Jungmin Seo
Biographic Data
| ID | 3797360 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Jungmin Seo |
| GIVEN NAMES | Jungmin |
| FAMILY NAME | Seo |
| SIGNATURE | SEO J |
| AFFILIATIONS | Yonsei University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-9511-9677 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 16 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 41 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 16 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2007 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Un-suturing Westphalian IR via non-Western literature
This paper aims to un-suture common-sense assumptions based on Westphalian International Relations (IR) from South Korea’s non-essentialist and situated perspective, in the context of decolonising IR. Towards this end, the paper methodologically investigates a South Korean novel, A Grey Man , published in 1963 during South Korea’s early post-colonial period at the height of the Cold War. Using a non-Western novel to conduct a contrapuntal reading…
The political effect of medical dominance in South Korea’s Covid-19 response
Diagnosing Korea–Japan relations through thick description
Existing theories of international relations have failed to interpret the hostile relations between Korea and Japan due to their Cartesian assumptions about the nature of national sovereignty and identity. Such theories view the hostilities between the two states as the result of incorrect policies or unhealthy interactions between domestic norms and foreign policies, because they believe that there are few negative structural elements between Ja…
The ways to avoid abusive supervision
Following the recent emphasis on supervisory interactions in abusive supervision, this study explains why and how supervisors' job insecurity and authoritarianism are related to abusive supervision and how subordinates' characteristics, agreeableness and negotiating resistance interact with the effects of supervisors' characteristics. We conducted a field study with 261 supervisor and subordinate dyads in South Korea, and the study findings confi…
The emergence and evolution of International Relations studies in postcolonial South Korea
This study investigates how International Relations (IR) as an academic discipline emerged and evolved in South Korea, focusing on the country's peculiar colonial and postcolonial experiences. In the process, it examines why South Korean IR has been so state-centric and positivist (American-centric), while also disclosing the ways in which international history has shaped the current state of IR in South Korea, institutionally and intellectually.…
Theorizing the Park Chung Hee Era
The purpose of this critical review is to seek the possibility of theorizing the Park Chung Hee’s era by responding to two recent publications, Park Chung Hee and Modern Korea by Carter J. Eckert and The Rise and Fall of Korea’s Economic Development by Sung Hee Jwa. Eckert puts Park Chung Hee’s ideology and policies in the broad contexts of East Asian modernity and Jwa tries to extract a coherent principle that can explain not only the economic p…
Yanbian as a Spatial Representation
Civil Society under Authoritarian Rule
Despite a plethora of studies on the authoritarian regime, scholars have paid less attention to how an authoritarian regime not only maintains but also legitimizes its power. Contra both political economists emphasizing the regime's economic performance and social constructionists focusing on the "economy of power," this study illuminates a constitutive dimension of the authoritarian rule in which citizens are morally reformed, civil society is f…
Dynamics of Ethnic Nationalism and Hierarchical Nationhood
K orean– C hinese Migrant Workers and the Politics of K orean Nationalism
Why has K orean migration policy been ethnicized? This research mainly aims to explain ethnic preference in K orea's immigration policy through the lens of K orean nationalism. The influx of ethnic K oreans in C hina (or Joseonjok ) since the early 1990s has created a new dilemma for the S outh K orean government, which has long claimed to be the only legitimate polity of the K orean nation. The discrepancy between the legal citizenship and ethni…
Rethinking B eijing's Geostrategic Sensibilities to T ibet and X injiang
The aim of this essay is to examine the ways in which B eijing perceives the issues of T ibet and X injiang differently in the context of its geostrategic thinking in international politics today. In doing so, this essay will provide a deeper understanding of B eijing's different geostrategic sensibilities of T ibet and X injiang in regard to rising C hina's national security interests in C entral and S outh A sia. This essay argues that, althoug…
Post-1980s Multicultural Immigrant Neighbourhoods
Recent trends in migration across the Pacific Rim have suggested that neighbourhoods have become important sources of community identity, requiring a re-evaluation of the relationship between urban places and immigrants. Specifically, we argue that the notion of ethnic enclaves may not fit well with some of the newer, post-1980s immigrant populations in Pacific Rim cities. Using data from the cases of Los Angeles, Tokyo and Beijing, we argue that…
Introduction
The articles in this, the one of three special issues of Alternatives on the theme of indigenous politics in the globalizing world, deal with important questions: How are the flows of people and ideas as well as the institutions to manage them impeded or assisted by the state and other social, political, and economic institutions? What does improved knowledge and understanding of these flows contribute to how one defines an indigenous community? …
Using the Enemy’s Vocabularies
