Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Iowa, 1988. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 295-316).

Thesis (Ph. D.)--Koryŏ Taehakkyo, 1998. / Includes bibliographical references (p. 287-306).

Thesis (Ph.D.) - University of Queensland, 2005. / Includes bibliography.

Thesis (Ed.D.)--Boston University / PLEASE NOTE: Boston University Libraries did not receive an Authorization To Manage form for this thesis or dissertation. It is therefore not openly accessible, though it may be available by request. If you are the author or principal advisor of this work and would like to request open access for it, please contact us at open-help@bu.edu. Thank you. / This qualitative study examined South Korean teenagers' views on North Korea and possible reunification. In-depth interviews conducted with fourteen (14) South Korean high school students reported that these teenagers were tom about whether or not they should support reunification. While students acknowledged the lack of dialogue and discussion on reunification in the classrooms and with family members, they particularly had a difficult time making sense of North Koreans as one people based on the same blood and ancestry. Rather than the same genealogy with North Koreans, cultural compatibility was identified as the most important criterion for these fourteen students who were raised in the consumerist, global society and identified themselves with westernized, pop culture to measure connect-ability with North Koreans. Interviews with six (6) teachers in civics, ethics, and history, and three (3) curriculum experts as well as textbook analysis corroborated these findings from the student interviews. Cultural psychology and institutional theory provided theoretical frameworks to gam a comprehensive understanding of how cultural elements and institutional resources and conditions helped or hindered these South Korean teenagers' understanding of their relationship with North Koreans and possible reunification. Overall, these findings have policy implications for revising South Korea's education for reunification curriculum to better prepare future generations of one Korea. / 2031-01-02

Spatial Plan within a Contemporary Milieu: The Republic of Korea The intention of this thesis is to develop a spatial plan for an underdeveloped country within the constraints of the current milieu. A three level approach is taken to describe the environment into which the eventual plan must fit. The general theme that runs throughout the three levels is one of a central oriented society. The plan suggests that the most rational location of new development under these constraints is the suburban area of the primate city and that the form of development might best be industrial estates. The first level of analysis deals with centralization trends in contemporary Korea; the country is currently undergoing rapid urbanization. This is most intense in the capital city of Seoul, where there is a centripetal concentration of economic activity as well as population. The second level is an investigation of the Korean government development policy. The First (1961) and Second (1966) Five-Year Plans have given priority to economic efficiency and increasing the industrial-manufacturing sector. The third level, the cultural milieu, offers up an historic precedent as a basis for contemporary society. Examination within this context of the current broad based education system and the structure of government reveal an apparent institutional manifestation of earlier philosophical tenets. The above three levels of investigation are developed in a parallel fashion, coming together in the proposed plan for the Republic of Korea - suburban development of industrial estates near Seoul. / Applied Science, Faculty of / Community and Regional Planning (SCARP), School of / Graduate

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Both the advertising industry and academia have been paying more and more attention to the growth and potential of the luxury market. In East Asian countries, the market’s annual growth rate for 2006 was nearly 18%, nearly doubling the global growth rate for 2005. Despite the increasing popularity of luxury brands in East Asian countries, there is a dearth of empirical knowledge regarding East Asians’ consumption motives. By surveying a sample of 200 consumers from South Korea, an exemplar of East Asian luxury consumers, the current study provides a general understanding of such motives. The findings suggest that Korean consumers have five primary social and psychological motives for the consumption of luxury brands: social ostentation, aesthetic appearance seeking, personal hedonism seeking, practicality seeking, and difference seeking. This study also offers findings related to the relationship between demographic characteristics (for Korean consumers) and luxury consumption behavior. The study achieves two things: First, it is a contribution to the body of literature on luxury consumption; second, it provides managerial implications for global marketers and brand managers who want to construct targeted and customized strategies for East Asian consumers to enhance their purchase intention toward luxury brands. / text