Sun-Il Kim
Kyung Hee University · Social Sciences
About the Lab
Professor Sun-Il Kim's research lab focuses on the intersection of state capacity, democratic governance, and socio-political transformation, particularly in East Asian contexts. The lab investigates the evolution of state violence, welfare state development, and the political economy of digital taxation, with an emphasis on institutional dynamics and policy implementation in high-capacity democracies like South Korea. It also examines the impact of democratic transitions on civil society empowerment and the rise of populism in regional and global security dynamics.
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15Capacity in violence and its utilization is generally understood to be a first-order condition of the state-building process. As capacity increases and a state gains supremacy over would-be competitors, the use of violence by the state is hypothesized to decline, especially in polities that have made the democratic transition. However, we here demonstrate theoretically and empirically that the conventional wisdom is inadequate. We argue that political violence ubiquitously evolves according to t
Abstract We address how democracy has influenced the ways in which the Korean state has managed the issue of labor-based collective action and suppression thereof. During the authoritarian period, the state, through specialized riot police, frequently, and violently, cracked down on protest movements and other forms of collective action. During democratization and post-democratic consolidation, private specialists in violence, operating with the consent of the state, began to replace public forc
본 연구는 디지털 조세에 대한 문제점들을 살펴보고, 이에 대한 개선방안을 논하고자 한다. 디지털 경제 시대가 도래하면서 e-business를 기반으로 하는 새로운 경제활동의 유형들이 창출되었다. 핀테크 산업이나 온라인 상거래가 급증하였고, 디지털 컨텐츠들을 통해서도 거래가 일어난다. 하지만 기존의 세법만으로는 새로운 유형의 디지털 거래에 대해서 적절히 과세하기가 어렵다. 기존의 과세제도는 실체가 있고 거래가 파악이 되는 상황에서 과세가 가능한 시스템이었다. 하지만 디지털 경제에서 전자 거래의 경우 이에 대한 확인이 어려우며, 중간유통단계를 거치지 않고 직접 거래되는 경우도 많기 때문에 과세점 파악이 어렵다. 또한 온라인상에서 가상사업장이 많아지고 거래내역이 전자화되면서 세원의 포착이 어렵다. 그리고 국제 간 디지털 거래는 국가 간 세법규정의 차이로 인하여 과세권의 문제가 발생된다. 디지털 조세가 원만하게 도입되기 위해서는 단일 국가의 노력으로 되는 것이 아니라 국제간 협력이 필요하다
This study explores the origins of pervasive elderly poverty in South Korea, which persists despite the continuous expansion of welfare programs and the consolidation of popular democracy in the country. Predicated upon the historical-institutional details of the development of welfare programs, this article examines and elucidates how the instrumentalization of welfare policy-making since the onset of state-led industrialization and the progress of electoral democracy since the democratic trans
Abstract Documenting how the Japanese state responded to increasing social discontent during initiation of unpopular welfare reforms, this study examines the factors that hindered the political empowerment of civil society despite the timely introduction of participatory policymaking institutions. The Japanese government opted in the early 2000s to introduce a participatory method to initiate the unpopular pension reform. Deliberation councils were established to encourage open discussions among
This study discusses the rise of populism in the United States and its political ramification in the Northeast Asian region, surrounding the recent North Korean nuclear crisis. Rather than simply blaming the irrational behaviours of political leaders, this study argues that their different political preferences originating from their background as well as the demographic nature of their core constituency are the fundamental sources of instability in the region. Unlike the conventional understand
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South Korea has the tenth largest economy in the world and is one of only two Asian members of the OECD. It has achieved this remarkable level of economic development since its independence from Japan in 1945. Indeed, it has achieved this transformation, exceptional for any postcolonial state, despite one of the most brutal fratricidal conflicts fought since the Second World War. Sunil Kim and Jonson Porteux chart this astonishing economic and political development and explain the puzzle that is
South Korea, recognized for its advanced democratic status, has demonstrated significant political developments since the democratic transition in the late 1980s. But political violence persists, contrary to theoretical expectations that such violence declines with state-building and democratic consolidation. This study investigates the anomaly of this persistent state-tolerated, and at times sponsored, non-state political violence, exploring the complex relationship between the South Korean sta
기독교가 전래되어 세대가 흐르면 명목상 기독교 현상이 발생한다. 서구 기독교에서는 명목상 기독교인에 대한 사역적 접근 뿐 아니라 통계 적 시도가 있었고, 대표적으로 로잔운동은 명목상 기독교인에 대한 정의 와 사역을 제시해왔다. 한국적 상황에서 명목상 기독교인을 구분하는 것 은 그들의 신앙 인식과 생활에 대한 더욱 복합적인 질문을 통해서 추정 할 수 있을 뿐이다. 또한 서구 기독교, 특히 미국에서 명목상 기독교인을 식별하기 위해 사용된 질문들이 한국의 문화에 부합되는지에 대한 고려 도 필요하다. 예를 들어, 이번 연구에서는 중생의 경험 여부 보다는 구원 의 확신을 기준으로 사용했고, 그동안 독자적인 범주로 존재해 온 가나 안 성도는 명목상 기독교인 유형에서 제외시켰다. 이번 명목상 기독교인 개념 정립을 위한 연구는 신앙 의식 영역, 신앙생활 영역, 신앙 정체성 영역이라는 세 가지 기준을 토대로 교회 출석자들을 대상으로 진행되었 으며, 이들 가운데 39.5%가 명목상 기독교인의 범주에
Reforming the public pension system is one of the tough quandaries of welfare states due to progressive aging of the society and economic downturn. To make pension reform fiscally sound and sustainable, benefits must be cut while contributions must be raised. Apprehending popular opposition, governments have introduced the idea of social dialogue in carrying out this unpopular reform by installing participatory policymaking bodies in order to achieve consensus among political parties, interest g
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