• Title/Summary/Keyword: Local Politics

Search Result 112, Processing Time 0.022 seconds

The Daily History and Self-consciousness of Jeonju Citizens: Two Examples of Reading Groups (전주 시민의 일상사와 자기의식 『혼불』과 공유지(Commons)의 사례)

  • Oh, Hangnyeong
    • The Korean Journal of Archival Studies
    • /
    • no.81
    • /
    • pp.5-44
    • /
    • 2024
  • This paper is an experience and observation report on the activities of Jeonju citizens, who are 'kleine leutes'. Text or Born-digital materials such as diaries, group chat rooms, memos, and interviews showing citizens' contemporary and daily history (Alltagsgeschichite) were used for this purpose. These civic groups are reading groups we can find easily and they also enjoy walking, hiking, and movies, and so to speak ordinary local people are their members. One team read Choi Myung-hee's "Honbul" for about a year and a half, while another team read several books under the theme of "commons," and enjoyed exploring, exhibiting, or watching movies together. The main text is composed of three parts. First, I looked at the methods and perspectives to examine the daily life of local people. To this end, the views of Detlev Peukert and Alf Lüdtke, who captured the prospects and the possibilities of theories of daily history, and James C. Scott, who provided insight into infra-politics, were reviewed. This work was to find the perspective and method of daily history research that could observe the activities of Jeonju citizens. Second, we looked at the experience of the "Honbool" meeting. The reading of "Honbool" which took place during the period of confrontation with Covid19 began in connection with its intense locality. As the criticism of "a great writer born in our local land" relieved the uncomfortable feelings, the members' critical mind was revealed after Volume3 of "Honbool" and stood out after Volume6. It seemed to show the characteristics of the self-consciousness (Eigensinn) of citizens who choose dynamics rather than being stuck to a specific form of empathy (Betroffenheit). I think it showed the difficulty and hope to face in the description and research of local history at the same time. Third, I observed citizens who gathered on the subject of public land. This meeting showed the actuality and accumulation process of the infra-political capabilities of citizens in Jeonju. Reading-commons did not suffer from 'heart trouble' as a local citizen compared to "Honbool". Rather, the difficulty of related books was an obstacle, and the difficulty was easily resolved. As the meeting progressed, awareness of the commons became more sophisticated and issues and discussions were independently shared with each other, and a wealth of hidden transcripts were accumulated through its practice and problem consciousness. It is difficult to think about modern daily life apart from the capitalist era. More fundamentally, it is here and now in everyday life that humans enjoy or suffer from. All history passes through my body here and now. This is the universality of daily history. It depends on the ability of citizens to create daily history to experience and at the same time maintain the distance of criticism.

The Study of a rational management to the protective area of military installations (군사시설보호구역의 합리적 관리방안에 관한 연구)

  • Kim, Myeong-Sun
    • Journal of National Security and Military Science
    • /
    • s.2
    • /
    • pp.23-89
    • /
    • 2004
  • The protective area of military installations can be a essential investment goods for producting public goods like military installations and national security. For the purpose of this, The protective area of military installations are set up and applicated at important strategic areas. It causes colplications and frictions among the people, government and army inevitably to set up the protective area of military installations, as the relation between the army which produces security or public goods and the people that make and use valuable goods is opposed and contradictory to each other. Heretofore, the civil petition of the protective affair to military installations has been presented individually. As local self- government is fixed, a local selg-governing body presents many civil petitions now. Therefore the protective affair to military installations came to be examined carefully in the aspecs of improving the relationship between the civil and army, raising natinal competitiveness, and increasing efficiency of military operations. Though the relationship between the civil and army is opposed and contradictory, it is required to be in keeping with each other with a situation around society, that is, changes and trend of national security, politics, economy, society. Accordingly, if you drive plans of rational management to the protective area of military installations, you can not only achieve successful military installations, but also be a great help to growth of a local community. Then 「The Army with the people」worthy of the name can be real.

  • PDF

The Politics of Space in Cultural Strategies of Japanese Local Cities (일본 지방도시의 문화전략과 '지역다움'의 논리)

  • Cho, A-Ra
    • Journal of the Korean association of regional geographers
    • /
    • v.14 no.5
    • /
    • pp.480-491
    • /
    • 2008
  • Recent globalization and de-industrialization have caused intensive competition among places; hence, cities worldwide are pursuing regeneration and enhanced competitiveness through cultural strategies. Focusing on the cultural strategies of local cities in Japan, this paper reveals that the concept of "being-a-region" is key to cultural strategies, and explores what logic is inherent in such regional developments. Since the period of rapid economic growth, Japanese local cities have played the role of "Furusato(home) for Japanese." With the recent decentralization, "being-a-region" is now emerging as a powerful discourse for the cultural strategies of local cities. This idea of "being-a-region" can be largely defined as a region's special character or even an existential sense of place, but in fact it is political relationships among agencies that define the region. "Being a region" in Japan appears to extend to "being a nation." Thus, it would be necessary to focus on the power relationships that surround the concept of "being a region" when we deal with the meaning of region in relationships to cultural strategies of local cities.

