Korean Politics

1999 ◽  
Author(s):  
John Kie-Chiang Oh
Keyword(s):  
Korean Politics

scholarly journals Women in South Korean Politics: A Long Road to Equality

2006 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Heike Hermanns
Keyword(s):  
Attitudinal Change ◽  
Female Representation ◽  
Parliamentary Elections ◽  
Early 21St Century ◽  
The Public ◽  
South Korean ◽  
Korean Politics ◽  
Successful Women ◽  
The Public Sphere ◽  
Direct Outcome

This paper examines the reasons for the increase in female representation in South Korean politics in the early 21st century. It is not a direct outcome of Korea’s democratisation process but a result of attitudinal change as well as the efforts of women’s organisations. The Korean experience shows that female representation in parliaments is not the only way to influence politics and policies on women’s issues. This paper starts with a general discussion of democratic procedures that influence female representation before looking at their application in South Korea. Coinciding with procedural changes, societal transformation paved the way for the advancement of women in the public sphere. Women’s organisations play an important role in promoting gender equality and women’s policies, especially since the late 1990s after they started to engage with the state. Their efforts included the introduction of quotas that allowed more women to enter formal elective politics, more than doubling the number of successful women in the 2004 parliamentary elections. Further steps are needed, however, to ensure sustainable and irreversible progress.

scholarly journals New approaches to North Korean politics after reunification: The search for a common Korean identity

2014 ◽  
Vol 47 (2) ◽  
pp. 179-190 ◽  
Author(s):  
Virginie Grzelczyk
Keyword(s):  
National Identity ◽  
Korean Peninsula ◽  
North Korea ◽  
Core Component ◽  
New Approaches ◽  
Korean Identity ◽  
Korean Politics

Whilst most of the literature focusing on the Korean peninsula has concentrated on how to achieve unification through confidence-building measures, dialogues, negotiation and diplomacy, little attention has been paid to how a unified Korean identity, a core component of any potential reunification scheme could develop and be sustained. The paper addresses this gap by: (1) defining what national identity is, and how Korean identities have been formed, (2) outlining how both South and North Korea have understood and used the concept of national identity, (3) suggesting possible grounds on which the two Koreas could build a new, common national identity.

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