Arbeitsgruppe Korea Publikationen

Our research team (Prof. Dr Anja Senz, Dr Zhu Yi, Dr Ja Ok Kwon, Dr In Young Min) follows a comparative approach and conducts research on the political and social structures of the countries commonly grouped under the umbrella term ‘East Asia’ – the Chinese-speaking regions, North and South Korea, as well as Japan.

The following works have been published in the context of this research:

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Ja Ok Kwon
Buch
State, Rural Women, and Domestication in Korea: The Aspiring Middle Class, London and New York: Routledge. 2024, 1-142.
Buch

Transnational Dynamics: The Social Activism of Korean Immigrants and their Descendants in Germany

In: ASIEN: The German Journal on Contemporary Asia, 2023, 168/169. 7-23. 

Buch

Modern Family Capitalism in South Korea 

In: Global Economic Elites and the New Spirit of Capitalism: Careers and Collective Mindsets of Economic Elites Compared, edited by Markus Pohlmann and Friederike Elias, Springer, 2024, 217-250. 

Buch

Japan’s Flashback to traditional Capitalism 

In: Global Economic Elites and the New Spirit of Capitalism: Careers and Collective Mindsets of Economic Elites Compared, edited by Markus Pohlmann and Friederike Elias, Springer, 2024, 251-279.

Skilled Migrants and their Encounters with different Care and Employment Regimes: Childcaring among highly Skilled Female Migrants from Korea in Germany

In: Social Sciences, 2023, 12(9): 1-16. 

 

Buch

Korean Newcomers in Germany: The changing sociodemographics of Korean Immigrants 

In: Cross-border Interactions and Encounters between Germany and Korea, edited by Yonson Ahn and Jihye Kim, Lexington Books, 2023, 55-74. 

In Young Min 
Buch

Explaining South Korea’s Contrasting Nuclear Choices

In: Journal of Asian Security and International Affairs, 2025, Vol. 12, No. 3 

Buch

Seeking Status and Ontological Security in Hierarchy: Korea in the Historical East Asian Order 

In: International Relations of the Asia-Pacific, 2023, Vo. 23, No. 3

The Two-Plus-Four Treaty and Korean Unification

In: International Journal of Korean Unification Studies, 2022, Vol. 31, No. 1, co- authored with Susanne Pittelkow.

Thomas Stock
North Korea Ideology Book Picture
North Korean Ideology: A Cold War History, Oxford University Press. 2025