Sung Deuk Hahm
Biographic Data
| ID | 232869 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Sung Deuk Hahm |
| GIVEN NAMES | Sung Deuk |
| FAMILY NAME | Hahm |
| SIGNATURE | HAHM S D |
| AFFILIATIONS | Korea University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 27 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 110 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 27 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1992 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
Comparative Analysis of Soft Power Between South Korea and the United States: A Theoretical Mechanism Approach
Since Nye's introduction of the soft power concept, there have been scholarly debates on whether it is real and how it works. Despite the vast volume of studies, there is a void in the literature on theoretically explaining and empirically testing if soft power can be generated without the support of hard power. To fill this gap in the literature, we developed two theoretical mechanisms that describe the mechanism of US soft power (great power) a…
Affective Polarization in the 2022 South Korean Presidential Election: Causes and Consequences
In this study, we analyzed the factors that intensified affective polarization among voters during the 2022 South Korean presidential election. We also examined this polarization's effect on their political attitudes, including their satisfaction with democracy, perception of the fairness of elections, and trust in political institutions. We found that the greater the perceived ideological differences between the two parties the People Power Part…
The Signal of Post Catch-up in Open Innovation Dynamics
The digital transformation can serve as a window of opportunity for those late-comers who are equipped with the capability to create complementary assets for grabbing new opportunities of technological leapfrogging as a way of catch-up while penalising the forerunner. In this context, we want to answer the following research question. Is there any difference in open innovation effect on the firm according to the changing of belonging sectorial in…
Collective Intelligence: The Creative Way from Knowledge to Open Innovation
This study aims to answer the following research question: Is there any difference in the effects of collective intelligence on the open innovation between before (2001–2005) and after (2011–2015) of the introduction of smartphones and crowd web services regarding electronics and mathematics? The research method of this study includes multiple regression analysis, including (1) the effect of collective intelligence on open innovation (i.e., the n…
South Korea in 2020
The two biggest stories of 2020 were South Korea’s successful response to the coronavirus crisis and the lack of progress in the denuclearization of North Korea. South Korea was able to contain the spread of the coronavirus mainly due to aggressive tracing and testing. There has been no substantial progress on the denuclearization of North Korea. Macroeconomic performance in 2020 virtually came to a halt amid the pandemic. South Korea’s GDP shran…
The Impact of the Korean Wave on South Korea–Taiwan Relations
Ever since the concept of soft power was introduced, there has been debate about what it is and how it works. We join the debate by studying how the success of Korean cultural products in Taiwan has improved the relationship between South Korea and Taiwan. The two countries normalized their relationship in 1948 and maintained cooperation until the severance of formal ties in 1992 because of South Korea’s rapprochement with China. Beginning in ear…
South Korea in 2019
The two biggest stories of 2019 in South Korea were a series of meetings between US President Donald Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong-un to discuss the denuclearization of North Korea in the first half of the year, and the trade war with Japan in the second half. President Moon Jae-in’s income-led growth policies still have not stimulated the economy. In fact, South Korea’s macroeconomic performance was virtually at a standstill; the econom…
President Moon Jae-in at Midterm: What Affects Public Support for Moon Jae-in
Despite the unsuccessful outcomes of his policies on economic growth and North Korea, Moon Jae-in at midterm has received relatively high levels of job approval ratings compared to his immediate predecessors. What made it possible for him to maintain these ratings? To analyze this puzzle, we employed the three commonly noted leadership qualities-effective communication, political skill, and organizational capacity-suggested by presidential study …
History and Territorial Disputes, Domestic Politics, and International Relations An Analysis of the Relationship among South Korea, China, and Japan
South Korea, China, and Japan have history and territorial disputes in each of their bilateral relationship. These issues have existed for several decades, but they have not surfaced all the time. In the recent past, however, both China and Japan adopted policies that caused friction. Why did they do that? That is because of China s aggressive foreign policy based on the strong economy and Japan s rightwing shift for domestic political reason to …
