This paper addresses a puzzle: How is it possible that a country that has established a broad, export-oriented industrial base at record speed, remains vulnerable to the vicissitudes of international finance and currency markets? I argue that the Korean model that was tremendously successful for...

Purpose – The UNCITRAL Model Law on Electronic Transferable Records (Model Law) is based on the principles of non-discrimination against the use of electronic means, functional equivalence, and technology neutrality underpinning all UNCITRAL texts on electronic commerce. Investigating the...

Recently the Karnataka High Court in Commissioner of Income Tax v. Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd held that under section 195(1) of the Income tax act, 1961 a resident payer making payment to a non resident will have to withhold tax at source even if the sum payable is not chargeable to tax under...

The electronic medical devices industry has multidisciplinary properties that requires various fields such as IT, mechanical engineering, chemistry, medicine, physiology, biotechnology, and statistics. As demand for medical services has shifted from being treatment-oriented to diagnosis and...

The purpose of this article is to provide clarification to corporate environmental managers and/or legal counsel of multinational companies on current and emerging product-related regulatory developments in China, Japan and Korea. Specific pending and proposed product-related environmental...

This study empirically examines different patterns of collaborative technological development projects and the key success factors (KSFs), using data from 82 projects in the Korean electronic parts industry. The patterns of technological collaboration were categorized into 4 types by two...

With the launch of a new Korean government in May 2022 that places importance on future cooperation with Japan, cooperation between Korea and Japan in the so-called economic security field, including semiconductors, is expected to emerge as a new cooperation agenda. However, the agreement in the...

Korea has been at the centre of intense debate concerning the role of government in economic development. Taking an in-depth approach, this book analyses the path of Korea's industrial technology development. In contrast to many previous studies on Korea, the author argues that the role of...