Huck-Ju Kwon
Biographic Data
| ID | 297898 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Huck-Ju Kwon |
| GIVEN NAMES | Huck-Ju |
| FAMILY NAME | Kwon |
| SIGNATURE | KWON H |
| AFFILIATIONS | Seoul National University, South Korea |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-7315-9632 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 23 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 103 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 21 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 2 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1997 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
Self-repair in Korean conversation
This paper analyses the practice of self-initiated (same-turn) self-repair in Korean conversation, from a conversation-analytic perspective, with the focus on “post-positionally” conducted morphological repair. Korean is a predicate-final language with an agglutinative system, where a case marker or a sentence-ending suffix post-positionally marking the root (e.g., noun or verb stem) may become a repairable, being replaced by another, rearticulat…
Policy analysis of Korea’s development cooperation with sub-Saharan Africa: A focus on fragile states
It has been ten years since the New Deal for Engagement in Fragile States was endorsed by the global community. The government of South Korea set out development initiatives to put fragile states at the top of its development agenda and substantially increased its bilateral aid to them. This study analyses the policy orientations of South Korea’s aid to fragile states by exploring the determinants of Korea’s official development assistance to for…
Formulating WH-questions in Korean adult-child conversation: Subject', 'topic', and 'zero' particle as interactional resources
Bring back institution capability in fragile situations: Implications for global social policy
Implications of the Sustainable Development Goals for global social policy
Analysing Social Policy Concepts and Language: Comparative and transnational perspectives
Social policy scholars and practitioners work with concepts such as "welfare state" and "social security" but where do these concepts come from and how has their meaning changed over time? Which are the dominant social policy concepts and how are they contested? What characterises social policy language in specific countries and regions of the world and how do social concepts travel between countries? Addressing such questions in a systematic man…
Shaping the national social protection strategy in Cambodia: Global influence and national ownership
In the wake of the global economic crisis in 2008, the Cambodian government responded actively to the impact of the crisis by initiating various policy measures for social protection. Most importantly, it launched a National Social Protection Strategy (NSPS) in 2011 with a major focus on social assistance targeted at the poor, children and the disabled. How did this social protection policy come about? Was it driven by international influence or …
International Encyclopedia of Social Policy
Global social policy as public policy: Implementation matters
Poverty, Inequality, and Democracy: "Mixed Governance" and Welfare in South Korea
This article sets out to tackle three main questions: 1) How did South Korea lift itself out of utter destruction and destitution to affluence?; 2) How could a ruthlessly authoritarian regime be transformed with relative ease into a stable democratic polity?; and 3) What institutions and governance enabled the authoritarian and democratic governments of South Korea to reduce poverty and inequality
Policy learning and transfer: The experience of the developmental state in East Asia
As late industrialisers, East Asia's developmental states – Japan, the Republic of Korea and Taiwan – assimilated the front runners’ policy innovations and experience, taking advantage of lateness. This article examines policy learning and transfer in these countries’ developmental states and their characteristics in policy learning processes; explores the rationale for policy learning and transfer, focusing on Fukuzawa's paradox; investigates po…
Social Protection in East Asia
International audience
The East Asian Welfare Model: Welfare Orientalism and the State
For many politicians and observers in the West, East Asia has provided a broad range of positive images of the state's intervention in society. Neoliberals grew excited by popular welfare systems that cost little in expenditure and bureaucracy. Social-democrats thought they had found a model for social cohesion and equality. In fact the reality in East Asia is rather different from these stereotypes. In this book six specialists of six different …
Reform of the Developmental Welfare State in Korea: Advocacy Coalitions and Health Politics
The welfare state in Korea has undergone a significant transformation since the Asian Economic Crisis in 1997-8. Before the social policy reform after 1997, the characteristics of the Korean welfare state could be well described as a ‘developmental welfare state in a selective form’. Social policy was used as an instrument of economic policy (productivist), the welfare programmes were structured in such a way that risk-pooling was narrow within p…
Transforming the Developmental Welfare State in East Asia
Social Policy in a Development Context is a new series which places social policy at the centre of research while maintaining UNRISD's unified approach to social development.
