The purpose of this research is to analyse the process of South Korean nationalism and national identity construction through studying Chinese table tennis players that have become naturalised citizens of South Korea. Based on an Eliasian theoretical and methodological prospective, this research employs three different methods of analysis. First, it employs archival analysis in the historical context chapter to determine the origins of table tennis and its spread to Northeast Asia, the political and societal role of table tennis in China and South Korea, and the appearance of the first naturalised player in South Korea. Second, this study employs newspaper text analysis to investigate newspaper reports of the South Korean and Chinese table tennis matches from the 1988 Seoul Olympics Games to the 2012 Games in London. This section first examines the flow of Korean nationalism through the table tennis matches between Korea and China, and then explores how the newspaper reports expressed nationalism in regard to the Korean players and naturalised players. Third, this study employs an interview method to gather data from 17 interviewees who have been associated directly or indirectly associated with the Chinese naturalised table tennis players in order to further examine the process of the formation of South Korean national identity. The first analysis regarding historical findings identifies that table tennis has evolved precisely alongside Elias s sportisation theory. In South Korea and China, table tennis has played the role of a national sport. Especially in South Korea, table tennis was a nationalistic sport that opposed anti-colonialism and anti-communism. It was in table tennis that the first naturalised athlete in the history of South Korean sport was selected for the Olympics. In the second analysis, through examining news reports of the Olympic table tennis matches between China and South Korea, this research identifies that South Korean newspapers continue to generate a strong image of nationalism. Moreover, the newspaper reports do not use the same nationalistic sentiments and personal pronouns for South Korean players and naturalised players. Finally, the interview analysis investigates the formation of South Korean identity through the naturalised table tennis players in South Korea. Three national identities groups have arisen in South Korea in response to the emergence of naturalised athletes. The first group approves of globalisation and naturalisation. The second group opposes globalisation and naturalisation. The third group, which comprises the media, has no specific interest in globalisation and naturalisation, but has an identity that changes based on the interests of the media company. In other words, the evidence from the interviews carried out for this thesis shows that South Korean national identity in regard to naturalised athletes remains diversified and not unified.

abstract: Despite the minor differences in the inclusiveness of the word, there is a general assumption among the scientific community that the 'pursuit of knowledge' is the most fundamental element in defining the word 'science'. However, a closer examination of how science is being conducted in modern-day South Korea reveals a value system starkly different from the value of knowledge. By analyzing the political discourse of the South Korean policymakers, mass media, and government documents, this study examines the definition of science in South Korea. The analysis revealed that the Korean science, informed by the cultural, historical, and societal contexts, is largely focused on the values of national economic prosperity, international competitiveness, and international reputation of the country, overshadowing other values like the pursuit of knowledge or even individual rights. The identification of the new value system in South Korean science deviating from the traditional definition of science implies that there must be other definitions of science that also deviates, and that even in the Western world, the definition of science may yield similar deviations upon closer examination. The compatibility of the South Korean brand of science to the international scientific community also implies that a categorical quality is encompassing these different contextual definitions of science. / Dissertation/Thesis / M.S. Biology 2011

abstract: Resilience is emerging as the preferred way to improve the protection of infrastructure systems beyond established risk management practices. Massive damages experienced during tragedies like Hurricane Katrina showed that risk analysis is incapable to prevent unforeseen infrastructure failures and shifted expert focus towards resilience to absorb and recover from adverse events. Recent, exponential growth in research is now producing consensus on how to think about infrastructure resilience centered on definitions and models from influential organizations like the US National Academy of Sciences. Despite widespread efforts, massive infrastructure failures in 2017 demonstrate that resilience is still not working, raising the question: Are the ways people think about resilience producing resilient infrastructure systems? This dissertation argues that established thinking harbors misconceptions about infrastructure systems that diminish attempts to improve their resilience. Widespread efforts based on the current canon focus on improving data analytics, establishing resilience goals, reducing failure probabilities, and measuring cascading losses. Unfortunately, none of these pursuits change the resilience of an infrastructure system, because none of them result in knowledge about how data is used, goals are set, or failures occur. Through the examination of each misconception, this dissertation results in practical, new approaches for infrastructure systems to respond to unforeseen failures via sensing, adapting, and anticipating processes. Specifically, infrastructure resilience is improved by sensing when data analytics include the modeler-in-the-loop, adapting to stress contexts by switching between multiple resilience strategies, and anticipating crisis coordination activities prior to experiencing a failure. Overall, results demonstrate that current resilience thinking needs to change because it does not differentiate resilience from risk. The majority of research thinks resilience is a property that a system has, like a noun, when resilience is really an action a system does, like a verb. Treating resilience as a noun only strengthens commitment to risk-based practices that do not protect infrastructure from unknown events. Instead, switching to thinking about resilience as a verb overcomes prevalent misconceptions about data, goals, systems, and failures, and may bring a necessary, radical change to the way infrastructure is protected in the future. / Dissertation/Thesis / Doctoral Dissertation Civil, Environmental and Sustainable Engineering 2018

