Sunhyuk Kim
Biographic Data
| ID | 3628404 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Sunhyuk Kim |
| GIVEN NAMES | Sunhyuk |
| FAMILY NAME | Kim |
| SIGNATURE | KIM S |
| AFFILIATIONS | Korea University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-3298-3510 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 26 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 56 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 26 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1997 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Who are social critics: The effects of directors' status and reputation on the choice of social problem films in the Korean film industry
The Origins of Collaborative Governance in South Korea: An Analysis of the First Ten Years after Democratisation
South Korea's transition to democracy in 1987 was driven by social movements. The grand democracy coalition included the opposition party and various civic associations, including student groups, labour unions, and religious organisations. Civil society continued to pressure the post-transitional governments to dismantle authoritarian structures and remove undemocratic practices. Political authoritarianism in South Korea in 1961–1987 was insepara…
Authentic leadership and employee voice behavior: The effect of Chinese employees' Zhongyong thinking
Purpose Employee voice behavior is an important source of corporate competitiveness but employees often face difficulties in voicing their opinions. This research analyzes how authentic leadership may increase psychological safety perceived by employees, consequently encouraging employees to actively share their ideas. In addition, the authors explore the unique concept of Zhongyong thinking, a way of thinking that is common in cultures rooted in…
Dealing with Covid-19 in South Korea: Reflections on state theories
In this paper, we reflect on South Korea's relative success in dealing with COVID-19 from the perspective of state theories. Korea's success was due to the legacies of the developmental state, combined with the elements of the regulatory state and the network state, and facilitated by IT development. We also argue that we are witnessing a new state type that no longer features the existing state types' obsession with economic development. The eme…
The Making of Presidential Agendas in Korea: A Comparison of Four Governments
This study compares the presidential agendas of the four recent Korean governments of Kim Dae-jung (1998-2003), Roh Moo-hyun (2003-08), Lee Myung-bak (2008-13), and Park Geun-hye (2013-17). After a theoretical overview of the three factors affecting the formation of the presidential agenda (i.e., party ideology, presidential leadership, and social environment) this paper reviews the details of the presidential agendas of each administration and d…
What makes employees cynical in public organizations? Antecedents of organizational cynicism
Organizational cynicism is associated with undesirable outcomes such as reduced organizational performance. In this study we examined factors leading to organizational cynicism in a public organization undergoing market-oriented reforms. Participants were 275 employees at Korea Post, Korea. Our empirical results showed that organizational cynicism is decreased by coworker trust and transformational leadership and increased by job stress. Also, th…
Administrative reform in South Korea: New Public Management and the bureaucracy
This article analyzes the political dynamics of South Korea’s recent administrative reform. We argue that successive South Korean governments’ New Public Management-inspired reform programs have only achieved partial success. In particular, they have largely failed to attain their ultimate goal – i.e. significant weakening of the traditionally strong elite bureaucracy in policymaking. The bureaucracy in the country has not become weakened as a re…
Jasmine Does Not Bloom in P yongyang: The Persistent Non‐transition in N orth K orea
At the beginning of 2011, the world was shaken by an “earthquake” which struck the M iddle E ast and A frican regions. Following the A rab S pring or J asmine R evolution, many pundits stated that N orth K orea could be the next to be affected by this wind of change, and the N orth K orean dictatorial leadership could collapse soon. This assumption acquired further validity soon after K im Jong‐il 's death. This paper draws on the democratic tran…
NGOs and Social Protection in East Asia: Korea, Thailand and Indonesia
This article analyzes the role of non-governmental organizations (NGOs) in social protection in East Asia. The article focuses on two types of NGO roles in social protection—direct provision and indirect pressure—and examines how the relative proportions of the two types of roles vary by country in East Asia, depending on factors that are contextual (political democratization), pulling (developmental welfare state), or pushing (civil society). A …
