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<font face="tahoma" style=""><font color="#222222">We are delighted to announce the publication of the </font><font color="#0000ff">spring 2018 issue of the </font></font>
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<span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: tahoma;"> (vol. 58, no. 1)</span>
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<span style="font-family: tahoma; background-color: transparent;"><font color="#0000ff">Individualization and Community Reconstruction.”</font></span>
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<p class="a"><b style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Special Top</b><b><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">ic: </span><font face="tahoma" style="line-height: 20.8px;">“</font><span style="line-height: 20.8px; font-family: tahoma;"><font style="line-height: 20.8px;">Individualization and Community Reconstruction.”</font></span></b></p>
<p class="a"><font face="tahoma"><span lang="EN-US" style="line-height: 160%;">The view that individualization as a global trend leads to the collapse of intimate communities including families was strongly advocated. Due to the changes in the neo-liberal world economy, state and corporate welfare functions are weakened and individual responsibility tends to be emphasized. </span><span lang="EN-US" style="line-height: 160%;">
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1"> </span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="line-height: 160%;">Just as surely, individualization is spreading in East Asia as well. As a result, intimate communities tend to have a weaker role than in the past, however there is a movement to restore or revitalize the community as a response to the risk society. It is worth nothing that the village community project in Seoul, the socialist experiment in China, and the residential community movement in Japan are representative examples.</span><span lang="EN-US" style="line-height: 160%;">
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<p class="a"><font face="tahoma"><span lang="EN-US" style="line-height: 160%;"><span style="mso-tab-count:
1"> </span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="line-height: 160%;">Based on the risk social theory, this special feature focused on the individualization and the change of the community through the analysis of the East Asian change. It suggests that individualization and change of community are not one-sided solo but a mutual progress. Through this, it has the purpose of illuminating the organic relation of individual and society beyond the limit of Western theory.</span><span lang="EN-US" style="line-height: 160%;">
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<p class="a"><font face="tahoma"><span lang="EN-US" style="line-height: 160%;">The first article, by Sang-Jin Han, articulates an interpretation of neighborhood community reconstruction in Seoul, Beijing, and Tokyo, as instances of social governance from the perspective of risk society. </span><span lang="EN-US" style="line-height: 160%;">
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<p class="a"><font face="tahoma"><span lang="EN-US" style="line-height: 160%;">Young-Hee SHIM’s article examines concepts of individualization and neighborhood community reconstruction in close relations as dual aspects of the same coin—considering the strong community reconstruction experience in East Asia.</span><span lang="EN-US" style="line-height: 160%;">
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<p class="a"><font face="tahoma"><span lang="EN-US" style="line-height: 160%;">An article co-written by Qiang LI, Lu ZHENG, and Hao WANG lays out the challenges faced by local communities in urban China and introduce the NQE’s pilot projects and working mechanisms. </span><span lang="EN-US" style="line-height: 160%;">
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<p class="a"><b style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">ARTICLES</b><span style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> </span></p>
<p class="a"><font face="tahoma"><span lang="EN-US" style="line-height: 160%;">In addition, three interesting papers selected from submissions by a thorough peer review process are included in this issue. </span><span lang="EN-US" style="line-height: 160%;">
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<p class="a"><font face="tahoma"><span lang="EN-US" style="line-height: 160%;">Seongwook KIM’s article analyzes the discourses that emerged during the discussion over the Busan Hyeongje Bokjiwon (Brothers Home) scandal, which occurred in 1987, to weaken the epistemic premises of the principle of normalization. </span><span lang="EN-US" style="line-height: 160%;">
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<p class="a"><font face="tahoma"><span lang="EN-US" style="line-height: 160%;">Taejin HWANG’s article examines the “transitional” process through which the U.S. military “rehabilitated” Yongsan landscape during the early Cold War period, from 1945 through the late 1960s.</span><span lang="EN-US" style="line-height: 160%;">
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<p class="a"><font face="tahoma"><span lang="EN-US" style="line-height: 160%;">Moonsang CHUNG’s work is to analyze how three South Korean scholars—Kim Junyop,Min Tu-ki, and Rhee Yeung-hui—interpreted modern China during the Cold War era and thereby show that the development of South Korean studies on modern Chinese history was linked to the global Cold War. </span><span lang="EN-US" style="line-height: 160%;">
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<p class="a"><font face="tahoma"><span lang="EN-US" style="line-height: 160%;"><b>Book Review</b></span></font></p>
<p class="a"><font face="tahoma"><span lang="EN-US" style="line-height: 160%;">This issue also carries a book review on Su-kyoung Hwang’s <i>Korea’s Grievous War</i>, one of the recent publications covering State-sanctioned violence in Korea, Jeju April 3 Incident. </span><span lang="EN-US" style="line-height: 160%;">
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<p class="a"><font face="tahoma">The contents and full text of this issue are available at www.ekoreajournal.net.</font></p>
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