[KS] cross-posting article, "Political Economy of Sapjil and Citizens Movements"

[Witteveen GP]

Dear colleagues,
 
I invite you to browse the current and past issues of the weekly digest at The Asia-Pacific Journal, formerly Japan-Focus.org.
Many of the 5-10 page essays each week concern Korea directly or indirectly and the searchable set of articles is easy to use.
 
--Sincerely,
 
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St. Johns, Michigan USA
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http://japanfocus.org/-SoonYawl-Park/3653 [title, author and abstract excerpted here; click for full text] 
Restoring or Killing Rivers? The Political Economyof Sapjil and Citizens Movements inLee Myung-bak’s South Korea1 
SoonYawl Park
Korea’s rampant shoveling politics
In 2008 the government of Lee Myung-bak announced the Sadaegang Saligi (Four Major Rivers, Sadaegang, restoration) project, calling it also Korea’s Green New Deal. Since then, Korea’s Han, Nakdong, Geum, and Yeongsan Rivers have been ecologically and geographically transformed by dredging and weir construction.
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>The official aims of the project were declared to be: preventing flooding, addressing climate change, resolving water scarcity, and improving water quality. It would also constitute a counter-measure against the world-wide economic recession that followed the financial crisis of 2008, and a key policy component in a ‘low carbon, green growth’ policy against global climate change and resource depletion. In fact, however, transformation of the rivers has had deleterious effects on many local communities and has caused serious social and political conflict.
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