Submitted by Caroline Falcao (caroline.rfalcao@ufpe.br) on 2017-05-09T15:40:55Z No. of bitstreams: 2 license_rdf: 1232 bytes, checksum: 66e71c371cc565284e70f40736c94386 (MD5) Tese Glaudionor Barbosa.pdf: 2876325 bytes, checksum: 9c1aa4ae0e9fd0323c80f98d59ad341d (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2017-05-09T15:40:55Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 2 license_rdf: 1232 bytes, checksum: 66e71c371cc565284e70f40736c94386 (MD5) Tese Glaudionor Barbosa.pdf: 2876325 bytes, checksum: 9c1aa4ae0e9fd0323c80f98d59ad341d (MD5) Previous issue date: 2012-08-20 / A tese objetiva comparar as políticas do Estado Nacionale os resultados verificáveis em termos de desenvolvimento econômico e social do Brasil e da Coréia do Sul. O pressuposto teórico é de que o Estado tem alguma jurisdição sobre o movimento de capitais e mercadorias dentro de sua soberania territorial cujo significado mais importante é de que os entes estatais possuem poder suficiente, mas muito limitado pela competição interestatal e intercapitalista, para modificar a estrutura em camadas do sistema-mundo. Ou seja, a existência de três zonas, a saber, o Núcleo Orgânico, a Semiperiferia e a Periferia, onde prevalece uma estabilidade raramente mutável. Trabalha-se com as hipóteses de que a situação geopolítica e a integração com o capital do núcleo orgânico podem gerar níveis diferentes de desenvolvimento e que o papel do Estado é fundamental no estímulo ao desenvolvimento, na definição de estratégias de localização, de concentração, de associação virtuosa com o capital privado, com a produção rápida e ampla de capital do conhecimento. A industrialização brasileira ocorre sob o signo de um espirito ambivalente. Duas dualidades surgem e acompanham o desenvolvimento capitalista no Brasil: a necessidade concreta nos anos trinta de proteger e estimular o segmento agrícola (burguesia cafeeira), como forma de garantir a renda necessária para comprar as importações, tornou-se uma aliança que perdura na contemporaneidade, dado que é quase impossível separar os interesses burgueses urbanos e rurais. O poderoso agronegócio e a ausência de uma reforma agrária efetiva e abrangente confirmam esta tese. A segunda dualidade é aquela que sempre colocou de um lado agentes públicos e privados desenvolvimentistas daqueles partidários da chamada “finanças sadias” e de uma irredutível ortodoxia em teoria e em politica econômica. Esta oposição, em geral, disputa suas proposições e suas estratégias de ação não apenas na imprensa ou no parlamento, mas dentro do próprio aparelho de Estado. A Coréia do Sul, de forma diferente dos países latino americanos, incluindo o Brasil, foi fortemente beneficiada por grandes somas de ajuda externa, logo após a divisão do país em 1948, e continuou a receber recursos externos sob a forma de ajuda militar por muito tempo.Das diversas fontes pesquisadas surge uma forte evidência de que os fatores decisivos para o desenvolvimento econômico da Coréia do Sul cabem ao papel do Estado e ao mecanismo do planejamento econômico. Assim, a ultrapassagem da economia sul-coreana foi obtida através de uma estreita aliança formada por um estado forte, com foco no desenvolvimento pleno e por um setor empresarial forte e comprometido. / The thesis aims to compare the policies of the National State and verifiable results in terms of economic and social development of Brazil and South Korea. The theoretical assumption is that the State has some jurisdiction over the movement of capital and goods within its sovereignty land whose meaning the most important state entities have enough power, but limited by interstate and intercapitalist competition to modify the layered structure of the world system. Works with the hypothesis that the geopolitical situation and the integration with the capital of the organic nucleus can generate different levels of development and that the State's role is crucial in stimulating the development, the definition of localization strategies, concentration, association virtuous with private capital, with the rapid production and extensive capital of knowledge. The industrialization occurs under the sign of an ambivalent spirit. Two dualities arise and accompany capitalist development in Brazil: a real need in the thirties to protect and stimulate the agricultural sector (coffee bourgeoisie), in order to guarantee the income needed to buy imports, became an alliance that continues in contemporary since it is almost impossible to separate the bourgeois urban and rural interests. The powerful agribusiness and the absence of an effective agrarian reform and comprehensive support this thesis. The second duality is one that has always placed on one side public and private developmental those supporters of the "sound finance" and an uncompromising orthodoxy in economic theory and policy. This opposition, in general, fight their propositions and their strategies not only in the press or in parliament, but within the State apparatus. South Korea, so different from Latin American countries, including Brazil, was strongly favored by large sums of foreign aid, after the division of the country in 1948, and continued to receive foreign funds in the form of military aid for a long time. Of the various sources researched strong evidence emerges that the decisive factors for the economic development of South Korea fit the role of the State and the mechanism of economic planning. Thus, passing the South Korean economy was achieved through a close alliance formed by a strong State, focusing on the full development and aalso strong and committed business sector.

