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The conventional policy analyses with a path-dependent framework are featured by sequential causation composed of analytically two distinct phases: path production that occurs through a significant policy change at critical junctures and the subsequent path reproduction . This paper explores one policy area where the two-phase framework falls short in explaining path-making and maintenance – college education expansion in Korea. We argue that the shortcomings of the two-phase model can potentially be overcome by incorporating the underlying rule of the countries into the model. We identify the underlying rule relying on Esping-Andersen’s welfare regimes to highlight the political underpinnings of the countries. We show that the underlying liberal rule is a fundamental causal force behind the production and reproduction of college education expansion in Korea, using qualitative comparative analysis. Our framework based on the underlying rule provides a richer understanding of path dependency.

This study investigates consumer acceptance of artificial intelligence (AI)–enabled fashion curation platforms by integrating the Task–Technology Fit (TTF) and Technology Acceptance Model (TAM) frameworks. Building on contemporary research that emphasizes the transformative role of AI in retail and fashion, the study examines how the alignment between AI functionalities and user needs strengthens perceived usefulness and ease of use, enhancing satisfaction and behavioral intention. Using a survey-based quantitative design with adapted TTF and TAM scales, we analyzed data from fashion curation platform users via structural equation modeling (SEM), including multi-group comparisons across Generation Z, Millennials, and Generation X. Results show cohort-sensitive pathways: Generation Z responds more to technological fit and usefulness, whereas Generation X prioritizes ease of use and experiential satisfaction; intention mechanisms converge once upstream beliefs are formed, aligning with broader AI acceptance patterns and moderators noted in consumer contexts. The findings extend technology acceptance scholarship by localizing generational heterogeneity primarily in the formation of perceived usefulness and satisfaction within AI curation contexts, while offering actionable guidance for task–technology alignment and journey design in digital fashion retail. The study motivates future multi-cohort investigations that incorporate evolving AI capabilities and examine trust and governance considerations in fashion platforms.

How did South Korea come to adopt successful anti-corruption administrative reforms in the early 2000s which markedly improved the nation's corruption perception and bribe survey scores? Emergent democracies generally lack the institutionalized political parties needed to push through anti-corruption policies, and Korea was no exception. While Korean civic groups took the lead against corruption, they failed to sufficiently press President Kim Young Sam, who implemented reforms which instead focused on increasing executive control over the bureaucracy. NGOs eventually succeeded by redirecting efforts towards the more accessible, newly established elected municipal governments, to introduce administrative reforms like the E-government OPEN program, which reduced uncertainty and strengthened the pro-reform political coalition, paving the way for President Kim Dae Jung's eventual adoption of anti-corruption administrative reforms in 2000. The Korean case shows how elected local government offers civic groups an avenue through which to advance reform, offering hope to the many young democracies lacking institutionalized parties which struggle to contain corruption.

The paper explains why South Korea displays a roller coaster change in its policy toward Japan, focusing on the Kim Young-sam government, 1993-1997. South Korea's Japan policy has been a major puzzle for students of Asian politics working in the tradition of realism because it has widely oscillated between two extremes - i.e., policies of both confrontation and cooperation, regardless of the balance of power between the two countries. To explain such an oscillation, the paper develops a morality/threat perception nexus approach in which South Korea's policy toward Japan is considered the result of Japan's policy toward South Korea plus South Korean leaders' concern for morality and Japanese threat. These concerns are retrieved primarily from the leaders' collective memory of Japan's forty years of colonial domination of the Korean peninsula. The approach claims that Japan's policy toward South Korea, i.e., apologies or provocations on three salient issues - i.e., the Dokdo islands, historical past, and foreign policy activism - creates different external conditions under which Korean leaders may develop their Japan policy. Against the backdrop of the conditions, the approach contends, Korean leaders' sense of morality and their stereotyped threat perception of Japan determine the types of policies the leaders may adopt toward Japan - i.e., cooperation and confrontation of varying degrees. An in-depth case study on South Korea's foreign policy toward Japan under the Kim Young-sam government provides strong support for these theoretical arguments. This finding contributes to an enhanced understanding of causes of South Korea's roller coaster change in its Japan policy.

Overhaul of administrative procedures is an important part of most democratic transitions, and procedural regularization and transparency are often seen as steps toward the consolidation of democracy. Administrative procedures affect policy decisions, but whether particular procedural reforms facilitate or hinder democratic responsiveness depends on the details of the procedure and the political environment. In this article, we examine a particular procedural reform: the adoption of a sunset provision in Korea as part of an omnibus administrative procedures package at the end of Kim Young Sam's presidency. A sunset provision might be seen as clearly promoting democratic responsiveness by requiring the winner of the most recent election to explicitly decide whether to keep or drop old rules and regulations. Alternatively, it might be seen as limiting a democratically elected leader's ability to change policy in accordance with his mandate, by requiring expenditure of effort and resources just to maintain a status quo. We argue that the second interpretation applies to the Korean case. We use a spatial model and evidence from regulatory decisionmaking to argue that Kim Young Sam favored the sunset provision because it would constrain the policy decisions of future presidents. Our model offers an explanation for why Kim Young Sam would propose a sunset provision that limited the life of his own regulations.

Nearly half a century after the fighting stopped, the 1953 Armistice has yet to be replaced with a peace treaty formally ending the Korean War. While Russia and China withdrew the last of their forces in 1958, the United States maintains 37,000 troops in South Korea and is pledged to defend it with nuclear weapons. In Korean Endgame, Selig Harrison mounts the first authoritative challenge to this long-standing U.S. policy. Harrison shows why North Korea is not--as many policymakers expect--about to collapse. And he explains why existing U.S. policies hamper North-South reconciliation and reunification. Assessing North Korean capabilities and the motivations that have led to its forward deployments, he spells out the arms control concessions by North Korea, South Korea, and the United States necessary to ease the dangers of confrontation, centering on reciprocal U.S. force redeployments and U.S. withdrawals in return for North Korean pullbacks from the thirty-eighth parallel.

[Garford Young-Sam], aged 48, was known to neighbours in Harvest Close. Unemployed Ben Stuart, aged 29, said: \"It was about 4pm when the neighbours phoned and said the house was on fire. \"The house was burning for a long time and they couldn't get up the stairs. It's such a shame.\" Tragedy: Flowers laid at the scene of the killing of [Isaiah Young-Sam] (inset), in Lozells. Victim of fire: Garford Young-Sam, father of Isaiah. Investigation: Police at the scene of the fatal blaze, in Harvest Close, Stirchley, where one man died.

\"They also tend to get very excited when they're anticipating food and they can knock their teeth on the wires.\" \"They're all back out on display, all back in with their normal pairings with other animals where that was the case beforehand,\" Ms [Sam Young] said. \"They're all eating well and they're all looking fantastic.\"