Mee-Kyung Jung
Mee-Kyung JUNG has, since 2015, worked as visiting professor and lecturer at Dankook University in South-Korea. 2012-2014, she worked as lecturer at University Frankfurt on Main and Ruhr University in Bochum. She received PhD (Thesis.“Essays on Labor Market and Human Capital – Korea and Germany”) in Economics at University Frankfurt in 2010. She has been doing research for comparative studies between Asia and Europe countries in the several areas more than ten years.
Address: Seoul, Rep. of Korea
Address: Seoul, Rep. of Korea
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This paper analyzes the role of the German vocational education and training system for economic and the labor market integration after the reunification through quantitative analysis. ...
Teilnehmer am Seminar studieren moderne Geschichte, Wirtschaftsentwicklung und den sozialen Wandel Koreas; sie suchen nach dem Potential, das die Zukunft des Landes bestimmen kann. Das Seminar führt zunächst mit Daten und Berichten in die allgemeine Lage Koreas ein. Dann sind zwei Geschichtsepochen zu beleuchten - die japanische Kolonisierung und der Koreakrieg, die das moderne Korea tief prägten. Der Weg zur Industrialisierung in Korea im nächten Teil des Seminars stellt ökonomische und Unternehmensstile Koreas dar. Die Demokratisierungs- und die Arbeiterbewegung setzen zur Zeit dem ökonomischen und politischen Potential und Grenzen. Danach werden im Seminar besondere Chancen und Risiken Koreas diskutiert: Bildungsfieber, Frauen und Familie, Globalunternehmen in Korea und Wiedervereinigung/Konflikte zwischen Nord- und Südkorea. Zum Schluss wird das Seminar die Herausforderungen für die Zukunft Koreas zusammenfassen.
Das Ziel des Seminars ist, Teilnehmern Wissen über Korea zu vermitteln und die Fähigkeit zum kritischen Verstehen des Landes zu entwickeln. Methodologisch vertiefen die Teilnehmer Basiskenntnisse statistischer und ökonomischer Begriffe. Nach dem Seminar können Studierende interessante Themen zum weiteren Studium Koreas erforschen.
The lecture begins with reviewing descriptive statistics. Students learn inferential statistics, analysis of variance, linear regression, linear probability, logit and probit models. It uses Excel and STATA computer software packages to describe data and estimate econometric models.
Active participation in this course enables the students to develop probabilistic thinking and competence in quantitative methods. The techniques that the students are going to learn in this course will increase their chance of success in professional careers.
This lecture “Education and Work in Korea” begins with these interesting questions, which definitely belong to the discipline Korean Studies. Looking for answers, this lecture first observes and analyzes the historical cultural factors concerning education and work in Korea according to the theory of economic style, which originated with the German “historische Schule.” Then, the general theory of education, with regard to wages and salaries, formulated as the “human capital model” by Gary Becker and Jacob Mincer, is applied. In this part, the lecture analyzes the 2004 to 2007 data taken from the Korean Income Panel Study and the German Socio-Economic Panel to reveal the effect of education on income and compares those effects in Korea and Germany.
Through active participation in the lecture, students will study the educational system of Korea in the history and at the present time, and the relevance of the educational level to the income, the occupation, as well as the social status from Choseon to modern times. At the end of the semester, students will discuss the reason why the Koreans consider the (university) education as so Important, and what is the source of educational fever in Korea. Their discussion will contribute to bring the Korean style of education and work to light.