North America (AKPSNA) to the Association of Korean Political Studies (AKPS). A motion to change our association’s title was proposed and the issue was put to a vote in January 2003. Out of 27 eligible due-paying members, 15 cast their ballots--13 in favor of changing to AKPS and 2 opposed. The motion was passed, and in accordance with Article VIII of AKPSNA bylaws (See below) the new title for our association will take effect six months from Feb. 20, 2003. The governing board discussed the Korean version of the title, and decided on Jaemi Hanguk Jeongchi Yongu Hakhoe.
Article
VIII: Amendments
Whenever a majority of the Board or one-third of the due-paying members deem it
necessary to amend the bylaws, proposed amendment(s) shall be communicated in
writing to all due-paying members and shall be ratified by a majority vote of
all written/electronic ballots submitted by due-paying members.
These Amendments to the Bylaws shall be effective six months after ratification
by a majority vote of the due-paying members of the Association.
New Website for AKPS
With the change of the association’s title, AKPS now has a new Web address
<http://www.akps.org>.
New policy to penalize for irresponsible conduct
Please note that the following sanctions policy relating to
professionally irresponsible conduct is now in effect. The association’s
governing board unanimously approved the policy in October 2002:
Those who do not fulfill their assigned responsibilities at the time of the AKPS annual meeting without sufficient notice (at least two months) or professionally excusable reasons (i.e. emergencies) will be barred from participation in any AKPS programs for the next three years. The list of their names will be passed on to the subsequent program chairs until their three-year probation period is over.
AKPS reception & business meeting scheduled at 2003 APSA Meeting
AKPS will hold a reception and the General Meeting during the 2003 APSA meeting in Philadelphia. All association members and AKPS panelists are invited.
DAY: Friday, August 29
TIME: 7:00 - 8:30 PM
PLACE:
TBA (by E-mail)
2003 APSA/AKPS program
AKPS will feature three panels at the Annual Meeting of the American
Political Science Association (APSA), Aug. 28—31, 2003 in Philadelphia. Mr. Peter
M. Beck (Korea Economic Institute of America) and Prof. Jung Hoon Lee (Yonsei University)
served as co-program chairs. (* A couple of slots are open for
discussants. If you are available to serve as a discussant for one of
the AKPS panels, please contact program chairs.)
2003 APSA Annual Meeting
August 28-31, 2003
Philadelphia, PA
Association of Korean Political Studies
AKPS Panel 1
Title: “Alliance Under Stress: The United States and South Korea”
Chair: Hong Nack Kim, West Virginia University
Department of Political Science
Woodburn Hall 316
Morgantown, WV 26506
304-293-3811
Papers: “The United States and South Korea: When Nationalism and the Law
Collide”
Youngshik Bong, University of Pennsylvania
Department of Political Science
Philadelphia, PA 19104
215-680-5645
Chungmoon Choi, Georgetown Law School
Georgetown University Law Center
Washington, DC 20003
703-415-0491
“Axis of Evil: The North Korean Crisis and the American Dilemma in
South Korea”
Michael Launius, Central Washington University
Department of Political Science
Ellensburg, WA 98926
509-963-2378
“Re-thinking America’s Alliances: The South Korean Case”
C.S. Eliot Kang, Northern Illinois University
Department of Political Science
Northern Illinois University
DeKalb, IL 60115-2887 USA
815-753-7055
“Realism and U.S. Foreign Policy: Can North Korea Be Deterred?”
