Past Events at the Centre for the Study of Korea
September 2012
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Friday, September 21st Why was there no Religious War in Historical East Asia?
Date Time Location Friday, September 21, 2012 2:00PM - 4:00PM Seminar Room 208N, Munk School of Global Affairs
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Series
East Asia Seminar Series
Description
In premodern East Asia, the Confucian and also deeply Buddhist and shamanist — countries of Korea, Japan, Vietnam, and China rarely experienced anything like the type of religious violence that existed for centuries in historical Europe. How do we explain a region in which religion was generally not a part of the explanation for war, terrorism, and other violence? I argue that the dominant inclusivist religions of historical East Asia that were syncretic and polytheistic Buddhism, Confucianism, and shamanism — did not easily lend themselves to appropriation by political entrepreneurs as a means of differentiating groups or justifying violence. Directly addressing the paucity of religious war in historical East Asia is theoretically important: widening the empirical scope of scholarship to include a focus on the major foundational religions of East Asia addresses a potentially serious issue of selection bias.
David C. Kang is Professor of International Relations and Business, and Director of the Korean Studies Institute, at USC. Kang’s latest book is East Asia Before the West: Five Centuries of Trade and Tribute (Columbia University Press, 2010). He received an A.B. with honors from Stanford University and his Ph.D. from Berkeley.
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October 2012
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Wednesday, October 3rd Non-standard Workers in the Republic of Korea
Date Time Location Wednesday, October 3, 2012 4:00PM - 6:00PM Seminar Room 208N, Munk School of Global Affairs
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Description
This study investigates how particular configurations of institutional conditions cause high rate of non-standard employment rate in the Republic of Korea. We investigate how employment protection legislation, unemployment benefit and statutory minimum wages are associated with non-standard employment. Then, we focus on the female non-standard workers and examine the re-entrance of female workers in the Korean labour market. We highlight that women in their 40s has the highest rate of employment among all female worker and that a large proportion of these women are entering into non-standard employment. In approaching to this question, we examine the political economy of this phenomenon by first discussing the demand side of the Korean labour market with gendering of the varieties of capitalism argument and then the supply side with the work-life balance argument. When examining the re-entrance of the labour market, women with general skills with lower education and high education both found it more feasible to re-enter to the labour market as non-standard workers. While work and life balance is a prominent reason for women’s choice of opting out of the labour market, work and life balance choice mattered less for women re-entering the labour market as non-standard workers in their 40s and 50s but instead the firm based skill formation mattered more. In addition, the retail service industry is suggested to absorb a large number of female works with lower skill level who would have had difficulties in re-entering into other male oriented companies.
Sophia Seung-yoon Lee obtained her doctorate degree in social policy at the University of Oxford in 2011 and is now an assistant professor of social policy at Ewha Womans University in Seoul, South Korea. Before joining Ewha, she also worked at Kyoto University as a GCOE assistant professor.
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