This research interrogates South Korean women’s gender, ethnic and national identity construction revealed through sport spectacle. Two phases of the interviews were conducted for the research: focus group interviews during the 2004 Athens Olympics and individual interviews between March and April 2005, the period of the final qualifying stage for the 2006 FIFA World Cup. Newspaper extracts on the Olympics and the football matches were presented in the interviews. The analysis of the women’s identity construction was contextualized in relation to South Korea’s socio-cultural, historical and political networks. Globalisation provides the overall framework for the research. Globalisation has dramatically transformed the way people construct their relations to themselves, others and their nation. The research explored how the interviewed women produced and reproduced the meanings and values of the sport events and sport games in search for a sense of security and certainty in the ever-shifting global context. Their struggles to ‘live’ in the new social milieu, a process of reterritorialisation, were also analysed. Moreover, the women’s relationships with North Korea were examined based on the concepts of the ethnic identity and also of the nation as a historical community with shared culture, tradition and history. Although infamously labeled internationally as part of the ‘axis of evil’, North Korea provided a source of ambiguous identity to the interviewees. The women’s perceptions of Japan, South Korea’s old enemy, were also investigated around the themes of postcolonial identities. In addition, the research demonstrated the women’s gendered perceptions of sportswomen and sportsmen and an idea of nationhood represented by them.

Background: The total fertility rate (TFR) in South Korea has fallen below 1.3 since 2001. The role of the rapid shift toward a late-childbearing pattern in driving Korean fertility decline to this ultra-low level has been little explored until now. Objective: We provide an in-depth analysis of period fertility trends by birth order in South Korea from 1981 to 2015, when the period TFR fell from 2.57 to extremely low levels. Methods: We combine census and birth registration data to estimate period and cohort fertility indicators by birth order. We compare changes in conventional TFR with tempo- and parity-adjusted total fertility rate (TFRp*) and their birth-order-specific components. Results: The tempo effect linked to the shift toward delayed childbearing has had a strong and persistent negative influence on period TFRs in South Korea since the early 1980s. Without the shift to later childbearing, period fertility rates in South Korea would consistently stay higher and decline more gradually, reaching a threshold of very low fertility, 1.5, only in 2014. The postponement of childbearing and the resulting tempo effect were strongest in the early 2000s, when Korean TFR reached the lowest levels. More recently, Korean fertility has been characterized by a diminishing tempo effect and falling first and second birth rates. This trend marks a break with the previous pattern of almost universal fertility and a strong two-child family model. Contribution: Our study demonstrates the importance of the tempo effect in explaining the shift to ultra-low fertility in South Korea and in East Asia.

This thesis investigates the production and consumption of the independent music sector in South Korea in the digital age. It examines the value of music and how it is created in the digital age. Thus, it suggests the impacts of the Internet for consumers and producers. The investigation is based on the view that there has been a transition to value co-creation by consumers and producers, away from the traditional view of value being produced by firms alone, and that this value can be symbolic, emotional and experiential. The thesis shows that this transition has indeed occurred in the music industry. To investigate value and value creation in popular music in the digital age, an in-depth single case study of the independent music industry in South Korea is conducted. Qualitative data was collected, using semi-structured interviews, from independent music consumers and independent record labels. This research reveals that consumers’ music consumption is made up of both information-processing and experiential behaviours. Their desire to minimize the inappropriateness and maximize the appropriateness of independent music and its culture contributes to its sustainment and expansion. This research also reveals the online practices of consumers, categorized into three themes: acquisition, relationship and engagement. In addition, the examination of music communities in South Korea shows that consumers are resource integrators. It reveals that the consumption communities are organized and maintained through various operant resources of the participants. The data from the independent record labels reveals that they are trying hard to interact with consumers and benefit from the new media. They are found to conduct four value (co)creation strategies: contacting, bonding, spreading and managing. Finally, this research shows that difficulties in utilizing social media can be categorized into the following: adaptability, uncontrollability, representability and applicability. The key contributions of this research are as follows: Firstly, it extends our understanding of the symbolic consumption of music. Secondly, it identifies a form of consumption community, which can be termed a ‘co-creative consumption community’. Lastly, it demonstrates the value (co)creation practices used by consumers and the strategies used by producers. These findings extend the existing knowledge and suggest new evidence that contributes to an increased understanding of the concept of value co-creation, and to consumer research in general. In addition, the findings will benefit marketers and producers, especially in cultural industries such as the music industry.