  • PDF

The Effect of Store Characteristics of a Supermarket on Store Loyalty: A Comparative Study of the Local Supermarket and the Super Supermarket (슈퍼마켓 점포속성이 점포충성도에 미치는 영향: SSM과 독립자영 SM의 비교연구)

  • Ahn, Sung-Woo;Kwon, Sung-Ku
    • Journal of Distribution Science
    • /
    • v.10 no.11
    • /
    • pp.61-70
    • /
    • 2012
  • Purpose - The entry of Super Supermarkets (SSM), operated by large corporations, into the retail distribution market weakens the competitive power of local supermarkets (SM) and their families leading to a rapid collapse of the local-SM market. Accordingly, this is a very sensitive and urgent issue in Korean society and politics. Therefore, the government is required to take steps to activate a local-SM market and regain the loyalty of their customers. However, in spite of the urgent need of a comparative study on the advantages and competitive power of local-SM in relation to the SSM, little research has been done on this issue to date. One purpose of this study is to analyze the differences in store characteristics of the local SM and SSM, and to explore the relationships amongst various store characteristics, such as consumption emotion, relation quality, and store loyalty between store types to provide an efficient solution to activate a local-SM market. Research design, data, methodology - To analyze the differences in the evaluation of store characteristics between store types, and to test the moderator and mediator effects, data were collected from 488 customers in Seoul, Incheon,and Gyeonggi Province. The theoretical model consists of four hypotheses, and data was processed to test these using factor analysis, t-test, regression analysis, hierarchical regression, and the three step regression proposed by Baron and Kenny. Results - First, the analysis shows that local-SM customers evaluate location characteristic factors significantly higher compared to SSM customers. However, SSM customers evaluate quality of merchandise, sales promotion activities, and store environment significantly higher. Yet, there are no significant differences in the evaluation of consumption emotion, relation quality,and store loyalty between the store types. Second, the analysis of moderator effects of the store type show that sales promotion and store atmosphere factors have a significantly negative moderating effecton positive consumption emotion, while positive consumption emotion has a significantly positive moderating effect on absorption of relation quality, while there are no significant moderating effects between consumption emotion and store loyalty. Third, while both trust and absorption of relation quality are partially mediated between consumption emotion and store loyalty, only absorption is partially mediated between positive consumption emotion and store loyalty. There are no significant mediating effects of absorption between negative consumption emotion and store loyalty. Conclusions - We strongly recommend that location restrictions on entrance of SSM into local-SM market should either be further strengthened or sustained for the activation of the local store market. Government should strengthen financial support to improve the quality of merchandise, sales promotion, employee education, store environment of the local-SM by providing appropriate business consulting. Moreover, the result implies that the owners of alocal-SM should take measures to increase customers' absorption and store loyalty, such as store cleanliness, maintaining a delightful atmosphere at the store, and training employees on attitudes towards customers. As this study is restricted within Seoul, Incheon, and Gyeonggi Province, care needs to be taken in generalizing the interpretation and application to the national level.

  • PDF

The Development of Contents for Unification Education in Busan from the Perspective of Social Tourism ('사회적 관광' 정책 관점을 통한 부산지역 통일교육콘텐츠 개발 방안)

  • Kim, HyunJung
    • Korea and Global Affairs
    • /
    • v.2 no.2
    • /
    • pp.41-61
    • /
    • 2018
  • This study suggests the conceptual basis to integrate local tourism support policy and local unification educational contents development strategy through theoretical analysis about 'Social Tourism' and 'cross-compliance'. Also the purpose of this study is to reinterpret existing tourism resources in order to apply it to the case of Busan. In this study, I investigated the data that have been studied in Pusanology and the history of Korean division. And I conducted interviews with 10 residents who have lived in Busan since the Korean War.

Factors Affecting Students' Decision to Choose Regional Public Universities: An Empirical Study from Vietnam

  • LE, Thi Thanh Thuy;TRAN, Minh Tuan;LE, Hoang Ba Huyen
    • The Journal of Asian Finance, Economics and Business
    • /
    • v.9 no.4
    • /
    • pp.143-152
    • /
    • 2022
  • The purpose of this paper is to investigate the impact of several factors on students' decisions to attend a public institution in Vietnam's North Central area. The enrollment issue toward regional institutions is particularly critical in the Vietnam Ministry of Education and Training reforming the university enrollment process and the complicated scenario of the Covid-19 pandemic. A total of 500 students were surveyed for research samples. Data is synthesized, validated, cleaned, and analyzed using SPSS and AMOS software using methods including reliability, EFA, CFA, and SEM. The findings suggest that the proposed independent components (individual factors, study fees, advertisement, infrastructure and facilities, local features, and lastly, training activities) have a beneficial impact on students' decision to attend a public university in the North Central region. The study also found that the graduation exam outcome had a moderating effect on the relationship between registration and students' decisions. These imply targeted solutions for regional public universities to diversify training majors, improve training quality, capitalize on local advantages, increase interaction, and promote training programs and image to be more effective in attracting students and maintaining competition in the current enrollment environment.

