Locally-proposed comprehensive Four Rivers alternatives
”As the Four Major Rivers Restoration Project is directly connected to the lives of local residents, the central government should negotiate with the local governments.”
Neighborhood Shopkeepers in Contemporary South Korea: Household, Work, and Locality
This is an ethnographic study of the lived worlds of the keepers of small shops in a residential neighborhood in Seoul, South Korea. It outlines, discusses, and analyses the categories and conceptualizations of South Korean capitalism at the level of households, neighborhoods, and Korean society. These cultural categories were investigated through the neighborhood shopkeepers’ practices of work and reciprocal interaction as well as through the shopkeepers’ articulations of their lived experience. In South Korea, the keepers of small businesses have continued to be a large occupational category despite of societal and economic changes, occupying approximately one fourth of the population in active work force.
"Keeping alive the local economy."
Big retailers and small supermarkets in korean neighbourhoods.