The First Female President in South Korea: Park Geun-hye's Leadership and South Korean Democracy
When Park Geun-hye was elected South Korea's first female president in 2012, many expected that South Korea's democracy would deepen. Contrary to the expectation, however, from the beginning of her administration, there were concerns about democracy retreating due to her leadership style/qualities. Despite her rather "undemocratic" leadership qualities, Park Geun-hye has consistently received 30% or higher job approval ratings until "Choi Soon-si…
Democracy, Institutional Maturity, and Economic Development
Objective Despite a plethora of studies on the relationship between democracy and economic development, a dominant theoretical framework has yet to emerge. Economic development may lead to the transition to democracy and mature democratic institutions are likely to help economic development. Thus, in this article, we test the relationship among economic development, institutional maturity, and democracy. Methods In a recent study, Gerring et al. …
Political Culture and Democratic Consolidation in South Korea
South Korea experienced democratization in 1987, yet violations of the democratic rule of law are rather common; such actions are far from routine practices of democratic institutions. We argue that South Korea’s political culture is the reason for the tardy maturing of democratic institutions
Exploring the Determinants of the Entry and Exit of Ministers inKorea: 1980–2008
The entry and exit of ministers has been of primary interest to students of political science and public management inWestern countries. Responding to the lack of research on the entry and exit of ministers in non‐Western countries, this article examined determinants of both the entrance and exit of ministers inKorea from the life cycle point of view based on theKoreanMinisterialDatabase from 1980 to 2008. We argued that as theKorean presidency s…
Shaping Public Corporation Leadership in a Turbulent Environment
This article explores how public corporation leadership copes with a turbulent environment using political, managerial, and individual leadership elements. It is an in‐depth case study of Lee Ji‐Song, who effectively managed the politically and managerially challenging environment that resulted from the merger of two large public corporations into the Korea Land and Housing Corporation. Lee, an engineer, manager, and chief executive of a major co…
Dual Faces of Ministerial Leadership in South Korea: Does Political Responsiveness or Administrative Responsibility Enhance Perceived Ministerial Performance
This study is designed to examine dual faces of ministerial leadership that functions in the gray area of politics and administration when a minister performs his or her role as a political appointee and as a department head. The dual faces of ministerial leadership require somehow both political responsiveness and administrative responsibility for effective ministerial performance. Using the perceptual data of middle- and high-ranked South Korea…
Public Administrative Theory, Performance, and Accountability: Problems and Prospects in Diverse Political Environments
Exploring the Linkage Between Ministerial Leadership and Performance in Korea
The significance and the role of leadership in organizations and institutions have been widely discussed but not well understood. Much of the previous literature is limited to leadership practices and education as well as to the American context. Focusing on the Korean ministerial level, this study examines the ministerial leadership interplaying uniquely between the president (politics) and career civil servants (administration). Extending the t…
The Political Economy of U.S. Direct Investment in East Asian NICs, 1966–2000
This paper examines the role of FDI from the United States in the economic performance of East Asian NICs for 1966–2000. To this end, we draw our argument of the role of FDI from the modernization–dependency debate. Then, we test the economic effects of U.S. direct investment on economic growth in East Asian NICs using a neoclassical production function model that captures the economic impacts of both foreign and domestic investment on economic g…
Politics, Economics, and Defense Spending in South Korea
With the recent North Korean nuclear crisis, along with President Roh Moo Hyun’s emphasis on a self-reliance defense policy, the level of defense spending in South Korea has increased in recent years. Due to the sluggish economy, these increases in defense spending have been a cause for public concern. By developing a multilink defense-growth model based on macroeconomic theories while still accounting for political factors (such as transition fr…
Institutional Reforms and Democratization in Korea: The Case of the Kim Young Sam Administration, 1993–1998