Re-examining the Effects of Partisan Politics on Welfare Expenditures in Korean Local Governments (지방정부 복지지출에 미치는 정치요인의 영향 재고찰)

  • Kim, Beomsoo;Lee, Byung-Jae
    • Korean Journal of Legislative Studies
    • /
    • v.24 no.1
    • /
    • pp.203-239
    • /
    • 2018
  • Responsible government can be achieved when social cleavages are institutionalized via political competition and social interests are represented by responsible parties. This paper aims to investigate the factors that determine welfare expenditures in Korean local governments by analyzing partisanship and political competition factors simultaneously in the same model. This paper also argues that the relationship between the political factors and welfare expenditures in local governments is not linearly increasing as the previous studies claim. This paper examines the welfare expenditures in Korean municipality-level local governments in 2007, 2011, and 2015. The primary findings are: 1) the partisanship of the head of local government and the party distribution of local assembly members have meaningful effect on the welfare expenditures and the divided governments do not show significantly different effect on welfare expenditures from unified governments, which is contrary to the extant studies, 2) the partisan effects of the head and the local assembly vary according to the levels of municipalities (Gu, Gun, and city), mainly due to the difference in types of revenues and expenditures and 3) the relationship between seats shares of progressive parties in local assembly and the welfare expenditure is not linearly increasing one. The effect of seats shares of progressive parties dramatically begins to increase when the seats shares are in 40%-60%. With these findings, this paper highlights the conservative nature of head of local governments with Hannara party (or Saenuri Party), the conservative leaning of independent candidates, and the conservative orientation of local assemblies in the regions dominated by Democratic Party (and its equivalents).

A Study on the Periodic Changes of Apartment Supply in the City of Donghae (동해 시 아파트 공급의 시대적 변천에 관한 연구)

  • Kim, Kyung-Soon
    • Journal of the Korean housing association
    • /
    • v.17 no.5
    • /
    • pp.67-76
    • /
    • 2006
  • The purpose of this study was to explore the periodic changes of apartment supply between 1980 and 2001 in the City of Donghae. A survey was conducted with 82 apartment complexes that were built in during 21years. The data were itemized and specified by the unit house area, story, periodic and local apartment distribution. They were classified by five:(5) periods and analyzed by each apartment complexes for building characteristics. There were found that apartment housing were influenced by many primary factors such as demographics and a lot of the housing politics etc. The results of this study were as follows: 1) Apartment supply in the City of Donghae mass-produced from 1980 to 2001; Especially the forth period was supplied 5,999 households. 2) Between south area and north area was found a regional disparity. 3) The exclusive use $34{\sim}66m^{2}$ were continuously and centrally supplied according to the housing policy and practical demand. 4) For the types of story were variously found ; Especially the below 5 story apartment was continuously supplied.

Research on Information Spread impact of SNS(Study of Twitter) (SNS 정보확산력 산출에 관한 연구 - 트위터를 중심으로 -)

  • Park, Sang Min;Park, Tae Hyoung;Lee, Kyung Ho
    • Journal of Korea Society of Digital Industry and Information Management
    • /
    • v.8 no.3
    • /
    • pp.157-169
    • /
    • 2012
  • As of 2006. 3. the twitter offered in the USA has been one of the propaganda instrument used with ads and politics functioning speedy information diffusion on SNS communicated with others through 140 letters of short messages. and while twitter is using propaganda instrument, it keeps on trying to verify how it has an effect on. So, on the paper, I suggest new simulation model of information diffusion based on probability being able to predict the range of proliferation after it analyze the existing influence and the diffusion force on verification methods. It designed algorithm of verification and algorithm of prediction to use twitter's Open API with Python basement. It proved effectiveness on the model through the analysis to operate the twitter of practical local autonomous entity.

Congressional Caucus and Foreign Policy: A Study of the Korea Caucus in U.S. Congress (의회 조직과 외교 정책: 미국 의회 코리아 코커스 사례를 중심으로)

  • Seo, Jungkun;Lee, Gah Yong
    • American Studies
    • /
    • v.44 no.2
    • /
    • pp.35-65
    • /
    • 2021
  • U.S. lawmakers tend to organize sub-party groups focusing on regions, ideologies, policies, and foreign affairs. Examples include the conservative Freedom Caucus loyal to Trump and the Congressional Black Caucus promoting the interests of African Americans. Then how do these legislative groups affect the making of U.S. foreign policy? Paying special attention to the Korea caucus in U.S. Congress, we have analyzed the sources and processes of congressional caucus and foreign policy and have learned that structures and activities of the caucuses differ from one another. The Korea caucus seems to be a bipartisan group that focuses on issues such as trade, travel, and troubles provoked by Pyongyang. However, the Korea caucus is not really a solid voting bloc for policy alternatives; it is instead more of a constituency-oriented legislative group that prioritizes local interests. This research underscores the need for systematic and comprehensive study of U.S. legislative politics and foreign policy.