{"id":16804,"date":"2023-10-17T01:57:05","date_gmt":"2023-10-17T01:57:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/snuac.snu.ac.kr\/eng\/?p=16804"},"modified":"2023-10-17T01:57:05","modified_gmt":"2023-10-17T01:57:05","slug":"covid-19-in-east-asia-and-aftermath-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/snuac.snu.ac.kr\/eng\/index.php\/2023\/10\/17\/covid-19-in-east-asia-and-aftermath-2\/","title":{"rendered":"COVID-19 in East Asia and Aftermath- Re-globalization, Democracy and Civil Society"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wpb-content-wrapper\">[vc_row][vc_column width=&#8221;1\/4&#8243;][vc_single_image image=&#8221;16805&#8243; img_size=&#8221;full&#8221;][\/vc_column][vc_column width=&#8221;3\/4&#8243;][vc_column_text]\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Editors:<\/strong>\u00a0Hyun-Chin Lim, Haeran Lim, Taekyoon Kim, Suk-Ki Kong<\/li>\n<li><strong>Publication Date:<\/strong>\u00a0September<strong>\u00a0\/ <\/strong>2023<\/li>\n<li><strong>Publisher: <\/strong>Zininzin<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_separator][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]The book project on COVID-19 in East Asia was initiated by the SNUAC Civil Society Program in March 2020, led by Hyun-Chin Lim, the founding director of SNUAC. The project aimed to explore and compare the responses of East Asian countries, including South Korea, China, Japan, Taiwan, and Vietnam, to the COVID-19 pandemic. The organizing committee, including professors Haeran Lim, Taekyoon Kim, and research professor Suk-Ki Kong, conducted a series of hybrid international conferences in May 2021 and February 2022.<\/p>\n<p>The first conference focused on each country\u2019s response to COVID-19, highlighting the effectiveness of South Korean and Taiwanese strategies compared to the US and EU. The second conference addressed the social impacts and transformations in the post-pandemic era, recognizing that East Asia was not immune to global changes.<\/p>\n<p>The book consists of two parts: the first part analyzes the diverse responses to COVID-19 in East Asian countries, while the second part explores the political, economic, social, and cultural impacts of the pandemic. The authors examine key issues such as the retreat of democracy, digital surveillance states, the return of the state, re-globalization, platform economy, precariatization of labor, untact societies, empathic civilization, nationalism, nativism, populism, and US-China rivalry.<\/p>\n<p>The COVID-19 pandemic increased the power of illiberal political leaders and led to the retreat of democracy in some cases. Digital platform economy and gig economy rapidly expanded, transforming labor conditions into precarious and unprotected employment. The pandemic\u2019s aftereffects continue to affect social minorities, care and education sectors, self-employed individuals, and platform workers.<\/p>\n<p>Despite the official end of the pandemic, East Asia remains exposed to global risks such as the Ukraine crisis, climate change, and the Fukushima contaminated water issue. The authors emphasize the importance of continued research on COVID-19 and its wide-ranging impacts, from quarantine measures to socioeconomic protection. They hope that this research contributes to addressing the ongoing risks and threats in East Asia.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><strong>Contents<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Tables and Figures v<\/p>\n<p>Acknowledgements ix<\/p>\n<p>Notes on Contributors xiii<\/p>\n<p><strong>Introduction:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Chapter 1. East Asia after COVID-19: Re-Globalization, US-China Rivalry, and Global Value Chains<br \/>\nHyun-Chin Lim 3<\/p>\n<p><strong>Part I Return of State and Retreat of Civil Society<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Chapter 2. The Transformation of Political and Economic System in Covid-19 Era: The Decline of Neoliberalism and the Return of the State in the World and South Korea<br \/>\nHyug Baeg Im 25<\/p>\n<p>Chapter 3. The Responses to and Impacts of COVID-19 in Taiwan: The Interplay of State and Society<br \/>\nMichael Hsiao 49<\/p>\n<p>Chapter 4. The World after COVID-19: Democratic Recession, Economic Inequality, and the Return of the State<br \/>\nHaeran