150085 VO+UE Introduction to society, culture and economy of Korea (2013S)

Place: Seminarraum Koreanologie 1 UniCampus Hof 5 2I-O1-12

30.5 2013 Thursday (eventhough its holiday!)
9:00 -10:30
Rainer Dormels: Introduction: Overview of the political history of South Korea
Koreas Problem with Japan- aspects in the naming of the East Sea

10:45-12:15
Kim Youngmi: The General and Presidential Elections 2012 in South Korea: Party strategies and electoral engineering'. Theories on electoral engineering. Review of the elections in 2012

Lunch Break

14:00 - 16:00
Matteo Fumagalli: Shifting conceptions of homeland among post-Soviet Koreans
Exit, voice, and loyalty: Political participation and mobilization among the Post-Soviet Koreans

31.5.2013 Friday
9:00 - 10:30
Antonio Fiori: Reignite Sunshine Policy: the Best Way to Improve Inter-Korean Relations?Understanding Regime Stability in North Korea

10:45 - 12:15
Kevin Gray: Theories of South Korean Development, The 1997 Economic and Financial Crisis and its Implications for the South Korean Political Economy

Lunch Break

14:00 - 15:30
Jeong Im Hyun:
From political bankruptcy to democratic prosperity:
Revisiting Korea through big socio-political incidents from 1950-1979
From political bankruptcy to democratic prosperity:
Revisiting Korea through big socio-political incidents from 1980-2008

Everyone is expected to write a paper on one of the above topics with around 3000 Words.
Due until: July 7th 2013
plese send it to marianne.fenboeck@univie.ac.at
(in case of late submission the grade will be downgraded by one grade per day)