Jong-Woon Lee
Biographic Data
| ID | 3696790 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Jong-Woon Lee |
| GIVEN NAMES | Jong-Woon |
| FAMILY NAME | Lee |
| SIGNATURE | LEE J |
| AFFILIATIONS | Korea Institute for International Economic Policy |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-9640-0281 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 10 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 24 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 10 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2011 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
North Korean Corporate Governance Reform and the State‐Market Nexus
The question of economic reform has been one of the most debated issues in the study of North Korean political economy. Through examining the case of corporate governance reform under the Kim Jong Un government, we argue that existing discusions of North Korea reform rest on a problematic ontological separation of state and market that fails to capture the extent to which the state uses economic reform to embed itself in and in certain respects d…
North Korea and the Geopolitics of Development
Kevin Gray and Jong-Woon Lee focus on three geopolitical 'moments' that have been crucial to the shaping of the North Korean system: colonialism, the Cold War, and the rise of China, to demonstrate how broader processes of geopolitical contestation have fundamentally shaped the emergence and subsequent development of the North Korean political economy. They argue that placing the nexus between geopolitics and development at the centre of the anal…
The Rescaling of the Chinese State and Sino-North Korean Relations
While Beijing has repeatedly signed up to multilateral sanctions against North Korea, it is widely regarded as having failed to strictly enforce those sanctions. Indeed, China's deepening economic engagement with the country has led observers to debate the causes of this seemingly duplicitous approach. Constructivist and realist approaches have relied on state-centric frameworks that serve to reduce Sino-North Korean relations to the high politic…
Cause for optimism? Financial sanctions and the rise of the Sino-North Korean border economy
This article critically engages with recent arguments that financial sanctions are capable of overcoming the shortcomings of traditional trade sanctions as well as more targeted ‘smart sanctions.’ Much of the existing analysis of financial sanctions cites as evidence of their success the case of the US Treasury's 2005 accusations against Macao's Banco Delta Asia of facilitating North Korean money laundering. We argue, however, that analysis of th…
Neo-Colonialism in South-South Relations? The Case of China and North Korea
The past decade has seen the rapid expansion of economic ties between China and North Korea, leading to questions of whether this emerging relationship resembles neo-colonialism or a more positive form of South-South cooperation. This article argues that China's engagement is driven in the first instance by strategic considerations, namely the maintenance of the geopolitical status quo on the Korean peninsula. However, North Korea has also become…
Understanding C hina's Economic Engagement with N orth K orea
There has not only been an escalation in S ino– N orth K orean economic relations of late, but a qualitative shift has also taken place in the nature of C hina's involvement in the N orth K orean economy, as evinced by the rapid growth in bilateral trade, and C hinese investment in N orth K orean natural resources and cross‐border infrastructure. In examining the recent trend in trade and investment flows, this study sheds light on the high degre…
Following in China's footsteps? The political economy of North Korean reform
Since the coming to power of Kim Jong Un in 2012, the North Korea government has recently announced, and to some degree has implemented, a new set of economic management policies known as the June 28th measures in 2012 and the May 30th measures in 2014. Both of these sets of measures seek to build upon the abandoned reforms of the early 2000s through restructuring North Korea's highly inefficient collective farm and state-owned enterprise managem…
Future Development Assistance to North Korea Through the Establishment of Multi-Donor Trust Funds
IntroductionThe economic recovery of North Korea has stagnated over the last two decades, the regime seemingly lacking the capacity to resolve food shortages and economic problems. Moreover, due to the recurrence of the nuclear issue and subsequent imposition of tighter sanctions against Pyongyang, not only has the scale of foreign aid decreased sharply, but the engagement of international donors in humanitarian assistance has also been greatly r…
The In-House Contracting Paradox
The Restructuring of Labour in the Automobile Industry in South Korea
Based on a case study of the South Korean automobile industry, this article explores the qualitative shift in employment practices implied by the expansion of contract labour from peripheral services to the main production activities of firms. This new phenomenon involves the greater integration of labour contracting into the production process, together with changes in employment practices and the rights of workers, which poses a challenge to ou…
Following in China's footsteps? The political economy of North Korean reform
Since the coming to power of Kim Jong Un in 2012, the North Korea government has recently announced, and to some degree has implemented, a new set of economic management policies known as the June 28th measures in 2012 and the May 30th measures in 2014. Both of these sets of measures seek to build upon the abandoned reforms of the early 2000s through restructuring North Korea's highly inefficient collective farm and state-owned enterprise managem…
Cause for optimism? Financial sanctions and the rise of the Sino-North Korean border economy
This article critically engages with recent arguments that financial sanctions are capable of overcoming the shortcomings of traditional trade sanctions as well as more targeted ‘smart sanctions.’ Much of the existing analysis of financial sanctions cites as evidence of their success the case of the US Treasury's 2005 accusations against Macao's Banco Delta Asia of facilitating North Korean money laundering. We argue, however, that analysis of th…
Neo-Colonialism in South-South Relations? The Case of China and North Korea
