Myung Koo Kang
Biographic Data
| ID | 206683 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Myung Koo Kang |
| GIVEN NAMES | Myung Koo |
| FAMILY NAME | Kang |
| SIGNATURE | KANG M K |
| AFFILIATIONS | Baruch College |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-1022-4887 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 17 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 51 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 17 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1999 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2019 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Global and Local Intersection of the 2018 PyeongChang Winter Olympics
The Olympics is not a space where the global and local are shown in two separate layers. It is where various sociopolitical conflicts of the hosting country bubble and surface from both levels. When the Olympic events were launched in East Asia they developed further in interaction with different cultural, political, and social backgrounds. This study pays attention to the diverse ways in which Olympic values are accepted and practiced. At the sa…
Financial Transformation in South Korea
This paper addresses why and how South Korea’s financial system has diverged drastically from the Japanese model since the early 1980s and has turned to the US model, which is often regarded as a more market-oriented financial system. The paper traces the rise of American-trained Korean economists in the Economic Planning Board and their collaboration with other such economists in public and private economic institutes and academia
The Confidence Trap
This paper explores the origin of China’s recent credit and asset boom by comparing it with the Japanese bubble economy in the late 1980s by focusing on the asymmetric pattern of financial liberalisation under high savings. It argues that (1) both cases show a ‘confidence trap’ in that policy-makers of the government shared a complacent mindset that they can achieve the optimal mix of market liberalisation and repression, while believing that the…
Government Policy Responses to Financial Crises
The politics of bank bailout in Japan
This article explores why the Japanese government did not decisively intervene on behalf of bank bailouts at the early stage of the banking crisis of 1997–98 and investigates the institutional and political context behind the use of fiscal money for bank bailouts in 1997–98, 1998–99, and 2001–05. In contrast with prevailing views, which emphasize the conflicts of interest or differences in policy preferences between politicians and bureaucrats an…
Asia’s Unknown Uprisings Volume 1
George Katsiaficas Oakland, CA: PM Press, 2012, 480 pp Why do uprisings occur? Are they pathological phenomena? Why do uprisings erupt simultaneously in different places in the world? What are thei
Are our families still Confucian? Representations of family in East Asian television dramas
Given the changes of the modern family, this study seeks to compare the ways in which television dramas of four East Asian societies, namely Korea, China, Japan and Taiwan, represent the family and family relationships. By analysing their similarities and differences, the study attempts to explore changes of family in these supposedly Confucian East Asian societies. Three analytic categories were proposed: the structure and form of the family as …
Creating a Capable Bureaucracy With Loyalists
This study explores why South Korea’s top leadership combined a merit-based principle with region-based particularistic elements in the recruitment and promotion of career bureaucrats of the Ministry of Commerce and Industry (MCI) during its industrial takeoff in the 1960s and 1970s. It also investigates how this recruitment and promotion style was emulated by business sectors as a way of securing means to penetrate into the MCI. The authors argu…
Is Japan Facing a Public Debt Crisis? Debt Financing and the Development of the JGB Market
This article explores the idiosyncratic institutional features of public debt financing in Japan that have enabled the government to finance increasing public debt at low costs. It examines the three key aspects that contributed to the Japanese government bond (JGB) market development: (1) the surplus financial balance of the household sector; (2) the strong tradition of public financing; and (3) home bias, that is, little dependence on external …
State‐guided’ university reform and colonial conditions of knowledge production
The purpose of this study was to critically review the reform movement of Higher Education by the Ministry of Education and how its reform policy toward global competition has created a discrepancy between the knowledge produced and the needs of local society. The study found, first of all, that the state‐driven reform policy has decreased the autonomy of South Korean universities, although the state, including the Ministry of Education, did not …
The Sequence and Consequences of Bank Restructuring in South Korea, 1998–2006
This paper explores the sequence, pace, and emerging outcomes of bank restructuring in South Korea since the financial crisis in late 1997, paying special attention to the state intervention pattern in regard to resolving non-performing loans and privatizing temporarily nationalized banks by foreign selling
Problematizing Korean Cultural Studies
Most research done by Korean scholars unquestioningly assumed that theories from the west, especially those derived from Cultural Studies models and approaches, would he useful for analysing Korean an contexts. However, what is the significance of Cultural Studies for a society like South Korea? This commentary problematizes the uncritical deployment of western cultural theory in Korean contexts and argues that what is needed is not 'indigenous n…
East Asian Modernities and the Formation of Media and Cultural Studies
There is no South Korea in South Korean Cultural Studies
