CONTENTS -- PREFACE -- CHRONOLOGY OF EVENTS IN THE KOREAN PENINSULA 2009 -- SOUTH KOREA -- NORTH KOREA -- INTER-KOREAN RELATIONS AND SIX PARTY TALKS -- SOUTH KOREA IN 2009: DOMESTIC DEVELOPMENTS AND THE ECONOMY -- 1 INTRODUCTION -- 2 SOUTH KOREA LOSES TWO FORMER PRESIDENTS -- 3 PARLIAMENTARY (IN)ACTION -- 4 A NEW CABINET AND THE TRAVAILS OF THE 'SEJONG CITY' PROJECT -- 5 SOUTH KOREA'S MIDDLE CLASS UNDER PRESSURE -- 6 SOUTH KOREA'S ECONOMY IN 2009: THE BIG PICTURE -- NORTH KOREA IN 2009: DOMESTIC DEVELOPMENTS AND THE ECONOMY -- 1 INTRODUCTION -- 2 THE JOINT NEW YEAR EDITORIAL -- 2.1 Leadership -- 2.2 Ideology -- 2.3 Economy -- 2.4 Unification -- 2.5 Military affairs -- 3 THE BUDGET REPORT -- 4 THE SPA ELECTIONS -- 4.1 Supreme People's Assembly -- 4.2 The National Defence Commission -- 4.3 The cabinet -- 5 POLICIES -- 5.1 The 150-day battle -- 5.2 The currency reform of November 2009 -- 6 IDEOLOGY -- 6.1 Return to orthodox, conservative socialism -- 6.2 Problems -- 7 OTHER ECONOMIC POLICIES -- 7.1 Kaesŏng -- 7.2 International economic exchanges -- 7.3 Innovation -- 7.4 Further policies -- 8 STRUCTURAL CHANGES AND PERSONNEL POLICY -- RELATIONS BETWEEN THE TWO KOREAS IN 2009 Sabine Burghart and James E. Hoare -- INTRODUCTION -- 1 A PERIOD OF ADJUSTMENT? -- 2 LEE'S 'CREATIVE PRAGMATISM': A SOLUTION TO THE NORTH'SSABRE-RATTLING? -- 3 KAESŎNG INDUSTRIAL COMPLEX: A PAWN IN THE DPRK'S HANDS? -- 4 HUMANITARIAN ASSISTANCE: OVER TO PRIVATE ORGANISATIONS -- 5 OTHER DEVELOPMENTS -- 6 OUTLOOK -- FOREIGN RELATIONS OF THE TWO KOREAS IN 2009 James E. Hoare -- INTRODUCTION -- 1 REPUBLIC OF KOREA -- 1.1 Relations with the United States -- 1.2 Relations with China -- 1.3 Relations with Japan -- 1.4 Other relations -- 2 THE DEMOCRATIC PEOPLE'S REPUBLIC OF KOREA -- 2.1 The Six Party Talks, the nuclear issue and relations with the United States.

2.2 Relations with China -- 2.3 Relations with Japan -- 2.4 Relations with Russia -- 2.5 Other relations -- CONFLICT MANAGEMENT IN URBAN PLANNING: THE RESTORATION OF THE CH'ŎNGGYECH'ŎN RIVERIN SEOUL Annette J. Erpenstein -- 1 INTRODUCTION -- 2 HISTORICAL BACKGROUND OF THE CH'ŎNGGYECH'ŎN RIVER -- 2.1 Function and maintenance -- 2.2 Coverage work and negligence -- 2.3 Modern times -- 3 EXCAVATING A LAYERED REALITY -- 4 STRENGTHS AND WEAKNESSES OF THE CURRENT DEMOCRATICPROCESS OF URBAN PLANNING -- 5 STAKEHOLDER AND CONFLICT MANAGEMENT IN THECH'ŎNGGYECH'ŎN PROJECT -- 5.1 Political strategy: participation, utilisation, complicity -- 5.2 Traffic issues -- 5.3 Co-operation and participation -- 5.4 Downtown business issues -- 5.5 Historical issues -- 6 THE POWER OF GEOGRAPHICAL IMAGINATION IN PLANNINGDECISIONS -- 7 CONCLUSION -- THE ROLE OF THINK TANKS IN THE SOUTH KOREANDISCOURSE ON EAST ASIA Thomas Kern and Alexander Ruser -- 1 INTRODUCTION -- 2 ANALYTICAL RELEVANCE OF REGIONALISATION -- 3 THINK TANKS AND POLITICAL DISCOURSE -- 4 THE DISCOURSE ON REGIONALISATION IN SOUTH KOREA -- 4.1 Growing influence of think tanks -- 4.2 Institutional isomorphism -- 4.3 Political relevance -- 5 CONCLUSION -- SOUTH KOREA'S ECONOMIC POLICY RESPONSE TO THEGLOBAL FINANCIAL CRISIS Werner Pascha -- 1 INTRODUCING THE ISSUES -- 2 THE SOUTH KOREAN ECONOMY ON THE EVE OF THE GLOBALFINANCIAL AND ECONOMIC CRISIS -- 3 THE CRISIS AND ECONOMIC POLICY REACTIONS -- 3.1 Effects of the crisis -- 3.2 Policy reactions -- 3.3 'Green New Deal' -- 3.4 How the measures are viewed -- 3.5 Labour and social policy measures -- 3.6 Organisational aspects -- 4 THE PRELIMINARY IMPACT OF THE POLICY RESPONSE TO THE CRISIS -- 5 POLITICAL-ECONOMIC BOUNDARY CONDITIONS -- 6 AN EFFECT OF 1997-1998? -- 'GREEN GROWTH': SOUTH KOREA'S PANACEA? David Shim -- 1 INTRODUCTION.