An Overview of the Study: The Developmental Welfare State and Policy Reforms in East Asia
The welfare states1 in East Asia have undergone significant changes since the Asian economic crisis of 1997-8. New social programmes were introduced and existing ones were strengthened through reforms. In consequence, state institutions, and the welfare state in particular, play a greater role amid instability and flexibility in the globalized market. These changes seem to counter the neo-liberal argument that market-driven globalization renders …
The Economic Crisis and the Politics of Welfare Reform in Korea
While many OECD countries have tried to reduce the size of their government and social spending in particular, the welfare states in East Asia have expanded the scope and commanded an increasing bulk of their public financing. The governments in this region have begun to take active responsibility for social welfare in recent years (Eto 2001; Goodman et al. 1998; Kuhnle and Hort 2000; Kwon 2001). This trend has been further strengthened after the…
Advocacy coalitions and the politics of welfare in Korea after the economic crisis
English This article seeks to explain the politics of social policy in Korea after the economic crisis of 1997/98, focusing on the advocacy coalitions. It shows that the welfare idealists were able to succeed in introducing the Minimum Living Standard Guarantee (MLSG) by seizing a number of strategic points of decision making in Korea, explaining why Korea adopted active social policy initiatives beyond the functional requirements of the structur…
Globalization, Unemployment and Policy Responses in Korea: Repositioning the State
This article firstly examines the labour market reforms and consequent rise of unemployment in Korea after the economic crisis of 1997–8. Secondly it analyses policy responses from the Korean government to deal with the massive rise in unemployment: the Employment Insurance Programme, Public Work Projects and the Employment Services. The question this article seeks to answer is whether the role of the state within the welfare system was strengthe…
Income Transfers to the Elderly in Korea and Taiwan
This article analyses income transfers to elderly households in Korea and Taiwan in order to find out to what extent income maintenance policy contributes to the income of elderly households in these countries. It also examines private transfers to those households since we need to see the outcome of public policy in the broad picture of welfare mix. The article argues that private transfers play a bigger role than public transfers for elderly ho…
The Welfare State in Korea: The Politics of Legitimization
Through the analysis of institutional dynamics Kwon argues that social policy development in Korea is not due to common exogenous factors such as international or union pressure but to the desire of t
East Asian Welfare States in Transition Challenges and Opportunities
Summaries After the spectacular economic crisis of late 1997, there has been a call for social welfare reform as well as economic restructuring in East Asia. Covering Japan, South Korea and Taiwan, this article first seeks to identify the strengths and weaknesses of the East Asian welfare states. Second, it examines the pressures for reform of the welfare systems. Finally, it addresses the question of whether the low spending East Asian welfare r…
Beyond European Welfare Regimes: Comparative Perspectives on East Asian Welfare Systems
This article examines three comparative perspectives on East Asian welfare systems with special reference to Japan and Korea. First, an expenditure approach shows that the levels of government spending in Japan and Korea are lower than in UK and Sweden, but it necessarily underestimates the welfare expenditure publicly spent in Japan and Korea, due to the regulator type of policy intervention in financing welfare programmes. Second, the standard …
Beyond European Welfare Regimes: Comparative Perspectives on East Asian Welfare Systems
This article examines three comparative perspectives on East Asian welfare systems with special reference to Japan and Korea. First, an expenditure approach shows that the levels of government spending in Japan and Korea are lower than in UK and Sweden, but it necessarily underestimates the welfare expenditure publicly spent in Japan and Korea, due to the regulator type of policy intervention in financing welfare programmes. Second, the standard …
Advocacy coalitions and the politics of welfare in Korea after the economic crisis
English This article seeks to explain the politics of social policy in Korea after the economic crisis of 1997/98, focusing on the advocacy coalitions. It shows that the welfare idealists were able to succeed in introducing the Minimum Living Standard Guarantee (MLSG) by seizing a number of strategic points of decision making in Korea, explaining why Korea adopted active social policy initiatives beyond the functional requirements of the structur…
Social Protection in East Asia
International audience
Poverty, Inequality, and Democracy: "Mixed Governance" and Welfare in South Korea
This article sets out to tackle three main questions: 1) How did South Korea lift itself out of utter destruction and destitution to affluence?; 2) How could a ruthlessly authoritarian regime be transformed with relative ease into a stable democratic polity?; and 3) What institutions and governance enabled the authoritarian and democratic governments of South Korea to reduce poverty and inequality
Policy learning and transfer: The experience of the developmental state in East Asia
As late industrialisers, East Asia's developmental states – Japan, the Republic of Korea and Taiwan – assimilated the front runners’ policy innovations and experience, taking advantage of lateness. This article examines policy learning and transfer in these countries’ developmental states and their characteristics in policy learning processes; explores the rationale for policy learning and transfer, focusing on Fukuzawa's paradox; investigates po…
Globalization, Unemployment and Policy Responses in Korea: Repositioning the State
