OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Korea Observer is 0. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2021-04-01 to 2025-04-01.)

Article	Citations
Peace Treaty versus Democratic Peace as a Peace Building Measure in Northeast Asia	2
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Exporting the Korean Wave to Europe: An Analysis of the Trade Effect	2
Political Ideology and Environmental Concern: Evidence from South Korea	1
Who Toes the Line? Mandate Type, Open-Primary Experience, and Party Defection in the Korean National Assem	1
U.S.-China Hegemonic Competition and Power Transitions: Focusing on the Role of Allies	1
Partisan Polarization in Korea: Ideology, Perception, Affect, and Participation	1
South Korean Public's Threat Perception of North Korea and Support for the US Extended Deterrence	1
The U.S. Arms Sales to Taiwan and China's Cooperation in the North Korea Nuclear Crisis	1
Some Reflections on Constitutional Amendment Movement in the First Half of Moon Jae-In Government: With Special Reference to the Role of the Judicial Bodies	1
Mediation Diplomacy of a Critical Stakeholder: South Korea's Role in the U.S.-DPRK Negotiation	1
National Donors’ Legalization for International Development Cooperation: The Emerging Case of South Korea	1
Thirty years of South Korea-China Relations: Cooperation, Conflict, and Competition	1
Women in the Korean National Assembly 1948-2020: Are They Really ‘Underqualified’ Compared to Men?	1
Balancing between "Two Evils"	1
Inter-Korean Relations: The Yoon Administration in Historical Context	1
Compromised Stability of Korea's Japan Policy: Two-Level Constraints, Leaders' Incentives, and the GSOMIA Swings	1
The Politics of Quarantine: The Political Implications of Negative Social Affects in the Early Stage of COVID-19 in South Korea	1
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Normative Influence of Social Media on Adolescents' Actions, Attitudes, and Perceptions Toward Non-Normative Behavior in South Korea	1
The Link between Public Health Crisis and Presidential Approval: Evidence from the COVID-19 in South Korea	1
Is a “Responsible Prime Minister” Impossible under Presidentialism? The Weak Constitutional Premiership and the Political Conditions for an Exception to Emerge in South Korea	1
Explaining South Korea's COVID-19 Response through Various Levels of the Institution	0
Re-examining the Politics of U.S. Military Bases: A Study on South Korea and Türkiye (Turkey)	0
South Korea's Foreign Policy Shifts Under President Yoon and Implications for the Sino-US Peer Competition	0

The Impact of Media Coverage of Performance Information on the Budget Spending Intentions of Government Officials and Citizens in South Korea	0
An Invisible Strategy with Visible Gains: Gray Zone Strategy of the Northeast Asian States and Challenges to South Korea	0
The Problem of Incredible Contracts for the Japanese Military Comfort Project during the Pacific War	0
Host People's Kindness and Migrant Workers' Cultural Adaptation: Evidence from South Korea	0
Cultural Lenses on Digital Governance: Examining the Factors Influencing the Penetration Level of Government Portals in China and South Korea	0
Rethinking Migrant Hierarchies: Non-Citizen Political Engagement and Policy Cycles in South Korea	0
Relationship between Investment Experience and Welfare Attitudes in Korean Society: Focusing on the Insufficiency of Labor Income and the Importance of Investment Income	0
South Korea's Democracy at a Crossroads	0
Who Consumes Political News through YouTube?: An Application of the OMA Framework to YouTube Use in South Korea	0
Reactions of News Producers and Users According to Video Sentiments on YouTube Before and After Confirmation of Political Rumors about North Korea Leader	0
Political Consumerism as Political Participation in Korea: The Influence of Anti-Business Sentiments, Political Ideology, and Social Media	0
Where and With Whom Did They Go?	0
Electoral Politics and Old-Age Pension Reform in South Korea	0
Role of Cultural Public Diplomacy in Enhancing Foreign Policy	0
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Alliance Politics and Missile Defense: Explaining US Missile Defense Deployments to Poland and the Republic of Korea	0
The Mobilizing Power of the President: South Korean Presidents Policy-making vis-à-vis North Korea	0
Can North Korea Enforce Foreign Arbitration Awards?	0
From Conflict Avoidance to Peaceful Path: The US-DPRK Denuclearization Interaction under the Frame of Incomplete Information Game	0
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Navigating Security Interests and Historical Legacies: The Evolution of Korea-Japan Relations in Recent Years	0
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Resilience amid Fluctuations: South Korea and Japan’s Security Strategies toward China Revisited	0
Conceptualising International Cooperation in Science and Technology: A Heuristic Model for Russian-South Korean Space Cooperation	0
Gender Difference in the Association between Religious Participation and Acculturative Stress: Evidence from Korean Immigrants in the United States	0
Liberalism Versus Political Equality in South Korea: Ideological Conflicts Around Democracy in the Postdemocratization Era	0
One in the Same? Unpacking Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) and ESG in South Korea	0
Cybersecurity Crisscrossing International Development Cooperation: Unraveling the Cyber Capacity Building of East Asian Middle Powers Amid Rising Great Power Conflicts	0
Effect of Income Inequality on Party Position in OECD Countries	0
Religion, Contact, and LGBT Acceptance: Survey Evidence from South Korea	0
The Rise of South Korea's Soft Power in Europe: A Survey Analysis of Public Diplomacy	0
Family Leave Policies and Employee Attitudinal Outcomes in Korea: The Moderating and Joint Moderating Effects of Gender and Marital Status	0
South Korea in the Chip War: Challenges and Opportunities	0
Factors Evaluating the Crisis Preparedness of a City in the Era of New Normal: Based on an Analytic Hierarchy Process Survey of Korean Experts	0
Cultural Influence on Koreans' Continuous Use Behavior: A Case of the South Korean Government Portal Website	0
In Defense of North Korea Sanctions	0
Youth Authoritarianism in Korean Democracy: What Makes the Youth in a Consolidated Democracy Withdraw Support for Democracy?	0
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The Effects of Globalization on Korea	0
Political Discourse on Twitter: The Case of Election Fraud in South Korea	0
Personalization of Executive Power After COVID-19 Onset in South Korea	0
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Policy Support and Its Influencing Factors: Analysis on International Development Policy in the United States and South Korea	0
The Supplementary Budget in South Korea: Characteristics and Policy Implications	0
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Affective Polarization in the 2022 South Korean Presidential Election: Causes and Consequences	0
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Hereditary Succession in the DPRK: Temporal and Perceptional Variants in Regime Stability and their Foreign Policy Implications	0
Heroes Raising Heroes: A Narrative of Honorable Veterans in the Political Culture of North Korea	0