This article examines the nature of political and institutional reform initiatives that have been carried out under former president Kim Young Sam. How effective have they been in consolidating democracy in Korea? Specifically, we examine why the Kim Young Sam government's political reform campaigns have been limited, and explore the impact of this limitation on his institutional reform initiatives and the process of consolidation of democracy in…
The Political Economy of Deficit Spending in Nine Industrialized Parliamentary Democracies: The Role of Fiscal Institutions
This article analyzes the influence of four sets of factors on deficit spending in 9 industrialized parliamentary democracies during 1958-1990. This article analyzes the influence of these factors and introduces and tests the importance of an additional potential influence on the size of a country's fiscal deficit: the “strength of fiscal bureaucracy.” It is argued that the stronger a country's fiscal bureaucracy, the lower its deficit, ceteris p…
Influences on Deficit Spending in Industrialized Democracies
Since 1945, there has been substantial variation among the OECD countries and within them over time in central-government deficits. This paper surveys and assesses the literature on deficit spending in these industrialized democracies, emphasizing positive theories and the empirical support, or lack thereof, for each of them. We begin by considering the degree to which theories about the size of government and empirical tests of these theories ab…
Institutions Matter: Comparing Deficit Spending in the United States and Japan
This article analyzes the post-World War II deficit experiences of the United States and Japan. Four potential explanations of the size of the central government deficit in these two countries are examined: the influence of the economy; the influence of the party in power; Roubini and Sachs's (1989a and 1989b) strength-of-government hypothesis; and the irresponsible Congress/responsible president hypothesis (relevant only to the United States). A…
Institutions and Technological Development in Korea: The Role of the Presidency
Since the early 1960s Korea has been dominated by strong presidents who sought to exert control over all aspects of the policy process. Other institutions, such as the legislature, political parties, and interest groups, were noticeably underdeveloped and played a subordinate role in the policy process. Only the bureaucracy, often working in concert with business interests, evolved to temper the absolute control of the president. The absolute inf…
The Politics of International Technology Transfer: Lessons from the Korean Experience
Technology transfer is well recognized as a major determinant in the economic development of newly industrializing countries. Increasingly, technology transfer is also recognized as an important component in the economic fortunes of developed countries. The globalization of markets and the premium placed on technological sophistication in industry and services emphasizes the need for governments to consider and engage in technology transfer polic…
The Political Economy of Deficit Spending in Nine Industrialized Parliamentary Democracies: The Role of Fiscal Institutions
This article analyzes the influence of four sets of factors on deficit spending in 9 industrialized parliamentary democracies during 1958-1990. This article analyzes the influence of these factors and introduces and tests the importance of an additional potential influence on the size of a country's fiscal deficit: the “strength of fiscal bureaucracy.” It is argued that the stronger a country's fiscal bureaucracy, the lower its deficit, ceteris p…
Exploring the Determinants of the Entry and Exit of Ministers inKorea: 1980–2008
The entry and exit of ministers has been of primary interest to students of political science and public management inWestern countries. Responding to the lack of research on the entry and exit of ministers in non‐Western countries, this article examined determinants of both the entrance and exit of ministers inKorea from the life cycle point of view based on theKoreanMinisterialDatabase from 1980 to 2008. We argued that as theKorean presidency s…
Dual Faces of Ministerial Leadership in South Korea: Does Political Responsiveness or Administrative Responsibility Enhance Perceived Ministerial Performance
This study is designed to examine dual faces of ministerial leadership that functions in the gray area of politics and administration when a minister performs his or her role as a political appointee and as a department head. The dual faces of ministerial leadership require somehow both political responsiveness and administrative responsibility for effective ministerial performance. Using the perceptual data of middle- and high-ranked South Korea…
Institutions and Technological Development in Korea: The Role of the Presidency
Since the early 1960s Korea has been dominated by strong presidents who sought to exert control over all aspects of the policy process. Other institutions, such as the legislature, political parties, and interest groups, were noticeably underdeveloped and played a subordinate role in the policy process. Only the bureaucracy, often working in concert with business interests, evolved to temper the absolute control of the president. The absolute inf…