The past decade has seen the rapid expansion of economic ties between China and North Korea, leading to questions of whether this emerging relationship resembles neo-colonialism or a more positive form of South-South cooperation. This article argues that China's engagement is driven in the first instance by strategic considerations, namely the maintenance of the geopolitical status quo on the Korean peninsula. However, North Korea has also become…
The Restructuring of Labour in the Automobile Industry in South Korea
Based on a case study of the South Korean automobile industry, this article explores the qualitative shift in employment practices implied by the expansion of contract labour from peripheral services to the main production activities of firms. This new phenomenon involves the greater integration of labour contracting into the production process, together with changes in employment practices and the rights of workers, which poses a challenge to ou…
The In-House Contracting Paradox
The Rescaling of the Chinese State and Sino-North Korean Relations
While Beijing has repeatedly signed up to multilateral sanctions against North Korea, it is widely regarded as having failed to strictly enforce those sanctions. Indeed, China's deepening economic engagement with the country has led observers to debate the causes of this seemingly duplicitous approach. Constructivist and realist approaches have relied on state-centric frameworks that serve to reduce Sino-North Korean relations to the high politic…
The Restructuring of Labour in the Automobile Industry in South Korea
Based on a case study of the South Korean automobile industry, this article explores the qualitative shift in employment practices implied by the expansion of contract labour from peripheral services to the main production activities of firms. This new phenomenon involves the greater integration of labour contracting into the production process, together with changes in employment practices and the rights of workers, which poses a challenge to ou…
The In-House Contracting Paradox
Future Development Assistance to North Korea Through the Establishment of Multi-Donor Trust Funds
IntroductionThe economic recovery of North Korea has stagnated over the last two decades, the regime seemingly lacking the capacity to resolve food shortages and economic problems. Moreover, due to the recurrence of the nuclear issue and subsequent imposition of tighter sanctions against Pyongyang, not only has the scale of foreign aid decreased sharply, but the engagement of international donors in humanitarian assistance has also been greatly r…
Understanding C hina's Economic Engagement with N orth K orea
There has not only been an escalation in S ino– N orth K orean economic relations of late, but a qualitative shift has also taken place in the nature of C hina's involvement in the N orth K orean economy, as evinced by the rapid growth in bilateral trade, and C hinese investment in N orth K orean natural resources and cross‐border infrastructure. In examining the recent trend in trade and investment flows, this study sheds light on the high degre…
Following in China's footsteps? The political economy of North Korean reform
Since the coming to power of Kim Jong Un in 2012, the North Korea government has recently announced, and to some degree has implemented, a new set of economic management policies known as the June 28th measures in 2012 and the May 30th measures in 2014. Both of these sets of measures seek to build upon the abandoned reforms of the early 2000s through restructuring North Korea's highly inefficient collective farm and state-owned enterprise managem…
Neo-Colonialism in South-South Relations? The Case of China and North Korea
The past decade has seen the rapid expansion of economic ties between China and North Korea, leading to questions of whether this emerging relationship resembles neo-colonialism or a more positive form of South-South cooperation. This article argues that China's engagement is driven in the first instance by strategic considerations, namely the maintenance of the geopolitical status quo on the Korean peninsula. However, North Korea has also become…
Cause for optimism? Financial sanctions and the rise of the Sino-North Korean border economy
This article critically engages with recent arguments that financial sanctions are capable of overcoming the shortcomings of traditional trade sanctions as well as more targeted ‘smart sanctions.’ Much of the existing analysis of financial sanctions cites as evidence of their success the case of the US Treasury's 2005 accusations against Macao's Banco Delta Asia of facilitating North Korean money laundering. We argue, however, that analysis of th…
The Rescaling of the Chinese State and Sino-North Korean Relations
While Beijing has repeatedly signed up to multilateral sanctions against North Korea, it is widely regarded as having failed to strictly enforce those sanctions. Indeed, China's deepening economic engagement with the country has led observers to debate the causes of this seemingly duplicitous approach. Constructivist and realist approaches have relied on state-centric frameworks that serve to reduce Sino-North Korean relations to the high politic…
North Korea and the Geopolitics of Development
Kevin Gray and Jong-Woon Lee focus on three geopolitical 'moments' that have been crucial to the shaping of the North Korean system: colonialism, the Cold War, and the rise of China, to demonstrate how broader processes of geopolitical contestation have fundamentally shaped the emergence and subsequent development of the North Korean political economy. They argue that placing the nexus between geopolitics and development at the centre of the anal…
North Korean Corporate Governance Reform and the State‐Market Nexus
The question of economic reform has been one of the most debated issues in the study of North Korean political economy. Through examining the case of corporate governance reform under the Kim Jong Un government, we argue that existing discusions of North Korea reform rest on a problematic ontological separation of state and market that fails to capture the extent to which the state uses economic reform to embed itself in and in certain respects d…
Economics (10 works) · Korean Peninsula Historical and Political Studies (8 works) · Political science (7 works) · Economy (6 works) · Political economy (6 works) · Asian Industrial and Economic Development (5 works) · Business (5 works) · Politics (5 works) · China (4 works) · Development economics (4 works)