[학술논문] From Scarcity to Style: Sartorial Hierarchy and Hybridity in Marketizing North Korea

...Struggling to achieve basic subsistence, the North Korean population held de-politicized and pragmatic outlooks, adopting means of self-expression in compliance with state controls. Marketization and external cultural influence as experienced in the illiberal, impoverished, and ultranationalist setting resulted in distinct notions of aesthetics and affluence. Given the interview findings, the significance...

[학술논문] Australia and Asia: The Making of a Middle Power

...rising of Asia forged the ANZUS alliance and provides Australia the means to form closer security relations with a growing range of great and middle powers and the incentive to invest heavily in external defence. The concluding section of my paper will look at how the future of Asia’s rise and the changing nature of the global economy could undermine Australia’s growing global and regional economic...

[학술논문] Sub-regional Cooperation and Unbalanced Municipal Development in the Northern East Sea Rim: A Comparative Study of Triangle Cities on Tumen River Delta*

...so forth. The internal dynamics of sub-regional cooperation have not been significantly explored in the border cities of Hunchun, Vladivostok, and Rasun. For this sub-regional cooperation, the external factors cannot be neglected by and large. In addition to the prerequisite concerns, the constraints such as the reactions to US sanctions on North Korea and Russia and the outbreak of COVID-19 has had...

[학술논문] North Korean Refugee Women in China: Causes of Flows and Current Situation

...important push factor of the refugee flux is the chronic famine in North Korea. The starvation in North Korea has become prominent primarily due to a mixture of several major external elements. Though these external factors might be counted as the root of the domestic economic crisis, improper policy responses to the crisis and state failure in a broader sense could be claimed as the structural origin...

[학위논문] 협력적 거버넌스의 발전과 지속 : 남북 문화유산 교류협력 사례를 중심으로

...previous studies on the cycle and sustainability of collaborative governance. This framework allows for a comprehensive understanding of repeated interactions among participants and the influence of external factors such as changes in inter-Korean relations, government policies, and public opinion, while also explaining the post-collaboration process. This study particularly focuses on how and why collaborative...

[국내] 노동당 8기 4차 전원회의 이후 북한의 대외정책과 정세인식 변화

...Meanwhile North Korea is consolidating its relations with China and Russia to secure survival in the face of protracted conflict with the US. A shift in North Korea’s external policy may have been attributed to the following factors: it’s decision that the possibility of security or favorable economic conditions through improved relationship with the United States has nearly disappeared; intensifying...

[국내] 쿠바 사례를 통해 본 남북한 평화공존과 대북 시사점

...other countries is very important for us to find major implications. In particular, comparative studies are needed with Cuba that maintains a socialist system despite various internal and external crisis factors. Cuba and North Korea have many similarities in terms of political characteristics. Firstly, there is little possibility of internal regime transition. Secondly, it inherited the ideology...

[국내] Study on Changing Trends of Human Rights Institution and Situation in North Korea

...and perception held by North Korean authorities concerning the improvement of human rights. Moreover, change in legislation fundamentally reflect changes in society, and allow the internal and external factors that induce such changes to be easily identified given that pinpointing the exact time of legislative enactment is possible. Meanwhile, the situation of human rights of North Korean residents...