Has South Korea Really Benefited from FTAs?	0
Ideology, Threat Perception, and Foreign Policy Preference	0
South Korea-Europe Relations: From Distant Strangers to Close Partners	0
Categorizing Institutional Trust in South Korea: Evidence From the 2021 Social Integration Survey	0
Antecedents of Governmental Control over Quasi-governmental Organizations in South Korea	0
A Comparative Analysis of Government Responses to COVID-19 in the United States, China, and South Korea: Lessons from the Early Stage of the Pandemic	0
The Impact of Ethnic Nationalism and Nouveau-Riche Nationalism on Foreign Wives’ Citizenship in South Korea	0
The Effects of Globalization and Democratization on Inequality in South Korea	0
Confucianism and Corruption: The Sources of Support for Democracy in Northeast Asia	0
Change or Continuity? Seoul's Approach to Southeast Asia under the New Southern Policy	0
Assessing South Korea's Compliance with Global Norms on Development Cooperation	0
Foreign Aid and Donor's Exports to the Recipients: The South Korean Case	0
Online Shopping Attitudes, Need for Touch, and Interdependent Self-Construal among Korean College Students	0
What Makes Swing Voters Participate in Protests? The Effects of Voting Patterns and Election Cycles on Participation in Candlelight Protests in South Korea	0
South Korea-U.S. Relations in a New Era: Ideological and Structural Sources of Continuity and Change	0
Reconsidering the Overlooked Threat of North Korea's Outer Space Activities: Focusing on the Menace of Militarization and Weaponization of Outer Space	0
When Does Cultural Diplomacy Work?	0
North Korea's Evolving Perception of China: From Kim Jong Il to Kim Jong Un and the Evolution of Pyongyang's Nuclear Strategy	0
Examining the Role of Social Capital and Socioeconomic Status on Anti-Foreigner Sentiment in South Korea	0
Rethinking Economic Sanctions on North Korea: Why Crippling Economic Sanctions Will Not Make North Korea Denuclearize	0
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Effects of Socioeconomic Status and Gender on Valued Qualities and Future Success in South Korea	0
East Asia's Relations: Persistent Continuities and Changing Circumstances	0
A Q Methodology Analysis of Chinese Policy Makers' Perceptions of China's Foreign Policy Decision-Making Process concerning South Korea's THAAD Deployment	0
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Efficiency and Its Determinants in Regional Innovation Systems in South Korea 1999-2014: The Network Data Envelope Analysis	0
Can It Get Out of Predicament? Japan's Policy towards DPRK Nuclear Issue	0