Lim 65<\/p>\n<p><strong>Part II Varieties of Strategies to Respond COVID-19 Pandemic in East Asia<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Chapter 5. Different Patterns of the COVID-19 and Different Response Strategies in China, Korea and Japan<br \/>\nIk-Ki Kim 81<\/p>\n<p>Chapter 6. Changes in COVID-19 Countermeasures and Issues of Risk Governance: February 2020 to September 2021<br \/>\nTatsuro Niikawa 109<\/p>\n<p>Chapter 7. The Government\u2019s Response and People\u2019s Social Responsibility during the COVID- 19 Pandemic in Viet Nam<br \/>\nMinh Huu Nguyen 129<\/p>\n<p><strong>Part III New Challenges and Striving Over Platform Economy and Unequal Social Impacts<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Chapter 8. The Emergence of Digital Economy and Fintech in the Post Pandemic Era: Implications for East Asia<br \/>\nWang-Hwi Lee 171<\/p>\n<p>Chapter 9. The Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Aspects of the Lifeworld of South Korean People<br \/>\nJonghoe Yang 189<\/p>\n<p>Chapter 10. Reclaiming Democratic Citizenship After Tackling the COVID-19 in South Korea<br \/>\nSuk-Ki Kong 215<\/p>\n<p><strong>Conclusion:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Chapter 11. Governance Failure in Global Health Crises and Prospects of Collective Action for Resilience in Asia: In Search of Democratic Middle Powers<br \/>\nTaekyoon Kim 241<\/p>\n<p><strong>INDEX<\/strong>\u00a0269<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><strong>Notes on Contributors<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Hyun-Chin Lim (hclim@snu.ac.kr)<\/p>\n<p>Hyun-Chin Lim is Professor Emeritus of Sociology and Director of Civil Society Programs,<br \/>\nAsia Center, at Seoul National University. He is also an elected member of the<br \/>\nNational Academy of Sciences, Republic of Korea. Currently, he serves as President of<br \/>\nEast Asian Sociological Association. He received his B.A. and M.A. in Sociology from<br \/>\nSeoul National University, and his Ph.D. in Sociology from Harvard University. He was<br \/>\npreviously the dean of Faculty of Liberal Education, the dean of the College of Social<br \/>\nSciences, and the founding director of Asia Center, all at Seoul National University. His<br \/>\nbooks include Mobile Asia, Global Capitalism and Culture in East Asia, Capitalism and<br \/>\nCapitalisms in Asia, and Asia on Rise: Civilizational Turn.<\/p>\n<p>Hyug Baeg Im (hyugim@naver.com)<\/p>\n<p>Hyug Baeg Im is currently Professor Emeritus, Korea University. He received Ph.D.<br \/>\nfrom the University of Chicago. He had been the Chaired Professor, Gwangju Institute<br \/>\nof Science and Technology, the Dean of Graduate School of Policy Studies, Korea University.<br \/>\nHe served as an EC member of IPSA, 2009-2014. He had taught as a visiting<br \/>\nprofessor at Georgetown University (1995-1996), Duke University (1997), Stanford University<br \/>\n(2002-2003) He has been awarded Best Academic Award from Korea Academy<br \/>\nof Science (2015), ICAS Best Book Prize (2017), and Best Academic Achievement Award<br \/>\nfrom Korean Political Science Association (2010). His recent publications include, Democratization<br \/>\nand Democracy in South Korea, 1960-Present (Palgrave Macmillan, 2020),<br \/>\nThe Possibility of Peace in the Korean Peninsula (SNU Press, 2017), and The Origins of<br \/>\nYushin: Machiavelli Unveiled (Harvard Univ. Press, 2011).<\/p>\n<p>Hsin-Huang Michael Hsiao (michael@gate.sinica.edu.tw)<\/p>\n<p>Hsin-Huang Michael Hsiao is Adjunct Research Fellow\/Professor of Institute of Sociology,<br \/>\nAcademia Sinica; Chairman of Taiwan-Asia Exchange Foundation; Chair Professor<br \/>\nof Hakka Studies, National Central University; and Senior Advisor to the President of<br \/>\nTaiwan since 2016. His current research areas include: middle class, civil society and<br \/>\ndemocracy in Asia; social transition to de-carbonized society in Taiwan; comparative<\/p>\n<p>Hakka studies in Taiwan and Southeast Asia. His most recent book publications are:<br \/>\nWriting Taiwan\u2019s Third Sector History (co-editor, 2023); Three Divides: Transformation of<br \/>\nHakka Ethnic Politics in Taiwan (co-author, 2022); The Many Faces of Taiwan\u2019s Cultural<br \/>\nDiplomacy (co-editor, 2022); The Ethnic Relations of Hakka Belts in Taiwan and Malaysia<br \/>\n(co-editor, 2022); China Impact: Attitude Changes in Taiwan and Hong Kong (co-editor,<br \/>\n2022), and The Volatility and Future of Democracies in Asia (co-editor, 2022).