Civil society and local activism in South Korea's local democratization
Recent studies on causes of intergovernmental transformation in old and new democracies have found that decentralization is often the outcome of negotiations between national and local political interests. South Korea is commonly believed to be an exception because local elections and institutions introduced in the early 1990s were, by and large, the product of negotiations among political elites at the centre, without significant inclusion of lo…
Solidarity as a unifying idea in building an East Asian community: Toward an ethos of collective responsibility 1
This article examines prospects for solidarity, defined as an ethos of collective responsibility that works across a political community's normative values and policy decisions, as a unifying idea that can inspire and promote steps toward regional political community across East Asia. Just as the European Union's (EU) founders and its past and present visionaries have appealed consistently to an inclusive, transnational model of solidarity in fra…
The Dynamics of Welfare Policy-Making in South Korea: Social Movements as Policy Entrepreneurs
This paper analyzes the role of social movements in the creation and evolution of a welfare state in South Korea. We begin with a theoretical overview of the existing works on policy change, highlighting concepts such as ideas, policy paradigms, and windows of opportunity. We then examine state institutions, hegemonic policy paradigms, and the specific dynamics of welfare policy-making during South Korea’s authoritarian period (1961–1987). Next, …
Dynamics of Contention” in Democratic Korea: The Role of Anti-Americanism
Social dialogue and industrial relations in South Korea: Has the tripartite commission been successful
This paper analyses the sweeping changes in industrial relations in South Korea that have taken place since democratisation in 1987, which gave workers the right to organise themselves, and critically reviews the development of social dialogue since the financial crisis of 1997. A number of international labour specialists have maintained that social dialogue plays an important role in enhancing economic restructuring and the stability of industr…
Contextualizing the meaning of public management reforms: A comparison of the Netherlands and South Korea
Previous literature has demonstrated that the apparent global convergence between public management reforms is misleading because there are major differences in how a global paradigm of reform is implemented. This is not only a question of implementation, but also of interpretation. Even when reforms are similar with respect to the administrative measures that are implemented, they can have significantly different political and cultural meanings,…
State–Society Relations in South Korea after Democratization: Is the Strong State Defunct
This paper argues that the two recent structural transformations of political democratization and market‐oriented economic restructuring have not considerably reduced the role of the strong state in South Korea. Focusing on three sectors (civic groups, big business associations, and labor unions), this paper demonstrates that the strong state in South Korea, by selecting and aligning with different social groups, has been effectively pursuing sel…
How to Deal with South Korea
Additional informationNotes on contributorsSunhyuk KimSunhyuk Kim is an associate professor in the Department of Public Administration at Korea University.Wonhyuk LimWonhyuk Lim is a fellow at the Korea Development Institute and a nonresident fellow at the Center for Northeast Asian Policy Studies at the Brookings Institution in Washington, D.C
The Experience of European Integration and Potential for Northeast Asian Integration
For more about the East-West Center, see http://www.eastwestcenter.org
New Asian Regionalism and the United States: Constructing Regional Identity and Interest in the Politics of Inclusion and Exclusion
In the wake of the Asian economic crisis during 1997–1998, an important debate surfaced in the field of Asian regionalism. The debate, still unsettled and ongoing, centers around the following two questions: 1) comparing the pre‐crisis and post‐crisis periods, are there any significant changes in Asian regionalism to warrant the coinage of the term “new” Asian regionalism? and 2) if “new” Asian regionalism is real, what are its central features? …
Democratization, Economic Liberalization, and Labor Politics: Mexico and Korea
This study examines the impact of economic liberalization and democratization on labor politics in Mexico and Korea and the strategies labor has evolved in response to these changes. It begins with an overview of the pre-transition period in the two countries with particular emphasis on the distinct patterns of state-labor relations that emerged in each and their impact on the respective labor movements. The following section focuses on the effec…
Korea's Democratization
