• Authors : Chiwon Choi
• Journal : Zeitschrift der Koreanisch-Deutschen Gesellschaft fuer Sozialwissenschaften
• Publisher : K-G Association For Social Sciences
• Volume : 28(3)
• Publication Date : September, 2018
• Abstract : The Communist Manifesto(1848), a social criticism and a diagnosis of social problems, aims at the realization of a new society called communism, away from the ides of a republic of freedom and equality and fraternity idealized in Declaration of the Rights of the Man and of the Citizen of 1789. The whole idea of ​​Marx and Engels is linked to the cord of Communist Manifesto. This cord consists of: not a mechanical mechanism, but an idea of ​​human social relations and practice. The Manifesto shows that a new society cannot be realized through a vague social movement, but through the action of ‘politics of struggle and liberation’ and the action of ‘labor and production’, whose initiator is the workers themselves. The Manifesto is not only the product of democratic and open debates but also a representative work that shows how the theory has ‘an immediate path to practice’ and how it can ‘cross the realm of practice.’

• Author: Doo-Jin Kim
• Title: The Religious Characteristics of Koreans Read in Oral Literature
• Publisher: The Academy of Korean Studies Press
• Published: August 2018
• Abstract: This study focuses on ‘religious mind’ as a central axis of Korean culture and seeks to interpret the literature in the “The Comprehensive Collection of Korean Folklore Literature(Revised and Enlarged)” through an interdisciplinary approach from humanities to social sciences. Analysis and methodology of religious philosophy, human geography, Korean literature, social psychology, and political sociology were used. In the political-sociological analysis, it emphasizes that there is ‘interpenetration’ or ‘interrelationship’ between the contents of the folk tales and the “Yongbieocheonga”. The political myth of the founding of Choseon Dynasty is a reflection of conflict and confrontation structure, but as a “control ideology,” it is believed that it has resulted in the net functional results of political communication. This study will trigger a new cognitive shift from the view that the formation of folktales is merely interpreted as spontaneous oral transmission by the grassroots.

What is the problem with Korea, China and Japan’s historical perception is a book Yasuaki Onuma, a professor of international law,  who has been studying Korea-Japan relations and practicing activities since the 1970s. It discusses the theme of ‘historical awareness’ which is the object of controversy between Korea and China based on the contents of the Tokyo trial, war responsibility and postwar responsibilities, Nanjing case, Sakhalin residual Korean people, and ‘comfort women’.

Preface
Chapter 1 Tokyo Trial _ International  ‘condemnation’ and Japan’s attitude of acceptance
Chapter 2 San Francisco Peace Treaty and “normalization of diplomatic relations” between Korea-China and Korea-Japan _ “ending” the war and colonial rule
Chapter 3 War Responsibility and Postwar Responsibility
Chapter 4 The issue of comfort women and the new situation _1990s to the 21st century
Chapter 5 21st Century World and Historical Awareness
The words of the translator