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In the past 30 years, discourses on queerness and the central political issues of LGBT life that originate in the United States-- like same-sex marriage-- have been exported and used to identify the presence of queer community in other parts of the world. QUEER KOREA brings together historical, ethnographic, and literary essays that establish a queer historiography of Korea. Editor Todd Henry asserts that Western forms of queerness, and the reading practices used to identify queerness in the American academy, are insufficient to describe the range of queer life on the Korean peninsula. He argues that particular developments in Korean modernity-- including its histories of colonialism, nationalism, and authoritarianism from the turn of the century to the Cold War-- have informed the language and politics of queerness in Korea and the Korean diaspora.

Das koreanische Finanzsystem hat in den vergangenen 20 Jahren substantielle Veränderungen in Ausmaß und Struktur erfahren. Nach einem historischen Kapitel werden die Banken, die Geldpolitik und der Kapitalmarkt Südkoreas dargestellt. Das verwendete Datenmaterial deckt den Zeitraum bis zum Juni 1985 ab. - Abgedruckt sind zusätzlich: "The Bank of Korea Act" und "The General Banking Act". (DÜI-Xyl)

How can the performance of the Korean health care system be improved? How have the July 2000 health sector reforms affected performance? How can equity of finance and equity of access be maintained in a system relying to a large extent on consumer responsibility for health spending? What style and form of government intervention is needed to stimulate value for money from health expenditure growth and evidence based practice in a system dominated by the private sector? Can consumer responsibility alone maintain expenditure growth along a sustainable path? This book addresses this and other que