Korea, South

The international human resource manager is faced with a diverse, complex and dynamic environment. Differences from nationally-oriented human resource management (HRM) can be seen in the complexities that result from managing employees of various national origins working in different countries. People who work in internationally operating companies, operate in different cultural and institutional environments compared to where a firms headquarter is located. Hence, locally aligned HR approaches are often needed for a firm to be successful abroad. This course discusses these topics in an international HRM context by explicitly considering the context of the Korean Business Environment. It focuses on the cultural context and the organizational context of International HRM in Korea, as well as on staffing, recruitment, and selection in an international and Korean context.

This course provides students with an understanding of important issues that have shaped contemporary Korean culture and society since the late 20th century. Students examine the country's historical background before attempting to get an overall picture of everyday life in contemporary Korea. The course discusses Korean life as diversely manifest in literature, movies, television, newspapers, magazines, advertising, sports, shopping centers, theme parks, and other forms of popular culture. It emphasizes discovering the ways in which Koreans have responded and adapted to the rapidly changing world. As a part of the course, students visit cultural sites and events relevant to the course content.

This course provides an in-depth introduction to the major conceptual frameworks of social determinants of health as well as empirical research examining social factors that influence individuals’ health and illness. It also considers how social scientists, epidemiologists, public health experts, and doctors address the social causes of health, illness, death, longevity and health care; and how they use theory to understand them and make causal inferences based on observational or experimental data. 

This course is about Nanomedicine and its practical applications. Topics include Future medicine-nanomedicine, Nanomedicine, Nanomedicine in diagnostics, Nanomedicine in drug delivery, Nanomedicine in medical device, and Safety issues in nanomedicne.

Assessment: Reports (10%), Mid-term (40%), Final (50%)

Prerequisite: Nanobiotechnology

This course provides the basic knowledge on the vocabulary and the grammar of Korean Language. Students learn Korean alphabet, words, and basic grammars, and engage in a variety of activities in speaking, listening, writing, and reading to improve their communication skills in Korean. 

In this course, we attempt to understand humans and their surroundings specifically the culture and the society. The concepts in this course help students to change their usual perceptions of cultural situations newly through the "reading the culture" method. Furthermore, this course aims to provide exposure to different kinds of research methods and traits of anthropology, and by applying these observations, it helps students to learn how to perceive various aspects of modern society and how the contexts of these relate to each other.

This course provides students with an analytical framework and empirics to think about a wide variety of issues in international finance: the current account and balance of payments accounting; inter-temporal trade; the determination of exchange rates; monetary and fiscal policy under fixed and flexible exchange rates; a number of major puzzles in international finance. When time permits, this course also covers a number of relevant current issues: sovereign default, international financial crisis, and monetary unions.

Prerequisites: Intermediate Microeconomics, Intermediate Macroeconomics, Mathematics for Economists. Please note that you must have working knowledge of calculus and statistics, because this class mainly deals with mathematical economic models.

This course examines key moments of the long-twentieth century of the Western civilization from the Great War to the Financial Crisis of 2008 and the Brexit. Challenging the dichotomy of ‘West’ and ‘East’, it pays attention to the way in which different civilizations interconnected themselves. 

This class provides an overview of various legal issues surrounding corporations. Aspects of legal issues in business management are examined. Actual cases and related video clips may be used to stimulate class discussions. Due to the market failure that the world economy is experiencing now, governments around the world are tightening their grips on corporations through numerous regulatory schemes. The course discusses regulatory issues which restrict or promote today’s corporate activities and analyzes and discusses cases in relation to current viewpoints. Because this class covers a wide range of legal issues, student participation is strongly encouraged, and class participation contributes to as much as 40% of the total grade.