This article firstly examines the labour market reforms and consequent rise of unemployment in Korea after the economic crisis of 1997–8. Secondly it analyses policy responses from the Korean government to deal with the massive rise in unemployment: the Employment Insurance Programme, Public Work Projects and the Employment Services. The question this article seeks to answer is whether the role of the state within the welfare system was strengthe…
Formulating WH-questions in Korean adult-child conversation: Subject', 'topic', and 'zero' particle as interactional resources
Shaping the national social protection strategy in Cambodia: Global influence and national ownership
In the wake of the global economic crisis in 2008, the Cambodian government responded actively to the impact of the crisis by initiating various policy measures for social protection. Most importantly, it launched a National Social Protection Strategy (NSPS) in 2011 with a major focus on social assistance targeted at the poor, children and the disabled. How did this social protection policy come about? Was it driven by international influence or …
Income Transfers to the Elderly in Korea and Taiwan
This article analyses income transfers to elderly households in Korea and Taiwan in order to find out to what extent income maintenance policy contributes to the income of elderly households in these countries. It also examines private transfers to those households since we need to see the outcome of public policy in the broad picture of welfare mix. The article argues that private transfers play a bigger role than public transfers for elderly ho…
Global social policy as public policy: Implementation matters
East Asian Welfare States in Transition Challenges and Opportunities
Summaries After the spectacular economic crisis of late 1997, there has been a call for social welfare reform as well as economic restructuring in East Asia. Covering Japan, South Korea and Taiwan, this article first seeks to identify the strengths and weaknesses of the East Asian welfare states. Second, it examines the pressures for reform of the welfare systems. Finally, it addresses the question of whether the low spending East Asian welfare r…
Beyond European Welfare Regimes: Comparative Perspectives on East Asian Welfare Systems
This article examines three comparative perspectives on East Asian welfare systems with special reference to Japan and Korea. First, an expenditure approach shows that the levels of government spending in Japan and Korea are lower than in UK and Sweden, but it necessarily underestimates the welfare expenditure publicly spent in Japan and Korea, due to the regulator type of policy intervention in financing welfare programmes. Second, the standard …
The Welfare State in Korea: The Politics of Legitimization
Through the analysis of institutional dynamics Kwon argues that social policy development in Korea is not due to common exogenous factors such as international or union pressure but to the desire of t
East Asian Welfare States in Transition Challenges and Opportunities
Summaries After the spectacular economic crisis of late 1997, there has been a call for social welfare reform as well as economic restructuring in East Asia. Covering Japan, South Korea and Taiwan, this article first seeks to identify the strengths and weaknesses of the East Asian welfare states. Second, it examines the pressures for reform of the welfare systems. Finally, it addresses the question of whether the low spending East Asian welfare r…
Globalization, Unemployment and Policy Responses in Korea: Repositioning the State
This article firstly examines the labour market reforms and consequent rise of unemployment in Korea after the economic crisis of 1997–8. Secondly it analyses policy responses from the Korean government to deal with the massive rise in unemployment: the Employment Insurance Programme, Public Work Projects and the Employment Services. The question this article seeks to answer is whether the role of the state within the welfare system was strengthe…
Income Transfers to the Elderly in Korea and Taiwan
This article analyses income transfers to elderly households in Korea and Taiwan in order to find out to what extent income maintenance policy contributes to the income of elderly households in these countries. It also examines private transfers to those households since we need to see the outcome of public policy in the broad picture of welfare mix. The article argues that private transfers play a bigger role than public transfers for elderly ho…
Advocacy coalitions and the politics of welfare in Korea after the economic crisis
English This article seeks to explain the politics of social policy in Korea after the economic crisis of 1997/98, focusing on the advocacy coalitions. It shows that the welfare idealists were able to succeed in introducing the Minimum Living Standard Guarantee (MLSG) by seizing a number of strategic points of decision making in Korea, explaining why Korea adopted active social policy initiatives beyond the functional requirements of the structur…
The Economic Crisis and the Politics of Welfare Reform in Korea
While many OECD countries have tried to reduce the size of their government and social spending in particular, the welfare states in East Asia have expanded the scope and commanded an increasing bulk of their public financing. The governments in this region have begun to take active responsibility for social welfare in recent years (Eto 2001; Goodman et al. 1998; Kuhnle and Hort 2000; Kwon 2001). This trend has been further strengthened after the…
Reform of the Developmental Welfare State in Korea: Advocacy Coalitions and Health Politics
The welfare state in Korea has undergone a significant transformation since the Asian Economic Crisis in 1997-8. Before the social policy reform after 1997, the characteristics of the Korean welfare state could be well described as a ‘developmental welfare state in a selective form’. Social policy was used as an instrument of economic policy (productivist), the welfare programmes were structured in such a way that risk-pooling was narrow within p…
Transforming the Developmental Welfare State in East Asia
Social Policy in a Development Context is a new series which places social policy at the centre of research while maintaining UNRISD's unified approach to social development.
