The aim of this study is to investigate the negative correlation between unemployment and life satisfaction in the 27 post-socialist countries. First, we measured the well-being cost of life satisfaction brought from pecuniary and non-pecuniary sources. In line with the previous literature, the...

Since the late 1990s, instead of encouraging first-movers to challenge and take risks, innovation related policies of Korean government, such as science and technology policies, industrial policies, and university policies, induced the first-movers to avoid risks. Likewise, these same policies...

This article examines the domestic and external factors that facilitated the implementation of economic reforms and export-oriented industrialization (EOI) in Vietnam, and seeks to investigate why the comparable policies of nine selected African countries (Angola, Benin, Congo-Brazzaville,...

The Knowledge Sharing Program (KSP) gained global attention in the late 1990s when knowledge was increasingly recognized as an important element for successful, sustainable development. Accordingly, South Korea has utilized the KSP to further promote its development cooperation efforts by...

Aging is a global phenomenon for many countries and Korea is not an exception. After becoming an aging society in 2000, Korea turned an aged country in 2017 by having 14.3% of its population with older than 65 years old. It is expected to become a super-aged society by 2025 (Statistics Korea...