Democracy, Institutional Maturity, and Economic Development
Objective Despite a plethora of studies on the relationship between democracy and economic development, a dominant theoretical framework has yet to emerge. Economic development may lead to the transition to democracy and mature democratic institutions are likely to help economic development. Thus, in this article, we test the relationship among economic development, institutional maturity, and democracy. Methods In a recent study, Gerring et al. …
Exploring the Linkage Between Ministerial Leadership and Performance in Korea
The significance and the role of leadership in organizations and institutions have been widely discussed but not well understood. Much of the previous literature is limited to leadership practices and education as well as to the American context. Focusing on the Korean ministerial level, this study examines the ministerial leadership interplaying uniquely between the president (politics) and career civil servants (administration). Extending the t…
Institutional Reforms and Democratization in Korea: The Case of the Kim Young Sam Administration, 1993–1998
This article examines the nature of political and institutional reform initiatives that have been carried out under former president Kim Young Sam. How effective have they been in consolidating democracy in Korea? Specifically, we examine why the Kim Young Sam government's political reform campaigns have been limited, and explore the impact of this limitation on his institutional reform initiatives and the process of consolidation of democracy in…
The First Female President in South Korea: Park Geun-hye's Leadership and South Korean Democracy
When Park Geun-hye was elected South Korea's first female president in 2012, many expected that South Korea's democracy would deepen. Contrary to the expectation, however, from the beginning of her administration, there were concerns about democracy retreating due to her leadership style/qualities. Despite her rather "undemocratic" leadership qualities, Park Geun-hye has consistently received 30% or higher job approval ratings until "Choi Soon-si…
Political Culture and Democratic Consolidation in South Korea
South Korea experienced democratization in 1987, yet violations of the democratic rule of law are rather common; such actions are far from routine practices of democratic institutions. We argue that South Korea’s political culture is the reason for the tardy maturing of democratic institutions
The Political Economy of U.S. Direct Investment in East Asian NICs, 1966–2000
This paper examines the role of FDI from the United States in the economic performance of East Asian NICs for 1966–2000. To this end, we draw our argument of the role of FDI from the modernization–dependency debate. Then, we test the economic effects of U.S. direct investment on economic growth in East Asian NICs using a neoclassical production function model that captures the economic impacts of both foreign and domestic investment on economic g…
Influences on Deficit Spending in Industrialized Democracies
Since 1945, there has been substantial variation among the OECD countries and within them over time in central-government deficits. This paper surveys and assesses the literature on deficit spending in these industrialized democracies, emphasizing positive theories and the empirical support, or lack thereof, for each of them. We begin by considering the degree to which theories about the size of government and empirical tests of these theories ab…
The Politics of International Technology Transfer: Lessons from the Korean Experience
Technology transfer is well recognized as a major determinant in the economic development of newly industrializing countries. Increasingly, technology transfer is also recognized as an important component in the economic fortunes of developed countries. The globalization of markets and the premium placed on technological sophistication in industry and services emphasizes the need for governments to consider and engage in technology transfer polic…
South Korea in 2020
The two biggest stories of 2020 were South Korea’s successful response to the coronavirus crisis and the lack of progress in the denuclearization of North Korea. South Korea was able to contain the spread of the coronavirus mainly due to aggressive tracing and testing. There has been no substantial progress on the denuclearization of North Korea. Macroeconomic performance in 2020 virtually came to a halt amid the pandemic. South Korea’s GDP shran…
President Moon Jae-in at Midterm: What Affects Public Support for Moon Jae-in
Despite the unsuccessful outcomes of his policies on economic growth and North Korea, Moon Jae-in at midterm has received relatively high levels of job approval ratings compared to his immediate predecessors. What made it possible for him to maintain these ratings? To analyze this puzzle, we employed the three commonly noted leadership qualities-effective communication, political skill, and organizational capacity-suggested by presidential study …
