This year is one of elections and leadership changes throughout the Asia-Pacific region. Earlier in 2012, Taiwan reelected President Ma Ying-jeou to a second term. North Korea and Russia have already seen transfers of power this year; it will be China’s turn in the fall. The United States holds its presidential election in November. And South Korea will elect a president in December. Individual...

Economic integration between North and South Korea occurs through three modalities: traditional arm’s-length trade and investment, processing on commission (POC) trade, and operations within the Kaesong Industrial Complex (KIC). In order, these three modalities are characterized by decreasing exposure of South Korean fi rms to North Korean policy and infrastructure. Th rough a survey of 200 Sou...

The red-haired pine bark beetle, Hylurgus ligniperda (Fabricius), is one of the most rapidly spreading invasive forest insects. Originally from Eurasia, it has subsequently been introduced to Oceania, North, and South America. Yet, status H. in East Asia ambiguous. Here, investigation analysis were conducted on beetle China, Korea, Japan. New occurrences China Korea recorded by field surveys ex...

After more than 10 years of absence in Korea, Plasmodium vivax malaria re-emerged in 1993 near the Korean demilitarized zone. Since then it has been a major public health concern in the Republic of Korea. Although the mosquitoes from North Korea were suspected to be the main cause of the re-emerging infection, the subject is a matter of controversy, because the prevalence of malaria in North Ko...

enemy” in the minds of South Korean conservatives who returned to power in 2008 rather than a real general in the 1950s. This film differs from post-1990 war films by clearly establishing the fact that the Korean War was an invasion of the South by the North, not unlike Cold War anticommunist films, but is more anti-North Korean than anticommunist by presuming that the “enemy” is the Supreme Le...