This study examines the colonial condition of cultural studies in South Korea that has brought this new stream of thought to both the social sciences and the humanities. This review of South Korean cultural studies provides not only a critique but also reflects on why cultural studies are needed in the twenty-first century. Furthermore, this study will focus on the ways in which South Korean cultural studies has adopted, appropriated, and utilize…
Discourse politics toward neo-liberal globalization
An introduction
Postmodern Consumer Culture Without Postmodernity
The purpose of this study was to interpret the meaning of the postmodern discourse produced by Korean television advertisements, by categorizing postmodern television advertisements and describing their representations and images of reality in detail. Considering the production process of Korean postmodern advertisements, the study raised a question: How can we interpret the phenomena of imitating and assimilating the style of advertisements from…
Government Policy Responses to Financial Crises
Are our families still Confucian? Representations of family in East Asian television dramas
Given the changes of the modern family, this study seeks to compare the ways in which television dramas of four East Asian societies, namely Korea, China, Japan and Taiwan, represent the family and family relationships. By analysing their similarities and differences, the study attempts to explore changes of family in these supposedly Confucian East Asian societies. Three analytic categories were proposed: the structure and form of the family as …
State‐guided’ university reform and colonial conditions of knowledge production
The purpose of this study was to critically review the reform movement of Higher Education by the Ministry of Education and how its reform policy toward global competition has created a discrepancy between the knowledge produced and the needs of local society. The study found, first of all, that the state‐driven reform policy has decreased the autonomy of South Korean universities, although the state, including the Ministry of Education, did not …
Creating a Capable Bureaucracy With Loyalists
This study explores why South Korea’s top leadership combined a merit-based principle with region-based particularistic elements in the recruitment and promotion of career bureaucrats of the Ministry of Commerce and Industry (MCI) during its industrial takeoff in the 1960s and 1970s. It also investigates how this recruitment and promotion style was emulated by business sectors as a way of securing means to penetrate into the MCI. The authors argu…
There is no South Korea in South Korean Cultural Studies
This study examines the colonial condition of cultural studies in South Korea that has brought this new stream of thought to both the social sciences and the humanities. This review of South Korean cultural studies provides not only a critique but also reflects on why cultural studies are needed in the twenty-first century. Furthermore, this study will focus on the ways in which South Korean cultural studies has adopted, appropriated, and utilize…
Discourse politics toward neo-liberal globalization
Asia’s Unknown Uprisings Volume 1
George Katsiaficas Oakland, CA: PM Press, 2012, 480 pp Why do uprisings occur? Are they pathological phenomena? Why do uprisings erupt simultaneously in different places in the world? What are thei
The politics of bank bailout in Japan
This article explores why the Japanese government did not decisively intervene on behalf of bank bailouts at the early stage of the banking crisis of 1997–98 and investigates the institutional and political context behind the use of fiscal money for bank bailouts in 1997–98, 1998–99, and 2001–05. In contrast with prevailing views, which emphasize the conflicts of interest or differences in policy preferences between politicians and bureaucrats an…
The Sequence and Consequences of Bank Restructuring in South Korea, 1998–2006
This paper explores the sequence, pace, and emerging outcomes of bank restructuring in South Korea since the financial crisis in late 1997, paying special attention to the state intervention pattern in regard to resolving non-performing loans and privatizing temporarily nationalized banks by foreign selling
The Confidence Trap
This paper explores the origin of China’s recent credit and asset boom by comparing it with the Japanese bubble economy in the late 1980s by focusing on the asymmetric pattern of financial liberalisation under high savings. It argues that (1) both cases show a ‘confidence trap’ in that policy-makers of the government shared a complacent mindset that they can achieve the optimal mix of market liberalisation and repression, while believing that the…
Problematizing Korean Cultural Studies
Most research done by Korean scholars unquestioningly assumed that theories from the west, especially those derived from Cultural Studies models and approaches, would he useful for analysing Korean an contexts. However, what is the significance of Cultural Studies for a society like South Korea? This commentary problematizes the uncritical deployment of western cultural theory in Korean contexts and argues that what is needed is not 'indigenous n…
Postmodern Consumer Culture Without Postmodernity
The purpose of this study was to interpret the meaning of the postmodern discourse produced by Korean television advertisements, by categorizing postmodern television advertisements and describing their representations and images of reality in detail. Considering the production process of Korean postmodern advertisements, the study raised a question: How can we interpret the phenomena of imitating and assimilating the style of advertisements from…
Discourse politics toward neo-liberal globalization
An introduction
East Asian Modernities and the Formation of Media and Cultural Studies