Jihwan Hwang, University of Colorado at Boulder
Department of Political Science
Campus Box 333
Boulder, CO 80309-0333
Discussants: Hang-Yul Rhee, Shepherd University
Department of Political Science
1021 Clair St.
Haggerstown, MD 21742
304-876-5327
Russell Mardon, Fresno State University
Department of Political Science
5340 North Campus Dr. M/S SS19
Fresno, CA 93740-8019
559-278-3998
AKPS Panel 2
Title: “The Political Economy of Development and Reform in South Korea”
Chair: Jong O. Ra, Hollins University
Department of Political Science
P.O. Box 9734
321 Pleasants Hall, 8015 Quadrangle Lane
Hollins University
Roanoke, VA 24020
540-362-6448
Papers: “The e-Developmental State?: The Rise of e-Commerce in Korea”
Juyeong Joanne Cho, University of Pennsylvania
Department of Political Science
2304 Tufton Springs Lane
Reisterstown, MD 21136
410-561-0949
“Taming the Tiger: State-led Restructuring in Korea”
Jin W. Cyhn, Asian Development Bank
6 ADB Ave. Mandaluyong City
Metro Manila 0401 Philippines
632-632-5441
“Ruling Coalitions and Economic Reform in Korea and Japan”
Joon-hyung Kim, Handong University
Department of International Studies
Handong University
Heung-up, Pohang-si
Kyungbuk 791-940 South Korea
82-54-260-1397
“Canary in a Coal Mine: Korea and Regional Environmental Cooperation”
Esook Yoon, Kent State University
Department of Political Science
Kent, OH 44221
330-672-8928
“Three Waves of Globalization: Korea
in Comparative Perspective”
Hochul Lee, University of Incheon
Department of Political Science
177 Nam-Gu Dowha-Dong
Incheon, South Korea
82-32-770-8344
Discussants: Stephan Haggard, U.C. San Diego
Graduate School of International Relations and Pacific Studies
La Jolla CA 92093-0519
858-534-5781
James Jongsoo Lee, Harvard University
35 Oxford Street, 100 Perkins Hall
Cambridge MA 02138
617-493-4877
AKPS Panel 3
Title: “Identity Formation and Political Participation in South Korea”
Chair: HeeMin Kim, Florida State University
Department of Political ScienceTallahassee, FL 32306-2230
850-644-7319 hkim@garnet.acns.fsu.edu
Papers: “The Korean Formation of the Modern Self”
Jong-hwa Chung, Yonsei University
Department of Political Science
134 Shinchon-dong, Seodaemun-ku
Seoul, 120-749 South Korea
82-2-2123-2114
“What Determines Union Membership in South Korea?”
Jaekwon Suh, University of California at Los Angeles
1638 Granvill Ave. #15
Los Angeles, CA 90025
310-820-8123
“Gender Politics in Korea: Putting Women on the Political Map”
Bang-Soon Yoon, Central Washington University
Department of Political Science
Ellensburg, WA 98926
509-963-1134
“Korean NGOs and Voting Behavior in Korea”
Jong Hee Park, Washington University
7067 Creekview Trail Apt. C
St. Louis, MO 63123
314-842-6290
Discussant: TBA
NEWS
Sunhyuk Kim (formerly Univ. of Southern California) has joined the faculty of Public Administration at Korea University, Seoul, Korea, as Associate Professor. His new email address is sunhyukk@korea.ac.kr.
HeeMin Kim is being promoted to full professor, department of political science, Florida State University, effective fall 2003. HeeMin Kim received a National Science Foundation grant for his research entitled “Building Measures of Ideology and Democratic Performance,” (SES-0237820, 2003-2004). HeeMin Kim received Korean presidential medal of honor (given by President Kim Dae-jung) for professional excellence, outstanding contribution to the Korean communities in the U.S., and the promotion of academic and cultural ties between Korea and the U.S.A., January 2003.
Seung-Ho Joo will be promoted to Associate Professor of Political Science with tenure at the University of Minnesota-Morris, effective July 2003.
Jih-Un Kim, Ph.D. candidate in the Political Science Department, University of South Carolina, was appointed Assistant Professor, Dept. of Political Science, Webster University in St. Louis (Missouri) effective fall 2003.
