Ji-Whan Yun
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 739655 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Ji-Whan Yun |
| NOMBRES | Ji-Whan |
| APELLIDO | Yun |
| FIRMA | YUN J |
| AFILIACIONES | Ewha Womans University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-7437-2507 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 13 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 17 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 13 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2009 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2025 |
| ÍNDICE H | 2 |
Virtue into Vice
Redesigning, Subverting, Rolling Back
This study examines the legitimation strategies adopted by conservative political parties in Japan, Taiwan, and South Korea from the late 2000s to the late 2010s, a period when these parties experienced political setbacks. By focusing on conservatives' stances on labour issues, this study identifies three legitimation strategies: redesigning (acting as a superior protector of workers), subverting (destabilising an entire political landscape), and…
When old institutions pay off
This study discusses why South Korea has not always succeeded in the ‘entrepreneurial state’ approach – defined as policy efforts to move away from the old developmental state model to a new industrial system of innovation in which small- and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) are incorporated – by focusing on the limitation of new semiconductor industrial policies of the former Moon Jae-in government (2017–2022). Conventionally, many scholars have …
Legitimation and Perversity
There has been a scholarly consensus that the perversity rhetoric – the claim that reforms for improving social conditions will worsen the very same conditions – is a myth crafted by the political and economic elites to protect the status quo. This view explains why perversity rhetoric emerges, but it does not explain how it becomes powerful enough to change the course of reform. This study fills this gap by comparing two recent minimum wage refo…
Post-Democracy and Historicism
Since Japan’s imposition of export controls against Korea in July 2019 and its following countermoves, including the termination of the General Security of Military Information Agreement, the governments of both countries have presented their own narratives of the origin of this trade war, both of which mirror theories of international politics. Nonetheless, these narratives mask several domestic origins. Most importantly, this paper demonstrates…
Democracy in Myth
After undergoing a series of mass demonstrations during the past three decades, including the 2016–2017 candlelight protests that led to the impeachment of President Park Geun-hye, many commentators in South Korea are confident that their country has become a land for what Karl Marx called “free men.” Korean citizens are portrayed as being ready to participate in voluntary political associations and collective actions and to pursue their interest…
Conservative Politics and Compassionate Paternalism in Korea and Japan
It is widely predicted that East Asia’s conservative governments will lose political power for managing socioeconomic crises under neoliberal globalization and find no way out of their legitimacy problem. However, Korea’s and Japan’s conservative governments have recently constructed a new model of crisis management—compassionate paternalism—in a highly discretionary manner
The Paradox of Inequality in South Korea
Progressive setback in East Asia
Referring to the short-term survival of new progressive governments, 'progressive setback' has been a remarkable political phenomenon in many East Asian countries during the recent decades. Regarding this phenomenon's background, this paper investigates why and how urban citizens challenged their progressive governments in Thailand, South Korea, and Japan. First, this paper argues that the progressive setback across East Asia reflects the difficu…
Why Did the Self-employed Distrust the Democratic Party in South Korea’s 2012 Presidential Election
Why did Korea’s self-employed voters express their disapproval of the Democratic Party in the 2012 presidential election? This paper argues that this distrust was historically shaped. It originated from the failure of the former Democratic governments (1998–2007) in flexicurity reforms, which jeopardized the livelihoods of the self-employed
Unbalanced Development
Why does South Korea have a demographically massive and economically vulnerable self-employed population? From a comparative perspective, this study argues that Korea's self-employment problem originated in the country's process of unbalanced development: Korea benefited from the strategy of export-led growth, yet it did not manage the negative impact of this strategy on labour force absorption. The consequence of unbalanced development is the li…
The Myth of Confucian Capitalism in South Korea
The discourse of Confucian capitalism in East Asia is built upon two assumptions. First, some Confucian virtues, such as strong family ties, the greater importance of community over individuals and social cohesiveness, have remained intact in East Asia. Second, these virtues have contributed to the industrialization of East Asian countries. For example, the collective orientation for catch-up growth helped the state to set development as the nati…
Labor Market Polarization in South Korea
This study provides a complement to the structural understandings of labor market polarization in South Korea by highlighting its policy-related aspects. It argues that there have been considerable policy failures by the Korean government, which have offset any possible positive effects of new redistributive and anti-poverty policy measures
The Myth of Confucian Capitalism in South Korea
The discourse of Confucian capitalism in East Asia is built upon two assumptions. First, some Confucian virtues, such as strong family ties, the greater importance of community over individuals and social cohesiveness, have remained intact in East Asia. Second, these virtues have contributed to the industrialization of East Asian countries. For example, the collective orientation for catch-up growth helped the state to set development as the nati…
Labor Market Polarization in South Korea
This study provides a complement to the structural understandings of labor market polarization in South Korea by highlighting its policy-related aspects. It argues that there have been considerable policy failures by the Korean government, which have offset any possible positive effects of new redistributive and anti-poverty policy measures
The Paradox of Inequality in South Korea
Progressive setback in East Asia
Referring to the short-term survival of new progressive governments, 'progressive setback' has been a remarkable political phenomenon in many East Asian countries during the recent decades. Regarding this phenomenon's background, this paper investigates why and how urban citizens challenged their progressive governments in Thailand, South Korea, and Japan. First, this paper argues that the progressive setback across East Asia reflects the difficu…
Redesigning, Subverting, Rolling Back
This study examines the legitimation strategies adopted by conservative political parties in Japan, Taiwan, and South Korea from the late 2000s to the late 2010s, a period when these parties experienced political setbacks. By focusing on conservatives' stances on labour issues, this study identifies three legitimation strategies: redesigning (acting as a superior protector of workers), subverting (destabilising an entire political landscape), and…