There is no South Korea in South Korean Cultural Studies
This study examines the colonial condition of cultural studies in South Korea that has brought this new stream of thought to both the social sciences and the humanities. This review of South Korean cultural studies provides not only a critique but also reflects on why cultural studies are needed in the twenty-first century. Furthermore, this study will focus on the ways in which South Korean cultural studies has adopted, appropriated, and utilize…
Problematizing Korean Cultural Studies
Most research done by Korean scholars unquestioningly assumed that theories from the west, especially those derived from Cultural Studies models and approaches, would he useful for analysing Korean an contexts. However, what is the significance of Cultural Studies for a society like South Korea? This commentary problematizes the uncritical deployment of western cultural theory in Korean contexts and argues that what is needed is not 'indigenous n…
State‐guided’ university reform and colonial conditions of knowledge production
The purpose of this study was to critically review the reform movement of Higher Education by the Ministry of Education and how its reform policy toward global competition has created a discrepancy between the knowledge produced and the needs of local society. The study found, first of all, that the state‐driven reform policy has decreased the autonomy of South Korean universities, although the state, including the Ministry of Education, did not …
The Sequence and Consequences of Bank Restructuring in South Korea, 1998–2006
This paper explores the sequence, pace, and emerging outcomes of bank restructuring in South Korea since the financial crisis in late 1997, paying special attention to the state intervention pattern in regard to resolving non-performing loans and privatizing temporarily nationalized banks by foreign selling
Is Japan Facing a Public Debt Crisis? Debt Financing and the Development of the JGB Market
This article explores the idiosyncratic institutional features of public debt financing in Japan that have enabled the government to finance increasing public debt at low costs. It examines the three key aspects that contributed to the Japanese government bond (JGB) market development: (1) the surplus financial balance of the household sector; (2) the strong tradition of public financing; and (3) home bias, that is, little dependence on external …
Are our families still Confucian? Representations of family in East Asian television dramas
Given the changes of the modern family, this study seeks to compare the ways in which television dramas of four East Asian societies, namely Korea, China, Japan and Taiwan, represent the family and family relationships. By analysing their similarities and differences, the study attempts to explore changes of family in these supposedly Confucian East Asian societies. Three analytic categories were proposed: the structure and form of the family as …
Creating a Capable Bureaucracy With Loyalists
This study explores why South Korea’s top leadership combined a merit-based principle with region-based particularistic elements in the recruitment and promotion of career bureaucrats of the Ministry of Commerce and Industry (MCI) during its industrial takeoff in the 1960s and 1970s. It also investigates how this recruitment and promotion style was emulated by business sectors as a way of securing means to penetrate into the MCI. The authors argu…
Asia’s Unknown Uprisings Volume 1
George Katsiaficas Oakland, CA: PM Press, 2012, 480 pp Why do uprisings occur? Are they pathological phenomena? Why do uprisings erupt simultaneously in different places in the world? What are thei
The politics of bank bailout in Japan
This article explores why the Japanese government did not decisively intervene on behalf of bank bailouts at the early stage of the banking crisis of 1997–98 and investigates the institutional and political context behind the use of fiscal money for bank bailouts in 1997–98, 1998–99, and 2001–05. In contrast with prevailing views, which emphasize the conflicts of interest or differences in policy preferences between politicians and bureaucrats an…
Government Policy Responses to Financial Crises
The Confidence Trap
This paper explores the origin of China’s recent credit and asset boom by comparing it with the Japanese bubble economy in the late 1980s by focusing on the asymmetric pattern of financial liberalisation under high savings. It argues that (1) both cases show a ‘confidence trap’ in that policy-makers of the government shared a complacent mindset that they can achieve the optimal mix of market liberalisation and repression, while believing that the…
Financial Transformation in South Korea
This paper addresses why and how South Korea’s financial system has diverged drastically from the Japanese model since the early 1980s and has turned to the US model, which is often regarded as a more market-oriented financial system. The paper traces the rise of American-trained Korean economists in the Economic Planning Board and their collaboration with other such economists in public and private economic institutes and academia
Global and Local Intersection of the 2018 PyeongChang Winter Olympics
The Olympics is not a space where the global and local are shown in two separate layers. It is where various sociopolitical conflicts of the hosting country bubble and surface from both levels. When the Olympic events were launched in East Asia they developed further in interaction with different cultural, political, and social backgrounds. This study pays attention to the diverse ways in which Olympic values are accepted and practiced. At the sa…
Political science (11 works) · Economics (9 works) · Law (7 works) · Sociology (7 works) · Asian Culture and Media Studies (6 works) · Politics (6 works) · Geography (5 works) · Law (5 works) · Political economy (5 works) · Business (4 works)