Since January, 2003, Kenneth Quinones has appeared twice on the PBS “News Hour with Jim Lehrer,” and been interviewed about North Korea by BBC, Australian Broadcast Corporation, Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, CBS 60 Minutes and all the Japanese television networks (Fuji-TV, NHK, NTV, TV-Asahi, and TBS). He has also contributed to the making of three documentary films about US-North Korea and Japan-North Korea relations, one with Seoul’s MBC (aired in February), the second with PBS Front Line called “Kim’s Nuclear Gamble” (which aired on PBS April 10) and an Japanese NHK program on the Japanese citizens abducted by North Korea (to air in May).
Victor D. Cha was installed at Georgetown University as the D.S. Song-Korea Foundation Chair in Government and Asian Studies.
J.J. Suh, Assistant Professor in the
Department of Government, Cornell University, was awarded a Fulbright-Hays
Faculty Research Abroad fellowship from the U.S. Department of Education for
2003-04. He will use the fellowship to conduct research in Korea on the
degree to which an alliance identity competes or coexists with a nationalist
identity on the post-2000 summit Korean peninsula. J.J. will also take
advantage of his presence in Asia to start a research project on arms control
and disarmament in the region.
Wonmo Dong organized roundtable discussions on “The Bush Administration
and the Two Koreas” which were held at the 2003 annual meeting of the
Association for Asian Studies, New York Hilton Hotel, March 29, 2003. Other participants in the roundtable session included Victor Cha, Charles Kartman,
Sam Kim, and David Steinberg. Dong also gave public
presentations: “The North Korean Nuclear Crisis and the Korean Peninsula Policy
of the Bush Administration,” the University of Washington, April 19;.
“Challenges Facing the Korean Peninsula Today,” sponsored by the World Affairs
Council of Seattle and the East Asia Center of the UW, intended for an audience
of K-12 science teachers, April 23.
Gill-Chin Lim was appointed as Co-Representative of the Korea Federation of Environmental Movement (KFEM) (March 2003).
Publications
Samuel Kim, “China’s Path to Great Power Status in the Globalization Era,” Asian Perspective, Vol. 27, No. 1 (March 2003).
_____. “Chinese Foreign Policy in the Globalization Era,” Harvard China Review, Vol. 4, No. 1 (Spring/Summer 2003).
Samuel Kim (ed.). Korea’s Democratization (Cambridge University Press, 2003).
Samuel Kim (ed.).
The International Relations of Northeast Asia (Rowman &
Littlefield Publishers, 2003) (forthcoming)
Tae-Hwan Kwak
and Seung-Ho Joo have recently edited The Korean Peace Process and the Four
Powers (Ashgate Publishing, 2003) (forthcoming). This book provides an
in-depth and comprehensive analysis of the inter-Korean reconciliation process
and the policies and roles of the four major powers – the U.S., China, Russia,
and Japan – in the Korean peace and unification process.
Introduction, Tae-Hwan Kwak and Seung-Ho Joo
Ch 1. The Korean
Peace-Building Process: Problems and Prospects, Tae-Hwan Kwak
Ch. 2. North Korea’s Changes and the Future of Inter-Korean Relations, Tae-Hwan
Kwak and
Seung-Ho Joo
Ch. 3 North
Korea’s Engagement Motive, C.S. Eliot Kang
Ch. 4 The United States and
the Korean Peace Process, Edward A. Olsen
Ch. 5 China and the Korean Peace Process, Quansheng Zhao
Ch. 6. Japan and the
Korean Peace Process, Yoshinori Kaseda
Ch. 7. Russia and the Korean Peace Process, Seung-Ho Joo
Wayne Patterson (co-authored with Roberta Chang). The Koreans in Hawaii: A Pictorial History, 1903-2003 (University of Hawaii Press, 2003).
Cha, Victor
and David Kang, Nuclear North Korea: A Debate on Engagement Strategies (Columbia
University Press, fall 2003).