<\/p>\n<p>Haeran Lim (hrlim@snu.ac.kr)<\/p>\n<p>Haeran Lim is a Professor at the Department of Political Science and International<br \/>\nRelations, Seoul National University. She specializes in comparative politics, East Asian<br \/>\nand international political economy. Formerly, she was the vice-president of the Korean<br \/>\nPolitical Science Association (2019), the director of the Institute of Korean Politics at<br \/>\nSNU (2010-2012), visiting fellow at Brookings Institute (2007-2008). Her research interests<br \/>\ninclude political economy of industrial policy and transformation, and globalization<br \/>\nand trade policy. She has published numerous papers and books, including International<br \/>\nPolitical Economy and East Asia, Revisiting East Asian Developmental Model, Crisis of Democracy<br \/>\nand Economic Reform in Korea, Democratization and Transformation Process<br \/>\nof Developmental States, and Korea\u2019s Growth and Industrial Transformation (Macmillan)<br \/>\namong others.<\/p>\n<p>Ik Ki Kim (ikki@dongguk.edu)<\/p>\n<p>Ik Ki Kim is currently director of East Asia Well-Ageing Research Center in Korea. He<br \/>\nused to be a professor of sociology at Dongguk University. After retirement he taught at<br \/>\nRenmin University of China for 4 years as a Xin\u2019ao International Outstanding Professor.<br \/>\nHe received BA at Seoul National University and MA at the University of South Carolina,<br \/>\nthen got Ph.D in sociology at the University of Michigan. His main research area<br \/>\nis East Asia, mainly comparing current situations in Korea, Japan and China. His recent<br \/>\npublications also deal with East Asia including \u201cComparison of participatory activities of<br \/>\nthe urban elderly in Gyunggi Province(Korea) and Shandong Province(China).\u201d, \u201cChina,<br \/>\nSouth Korea, Japan and Covid-19\u201d, and \u2018Beijing and Seoul, Modern to Hypermodern\u2019.<\/p>\n<p>Tatsuro Niikawa (tniikawa@mail.doshisha.ac.jp)<\/p>\n<p>Tatsuro Niikawa is Professor Emeritus of Doshisha University. He is also Visiting Professor<br \/>\nof Research Institute for Humanity and Nature. He was former Professor of Public<br \/>\nPolicy at Graduate School of Policy and Management of Doshisha University. He studied<br \/>\npolitical science at the Graduate School of Political Science of Waseda University. His<br \/>\nmajor fields of research are the study of government, governance, public administration,<br \/>\npublic policy analysis, citizen participation and social innovation. His publications and<br \/>\nEast Asia after COVID-19: Re-Globalization, the US-China Rivalry, and Global Value Chains<br \/>\nresearch articles focus on local government and governance, deliberative democracy and<br \/>\nparticipatory decision making, social enterprise and business, civil society organization<br \/>\nand citizen advocacy in Japan and comparison with other democratic countries.<\/p>\n<p>Nguyen Huu Minh (minhnguyen.ifgs@gmail.com)<\/p>\n<p>Nguyen Huu Minh (Ph.D in Sociology, University of Washington, USA) is Professor of<br \/>\nSociology, the President of Vietnam Sociological Association; a High Senior Researcher<br \/>\nof the Institute for Family and Gender Studies (IFGS), Vietnam Academy of Social<br \/>\nSciences. He was Director of the IFGS (2005-2017), Vice-Director of the Institute of<br \/>\nSociology (1999-2005). Some of his recent books, book chapters (and co-author) include:<br \/>\nVietnamese family in the context of industrialization, modernization and integration<br \/>\nfrom comparative approaches (Social Sciences Publishing House-SSPH, Ha Noi. 2014);<br \/>\nGender dimensions of social exclusive towards a more comprehensive policy for women<br \/>\n(SSPH, Ha Noi. 2017); \u201cCare Relations among Non-coresident Families\u201d, in Wongboonsin<br \/>\nand Tan (Editors): Care Relations in Southeast Asia: The Family and Beyond<br \/>\n(Brill Publisher. 2019).