This study explores how anti-colonial discourses of student anti-state nationalism in the 1980s were influenced by the state nationalism during the Park Chung-Hee era. With few exceptions, studies on Korean democratization have exclusively focused on the growth of civil society, independent from the authoritarian state government. Nevertheless, this trend in research overlooks the simple historical fact that student protesters in the 1980s had be…
Politics of Memory in Korea and China
This study raises the question of “who” instead of “what” regarding the problem of collective memories in East Asia. To do so, I review the vicissitudes of the memories of two events, the Nanjing Massacre and the Comfort Women, which are now firmly entrenched in popular memories as the core Japanese atrocities against her neighbors during the Second Sino-Japanese War (1937–1945) and the Pacific War (1941–1945). By prioritizing political subjects …
Korean Security in a Changing East Asia
Since its partition in the 1950s, the Korean peninsula has directly or indirectly shaped the broader security relations between regional powerhouses, and the recent test of a nuclear weapon by the North Korean regime has heightened tensions across the world. This study draws upon contributions from a diverse array of experts who offer their perspectives on the region's complex network of alliances and hostilities. The authors discuss the future o…
Politics of Memory in Korea and China
This study raises the question of “who” instead of “what” regarding the problem of collective memories in East Asia. To do so, I review the vicissitudes of the memories of two events, the Nanjing Massacre and the Comfort Women, which are now firmly entrenched in popular memories as the core Japanese atrocities against her neighbors during the Second Sino-Japanese War (1937–1945) and the Pacific War (1941–1945). By prioritizing political subjects …
Dynamics of Ethnic Nationalism and Hierarchical Nationhood
K orean– C hinese Migrant Workers and the Politics of K orean Nationalism
Why has K orean migration policy been ethnicized? This research mainly aims to explain ethnic preference in K orea's immigration policy through the lens of K orean nationalism. The influx of ethnic K oreans in C hina (or Joseonjok ) since the early 1990s has created a new dilemma for the S outh K orean government, which has long claimed to be the only legitimate polity of the K orean nation. The discrepancy between the legal citizenship and ethni…
Diagnosing Korea–Japan relations through thick description
Existing theories of international relations have failed to interpret the hostile relations between Korea and Japan due to their Cartesian assumptions about the nature of national sovereignty and identity. Such theories view the hostilities between the two states as the result of incorrect policies or unhealthy interactions between domestic norms and foreign policies, because they believe that there are few negative structural elements between Ja…
Post-1980s Multicultural Immigrant Neighbourhoods
Recent trends in migration across the Pacific Rim have suggested that neighbourhoods have become important sources of community identity, requiring a re-evaluation of the relationship between urban places and immigrants. Specifically, we argue that the notion of ethnic enclaves may not fit well with some of the newer, post-1980s immigrant populations in Pacific Rim cities. Using data from the cases of Los Angeles, Tokyo and Beijing, we argue that…
The political effect of medical dominance in South Korea’s Covid-19 response
The emergence and evolution of International Relations studies in postcolonial South Korea
This study investigates how International Relations (IR) as an academic discipline emerged and evolved in South Korea, focusing on the country's peculiar colonial and postcolonial experiences. In the process, it examines why South Korean IR has been so state-centric and positivist (American-centric), while also disclosing the ways in which international history has shaped the current state of IR in South Korea, institutionally and intellectually.…
Rethinking B eijing's Geostrategic Sensibilities to T ibet and X injiang
The aim of this essay is to examine the ways in which B eijing perceives the issues of T ibet and X injiang differently in the context of its geostrategic thinking in international politics today. In doing so, this essay will provide a deeper understanding of B eijing's different geostrategic sensibilities of T ibet and X injiang in regard to rising C hina's national security interests in C entral and S outh A sia. This essay argues that, althoug…
Korean Security in a Changing East Asia
Since its partition in the 1950s, the Korean peninsula has directly or indirectly shaped the broader security relations between regional powerhouses, and the recent test of a nuclear weapon by the North Korean regime has heightened tensions across the world. This study draws upon contributions from a diverse array of experts who offer their perspectives on the region's complex network of alliances and hostilities. The authors discuss the future o…
Politics of Memory in Korea and China
This study raises the question of “who” instead of “what” regarding the problem of collective memories in East Asia. To do so, I review the vicissitudes of the memories of two events, the Nanjing Massacre and the Comfort Women, which are now firmly entrenched in popular memories as the core Japanese atrocities against her neighbors during the Second Sino-Japanese War (1937–1945) and the Pacific War (1941–1945). By prioritizing political subjects …
Using the Enemy’s Vocabularies
