• The Journal of the Korea Contents Association
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• v.14 no.8
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• pp.374-381
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• 2014

We investigated what target (a nationality of an artist) firms select when they are engaged in art collaboration. We identified 137 cases of art collaboration between 2005 and 2013 through the analysis of news contents and we found that Korean firms prefer to artists whose nationality is same with that of those firms. In addition, such preferences disappear when the target of art collaboration is durable goods. This implies that Korean firms prefer to artists whose nationality is different from them in art collaboration because the collaboration with those artists help firms increase product reputation although a collaboration process is not favorable to those firms.

• The Korean Publising Journal, Monthly
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• s.251
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• pp.14-14
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• 1999

새해 첫달, 다양한 국적의 소설들이 서점가에 선보이고 있다. 사라마구.마르케스.모디아노.슐링크 등 굵직한 작가를 비롯해 3세계 작가의 소설들이 각양각색의 형식과 주제, 그리고 독특한 이야기로 독자의 호기심을 불러일으킨다. 모습이 다양한 만큼 읽을거리도 풍부하다.

• Journal of the Korean Society for Library and Information Science
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• v.32 no.1
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• pp.97-128
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• 1998

Recognizing the importance of reading, and with one motivation being to encourage an upright reading culture, 138 Wise Sayings related to reading by Western leaders were investigated and analyzed according to their country of origin and content as well as the nationalities and occupations, achievements and activities, and the periods of activity of he people who said them. In Wise Sayings related to reading, there are connotations of reading's significance$(30\%)$, methods$(44\%)$, Usefulness$(13\%)$, values$(12\%)$, joys$(1\%)$ and so on, and the expressions vary according to the speakers' occupations. Many of the speakers of wise sayings related to reading were from the powerful and culturally-developed countries of England(36), France(17) and the United states(15), and among 168 occupations, many were engaged in literature(97), philosophy(20), and politics(13) In the field of literature in particular, poets(24), writers(24), and novelists(19) comprised about $70\%$ of the total. In terms of the periods of activity, the 19th-20th century with $33\%$ and the 19th century with $27\%$ made up $60\%$ of the total.

• Korean journal of communication and information
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• v.68
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• pp.130-165
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• 2014

By exploring the works of popular culture, our research aims to demonstrate that culture and politics revolve around each other. Culture and politics are not separate but are articulated into cultural politics; the process of articulation reveals various comparable areas, including contradictions and differences. Our research pays specific attention to Japanese modernity in the eight popular manga series by Naoki Urasawa. These works seemingly value peace and brotherhood, placing themselves in opposition to the logics of the conservative right wing. After engaging in a thorough reading and re-reading, however, we found three salient themes in the deep layers of the works: first, no-nationality a-nationality; second, the relationship between Japan and the West, and representation of Asia; and third, nostalgia for Japan of the past, and transnational desire. The manga series contain the ideas of leaving Asia and entering the West and overcoming modernity. Our research findings reveal that the works of popular culture, specifically those by Naoki Urasawa, subtly expose transnational desires of Japan in tandem with the tensions in international politics between Asia and Japan.