The Republic of Korea is regarded as a shining example of democracy in East Asia. Despite this significant achievement, Korea's democracy in practice has been plagued by political gridlock, severe factional infighting, a lack of social capital and cooperation between civil society and political institutions, and leadership behavior that calls to mind its authoritarian past. Although the country is now a secure electoral democracy, its journey tow…
The Politics of Economic Recovery in South Korea: A Comparative Perspective
The Politics of Democratization in Korea: The Role of Civil Society
The Politics Of Democratization In Korea
The political origins of South Korea's economic crisis: Is democratization to blame
Different explanations have been presented regarding the recent economic crisis in South Korea. After critically evaluating these explanations, the article modifies and refines the dominant model, the mea culpa paradigm, to develop a political, interactive and integrative explanation of the crisis. The economic breakdown during the Kim Young Sam regime in Korea (1993–98) was mainly due to the Kim government's failure to carry out its well‐intende…
Civil society and local activism in South Korea's local democratization
Recent studies on causes of intergovernmental transformation in old and new democracies have found that decentralization is often the outcome of negotiations between national and local political interests. South Korea is commonly believed to be an exception because local elections and institutions introduced in the early 1990s were, by and large, the product of negotiations among political elites at the centre, without significant inclusion of lo…
State and Civil Society in South Korea's Democratic Consolidation: Is the Battle Really over
Prolonged intensive conflict and confrontation between a repressive state and an oppositional civil society characterized South Korea's democratic transition from 1985 to 1987. The Korean experiment with democracy1 started with a series of relaxation measures by the ruling authoritarian regime in late 1983 and early 1984. Unlike some of the classic cases belonging to the third wave of global democratization, political liberalization in South Kore…
Administrative reform in South Korea: New Public Management and the bureaucracy
This article analyzes the political dynamics of South Korea’s recent administrative reform. We argue that successive South Korean governments’ New Public Management-inspired reform programs have only achieved partial success. In particular, they have largely failed to attain their ultimate goal – i.e. significant weakening of the traditionally strong elite bureaucracy in policymaking. The bureaucracy in the country has not become weakened as a re…
Social dialogue and industrial relations in South Korea: Has the tripartite commission been successful
This paper analyses the sweeping changes in industrial relations in South Korea that have taken place since democratisation in 1987, which gave workers the right to organise themselves, and critically reviews the development of social dialogue since the financial crisis of 1997. A number of international labour specialists have maintained that social dialogue plays an important role in enhancing economic restructuring and the stability of industr…
NGOs and Social Protection in East Asia: Korea, Thailand and Indonesia
This article analyzes the role of non-governmental organizations (NGOs) in social protection in East Asia. The article focuses on two types of NGO roles in social protection—direct provision and indirect pressure—and examines how the relative proportions of the two types of roles vary by country in East Asia, depending on factors that are contextual (political democratization), pulling (developmental welfare state), or pushing (civil society). A …
The Dynamics of Welfare Policy-Making in South Korea: Social Movements as Policy Entrepreneurs
This paper analyzes the role of social movements in the creation and evolution of a welfare state in South Korea. We begin with a theoretical overview of the existing works on policy change, highlighting concepts such as ideas, policy paradigms, and windows of opportunity. We then examine state institutions, hegemonic policy paradigms, and the specific dynamics of welfare policy-making during South Korea’s authoritarian period (1961–1987). Next, …
The Experience of European Integration and Potential for Northeast Asian Integration
For more about the East-West Center, see http://www.eastwestcenter.org
Democratization, Economic Liberalization, and Labor Politics: Mexico and Korea
This study examines the impact of economic liberalization and democratization on labor politics in Mexico and Korea and the strategies labor has evolved in response to these changes. It begins with an overview of the pre-transition period in the two countries with particular emphasis on the distinct patterns of state-labor relations that emerged in each and their impact on the respective labor movements. The following section focuses on the effec…