Public Administrative Theory, Performance, and Accountability: Problems and Prospects in Diverse Political Environments
The Impact of the Korean Wave on South Korea–Taiwan Relations
Ever since the concept of soft power was introduced, there has been debate about what it is and how it works. We join the debate by studying how the success of Korean cultural products in Taiwan has improved the relationship between South Korea and Taiwan. The two countries normalized their relationship in 1948 and maintained cooperation until the severance of formal ties in 1992 because of South Korea’s rapprochement with China. Beginning in ear…
Comparative Analysis of Soft Power Between South Korea and the United States: A Theoretical Mechanism Approach
Since Nye's introduction of the soft power concept, there have been scholarly debates on whether it is real and how it works. Despite the vast volume of studies, there is a void in the literature on theoretically explaining and empirically testing if soft power can be generated without the support of hard power. To fill this gap in the literature, we developed two theoretical mechanisms that describe the mechanism of US soft power (great power) a…
South Korea in 2019
The two biggest stories of 2019 in South Korea were a series of meetings between US President Donald Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong-un to discuss the denuclearization of North Korea in the first half of the year, and the trade war with Japan in the second half. President Moon Jae-in’s income-led growth policies still have not stimulated the economy. In fact, South Korea’s macroeconomic performance was virtually at a standstill; the econom…
Institutions Matter: Comparing Deficit Spending in the United States and Japan
This article analyzes the post-World War II deficit experiences of the United States and Japan. Four potential explanations of the size of the central government deficit in these two countries are examined: the influence of the economy; the influence of the party in power; Roubini and Sachs's (1989a and 1989b) strength-of-government hypothesis; and the irresponsible Congress/responsible president hypothesis (relevant only to the United States). A…
The Influence of the Gramm-Rudman-Hollings Act on Federal Budgetary Outcomes, 1986-1989
Sung Deuk Hahm, Mark S. Kamlet, David C. Mowery, Tsai-Tsu Su, The Influence of the Gramm-Rudman-Hollings Act on Federal Budgetary Outcomes, 1986-1989, Journal of Policy Analysis and Management, Vol. 11, No. 2 (Spring, 1992), pp. 207-234
The Influence of the Gramm-Rudman-Hollings Act on Federal Budgetary Outcomes, 1986-1989
Sung Deuk Hahm, Mark S. Kamlet, David C. Mowery, Tsai-Tsu Su, The Influence of the Gramm-Rudman-Hollings Act on Federal Budgetary Outcomes, 1986-1989, Journal of Policy Analysis and Management, Vol. 11, No. 2 (Spring, 1992), pp. 207-234
U. S. Defense Spending under the Gramm-Rudman-Hollings Act, 1986-1989
How did the Gramm-Rudman-Hollings Act (GRH) impact on U.S. defense spending? Focusing on defense spendingfrom 1986-1989, Sung Deuk Hahm, Mark Kamlet, and David Moweryfound defense spending to be lower than it would have been without GRH. GRH partially, but not completely, returned defense spending priorities and defense-fiscalpolicy linkages to theirpreReagan status. GRH restrained expenditures by a similar percentage in all of the functional def…
The Politics of International Technology Transfer: Lessons from the Korean Experience
Technology transfer is well recognized as a major determinant in the economic development of newly industrializing countries. Increasingly, technology transfer is also recognized as an important component in the economic fortunes of developed countries. The globalization of markets and the premium placed on technological sophistication in industry and services emphasizes the need for governments to consider and engage in technology transfer polic…
Influences on Deficit Spending in Industrialized Democracies
Since 1945, there has been substantial variation among the OECD countries and within them over time in central-government deficits. This paper surveys and assesses the literature on deficit spending in these industrialized democracies, emphasizing positive theories and the empirical support, or lack thereof, for each of them. We begin by considering the degree to which theories about the size of government and empirical tests of these theories ab…
Institutions Matter: Comparing Deficit Spending in the United States and Japan
This article analyzes the post-World War II deficit experiences of the United States and Japan. Four potential explanations of the size of the central government deficit in these two countries are examined: the influence of the economy; the influence of the party in power; Roubini and Sachs's (1989a and 1989b) strength-of-government hypothesis; and the irresponsible Congress/responsible president hypothesis (relevant only to the United States). A…