This study explores how anti-colonial discourses of student anti-state nationalism in the 1980s were influenced by the state nationalism during the Park Chung-Hee era. With few exceptions, studies on Korean democratization have exclusively focused on the growth of civil society, independent from the authoritarian state government. Nevertheless, this trend in research overlooks the simple historical fact that student protesters in the 1980s had be…
Introduction
The articles in this, the one of three special issues of Alternatives on the theme of indigenous politics in the globalizing world, deal with important questions: How are the flows of people and ideas as well as the institutions to manage them impeded or assisted by the state and other social, political, and economic institutions? What does improved knowledge and understanding of these flows contribute to how one defines an indigenous community? …
Post-1980s Multicultural Immigrant Neighbourhoods
Recent trends in migration across the Pacific Rim have suggested that neighbourhoods have become important sources of community identity, requiring a re-evaluation of the relationship between urban places and immigrants. Specifically, we argue that the notion of ethnic enclaves may not fit well with some of the newer, post-1980s immigrant populations in Pacific Rim cities. Using data from the cases of Los Angeles, Tokyo and Beijing, we argue that…
Rethinking B eijing's Geostrategic Sensibilities to T ibet and X injiang
The aim of this essay is to examine the ways in which B eijing perceives the issues of T ibet and X injiang differently in the context of its geostrategic thinking in international politics today. In doing so, this essay will provide a deeper understanding of B eijing's different geostrategic sensibilities of T ibet and X injiang in regard to rising C hina's national security interests in C entral and S outh A sia. This essay argues that, althoug…
Dynamics of Ethnic Nationalism and Hierarchical Nationhood
K orean– C hinese Migrant Workers and the Politics of K orean Nationalism
Why has K orean migration policy been ethnicized? This research mainly aims to explain ethnic preference in K orea's immigration policy through the lens of K orean nationalism. The influx of ethnic K oreans in C hina (or Joseonjok ) since the early 1990s has created a new dilemma for the S outh K orean government, which has long claimed to be the only legitimate polity of the K orean nation. The discrepancy between the legal citizenship and ethni…
Civil Society under Authoritarian Rule
Despite a plethora of studies on the authoritarian regime, scholars have paid less attention to how an authoritarian regime not only maintains but also legitimizes its power. Contra both political economists emphasizing the regime's economic performance and social constructionists focusing on the "economy of power," this study illuminates a constitutive dimension of the authoritarian rule in which citizens are morally reformed, civil society is f…
Theorizing the Park Chung Hee Era
The purpose of this critical review is to seek the possibility of theorizing the Park Chung Hee’s era by responding to two recent publications, Park Chung Hee and Modern Korea by Carter J. Eckert and The Rise and Fall of Korea’s Economic Development by Sung Hee Jwa. Eckert puts Park Chung Hee’s ideology and policies in the broad contexts of East Asian modernity and Jwa tries to extract a coherent principle that can explain not only the economic p…
Yanbian as a Spatial Representation
The emergence and evolution of International Relations studies in postcolonial South Korea
This study investigates how International Relations (IR) as an academic discipline emerged and evolved in South Korea, focusing on the country's peculiar colonial and postcolonial experiences. In the process, it examines why South Korean IR has been so state-centric and positivist (American-centric), while also disclosing the ways in which international history has shaped the current state of IR in South Korea, institutionally and intellectually.…
The ways to avoid abusive supervision
Following the recent emphasis on supervisory interactions in abusive supervision, this study explains why and how supervisors' job insecurity and authoritarianism are related to abusive supervision and how subordinates' characteristics, agreeableness and negotiating resistance interact with the effects of supervisors' characteristics. We conducted a field study with 261 supervisor and subordinate dyads in South Korea, and the study findings confi…
Diagnosing Korea–Japan relations through thick description
Existing theories of international relations have failed to interpret the hostile relations between Korea and Japan due to their Cartesian assumptions about the nature of national sovereignty and identity. Such theories view the hostilities between the two states as the result of incorrect policies or unhealthy interactions between domestic norms and foreign policies, because they believe that there are few negative structural elements between Ja…
Un-suturing Westphalian IR via non-Western literature
This paper aims to un-suture common-sense assumptions based on Westphalian International Relations (IR) from South Korea’s non-essentialist and situated perspective, in the context of decolonising IR. Towards this end, the paper methodologically investigates a South Korean novel, A Grey Man , published in 1963 during South Korea’s early post-colonial period at the height of the Cold War. Using a non-Western novel to conduct a contrapuntal reading…
The political effect of medical dominance in South Korea’s Covid-19 response
Political science (15 works) · Law (12 works) · Politics (12 works) · Sociology (11 works) · Law (10 works) · History (6 works) · Political economy (6 works) · Gender Studies (5 works) · Japanese History and Culture (5 works) · Gender Studies (4 works)