Contextualizing the meaning of public management reforms: A comparison of the Netherlands and South Korea
Previous literature has demonstrated that the apparent global convergence between public management reforms is misleading because there are major differences in how a global paradigm of reform is implemented. This is not only a question of implementation, but also of interpretation. Even when reforms are similar with respect to the administrative measures that are implemented, they can have significantly different political and cultural meanings,…
State–Society Relations in South Korea after Democratization: Is the Strong State Defunct
This paper argues that the two recent structural transformations of political democratization and market‐oriented economic restructuring have not considerably reduced the role of the strong state in South Korea. Focusing on three sectors (civic groups, big business associations, and labor unions), this paper demonstrates that the strong state in South Korea, by selecting and aligning with different social groups, has been effectively pursuing sel…
New Asian Regionalism and the United States: Constructing Regional Identity and Interest in the Politics of Inclusion and Exclusion
In the wake of the Asian economic crisis during 1997–1998, an important debate surfaced in the field of Asian regionalism. The debate, still unsettled and ongoing, centers around the following two questions: 1) comparing the pre‐crisis and post‐crisis periods, are there any significant changes in Asian regionalism to warrant the coinage of the term “new” Asian regionalism? and 2) if “new” Asian regionalism is real, what are its central features? …
The political origins of South Korea's economic crisis: Is democratization to blame
Different explanations have been presented regarding the recent economic crisis in South Korea. After critically evaluating these explanations, the article modifies and refines the dominant model, the mea culpa paradigm, to develop a political, interactive and integrative explanation of the crisis. The economic breakdown during the Kim Young Sam regime in Korea (1993–98) was mainly due to the Kim government's failure to carry out its well‐intende…
Jasmine Does Not Bloom in P yongyang: The Persistent Non‐transition in N orth K orea
At the beginning of 2011, the world was shaken by an “earthquake” which struck the M iddle E ast and A frican regions. Following the A rab S pring or J asmine R evolution, many pundits stated that N orth K orea could be the next to be affected by this wind of change, and the N orth K orean dictatorial leadership could collapse soon. This assumption acquired further validity soon after K im Jong‐il 's death. This paper draws on the democratic tran…
Solidarity as a unifying idea in building an East Asian community: Toward an ethos of collective responsibility 1
This article examines prospects for solidarity, defined as an ethos of collective responsibility that works across a political community's normative values and policy decisions, as a unifying idea that can inspire and promote steps toward regional political community across East Asia. Just as the European Union's (EU) founders and its past and present visionaries have appealed consistently to an inclusive, transnational model of solidarity in fra…
How to Deal with South Korea
Additional informationNotes on contributorsSunhyuk KimSunhyuk Kim is an associate professor in the Department of Public Administration at Korea University.Wonhyuk LimWonhyuk Lim is a fellow at the Korea Development Institute and a nonresident fellow at the Center for Northeast Asian Policy Studies at the Brookings Institution in Washington, D.C
State and Civil Society in South Korea's Democratic Consolidation: Is the Battle Really over
Prolonged intensive conflict and confrontation between a repressive state and an oppositional civil society characterized South Korea's democratic transition from 1985 to 1987. The Korean experiment with democracy1 started with a series of relaxation measures by the ruling authoritarian regime in late 1983 and early 1984. Unlike some of the classic cases belonging to the third wave of global democratization, political liberalization in South Kore…
The Politics Of Democratization In Korea
The political origins of South Korea's economic crisis: Is democratization to blame
Different explanations have been presented regarding the recent economic crisis in South Korea. After critically evaluating these explanations, the article modifies and refines the dominant model, the mea culpa paradigm, to develop a political, interactive and integrative explanation of the crisis. The economic breakdown during the Kim Young Sam regime in Korea (1993–98) was mainly due to the Kim government's failure to carry out its well‐intende…
The Politics of Economic Recovery in South Korea: A Comparative Perspective
The Politics of Democratization in Korea: The Role of Civil Society