Institutions and Technological Development in Korea: The Role of the Presidency
Since the early 1960s Korea has been dominated by strong presidents who sought to exert control over all aspects of the policy process. Other institutions, such as the legislature, political parties, and interest groups, were noticeably underdeveloped and played a subordinate role in the policy process. Only the bureaucracy, often working in concert with business interests, evolved to temper the absolute control of the president. The absolute inf…
The Political Economy of Deficit Spending in Nine Industrialized Parliamentary Democracies: The Role of Fiscal Institutions
This article analyzes the influence of four sets of factors on deficit spending in 9 industrialized parliamentary democracies during 1958-1990. This article analyzes the influence of these factors and introduces and tests the importance of an additional potential influence on the size of a country's fiscal deficit: the “strength of fiscal bureaucracy.” It is argued that the stronger a country's fiscal bureaucracy, the lower its deficit, ceteris p…
Institutional Reforms and Democratization in Korea: The Case of the Kim Young Sam Administration, 1993–1998
This article examines the nature of political and institutional reform initiatives that have been carried out under former president Kim Young Sam. How effective have they been in consolidating democracy in Korea? Specifically, we examine why the Kim Young Sam government's political reform campaigns have been limited, and explore the impact of this limitation on his institutional reform initiatives and the process of consolidation of democracy in…
Politics, Economics, and Defense Spending in South Korea
With the recent North Korean nuclear crisis, along with President Roh Moo Hyun’s emphasis on a self-reliance defense policy, the level of defense spending in South Korea has increased in recent years. Due to the sluggish economy, these increases in defense spending have been a cause for public concern. By developing a multilink defense-growth model based on macroeconomic theories while still accounting for political factors (such as transition fr…
The Political Economy of U.S. Direct Investment in East Asian NICs, 1966–2000
This paper examines the role of FDI from the United States in the economic performance of East Asian NICs for 1966–2000. To this end, we draw our argument of the role of FDI from the modernization–dependency debate. Then, we test the economic effects of U.S. direct investment on economic growth in East Asian NICs using a neoclassical production function model that captures the economic impacts of both foreign and domestic investment on economic g…
Exploring the Linkage Between Ministerial Leadership and Performance in Korea
The significance and the role of leadership in organizations and institutions have been widely discussed but not well understood. Much of the previous literature is limited to leadership practices and education as well as to the American context. Focusing on the Korean ministerial level, this study examines the ministerial leadership interplaying uniquely between the president (politics) and career civil servants (administration). Extending the t…
Dual Faces of Ministerial Leadership in South Korea: Does Political Responsiveness or Administrative Responsibility Enhance Perceived Ministerial Performance
This study is designed to examine dual faces of ministerial leadership that functions in the gray area of politics and administration when a minister performs his or her role as a political appointee and as a department head. The dual faces of ministerial leadership require somehow both political responsiveness and administrative responsibility for effective ministerial performance. Using the perceptual data of middle- and high-ranked South Korea…
Public Administrative Theory, Performance, and Accountability: Problems and Prospects in Diverse Political Environments
Shaping Public Corporation Leadership in a Turbulent Environment
This article explores how public corporation leadership copes with a turbulent environment using political, managerial, and individual leadership elements. It is an in‐depth case study of Lee Ji‐Song, who effectively managed the politically and managerially challenging environment that resulted from the merger of two large public corporations into the Korea Land and Housing Corporation. Lee, an engineer, manager, and chief executive of a major co…
Exploring the Determinants of the Entry and Exit of Ministers inKorea: 1980–2008
The entry and exit of ministers has been of primary interest to students of political science and public management inWestern countries. Responding to the lack of research on the entry and exit of ministers in non‐Western countries, this article examined determinants of both the entrance and exit of ministers inKorea from the life cycle point of view based on theKoreanMinisterialDatabase from 1980 to 2008. We argued that as theKorean presidency s…
