Title: East Asian Cooperation in the Glocal Era
As globalization has roamed worldwide, all parts of the world have been irrevocably linked to all others and, as a consequence, the future of different localities is becoming more and more subject to the decisions made by the external actors. Yet, each country in the world has pursed its own local identity in the wake of soaring globalization. Therefore, "glocalization", a term coined to refer to the trend to globalize and localize, has remained an inevitable key word in this century. This glocalizing tendency cannot be more true of the countries located in East Asian territory, because about a third of the whole population in the world live there on the one hand and East Asia is expected to cherish its unique locality on the other. Readers of this book can find some theoretical and practical springboard for East Asian cooperation in relavent areas.
Preface …… 3
List of Tables …… 7
List of Figures …… 9
List of Contributors …… 10
Acknowledgement …… 14
CHAPTER 1 ㅡ Initiating Municipal International Cooperation towards an East Asian Community / Seong-Ho Ahn …… 15
CHAPTER 2 ㅡ A Strategy for Strengthening the Cooperative Relations among East-Asian Countries:
With Special Reference to Korea and the Philippines / Tae-Myung Kim …… 57
CHAPTER 3 ㅡ Sustainable Urban Development in a Globalizing World: Towards Inter-City Cooperation East Asia / Tae-Ho Kwon …… 73
CHAPTER 4 ㅡ East Asian Regionalism: Performance and Challenges / Yul Kwon …… 109
CHAPTER 5 ㅡ The Development and Prospect of East Asian Welfare Systems / Byeong-Il Rho …… 143
CHAPTER 6 ㅡ Earnings Divergence of Foreign Workers in Korea in the 1990s:
Dynamics of the Decline of Wage Discrimination against Industrial Technical Trainees / Dong-Hoon Seol …… 167
CHAPTER 7 ㅡ Social Capital and Social Networks in East Asia / Bo-Ki Pyon …… 229
Index …… 242