Korea's Democratization
The Republic of Korea is regarded as a shining example of democracy in East Asia. Despite this significant achievement, Korea's democracy in practice has been plagued by political gridlock, severe factional infighting, a lack of social capital and cooperation between civil society and political institutions, and leadership behavior that calls to mind its authoritarian past. Although the country is now a secure electoral democracy, its journey tow…
New Asian Regionalism and the United States: Constructing Regional Identity and Interest in the Politics of Inclusion and Exclusion
In the wake of the Asian economic crisis during 1997–1998, an important debate surfaced in the field of Asian regionalism. The debate, still unsettled and ongoing, centers around the following two questions: 1) comparing the pre‐crisis and post‐crisis periods, are there any significant changes in Asian regionalism to warrant the coinage of the term “new” Asian regionalism? and 2) if “new” Asian regionalism is real, what are its central features? …
Democratization, Economic Liberalization, and Labor Politics: Mexico and Korea
This study examines the impact of economic liberalization and democratization on labor politics in Mexico and Korea and the strategies labor has evolved in response to these changes. It begins with an overview of the pre-transition period in the two countries with particular emphasis on the distinct patterns of state-labor relations that emerged in each and their impact on the respective labor movements. The following section focuses on the effec…
The Experience of European Integration and Potential for Northeast Asian Integration
For more about the East-West Center, see http://www.eastwestcenter.org
How to Deal with South Korea
Additional informationNotes on contributorsSunhyuk KimSunhyuk Kim is an associate professor in the Department of Public Administration at Korea University.Wonhyuk LimWonhyuk Lim is a fellow at the Korea Development Institute and a nonresident fellow at the Center for Northeast Asian Policy Studies at the Brookings Institution in Washington, D.C
State–Society Relations in South Korea after Democratization: Is the Strong State Defunct
This paper argues that the two recent structural transformations of political democratization and market‐oriented economic restructuring have not considerably reduced the role of the strong state in South Korea. Focusing on three sectors (civic groups, big business associations, and labor unions), this paper demonstrates that the strong state in South Korea, by selecting and aligning with different social groups, has been effectively pursuing sel…
Social dialogue and industrial relations in South Korea: Has the tripartite commission been successful
This paper analyses the sweeping changes in industrial relations in South Korea that have taken place since democratisation in 1987, which gave workers the right to organise themselves, and critically reviews the development of social dialogue since the financial crisis of 1997. A number of international labour specialists have maintained that social dialogue plays an important role in enhancing economic restructuring and the stability of industr…
Contextualizing the meaning of public management reforms: A comparison of the Netherlands and South Korea
Previous literature has demonstrated that the apparent global convergence between public management reforms is misleading because there are major differences in how a global paradigm of reform is implemented. This is not only a question of implementation, but also of interpretation. Even when reforms are similar with respect to the administrative measures that are implemented, they can have significantly different political and cultural meanings,…
The Dynamics of Welfare Policy-Making in South Korea: Social Movements as Policy Entrepreneurs
This paper analyzes the role of social movements in the creation and evolution of a welfare state in South Korea. We begin with a theoretical overview of the existing works on policy change, highlighting concepts such as ideas, policy paradigms, and windows of opportunity. We then examine state institutions, hegemonic policy paradigms, and the specific dynamics of welfare policy-making during South Korea’s authoritarian period (1961–1987). Next, …
Dynamics of Contention” in Democratic Korea: The Role of Anti-Americanism
Solidarity as a unifying idea in building an East Asian community: Toward an ethos of collective responsibility 1
This article examines prospects for solidarity, defined as an ethos of collective responsibility that works across a political community's normative values and policy decisions, as a unifying idea that can inspire and promote steps toward regional political community across East Asia. Just as the European Union's (EU) founders and its past and present visionaries have appealed consistently to an inclusive, transnational model of solidarity in fra…
Civil society and local activism in South Korea's local democratization