Kang, David. “International Relations Theory and the Second Korean War,” International Studies Quarterly 47 (Fall 2003)
Mikyoung Kim, “The Creation and Maintenance of Bottom-Rung Subcultures Among the Local Hires at a Foreign Government Bureaucracy,” Korean Cultural Anthropology (2003) (forthcoming).
_____. “South Korean Women Textile Workers: Labor Resistance in the Era of Export-Oriented Industrialization,” Development and Society (forthcoming).
Gill-Chin Lim, MSU Endowed Professor of Asian Studies in a Global Context, Michigan State University and Distinguished Institute Professor, KDI School of Public Policy and Management, published a book, Nutritional Problems in North Korea: Current Situation and Policy Alternatives (eds. with N. S. Chang) English Edition, Oruem Publishing House for Consortium on Development Studies and Ewha Womans University Human Ecology Research Institute Yanbian Center. 2003. 264 p.
C. Kenneth Quinones second book, Beyond Negotiations: Implementation of the Agreed Framework,” will be published on May 10, 2003 in Tokyo by Chuo koron shinsha in Japanese. The book is based on his personal diaries and notes compiled while living and working in North Korea between 1994 and 1997, and unclassified official documents regarding the agreement’s implementation until 2002. An English version is being prepared. Also, he is now writing another book to be entitled, Understanding North Korea. It aims to help the general English speaking reader understand North Korea, its history, politics, government, and past and current unresolved issues. Penguin has scheduled publication for this fall. His article, “Dualism in the Bush Administration’s North Korea Policy,” appeared in Asian Perspective’s April 2003 (volume 27, No.1) issue, pp 197-224. His article entitle, “The Clinton Administration’s Contingency Planning for North Korea,” appeared in Japanese translation in the Tokyo monthly journal, Seikai. He also contributed three articles on US-North Korea, US-South Korea and North-South relations to the Japanese weekly newsmagazine, Seikai shuho.
Stephan
Haggard, Wonhyuk Lim and Euysung Kim have recently edited Economic Crisis
and Corporate Restructuring in Korea (Cambridge University Press, 2003).
The book provides an overview of the “chaebol problem” from a variety of
perspectives, both political and economic. The book addresses the debate on the
emergence of the chaebol as a corporate form, the performance of the chaebol
prior to the crisis, short-term issues in crisis management, and the longer-run
reform agenda. The conclusion argues that the efficiency advantages of the
chaebol were partly if not wholly offset by severe corporate governance
problems both within and outside the firm.
Introduction. The Political Economy of Corporate
Restructuring in Korea, Wonhyuk Lim, Stephan Haggard, and Euysung Kim
I. The Politics and Economics of the Chaebol Problem
Chapter One. The Emergence of the Chaebol and the Origins of the “Chaebol
Problem,” Wonhyuk Lim.
Chapter Two. The Politics of Chaebol Reform, 1980-1997, Byung-Kook Kim.
Chapter Three. The Government, Chaebol and Financial Institutions in
Pre-Crisis Korea, Joon-Ho Hahm.
Chapter Four. Corporate Governance and Performance of Korean Firms in the
1990s, Sung-Wook Joh and Euysung Kim.
II. The Political Economy of Crisis Management
Chapter Five. Business-Government Relations Under Kim Dae Jung, Jongryn Mo and Chung-in Moon.
Chapter Six. The Restructuring of Daewoo, Dong Gull Lee.
Chapter Seven. Bank-led Corporate Restructuring, Kyung Suh Park.
III. Reform and Restructuring
Chapter Eight. Corporate Bankruptcy System and Economic Crisis in Korea, Youngjae Lim.
Chapter Nine. FDI and Corporate Restructuring in Post-Crisis Korea, Mikyung Yun.
Chapter Ten. Competition Law and Policy in Korea,
Kwang-Shik Shin.
Chapter Eleven. Corporate Governance Reform in Korea,
Myeong-Hyeon Cho.
