Amnesty
International Report: Korea (Republic of)
2005; 2004; 2003; 2002;
2001;
2000 |
Annual human rights
reports |
| Asian
Pacific Women's Information Network Center (APWINC) |
"aims at promoting women's
informatization and women-related communication technologies
in the Asia-Pacific region including South and North
Koreas": activities & publications |
| Constitutional
Adjudication System: Experience of Korea
|
Yong-joon Kim's essay in Harvard
Asia Quarterly (Winter 2000)
|
| Corruption
through Political Contributions in South Korea
|
Report by Verena Blechinger (Oct.
2000 Transparency International Workshop on Corruption & Political
Party Funding)
|
Country
Reports on Human Rights Practices: Korea, Republic
of
 2004; 2003; 2002; 2001; 2000; 1999; 1998 |
Annual reports by the Bureau of Democracy,
Human Rights, and Labor of the U.S. Department of
State |
| Governing
a Global City: Conversation with Cho Soon |
Conversation with the mayor of Seoul
(Institute of International Studies, UC Berkeley, Conversations
with History series, 1996) |
| Improving
Human Rights |
Related news stories & policy
series compiled by Korean Overseas Information Service |
| Internet
under Surveillance 2004: South Korea |
From Reporters sans frontires's
2004 report on "Obstacles to the free flow of information
online" |
| Jinbonet:
Korean Progressive Network |
ISP & action partner of Korean
NGOs, with goals of "Construction of issue-based
and regional networks for solidarity and communication
among social movements ... Advocacy, research and policy-making
for a just and fair information society," etc. |
| Korea
and the Political Promise of the Net |
Mitch Kapor's reflections on Uri
Party's 2004 electoral victory (Apr. 19, 2004) |
| Korean
Bloggers |
Joi Ito on the South Korean blogging
scene (June 2, 2005) |
| Korean
Defectors Learn Basics |
Caroline Gluck's report on North
Korean defectors adapting to life in South Korea (BBC
News, May 27, 2002) |
| Korean
Independence Day
|
An AsiaTODAY special report (Aug.
14, 2000): history; news coverage; articles & commentary
|
| Lost
Seouls: South Korea's Political Clean Up
|
An AsiaTODAY Special Report (Jan.
24, 2000) on the release of a blacklist of 67 "incompetent,
corrupt, & lazy" politicians by the South Korean
group Citizen's Coalition for the 2000 General election
(CCEJ)
|
| The
Media Tax Probe & the Media Reform Movement in
South Korea
|
Seung-Mock Yang's essay in Harvard
Asia Quarterly (Winter 2002)
|
 Ministry
of National Defense White Paper: 2004; 2003; 2001; 2000; 1999; 1998; 1997; 1996
|
Security environment; defense policy & posture
for peace; status & task of national defense; defense
reform for the 21st century; national defense with the
people
|
| National
Election Commission Republic of Korea |
"independent constitutional
agencies created for the purpose of managing fair elections
and referenda, and affairs related to political parties":
information about the election commissions, the electoral
system, & the political party & political funds
system |
| National
Integrity Systems Study Report: Republic of Korea 2001
|
Transparency International study
of perception of corruption & national integrity
(Questionnaire)
|
| Social
Watch Country Report: Korea, Rep. |
Compiled by an international network
checking on the fulfillment of internationally agreed
commitments on poverty eradication & equality: present
situation; progress & regression; signatures & ratifications |
| South
Korea's National Assembly Elections
|
An AsiaTODAY Special Report
(4/2000)
|
| South
Korea's Election 2004 |
The Economist Global Agenda (Apr.
16, 2004), with related news stories & Web sites |
| South
Korea's New Generation: Politics & Social Change |
Asian Perspectives publication based
on a May 2003 panel discussion & focusing on "the
growth of civil society and its impact on politics, chaebol
reform and free markets, and the impact of democratization
and new generation leaders on foreign policy" (PDF
format) |
| The
South Korean Bombshell That Wasn't |
David Isenberg's commentary on South
Korean Defense Ministry's White Paper, issued on Feb.
4, 2005 (Asia Times, Feb. 11, 2005) |
| South
Korean Presidential Election 2002 |
An AsiaTODAY special report
(Dec. 19, 2002): candidates; political parties; anti-Americanism;
North Korea; the economy; general news coverage; Korean
English language news sources; links |
| Transnational
Legal Process & World Order: Conversation with
Harold Hongju Koh |
Interview with Yale law professor & former
Assistant Secretary of State for Democracy, Human Rights,
and Labor (Institute of International Studies, UC Berkeley,
Conversations with History series, 2003) |
|
|
