Koreanising globalisation : nation-state agency and the case of Korea

This paper juxtaposes North Korea's Juche (self-reliance) philosophy with South Korea's globalisation (Koreanisation) policy, known as 'Segyehwa'. It argues that North and South Korea's divergent views on globalisation clearly indicate that, rather than being fixed and immutable, globalisation is variable and reflective of the nation-state. Seeking to empirically test this hypothesis, focus is given to how the concepts of Juche and Segyehwa unfold in practice within the North and South.