Conclusion. Whither the Chaebol? Stephan Haggard,
Euysung Kim, and Wonhyuk Lim
Roehrig, Terence, “‘One Rogue State Crisis at a Time!’: The United States and North Korea’s Nuclear Weapons Program,” World Affairs (Spring 2003).
J.J. Suh, “The Two-Wars Doctrine and the Regional Arms Race: Contradictions in U.S. Post-Cold War Security Policy in Northeast Asia,” Critical Asian Studies, Vol. 35, No. 1 (March 2003), pp. 3-32.
Hugo W. Kim (Wheegook Kim), Korean Americans and Inter-Korean Relations (Washington, DC: East-West Research Institute, March 15, 2003). This is a collection of author’s research papers among which four papers previously published in the academic journals.
CALL FOR manuscripts
Pacific Focus invites submission of manuscripts
dealing with all aspects of politics, economics, societies and culture of the
Asia Pacific region and its countries. This is a peer-reviewed journal
published twice a year by the Center for International Studies, Inha Univ., Korea.
Manuscripts should be double-spaced and submitted in three hard copies or
electronically by E-mail, along with author’s note and an abstract. Footnotes
following the Chicago Manual style should be numbered consecutively, typed
double-spaced, and placed at the end of the manuscript. For further
information, contact Prof. Eikon Kim, Editor-in-Chief, Pacific Focus, Inha University,
Inchon, Korea. Tel: 011-82-32-860-7966; E-mail: kimek@inha.ac.kr
The Korea Economic Institute is currently accepting proposals for
holding seminars and conferences on Korean affairs next year at universities
throughout North America. We usually adopt a two-panel format with one
focusing on political and/or security issues and the other focusing on economic
and/or trade issues, but the format and specific topics are up to the hosting
university. Recent programs have been held at the University of British
Columbia, Florida State University, the University of Wisconsin, Columbia University,
George Mason University and Bowdoin College. For more information, just send
an e-mail to Peter Beck, Director of Research, pmb@keia.org. These programs
are made possible thanks to a generous grant from the Korea Foundation.
New members
Dr. Mikyoung Kim, Country Program Specialist, US Embassy, Public
Affairs Section
Dr. Jih-Un Kim, Assistant Professor, Department of Government,
the Webster University in St. Louis (Missouri).
DONATIONS & MEMBERSHIP DUES
Donations
The following members provided generous donations to AKPS.
Uk Heo, University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee ($200)
HeeMin
Kim, Florida State University ($100)
Aie-Rie Lee, Texas Tech University ($50)
Tong Whan Park, Northwestern University
($50)
Kyung-Ae Park, University of British Columbia ($50)
Seung-Ho
Joo, University of Minnesota Morris ($50)
Won Mo Dong, University of Washington ($50)
Membership dues
AKPS is run with your membership dues.
Your timely remission of membership dues is essential for the Association’s
operation. If you have not paid 2002-03 membership due, please make a $20 check payable to AKPS and mail
to:
Prof. Seung-Ho Joo, Univ. of Minnesota-Morris, 109 Camden, Morris, MN 56267.
The Association welcomes donations. As 501 (3) non-profit organization, all dues and donations to AKPS are tax deductible. (*Receipt for your membership fee and donation available upon request.) AKPS membership application form available online at www.AKPS.org
President: HeeMin Kim (2001-03), Florida State Univ.
Vice President: Aie-Rie Lee (2001-03), Texas Tech Univ.
Executive Secretary/Treasurer: Seung-Ho Joo, Univ. of Minnesota-Morris (1999-present)
Governing Board:
Tong Whan Park (00-03), Northwestern Univ.
Russell
Mardon(00-03), California State Univ, Fresno
Seung-Ho Joo (01-04), Univ.
of Minnesota, Morris
Hee-Min Kim (01-04),
Florida State Univ.
Sunhyuk Kim (01-04), Korea Univ.
Stephen Haggard (02-05), Univ of California, San Diego
Uk Heo (02-05), Univ of Wisconsin, Milwaukee