lmost ten years after the end of the Cold War was declared, the Asian North-East continues being an area of convergence between the tensions that were characteristic of that historical period. Disposed around the Korean Peninsula, Russia, China and Japan interact there, with the USA constantly interfering in the political and military spheres. The Peninsula continues being divided between two r...

Objective This study investigated the mediation effect of stress between the experience of discrimination and life satisfaction among North Korean refugees who resettled in South Korea. The findings of the current study provide empirical evidence for the need of social interventions to mitigate adverse effects of stress on North Korean refugees who are subject to social discrimination on a dail...

Very little information is available regarding psychiatry in North Korea, which is based on the legacy of Soviet psychiatry. This paper reviews the characteristics of psychiatry in former socialist countries and discusses its implications for North Korean psychiatry. Under socialism, psychiatric disorders were attributed primarily to neurophysiologic or neurobiological origins. Psychosocial or ...

Entrepreneurship research has long been interested in the emergence of new business activities various geographical and institutional contexts. However, these studies have largely focused on mar...