Jamie Doucette

TL;DR: The authors examines the interactions of sovereignty and political economy that shape North Korea's Kaesong Industrial Complex (KIC), an economic zone jointly operated by North and South Korea, and argues that the KIC represents an experimental form of territoriality: one that is particularly volatile due to its unique geopolitical location.

TL;DR: Lee et al. as mentioned in this paper examined the election of Lee Myung Bak through the terminal crisis of the Roh Moo Hyun government that preceded it and argued that this crisis involves a problem of articulation within progressive politics between a politics of reunification and one grounded in egalitarian economic reform, including the lack of an alternative to the different forms of neo-liberalism embraced by both the Roh government and the conservative government.

TL;DR: In this article, a critical intervention into South Korea's recent effort to promote its 1970s authoritarian-era rural modernization program, Saemaul Undong (New Village Movement), as the 'iconic' model of its international development assistance is provided.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors apply Badiou's concept of Thermidorean politics to show how conservative forces in South Korea have targeted the political spaces of the Korean democracy movement, including the afterlife of cold war representations of social space, the role of reform forces in the disarticulation of radical demands of the democracy movements, as well as role of "renegade" (formerly oppositional) intellectuals in the creation of a chimera of 'pro-North' Left are analysed as sources of a Korean Thermidor.

TL;DR: Park's legacy has long been mythologized by conservative forces in both Korea and abroad as that of a virtuous and wise political leader, and the praise of Park's virtues (especially his "economization of politics", as one prominent conservative economist puts it) has many uses as mentioned in this paper.