An Overview of the Study: The Developmental Welfare State and Policy Reforms in East Asia
The welfare states1 in East Asia have undergone significant changes since the Asian economic crisis of 1997-8. New social programmes were introduced and existing ones were strengthened through reforms. In consequence, state institutions, and the welfare state in particular, play a greater role amid instability and flexibility in the globalized market. These changes seem to counter the neo-liberal argument that market-driven globalization renders …
The East Asian Welfare Model: Welfare Orientalism and the State
For many politicians and observers in the West, East Asia has provided a broad range of positive images of the state's intervention in society. Neoliberals grew excited by popular welfare systems that cost little in expenditure and bureaucracy. Social-democrats thought they had found a model for social cohesion and equality. In fact the reality in East Asia is rather different from these stereotypes. In this book six specialists of six different …
Social Protection in East Asia
International audience
Policy learning and transfer: The experience of the developmental state in East Asia
As late industrialisers, East Asia's developmental states – Japan, the Republic of Korea and Taiwan – assimilated the front runners’ policy innovations and experience, taking advantage of lateness. This article examines policy learning and transfer in these countries’ developmental states and their characteristics in policy learning processes; explores the rationale for policy learning and transfer, focusing on Fukuzawa's paradox; investigates po…
Poverty, Inequality, and Democracy: "Mixed Governance" and Welfare in South Korea
This article sets out to tackle three main questions: 1) How did South Korea lift itself out of utter destruction and destitution to affluence?; 2) How could a ruthlessly authoritarian regime be transformed with relative ease into a stable democratic polity?; and 3) What institutions and governance enabled the authoritarian and democratic governments of South Korea to reduce poverty and inequality
International Encyclopedia of Social Policy
Global social policy as public policy: Implementation matters
Analysing Social Policy Concepts and Language: Comparative and transnational perspectives
Social policy scholars and practitioners work with concepts such as "welfare state" and "social security" but where do these concepts come from and how has their meaning changed over time? Which are the dominant social policy concepts and how are they contested? What characterises social policy language in specific countries and regions of the world and how do social concepts travel between countries? Addressing such questions in a systematic man…
Shaping the national social protection strategy in Cambodia: Global influence and national ownership
In the wake of the global economic crisis in 2008, the Cambodian government responded actively to the impact of the crisis by initiating various policy measures for social protection. Most importantly, it launched a National Social Protection Strategy (NSPS) in 2011 with a major focus on social assistance targeted at the poor, children and the disabled. How did this social protection policy come about? Was it driven by international influence or …
Implications of the Sustainable Development Goals for global social policy
Bring back institution capability in fragile situations: Implications for global social policy
Policy analysis of Korea’s development cooperation with sub-Saharan Africa: A focus on fragile states
It has been ten years since the New Deal for Engagement in Fragile States was endorsed by the global community. The government of South Korea set out development initiatives to put fragile states at the top of its development agenda and substantially increased its bilateral aid to them. This study analyses the policy orientations of South Korea’s aid to fragile states by exploring the determinants of Korea’s official development assistance to for…
Formulating WH-questions in Korean adult-child conversation: Subject', 'topic', and 'zero' particle as interactional resources
Self-repair in Korean conversation
This paper analyses the practice of self-initiated (same-turn) self-repair in Korean conversation, from a conversation-analytic perspective, with the focus on “post-positionally” conducted morphological repair. Korean is a predicate-final language with an agglutinative system, where a case marker or a sentence-ending suffix post-positionally marking the root (e.g., noun or verb stem) may become a repairable, being replaced by another, rearticulat…
Political science (21 works) · Economics (18 works) · Social Policy and Reform Studies (18 works) · Development economics (14 works) · Politics (13 works) · Economic growth (11 works) · Welfare (11 works) · Law (10 works) · Social policy (10 works) · Welfare state (10 works)