<\/p>\n<p>Wang-Hwi Lee (leew@ajou.ac.kr)<\/p>\n<p>Wang Hwi LEE, Ph.D. (London School of Economics and Political Science), is professor<br \/>\nof political science at Ajou University, Suwon, South Korea, where he has taught international<br \/>\npolitical economy since 2006. This year, he is a vice president of Korea Association<br \/>\nof International Studies (KAIS). Currently he advises the Ministry of Foreign Affairs,<br \/>\nMinistry of Industry, Commerce and Energy, and Ministry of Science and ICT on economic<br \/>\nsecurity issues. His research interests have been focused on issues of the political<br \/>\neconomy of East Asia and the US-China strategic competition. He is the author of \u201cThe<br \/>\nPolitics of Economic Reform in South Korea: Crony Capitalism after Ten Years\u201d, \u201cPulling<br \/>\nSouth Korea away from China\u2019s Orbit: The Strategic Implications of the Korea-US Free<br \/>\nTrade Agreement\u201d, \u201c US-China Cooperation on Climate Change at COP26 \u2013 Policy<br \/>\nImplications for Environment and Energy\u201d, and \u201cCrisis Management of the COVID-19<br \/>\nPandemic in South Korea, Taiwan, Hong Kong, and Singapore.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Jonghoe Yang (jhyang@skku.edu)<\/p>\n<p>Jonghoe Yang is Professor Emeritus in the Department of Sociology, Sungkyunkwan<br \/>\nUniversity, Seoul, Korea. He was President of the Korean Sociological Association in<br \/>\n2005. He published both books and articles on such topics as development and change,<br \/>\nsociology of culture and arts, environmental consciousness, and middle class. His recent<br \/>\npublications include Development, Class, and Culture: Aspects of Socio-cultural Change<br \/>\nin Modern Korea (2012, Green), Citizenship and Migration in the Era of Globalization<\/p>\n<p>(co-editor, 2013. Springer), and Global Capitalism and Culture in East Asia (co-editor,<br \/>\n2019, Baiksan).<\/p>\n<p>Suk-Ki Kong (skong@snu.ac.kr)<\/p>\n<p>Suk-Ki Kong is Research Professor of Asia Center at Seoul National University. He studied<br \/>\nsociology and received B.A., M.A. from the Department of Sociology at SNU and his<br \/>\nPh.D. from the Department of Sociology at Harvard University. He is also Adjunct Professor<br \/>\nof Graduate School of Public Policy and Civic Engagement at Kyung Hee University.<br \/>\nHis major fields of research are social movements, human rights, civil society and<br \/>\nsocial economy. His publications and research articles focus on social movements, civil<br \/>\nsociety, democracy and citizenship, local community and resilience, and social economy<br \/>\nin East Asia as a comparative context.<\/p>\n<p>Taekyoon Kim (oxonian07@snu.ac.kr)<\/p>\n<p>Taekyoon Kim is professor of international development in the Graduate School of<br \/>\nInternational Studies, Seoul National University. He is currently working for the SNU<br \/>\nSocial Responsibility as the Chair, as well as the Prime Minister Office\u2019s Committee on<br \/>\nInternational Development Cooperation as a Board Member. His scholarly works cover<br \/>\ninternational development, Global South studies, peace studies, and international political<br \/>\nsociology.[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_separator][\/vc_column][\/vc_row]\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[vc_row][vc_column width=&#8221;1\/4&#8243;][vc_single_image image=&#8221;16805&#8243; img_size=&#8221;full&#8221;][\/vc_column][vc_column width=&#8221;3\/4&#8243;][vc_column_text] Editors:\u00a0Hyun-Chin Lim, Haeran Lim, Taekyoon Kim, Suk-Ki Kong Publication Date:\u00a0September\u00a0\/ 2023 Publisher: Zininzin [\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_separator][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]The book project on COVID-19 in East Asia was initiated by the SNUAC Civil Society Program in March 2020, led by Hyun-Chin Lim, the founding director of SNUAC. The project aimed to explore and compare the responses of East Asian countries, including South Korea, China, Japan, Taiwan, and Vietnam, to the COVID-19 pandemic. The organizing committee, including professors Haeran Lim, Taekyoon Kim, and research professor Suk-Ki Kong, conducted a series of hybrid international conferences in May 2021 and February 2022. The first conference focused on each country\u2019s response to COVID-19, highlighting the effectiveness of South Korean and Taiwanese strategies compared to the US and EU. 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