Political Culture and Democratic Consolidation in South Korea
South Korea experienced democratization in 1987, yet violations of the democratic rule of law are rather common; such actions are far from routine practices of democratic institutions. We argue that South Korea’s political culture is the reason for the tardy maturing of democratic institutions
Democracy, Institutional Maturity, and Economic Development
Objective Despite a plethora of studies on the relationship between democracy and economic development, a dominant theoretical framework has yet to emerge. Economic development may lead to the transition to democracy and mature democratic institutions are likely to help economic development. Thus, in this article, we test the relationship among economic development, institutional maturity, and democracy. Methods In a recent study, Gerring et al. …
The First Female President in South Korea: Park Geun-hye's Leadership and South Korean Democracy
When Park Geun-hye was elected South Korea's first female president in 2012, many expected that South Korea's democracy would deepen. Contrary to the expectation, however, from the beginning of her administration, there were concerns about democracy retreating due to her leadership style/qualities. Despite her rather "undemocratic" leadership qualities, Park Geun-hye has consistently received 30% or higher job approval ratings until "Choi Soon-si…
History and Territorial Disputes, Domestic Politics, and International Relations An Analysis of the Relationship among South Korea, China, and Japan
South Korea, China, and Japan have history and territorial disputes in each of their bilateral relationship. These issues have existed for several decades, but they have not surfaced all the time. In the recent past, however, both China and Japan adopted policies that caused friction. Why did they do that? That is because of China s aggressive foreign policy based on the strong economy and Japan s rightwing shift for domestic political reason to …
South Korea in 2019
The two biggest stories of 2019 in South Korea were a series of meetings between US President Donald Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong-un to discuss the denuclearization of North Korea in the first half of the year, and the trade war with Japan in the second half. President Moon Jae-in’s income-led growth policies still have not stimulated the economy. In fact, South Korea’s macroeconomic performance was virtually at a standstill; the econom…
President Moon Jae-in at Midterm: What Affects Public Support for Moon Jae-in
Despite the unsuccessful outcomes of his policies on economic growth and North Korea, Moon Jae-in at midterm has received relatively high levels of job approval ratings compared to his immediate predecessors. What made it possible for him to maintain these ratings? To analyze this puzzle, we employed the three commonly noted leadership qualities-effective communication, political skill, and organizational capacity-suggested by presidential study …
Collective Intelligence: The Creative Way from Knowledge to Open Innovation
This study aims to answer the following research question: Is there any difference in the effects of collective intelligence on the open innovation between before (2001–2005) and after (2011–2015) of the introduction of smartphones and crowd web services regarding electronics and mathematics? The research method of this study includes multiple regression analysis, including (1) the effect of collective intelligence on open innovation (i.e., the n…
South Korea in 2020
The two biggest stories of 2020 were South Korea’s successful response to the coronavirus crisis and the lack of progress in the denuclearization of North Korea. South Korea was able to contain the spread of the coronavirus mainly due to aggressive tracing and testing. There has been no substantial progress on the denuclearization of North Korea. Macroeconomic performance in 2020 virtually came to a halt amid the pandemic. South Korea’s GDP shran…
The Impact of the Korean Wave on South Korea–Taiwan Relations
Ever since the concept of soft power was introduced, there has been debate about what it is and how it works. We join the debate by studying how the success of Korean cultural products in Taiwan has improved the relationship between South Korea and Taiwan. The two countries normalized their relationship in 1948 and maintained cooperation until the severance of formal ties in 1992 because of South Korea’s rapprochement with China. Beginning in ear…
The Signal of Post Catch-up in Open Innovation Dynamics
The digital transformation can serve as a window of opportunity for those late-comers who are equipped with the capability to create complementary assets for grabbing new opportunities of technological leapfrogging as a way of catch-up while penalising the forerunner. In this context, we want to answer the following research question. Is there any difference in open innovation effect on the firm according to the changing of belonging sectorial in…
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