Recent studies on causes of intergovernmental transformation in old and new democracies have found that decentralization is often the outcome of negotiations between national and local political interests. South Korea is commonly believed to be an exception because local elections and institutions introduced in the early 1990s were, by and large, the product of negotiations among political elites at the centre, without significant inclusion of lo…
Jasmine Does Not Bloom in P yongyang: The Persistent Non‐transition in N orth K orea
At the beginning of 2011, the world was shaken by an “earthquake” which struck the M iddle E ast and A frican regions. Following the A rab S pring or J asmine R evolution, many pundits stated that N orth K orea could be the next to be affected by this wind of change, and the N orth K orean dictatorial leadership could collapse soon. This assumption acquired further validity soon after K im Jong‐il 's death. This paper draws on the democratic tran…
NGOs and Social Protection in East Asia: Korea, Thailand and Indonesia
This article analyzes the role of non-governmental organizations (NGOs) in social protection in East Asia. The article focuses on two types of NGO roles in social protection—direct provision and indirect pressure—and examines how the relative proportions of the two types of roles vary by country in East Asia, depending on factors that are contextual (political democratization), pulling (developmental welfare state), or pushing (civil society). A …
Administrative reform in South Korea: New Public Management and the bureaucracy
This article analyzes the political dynamics of South Korea’s recent administrative reform. We argue that successive South Korean governments’ New Public Management-inspired reform programs have only achieved partial success. In particular, they have largely failed to attain their ultimate goal – i.e. significant weakening of the traditionally strong elite bureaucracy in policymaking. The bureaucracy in the country has not become weakened as a re…
What makes employees cynical in public organizations? Antecedents of organizational cynicism
Organizational cynicism is associated with undesirable outcomes such as reduced organizational performance. In this study we examined factors leading to organizational cynicism in a public organization undergoing market-oriented reforms. Participants were 275 employees at Korea Post, Korea. Our empirical results showed that organizational cynicism is decreased by coworker trust and transformational leadership and increased by job stress. Also, th…
The Making of Presidential Agendas in Korea: A Comparison of Four Governments
This study compares the presidential agendas of the four recent Korean governments of Kim Dae-jung (1998-2003), Roh Moo-hyun (2003-08), Lee Myung-bak (2008-13), and Park Geun-hye (2013-17). After a theoretical overview of the three factors affecting the formation of the presidential agenda (i.e., party ideology, presidential leadership, and social environment) this paper reviews the details of the presidential agendas of each administration and d…
Dealing with Covid-19 in South Korea: Reflections on state theories
In this paper, we reflect on South Korea's relative success in dealing with COVID-19 from the perspective of state theories. Korea's success was due to the legacies of the developmental state, combined with the elements of the regulatory state and the network state, and facilitated by IT development. We also argue that we are witnessing a new state type that no longer features the existing state types' obsession with economic development. The eme…
Authentic leadership and employee voice behavior: The effect of Chinese employees' Zhongyong thinking
Purpose Employee voice behavior is an important source of corporate competitiveness but employees often face difficulties in voicing their opinions. This research analyzes how authentic leadership may increase psychological safety perceived by employees, consequently encouraging employees to actively share their ideas. In addition, the authors explore the unique concept of Zhongyong thinking, a way of thinking that is common in cultures rooted in…
The Origins of Collaborative Governance in South Korea: An Analysis of the First Ten Years after Democratisation
South Korea's transition to democracy in 1987 was driven by social movements. The grand democracy coalition included the opposition party and various civic associations, including student groups, labour unions, and religious organisations. Civil society continued to pressure the post-transitional governments to dismantle authoritarian structures and remove undemocratic practices. Political authoritarianism in South Korea in 1961–1987 was insepara…
Political science (26 works) · Law (19 works) · Politics (19 works) · Economics (17 works) · Law (15 works) · Political economy (14 works) · Democracy (13 works) · Sociology (13 works) · Democratization (11 works) · Asian Industrial and Economic Development (10 works)