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A study of the Korean Wave in order to be a lesson to Thailand for establishing a Thai Wave / Pavinee Potipan, Nantaphorn Worrawutteerakul. - Mälardalen University. School of Sustainable Development of Society and Technology. - 76 p. (Master's thesis) After having faced the economic collapse in 1998, South Korea government initiated “Hallyu” as a soft power to improve the economic status, export its cultural products and even build the country an image. Hallyu or the Korean wave represented the popularity of Korean popular culture which had spread across Asia. Asian people widely consumed Korean cultural goods by watching Korean dramas, listening to Korean pop music or even doing plastic surgery to look like Korean actors as well as imitating their fashion style. The success of the Korean wave also expanded to other Korean industries such as tourism, food, electronics and so on. Purpose The purpose of the research is to figure out the possibility for Thailand to adopt the strategy of the Korean wave in the interest of creating a Thai wave. The authors will investigate the factors behind the Korean wave success and compare it to Thailand‟s potential that might affect to the creation of a Thai wave. Method The research was conducted with a qualitative approach. Data collection applied both primary and secondary data. Focus groups from three Asian nationalities were used as primary data. The secondary data as a main resource collected from many websites, books, and online articles.
http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:mdh:diva-9819
Keywords: Culture, East Asia, Nordic Perspective, Publications, South Korea, Southeast Asia, Sweden, Thailand,
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Adoption in Korea : a longitudinal (1920-2006) analysis of ideological changes in the public discourse / Euisung Jung. - Oslo : Institute of Psychology, Universitetet i Oslo, 2008. - 121 p. (Master's thesis) A longitudinal analysis (1920-2006) of “adoption” as an issue represented in the public discourse in Korea, is presented in this master thesis. Newspaper articles referring to adoption were identified in searchable electronic databases. As Korea is a major source of transnational adoption and also has the highest ratio of adoptions per 100.000 births, one would expect adoption to constitute a prominent social issue in the public discourse. Across the seven decades (1920-2006) available to analysis, the frequency of newspaper articles referring to adoption varied strongly: With exception to a few occasions during the twenties, adoption was virtually absent as an issue in the public discourse until after WWII, and in particular after the Korean War. After the huge interest created by the Korean War faded, the interest for adoption stayed at a rather low level until the late eighties/early nineties when the interest increased rapidly until present (2006) and by far surpassed even the frequency of articles referring to adoption immediately after the Korean War. Qualitative analysis of newspaper articles containing the word adoption showed that adoption was conceived of within ideologically frameworks changing over time.
http://www.duo.uio.no/publ/psykologi/2008/75811/euisungjmaster08final.pdf
Keywords: East Asia, Nordic Perspective, Norway, Publications, Social conditions, South Korea,
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The Amnesty International library contains an archive of most reports, news releases and urgent actions published from 1996 to date. The archive is searchable by region, sub-region, country and theme.
http://web.amnesty.org/library/engindex
Keywords: Central Asia, China, East Asia, Hong Kong, Human rights, In Focus, In Focus 2008, In Focus 2008 Week 11, Japan, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Macau, Mongolia, North Korea, South Korea, Tadzhikistan, Taiwan, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan,
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Tampere University
MA student of history in Tampere University and also the chairman of the Finland-Korea-Society. The master thesis will deal with the history of Finnish relations toward the two Koreas as well as its stand toward the Korean question in 1970's.
http://www.lomalinja.com/antti_siikaaho
Keywords: East Asia, East Asia, Finland, History, Korea , Nordic Perspective, North Korea, Person, South Korea,
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This website provides information about the Asia-Pacific Partnership on Clean Development and Climate (AP6) including; the vision, charter and structure; links to relevant websites and publications, information on task force action plans and projects and news and media articles. The AP6 brings together Australia, China, India, Japan, Republic of Korea and the United States to address the challenges of climate change, energy security and air pollution in a way that encourages economic development and reduces poverty. With its focus on the development, deployment and transfer of cleaner, more efficient technologies, the AP6 also aims to introduce new ways for business, government and researchers to work together. It is also the first time that industry has been afforded an opportunity to contribute as equal partners in global climate change discussions.