2 INITIATIVES AND IMPLICATIONS OF 'LOW CARBON GREENGROWTH' -- 2.1 Domestic policy -- 2.2 Foreign policy -- 3 EVALUATION OF 'LOW CARBON GREEN GROWTH' -- 3.1 New policy? -- 3.2 Ambitious policy? -- 3.3 'Green' policy? -- 3.4 Trouble-free policy? -- 4 CONCLUSION -- SOUTH KOREA'S ECONOMIC RELATIONS WITH INDIA:TRENDS, PATTERNS AND PROSPECTS Durgesh K. Rai -- 1 INTRODUCTION -- 2 TRADE RELATIONS -- 2.1 Trade policy -- 2.2 India and Korea in global trade: a comparative picture -- 2.3 Bilateral trade -- 3 INDIA-KOREA INVESTMENT RELATIONS -- 3.1 Korean investment in India -- 3.2 Indian investment in Korea -- 3.3 Technical collaboration -- 4 CO-OPERATION AND FUTURE PROSPECTS FOR BILATERAL ECONOMIC RELATIONS -- ON THE TRAIL OF THE MANCHURIAN WESTERN Mark Morris1 -- 1 PROLOGUE -- 2 INTRODUCTION -- 3 THE GOOD, THE BAD AND THE WEIRD -- 4 REPRESENTATIVE FILMS FROM THE MANCHURIAN WESTERNS -- 4.1 Lessons from popular culture -- 4.2 Korean heroes, Chinese bandits, Japanese soldiers, patrioticarmies and some very patient women, and horses, too -- 4.3 Towards a genealogy of action heroes -- 5 THE APPEAL OF GENRE FILMS -- 6 RUNNING INTO THE FUTURE: SOME CONCLUSIONS -- A META-ANALYSIS OF NORTH KOREANSMIGRATING TO CHINA AND SOUTH KOREA Daniel Schwekendiek -- 1 INTRODUCTION -- 2 THE POLITICAL ECONOMY OF NORTH KOREAN MIGRATION -- 2.1 Terminology -- 2.2 Historical migration -- 2.3 Migration in the post-Cold War era -- 3 MIGRATION SURVEYS IN CHINA -- 4 MIGRATION SURVEYS IN SOUTH KOREA -- 5 COMPARATIVE META-ANALYSIS OF MIGRANTS SURVEYED INCHINA AND SOUTH KOREA -- 6 CONCLUSION -- TEXTUAL AND VISUAL REPRESENTATIONS OF THEKOREAN WAR IN NORTH AND SOUTH KOREANCHILDREN'S LITERATURE Dafna Zur1 -- 1 THE KOREAN WAR IN NORTH AND SOUTH KOREAN CHILDREN'SBOOKS -- 2 IDEOLOGY IN POST-WAR SOUTH KOREAN CHILDREN'S LITERATURE.

2.1 Emergence of an anti-communist rhetoric -- 2.2 Anti-communist rhetoric in texts -- 2.3 Anti-communist rhetoric in illustrations -- 3 POST-1980S SOUTH KOREAN CHILDREN'S LITERATURE -- 4 THE KOREAN WAR IN NORTH KOREA -- 4.1 The Korean War in text -- 4.2 The young hero: transcendental courage and martyrdom -- 4.3 The Korean War in illustrations -- 5 AESTHETICS OF VIOLENCE -- ABOUT THE AUTHORS AND EDITORS -- MAP OF THE KOREAN PENINSULA.