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Is FTA for ‘Up Closer and Personal’? Reflections on Media and Public Views on the EU in Korea

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Yoon S.-W.

Baltic Journal of European Studies

2013

vol. 3

issue 3

37-58

Due to its geopolitical situation, Korea started its relationship with the EU quite later than with the US, China, Japan and Russia. However, the EU-Korea relationship has grown “slowly but steadily”. The studies on the perception of the EU have been conducted since the 2000s. Korean scholars have been interested in finding out the Korean perception of the EU and have participated in the multiannual international research projects from the beginning. Their extensive data on Korean media coverage on the EU and public opinion surveys present the nature and characteristics of the EU imagery in Korea. EU-Korea relationship has seen a turning point by the signing of a Free Trade Agreement (FTA) between the two parties. The EU became more exposed to the Korean media on this occasion, and accordingly, the Korean public now considers the EU as a more important partner than before. Through the detailed explanation and analysis of the existing perception studies in this paper, one can understand how the EU perception has been shaped and changed in Korea over time. One of the major findings is that the visibility of the EU has been enhanced in Korea for sure, but the images have been still seriously prejudiced as an ‘economic powerhouse’. Further studies are necessary to examine how to widen the scope of mutual understanding in different fields.

Labour standards and international trade regulation – a new era of enforcement?

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Gomula J., Crawford J. T.

Roczniki Administracji i Prawa

2021

vol. specjalny II

issue XXI

79-94

Mimo że ILO istnieje od ponad wieku, nie jest ona wyposażona w mechanizmy międzynarodowe do egzekwowania standardów pracy, które promuje. Globalizacja i liberalizacja handlu uwidoczniły silne powiązanie między prawami dotyczącymi pracy i przepisami dotyczącymi handlu, co doprowadziło do prób uregulowania przepisów odnoszących się do pracy w kontekście handlu, początkowo przez WTO, a ostatnio na mocy klauzul dotyczących pracy w dwustronnych i regionalnych umowach o wolnym handlu (FTA). Niniejszy artykuł stanowi historyczny przegląd tych prób i przedstawia najnowsze opracowania, które odzwierciedlają nową politykę Stanów Zjednoczonych i Unii Europejskiej wykorzystywania swoich umów o wolnym handlu jako mocnego narzędzia do egzekwowania standardów pracy.

Although the ILO has been in existence for over a century, it is not equipped with international mechanisms for enforcement of the labour standards that it promotes. Globalization and trade liberalization have exposed a strong relationship between labour rights and trade regulation, leading to attempts to regulate labour provisions in a trade context, initially through the WTO and, more recently, through labour clauses in bilateral and regional free trade agreements (FTAs). This contribution provides a historical overview of these attempts and presents most recent developments, which reflect a new policy of the United States and the European Union to use their FTAs as a stronger instrument of labour standards enforcement.

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Is FTA for ‘Up Closer and Personal’? Reflections on Media and Public Views on the EU in Korea

Labour standards and international trade regulation – a new era of enforcement?