http://www.ap6.gov.au/
Keywords: China, Climatology, East Asia, Environment, In Focus, In Focus 2007, In Focus 2007 Week 51, In Focus 2008, In Focus 2008 Week 32, In Focus 2009, In Focus 2009 Week 16, In Focus 2011, In Focus 2011 Week 19, India, Japan, South Asia, South Korea,
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ARTNeT is an informal and open network of research and academic institutions with a strong interest in trade and investment policy and facilitation issues. Institutions involved in the network are classified as ARTNeT Members, Core Partners, and Associate Partners. Please consult the ARTNeT membership guidelines or the list of members and partners for more information. iven the increasing complexity of the international trade environment, policy makers in the UNESCAP region are in need of more effective institutions able to deliver the research and analytical studies to make better decisions. In April 2004, developing countries in Asia and the Pacific expressed support for the establishment of a research network on trade to equip the region with a mechanism for enhancing the capacity of research institutions. This led to the creation of the Asia-Pacific Research and Training Network on Trade (ARTNeT), an open regional network composed of leading trade research institutions across the UNESCAP region, and supported by the International Development Research Centre (IDRC), Canada. The UNESCAP Trade and Investment Division is the Secretariat of the Network and coordinate its activities, while an Institutional Advisory Board (IAB) has been set up to provide leadership and guidance during its initial phase. Three Permanent Advisors for Research, Professors Jagdish Bhagwati, Alan Deardorff and John Whalley, also provide strategic guidance on the ARTNeT research programme and its implementation.
http://www.unescap.org/tid/artnet/member.asp
Keywords: Bangladesh, Cambodia, China, East Asia, Economic issues, Education, Fiji, India, Indonesia, Laos, Melanesia, Nepal, Oceania, Philippines, South Asia, South Korea, Southeast Asia, Thailand, Vietnam,
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Asian Affairs is produced and published by by Larkincil International Ltd, a private consulting company based in Hong Kong providing policy makers, transnational group executives and major think-tanks with a strategic perspective of Asian affairs through specific research studies and confidential reports. asian affairs is dedicated to regular studies and analysis of Asia, South, Southeast and East Asia, particularly in the field of international relations, economics and financial affairs.The purpose of Asian Affairs is to strengthen communication and understanding and to offer a platform of exchange of information between Asia and Europe in the field of regulations, policies and economic trends and business cooperation.
http://www.asian-affairs.com/Frametop/think-tank.html
Keywords: Bangladesh, Central Asia, China, East Asia, General references, In Focus, In Focus 2010, In Focus 2010 Week 08, India, Indonesia, Japan, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Nepal, North Korea, Philippines, Research, Singapore, South Asia, South Korea, Southeast Asia, Sri Lanka, Thailand, Vietnam,
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Asian models for aid / Alf Morten Jerve. - Bergen : CMI, 2007. - 18 p. - (CMI report R 2007:12) The expansion of the international donor community clearly challenges the current "consensus" of a new "harmonised" aid architecture, and calls for strategies on how to adjust to an aid landscape with greater plurality and variety, for recipients and donors alike. A first step for a donor like Norway is to ask what can be learned from the Asian donors on new or alternative forms of donorship. What can we learn from Japan's extensive aid experience, but also from China and India which started south-south cooperation and aid programmes back in the early 1950s? Do they represent alternative thinking on what brings economic development and poverty reduction? Will this challenge some of the basic ideas underpinning the current emphasis of national poverty reduction strategies supported by the donor community? Such questions formed the background for a seminar arranged in Oslo, 5 December 2006, inviting experts on Japan, China, India and South Korea to address the question: Is there a non-Western approach to development assistance? The following is a summary of the main massages and arguments presented, and the discussion on what Norway as a donor can do.
http://www.cmi.no/publications/file/?2767=asian-models-for-aid
Keywords: China, Development, Development. Poverty, East Asia, India, Japan, Nordic Perspective, Norway, South Asia, South Korea,
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The Asian Network for Free Elections (ANFREL) is a network of civil society organisations which was founded in 1997 and seeks to promote democracy and free elections in Asian nations. Its website provides information on the aims of the organisation, its membership and recent activities. It includes press releases about recent and forthcoming Asian parliamentary and presidential elections, plus access to a growing collection of full text election monitoring reports. Other useful features include summaries of the constitutions, electoral laws and election codes of individual nations.Countries covered include: Bangladesh, Cambodia, India, Indonesia, Japan, Nepal, Pakistan, Philippines, South Korea, Sri Lanka and Thailand.
http://www.anfrel.org/
Keywords: Bangladesh, Cambodia, East Asia, Elections, In Focus, In Focus 2009, In Focus 2009 Week 17, India, Japan, Nepal, Pakistan, Philippines, Politics and society, South Asia, South Korea, Southeast Asia, Sri Lanka, Thailand,
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A free weekly service offering forecasts of 10 Asian stock markets Hongkong, India, Indonesia, Japan, Korea, Malaysia, Philippines, Singapore, Taiwan, Thailand, including Dow Jones and the NASDAQ-index
http://www.asiachart.com
Keywords: China, East Asia, Economic issues, Hong Kong, India, Indonesia, International economic relations, Japan, Malaysia, Philippines, Singapore, South Asia, South Korea, Southeast Asia, Taiwan, Thailand,
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