This diploma thesis summarizes the issue of the developmnet and the transformation of the Korean economy. It focuses on the development of the economy since the Japanese occupation untill now. Due to this broad time period it's goal is not a detailed analysis of each transformation step and process but rather a general summary of the issue. The emphasis is put on the inner-economic processes as well as on the outside circumstances interfering the economy and on inner political issues. The thesis also clears up some specifics of the Korean economy.

本論文之研究目的在探討對外援助對台灣的重要性，並以南韓作為比較分析，因兩國有高度相似的援外發展歷史。台灣與南韓已成功由受援國躍升為援助國，此研究著重於其近十年來的援助情形，目的是了解台灣援外的優劣勢以提供未來發展的展望。作者採用質性研究方法，邀請台灣援外的從業人員以及外交學者進行半結構式訪談。結果顯示，外交是台灣的首要關注，然而南韓則是出自經濟利益考量，鎖定特定的開發中國家。台灣擁有成功的發展經驗和優秀的人力資源，但是也面臨難解的困境，像是對邦交國的過度在意、衰退的經濟、以及兩岸關係的起伏跌宕。藉由解析南韓的援外狀況與專家訪談的回饋，研究者提供以下建議，企盼為台灣援外帶來改變的契機:建立多面向的援外系統、尋求商業機會、促進公私部門合作、穩定台海關係、帶動經濟復甦、創造雙贏的援外模式。 / This study intended to identify the importance of foreign aid to Taiwan while South Korea served as a benchmark due to their high-level of similarity in developmental history. The focus was their donor behaviors in recent years and a literature review was conducted to understand related concepts and the two nations’ aid experiences. The goal of this project was to examine the advantages and disadvantages of Taiwanese aid so as to look into its future prospects. A qualitative method was adopted through semi-structured interviews with diplomacy professors and aid practitioners. South Korea pivots to certain developing countries for their economic value, while diplomacy has been Taiwan’s top priority. Developmental success and human resources are Taiwan's strengths but its overemphasis on diplomacy, deteriorating economy, and wavering ties with China cause obstacles. A review of South Korean aid along with the interviewee’s response suggest several ways to improve: building a multidimensional aid system, seeking economic opportunities, forming public-private partnerships, stabilizing cross-strait ties, boosting economic recovery, and pursuing a win-win. The research findings shed light on Taiwan’s aid conditions and offer valuable policy recommendations.

The thesis analyses the international trade of South Korean republic between years 2009 and 2014. The main aim is to analyze free trade agreements which Korea adopted lately. Specifically free trade agreements with European Union and United States of America. Diploma thesis is evaluating their influence on economic development of participating countries. Both free trade agreements are similar to each other in their scope and how ambitious they are. The time difference between these agreements is only one year. The introductory part is dedicated to Korean economic miracle. In other words this part is about key drivers of Korean economic development since beginning of 1960 until today. Next part after examines the development of economic relations between European Union and Korea. Korea became one of the most important trading partners for EU in contrary the great distance between countries. Applicative part analyses the influence of free trade agreements on international trade between countries and macroeconomic situation. For this purpose I processed basic macroeconomic data and detailed data about international trade. I try to evaluate positive and negative consequences of free trade agreements on involved economies. Major part is dedicated to FTA between EU and South Korea. Analyze consist of statistical data from different sources and couple position papers of official European institutions. Thesis examines the influence on major macroeconomic indicators, specific sections of international trade and the influence on trade with cars and car related parts in detail. The same procedure is applied for the analyses of KORUS free trade agreement. Similar data are used in order to maintain the consistency and comparability. Summary of observed conclusions is available at the end of each part.