Legitimation and Perversity
There has been a scholarly consensus that the perversity rhetoric – the claim that reforms for improving social conditions will worsen the very same conditions – is a myth crafted by the political and economic elites to protect the status quo. This view explains why perversity rhetoric emerges, but it does not explain how it becomes powerful enough to change the course of reform. This study fills this gap by comparing two recent minimum wage refo…
Post-Democracy and Historicism
Since Japan’s imposition of export controls against Korea in July 2019 and its following countermoves, including the termination of the General Security of Military Information Agreement, the governments of both countries have presented their own narratives of the origin of this trade war, both of which mirror theories of international politics. Nonetheless, these narratives mask several domestic origins. Most importantly, this paper demonstrates…
Democracy in Myth
After undergoing a series of mass demonstrations during the past three decades, including the 2016–2017 candlelight protests that led to the impeachment of President Park Geun-hye, many commentators in South Korea are confident that their country has become a land for what Karl Marx called “free men.” Korean citizens are portrayed as being ready to participate in voluntary political associations and collective actions and to pursue their interest…
Conservative Politics and Compassionate Paternalism in Korea and Japan
It is widely predicted that East Asia’s conservative governments will lose political power for managing socioeconomic crises under neoliberal globalization and find no way out of their legitimacy problem. However, Korea’s and Japan’s conservative governments have recently constructed a new model of crisis management—compassionate paternalism—in a highly discretionary manner
Labor Market Polarization in South Korea
This study provides a complement to the structural understandings of labor market polarization in South Korea by highlighting its policy-related aspects. It argues that there have been considerable policy failures by the Korean government, which have offset any possible positive effects of new redistributive and anti-poverty policy measures
The Myth of Confucian Capitalism in South Korea
The discourse of Confucian capitalism in East Asia is built upon two assumptions. First, some Confucian virtues, such as strong family ties, the greater importance of community over individuals and social cohesiveness, have remained intact in East Asia. Second, these virtues have contributed to the industrialization of East Asian countries. For example, the collective orientation for catch-up growth helped the state to set development as the nati…
Unbalanced Development
Why does South Korea have a demographically massive and economically vulnerable self-employed population? From a comparative perspective, this study argues that Korea's self-employment problem originated in the country's process of unbalanced development: Korea benefited from the strategy of export-led growth, yet it did not manage the negative impact of this strategy on labour force absorption. The consequence of unbalanced development is the li…
Why Did the Self-employed Distrust the Democratic Party in South Korea’s 2012 Presidential Election
Why did Korea’s self-employed voters express their disapproval of the Democratic Party in the 2012 presidential election? This paper argues that this distrust was historically shaped. It originated from the failure of the former Democratic governments (1998–2007) in flexicurity reforms, which jeopardized the livelihoods of the self-employed
Progressive setback in East Asia
Referring to the short-term survival of new progressive governments, 'progressive setback' has been a remarkable political phenomenon in many East Asian countries during the recent decades. Regarding this phenomenon's background, this paper investigates why and how urban citizens challenged their progressive governments in Thailand, South Korea, and Japan. First, this paper argues that the progressive setback across East Asia reflects the difficu…
The Paradox of Inequality in South Korea
Democracy in Myth
After undergoing a series of mass demonstrations during the past three decades, including the 2016–2017 candlelight protests that led to the impeachment of President Park Geun-hye, many commentators in South Korea are confident that their country has become a land for what Karl Marx called “free men.” Korean citizens are portrayed as being ready to participate in voluntary political associations and collective actions and to pursue their interest…
Conservative Politics and Compassionate Paternalism in Korea and Japan
It is widely predicted that East Asia’s conservative governments will lose political power for managing socioeconomic crises under neoliberal globalization and find no way out of their legitimacy problem. However, Korea’s and Japan’s conservative governments have recently constructed a new model of crisis management—compassionate paternalism—in a highly discretionary manner
Post-Democracy and Historicism
Since Japan’s imposition of export controls against Korea in July 2019 and its following countermoves, including the termination of the General Security of Military Information Agreement, the governments of both countries have presented their own narratives of the origin of this trade war, both of which mirror theories of international politics. Nonetheless, these narratives mask several domestic origins. Most importantly, this paper demonstrates…
When old institutions pay off
This study discusses why South Korea has not always succeeded in the ‘entrepreneurial state’ approach – defined as policy efforts to move away from the old developmental state model to a new industrial system of innovation in which small- and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) are incorporated – by focusing on the limitation of new semiconductor industrial policies of the former Moon Jae-in government (2017–2022). Conventionally, many scholars have …
Legitimation and Perversity
There has been a scholarly consensus that the perversity rhetoric – the claim that reforms for improving social conditions will worsen the very same conditions – is a myth crafted by the political and economic elites to protect the status quo. This view explains why perversity rhetoric emerges, but it does not explain how it becomes powerful enough to change the course of reform. This study fills this gap by comparing two recent minimum wage refo…
Virtue into Vice
Redesigning, Subverting, Rolling Back
This study examines the legitimation strategies adopted by conservative political parties in Japan, Taiwan, and South Korea from the late 2000s to the late 2010s, a period when these parties experienced political setbacks. By focusing on conservatives' stances on labour issues, this study identifies three legitimation strategies: redesigning (acting as a superior protector of workers), subverting (destabilising an entire political landscape), and…
Political science (11 obras) · Law (10 obras) · Politics (10 obras) · Asian Industrial and Economic Development (7 obras) · Economics (7 obras) · Law (7 obras) · Sociology (7 obras) · Political economy (6 obras) · Democracy (4 obras) · Social Policy and Reform Studies (4 obras)