This paper evaluates ports from the network perspective and analyzes the network of Korean and Chinese ports based on the service pattern of Korean liner shipping companies.
A 1994 report from an International Commission of Jurists found that the Japanese military set up a vast network of Korean, Chinese, Indonesian, Malaysian, Taiwanese, Dutch and Filipino women to staff "comfort stations" — essentially brothels where they'd be forced to be sexually subservient to military men.
As an example, we constructed a network of Korean politicians by counting the number of news articles from a Korean online news service Naver(http://www.naver.com/), and demonstrated that the two clear groups in MRS well correspond to political parties and each party's leader/influential person possessing central position with many incoming links.
An updated version of "The Hidden Gulag" was released in 2012, with one section acknowledging the importance of Google Earth in bringing more of the network of North Korean labor camps to light.
South Korean officials and analysts suspect that North Korea, no longer able to fight a conventional war or even start a major skirmish with the South without suffering a devastating counterstrike, is increasingly resorting to other forms of warfare, like hacking the computer networks of South Korean banks and broadcasters.
Friends of Korea is part of a loose global network of pro-North Korean friendship groups, which includes the (similarly named) Korean Friendship Association, run by Alejandro de Cao Benos, a self-styled Spanish spokesperson who claims to be working as a "special delegate" for the DPRK government.
The spy agency also noted that, in February, North Korean hackers got into the internal network of a South Korean security software company that supports an online banking system used by more than 20 million South Koreans.
A briefing paper from KoFID, a South Korean network of civil society organisations, and ReDI, a South Korean thinktank, points out that the US offered about $60bn in grants and loans to South Korea between 1946 and 1978.
Borough officials say they have uncovered a network of illegal boardinghouses where Korean immigrants were paying up to $1,100 a month for tiny spaces in converted houses.
Unlike the United States, where older women can find many opportunities to sustain a large number of social network members, Korean women in rural villages may still be constrained by household chores and farming, even when they become older adults.
Mr. Choi's contacts extended far into a network of influential Americans and Koreans.
