Rights In Korea Research Articles

The politics of human rights in East Asia

Introduction: Asian and western views on human rights -a clash of values? Section 1 Northeast Asia - human rights in China, human rights in Taiwan, human rights in Korea, human rights in Japan section 2 Southeast Asia - human rights in Indonesia, human rights in Burma/Vietnam, human rights in Thailand and the Philippines, human rights in Malaysia and Singapore, ASEAN and human rights. Conclusion: east Asia and human rights problems and paradoxes.

Gender portrayal in Hong Kong and Korean children's TV commercials: A cross‐cultural comparison

This study examined gender portrayal in a sample of 345 television commercials broadcast during children's programmes in Hong Kong and Korea using content analysis. Literature suggests that Hong Kong culture differs from Korean culture on the dimension of Masculinity/Femininity proposed by Hofstede. The differences between the two countries provide a valid test of theory, and suggest hypotheses about the gender portrayal in children's advertising. The results of the study showed, contrary to expectations from Hofstede's framework, that the gender portrayal of central characters and the level of gender stereotyping in Hong Kong commercials was similar to those of Korean commercials. Possible explanations include the emerging homogeneous youth market using a standardized advertising strategy, and the rising concern for women's rights in Korea.

Comparative Review of Children's Rights and Women's Rights in Korea

Sondra Seung Ja Doe outlines the development of children's rights and women's rights in modern Korea as the welfare state evolves in response to international concern for human rights.

The Republic of Korea: Human Rights, Residual Wrongs, New Initiatives

Abstract: This paper traces the profound changes that have taken place in human rights, in itself an evolving concept, in Korea since the political liberalization of 1987. It concludes that human rights issues between the U.S. and the Republic of Korea should be concentrated on demonstrating and articulating to each other, and to the external world actors, this dynamic process of positive change in which internal and external forces and dialogue, working together and even under considerable strain, produced positive changes. It proposes some mechanisms for collaboration in the Asian region with Korea playing a leading role. It traces the evolution of the process of the development of human rights in Korea, and notes the continuing problems that exist even in this period of liberalization.

Human Rights in Korea: Historical and Policy Perspectives (review)

Human Rights in Korea: Historical and Policy Perspectives (review)

Human Rights in Korea: Historical and Policy Perspectives. Edited by William Shaw. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1991.

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Human rights in Korea: historical and policy perspectives

Human rights in Korea: historical and policy perspectives

<em>Human Rights in Korea: Historical Policy Perspectives</em> Edited by William Shaw

BOOK REVIEW HUMAN RIGHTS IN KOREA: HISTORICAL AND POLICY PERSPEC- edited by William Shaw. Cambridge (Massachusetts) and London, East Asian Legal Studies Program of the Harvard Law School and the Council on East Asian Studies, 1991. 350 pp. No price given. TIVES, STANLEY M. YUKEVICHt Human Rights in Korea, a collection of essays examining the Korean human rights experience since the late nineteenth century, comes at a time of apparent triumph for South Korea. The nation has enjoyed decades of rapid economic growth, staged a successful 1988 Summer Olympics, and profited diplomatically from the de- mise of Communism worldwide. Indeed, as it forges growing ties with a North Korea suffering from the loss of Communist diplo- matic and economic patronage, South Korea seems to be moving confidently, if cautiously, towards reunification with the North on its own terms. However, the abysmal record of persistent and virulent repres- sion of civil and political rights by successive authoritarian regimes has marred the South Korean success story. Political repression in South Korea has often been conspicuous and sensational; govern- ment acts against opposition leader Kim Dae Jung have been well chronicled, and Seoul street battles between university students and riot police have provided frequent international television fare. Nonetheless, despite awareness of rights abuse in South Korea, no consensus has emerged that addresses the causes of and remedies for these practices. In this respect, Human Rights in Korea goes far towards providing the critical historical analysis necessary to effect civil and political rights gains, both in South Korea and elsewhere. Most impressively, the assembled authors thoroughly and rig- orously scrutinize the historical record to trace the development of Korean human rights consciousness both before and after the pe- ninsula's 1945 division, the histories of various reform movements, and the depressing rights legacies of South Korean regimes. The authors argue that the record has been ignored or distorted both by t J.D. expected 1993, UCLA School of Law. In 1987 the author served in the U.S. Army in W6nju, South Korea.

Quiet diplomacy in a television era: The media and U.S. policy toward the republic of Korea

Abstract This study examines the role of television coverage in U.S. policy toward South Korea, focusing on the May 1980 Kwangji incident and the subsequent visit of South Korean president Chun Doo Hwan to the White House in February of 1981. It explores these two episodes in the context of major dimensions of U.S. policy toward Korea and the themes developed through sporadic, low‐level coverage of Korea by mainstream American media over the years. The analysis underscores the political impact of television's dramatic visual focus, its use of consistent visual images, its expansion of the geopolitical scope of the policy process, and its personalization of policy. The dramatically different public interpretations of the Kwangju incident and Chun visit in Korea versus the United States suggests that President Reagan's first major state visit, during which he declared that his administration would pursue “quiet diplomacy” on human rights in Korea, while successful within the United States and in the short term, was damaging over the long term.

South Korea 1976: The Continuing Uncertainties

THE OPERATIONAL MILIEU Of the Republic of Korea (ROK) continued to be dominated by the Big Four, namely, the United States, the Soviet Union, the People's Republic of China, and Japan. In three of these regional and world powers there were leadership transfers or transformations with real or imagined impact on South Korea. The Jimmy Carter phenomenon became a veritable Carter shock for the ROK government, largely because of his stance on the problems of human rights in Korea and on the proposed withdrawal of U.S. nuclear weapons as well as phased military disengagement from South Korea. The legacies of Chou En-lai and Mao Tse-tung regarding Kim Ii Sung's policy of One Korea Soon' remained uncertain. If some elements of South Korean elites were turning toward conservative forces in Japan as a more reliable ally than the United States, the outcome of the recent Japanese elections gave the new Japanophiles little comfort. The Soviet Union apparently remained the main source of modern military equipment for North Korea, and the Soviet naval forces near Korean waters were becoming increasingly visible.2 Thus the psychological milieu of South Korea in 1976, a year after the decisive Communist victories in Indochina where ROK troops participated in the war, was characterized by chronic and almost neurotic anxiety.