Religion plays a major role that defines and preserves ethnic life and character in the United States. In the case of first-generation Korean immigrants, as an ethnic organization, the Korean immigrant church functions as a center of resistance to cultural assimilation. On the o…
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A comprehensive model was proposed to explain the relative importance of country-of-manufacturer (COM) and brand image on product evaluation, attitudes, and purchase intention for hybrid products on the basis of quality dimensions identified in the current study (ease of use, de…
Traditional Chinese dynasties viewed their interactions with foreign people in terms of the tribute system. Although the Chinese side always represented the relationship as its suzerainty over other states, the actual relations between China and its neighbors encompassed a wide …
This dissertation confronts the difficulty in explaining the market pressures against the rupiah and the won during their currency crises of 1997–98. The crises are viewed in the context of multiple equilibria in financial markets, where the sudden rise in the market pressure is…
This dissertation aims to deepen our understanding of free word order phenomena or "scrambling." It offers a unified approach to some fundamental limitations on scrambling both in clauses and in noun phrases of Korean. These would have been attributed to a headedness parameter i…
The main purpose of this dissertation is to identify the prominent channels through which financial decisions are transmitted to real economic activities with three different empirical studies. The first essay examines investment behavior and the effects of financing constraints…
This dissertation surveys Korean Baptist missionaries' work in Kazakhstan and recommends some effective strategies for twenty-first-century missions for Korean missionaries. The writer presents major emerging issues in world evangelization and explains the need for the study in …
This dissertation examines the semantic analyses of the Korean locative particles -ey and -eyse and the Turkish locative particles -(y )A,- d A, - d An . Specifically, this study proposes a cognitive network model of the locative expressions in Korean and Turkish based on the st…
This thesis interprets and critiques what is termed the 'myth of oneness' within the western philosophical and theological tradition, seeking to help transform South Korean Christianity, especially its perspective on other religions, and its attitude toward the reunification of …
This research is an historiographic study of the early Protestant church in Korea from 1884 to 1910. The purpose of the research is to inquire in what ways, and under what conditions, the introduction of Christianity influenced social transformation in Korea between 1884 and 191…
One of the most fundamental, distinctive characteristics of Korean Protestant Christianity is its emphasis on three related themes: a special conception of the divine-human relation; community-based consciousness; and an emphasis on sanctification. The dissertation shows how thi…