[학술논문] Determinants of Happiness among North Korean Defectors after Resettlement in South Korea

This study investigates the determinants of happiness among North Korean defectors by analyzing the subjective and objective measures of <em>social</em> class. Using survey data of North Korean defectors living in South Korea, this study explores how <em>social</em> class before and after defection is associated with defectors’ happiness. Results show that subjective and objective economic status in South Korea are...

[학술논문] Changes in North Korea’s Elite Structure: A <em>Comparison</em> with the Soviet Union

...political elite began to degenerate into a <em>social</em> class, perhaps one of the most economically useless in history. The Party fostered a class that grew at its expense and began to transform itself into a traditional oligarchy. North Korea has also common things with the Soviet Union, in the aspect of having her privilege class. However, in the aspect of <em>social</em> mobility or ascending to high position in...

[학위논문] 북한체제의 지탱력에 관한 분석

...economic policy, the ability of production and the quantity of supply in the industrial sector, labor force, foreign trade. In chapter five I assessed <em>social</em> spehere by classifying the scale of population structure, <em>social</em> stratification, <em>social</em> control, <em>social</em> integration, welfare. In chapter six I appraised cultural sphere by dividing people's values unification of traditional culture and the Juche ideology...

[학술논문] 서사시에 나타난 ‘민족’ 형상화에 관한 비교 연구 - 고은의 『백두산』과 리욱의 『고향 사람들』, 『풍운기』를 중심으로

...nationalism. But the Nation is modern, <em>social</em> and historical concept. That is different from ethnic identity. This way throws open the door to analyze nation identity. Ko un's Baekdusan narrates permanence and sacralization of the nation for emphasizing the unification of North Korea and South Korea. Baekdusan expresses the <em>social</em> desire of Korea in the 1980s. In <em>comparison</em>, Lee uk's Gohyangsaramdul representate...

[학술논문] Toward an “Eventful” <em>Comparison</em> of Post-Socialism

...time-space contingent <em>comparison</em> by going beyond the limits of conventional positivist <em>comparison</em>. My comparative cases are China and North Korea, the two remaining (post)socialist countries in East Asia. The discussion in this paper proceeds in three parts. First, I trace the origins of “absence of interaction effects” and false assumption of “Mutual Exclusiveness” in macro-causal <em>comparison</em> by scholars such...