Men and Women in the South Korean National Assembly: Social Barriers to Representational Roles

Asian Survey ◽  
1986 ◽  
Vol 26 (6) ◽  
pp. 670-687 ◽  
Author(s):  
R. Darcy ◽  
Sunhee Song
Keyword(s):  
The South ◽  
Men And Women ◽  
Social Barriers ◽  
National Assembly ◽  
South Korean

PRESIDENTIALIZATION AND PROCEDURAL RULES CHANGE: THE CASE OF THE SOUTH KOREAN NATIONAL ASSEMBLY

2019 ◽  
Vol 19 (1) ◽  
pp. 111-129
Author(s):  
Hojun Lee
Keyword(s):  
Legislative Politics ◽  
Presidential Candidate ◽  
The South ◽  
Majority Party ◽  
National Assembly ◽  
Electoral Incentives ◽  
South Korean ◽  
Procedural Reform ◽  
Rules Changes

AbstractThe common assumption of legislative politics is that the majority party structures procedural rules to suit its interests. In a presidentialized context, however, presidential electoral incentives prevail over majority party's incentives when voting on procedural rules changes and the threat of punishing majority-party defectors is not credible when those defectors vote with the presidential candidate. To test these claims, I analyze the case of the procedural reform in the South Korean National Assembly. The case study reveals that 1) the leading presidential candidate of the ruling majority Saenuri Party compromised on the procedural reform bill that imposes restrictions on the majority party's cartel arrangement due to presidential electoral incentives; 2) a significant number of Saenuri Party members defected from the majority of their co-partisans to vote with the presidential candidate; and 3) career advancement ratio and re-nomination ratios demonstrate that those defectors were not punished afterwards.

Multiculturalism as “New Enlightenment”: The Myth of Hypergamy and Social Integration in Punch

2018 ◽  
Vol 23 (1) ◽  
pp. 135-152 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hye Seung Chung
Keyword(s):  
Cold War ◽  
Social Integration ◽  
Government Policy ◽  
Golden Age ◽  
The South ◽  
Male Bonding ◽  
National Assembly ◽  
South Korean ◽  
Cold War Era ◽  
The Cold War

Abstract This article examines the commercially successful multicultural film Punch (Wan-dŭk i, Yi Han, 2011) as an example of new “enlightenment” (kaemong) cinema, one that—like its precedents in the South Korean Golden Age cinema of the 1950s and 1960s—supports the official government policy. While classic enlightenment films made during the Cold War era endorsed state-sanctioned narratives of anticommunism, modernization, and development, Punch toes the line of the South Korean government’s millennial project of multiculturalism (tamunhwa). Despite its intent to create a hopeful, affirmative message of tolerance and inclusion, Punch ironically silences the dissenting voice of a migrant bride character (played by Jasmine Lee, a Philippine-born TV personality-turned-representative in the National Assembly) who remains marginalized and peripheral in the masculine narrative wherein male bonding and mentoring reign supreme.

The South Korean national assembly elections 1996

1997 ◽  
Vol 34 (3-4) ◽  
pp. 180-189
Author(s):  
Peter Morriss
Keyword(s):  
The South ◽  
National Assembly ◽  
South Korean

Legislative Politics

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Byoung Kwon Sohn
Keyword(s):  
Political Parties ◽  
Executive Branch ◽  
Legislative Politics ◽  
Legislative Process ◽  
The South ◽  
Predominant Role ◽  
National Assembly ◽  
South Korean ◽  
Legislative Parties

This chapter discusses the general characteristics of the South Korean National Assembly frequently observed since democratization in 1987. Among other things, the chapter primarily focuses on the two major actors in the South Korean parliamentary arena, standing committees and legislative parties. It starts by describing the evolution of the National Assembly, maintaining that the South Korean legislative process has been heavily dominated by the president and the executive branch in one way or another. This observation was never truer than during the authoritarian eras, but has also been the case since the start of the Sixth Republic. With respect to the major actors, political parties in the National Assembly can be said to play a predominant role, while the standing committees have atrophied despite their nominal centrality and positional importance. All the explanations in this chapter suggest that the so-called inter-party consultative system more often than not gives way to majoritarianism in the actual legislative process when the two modes collide.

The South Korean national assembly elections 1992

1992 ◽  
Vol 31 (115) ◽  
pp. 60-62 ◽  
Author(s):  
Peter Morriss
Keyword(s):  
The South ◽  
National Assembly ◽  
South Korean

Voter Demands, Access to Resources, and Party Switching: Evidence from the South Korean National Assembly, 1988–2008

2013 ◽  
Vol 14 (4) ◽  
pp. 453-472 ◽  
Author(s):  
JAE HYEOK SHIN
Keyword(s):  
South Korea ◽  
Public Policies ◽  
The South ◽  
Access To Resources ◽  
National Assembly ◽  
South Korean ◽  
Opposition Party ◽  
Party Loyalty ◽  
Party Members ◽  
Effective Representation

AbstractThis paper investigates why some legislators tend to switch parties frequently – which is believed to undermine effective representation of citizen interests in democracies – while others tend to stay put. On the assumption that the ultimate goal of legislators is to be reelected, I argue that voters' demands for local/individual benefits, or pork, and legislators' lack of access to resources for such benefits are likely to lead the legislators to switch parties in order to improve their electoral chances in the subsequent election. By analyzing party switches by legislators from 1988 to 2008 in South Korea, where the president controls access to the pork pipeline, I find that the president's party members are less likely and independents are more likely to change party affiliations, irrespective of voter demands for pork or national public policies. However, I also find that opposition party legislators who are elected from less-developed districts, where voters tend to desire pork over policy, are more likely to switch parties than those elected from more-developed districts. These findings suggest that interaction between voter demands and party access to resources influences politicians’ party loyalty: voter demands for pork (or policy) tend to lead politicians to be less (or more) loyal to their current parties. Voter demands, however, have little impact on the party loyalty of those who are already in parties with access to the pork pipeline.

Heritage

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Omar Shaikh ◽  
Stefano Bonino
Keyword(s):  
Facial Expressions ◽  
South Asian ◽  
Online Video ◽  
The South ◽  
Men And Women ◽  
The Public ◽  
Video Footage ◽  
Community Heritage ◽  
Personal Accounts ◽  
The Way

The Colourful Heritage Project (CHP) is the first community heritage focused charitable initiative in Scotland aiming to preserve and to celebrate the contributions of early South Asian and Muslim migrants to Scotland. It has successfully collated a considerable number of oral stories to create an online video archive, providing first-hand accounts of the personal journeys and emotions of the arrival of the earliest generation of these migrants in Scotland and highlighting the inspiring lessons that can be learnt from them. The CHP’s aims are first to capture these stories, second to celebrate the community’s achievements, and third to inspire present and future South Asian, Muslim and Scottish generations. It is a community-led charitable project that has been actively documenting a collection of inspirational stories and personal accounts, uniquely told by the protagonists themselves, describing at first hand their stories and adventures. These range all the way from the time of partition itself to resettling in Pakistan, and then to their final accounts of arriving in Scotland. The video footage enables the public to see their facial expressions, feel their emotions and hear their voices, creating poignant memories of these great men and women, and helping to gain a better understanding of the South Asian and Muslim community’s earliest days in Scotland.

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