KOREAN GOVERNMENT & POLITICS

Students will develop an understanding of the Korean political system, culture, and institutions after 1945. They will also study a brief political history and significant changes since 1945. Political institutions, civil culture, regimes will be discussed throughout the course. Prerequisite: Fundamentals of Political Science

1. Let students learn the political history of Korea and contemporary political institutions.
2. Provide students with a chance to study critical issues in Korean politics.
3. Important political theories related to Korean politics will be discussed.
4. Korean political process will be discussed.

The field research requires student interviews with eligible persons in the selected topic. Students will decide topics and do field research. The subjects follow as 1. Korean election, 2. political party 3. interest groups 4. NGO 5. local government 6. National Assembly 7. media 8. judiciary 9. Public Administration, 10. other issues approved. Media in Korea is so influential and very partial. It is important to know the difference in agenda-setting, framing, and priming in their message deliberation. Homework: post Korean government or politics related news articles by Tuesday night. Then Wednesday, each students will make a comparison of two newspaper articles. ex) Links and comparison. We may discuss this in the class. We may start this from 6th weeks. (6th weeks to 15th weeks) There is no homework from the 1st week to the 5th week. There are two topics for the final paper. 1. Korean Constitutional Amendment 2. Nuclear weapon and ICBM development of North Korea