Program/Project Management Resource List #66

Revised Dec. 2008

Provided by the NASA Headquarters Library

According to the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, South Korea is one of the most scientifically literate countries in the world. As one might expect, South Korea has its sights set on the stars. South Korea's satellites are built in that nation, but are launched as payloads of other countries' rockets. South Korea is a member of the International Space Exploration Coordination Group. On Oct. 30, 2008, NASA and South Korea's Ministry of Education, Science, and Technology signed a statement of intent for future cooperation, adding to a set of agreements that go back to 2000, including instruments on Galaxy Evolution Explorer.

This pathfinder serves as an introduction to the ways that Americans and South Koreans can work together on projects and avoid the minefield of cultural misunderstanding. Please see International Cooperation in Space for items that generally apply to all international joint ventures in outer space.

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Articles and Reports

Chia, Ho-Beng, Carolyn P. Egri, et al. "Four tigers and the dragon: Values differences, similarities, and consensus", Journal of Management, vol. XXIV, no. 3 (Sept. 2007), p. 305-320

Available through Wilson Select Plus

 

Chung, Sungchul. "Excelsior: The Korean Innovation Story", Issues in Science and Technology, vol. XXIV, no. 1 (Fall 2007), p. 63-69.

 

Larson, Eric V., Norman D. Levin, Seonhae Baik, and Bogdan Savych. Ambivalent Allies: A Study of South Korean Attitudes Toward the U.S.. Rand Corporation, Santa Monica, CA, 2004.

http://www.rand.org/pubs/technical_reports/TR141/

 

Lee, Sang-Myung, and Gerardo R. Ungson. "Towards a theory of synchronous technological assimilation: The case of Korea's Internet economy", Journal of World Business: JWB, vol. XLIII, no. 3 (July 2008), p. 274-89.

Available through Wilson Select Plus

 

"Moon Mission for South Korea", Aviation Week and Space Technology, Nov. 26, 2007, p. 26.

Available through the Aviation Week Intelligence Network

 

Pak, Y. Eugene. "Korea's Nano Future", Mechanical Engineering, vol. CXXIX, no. 8 (Aug. 2007), p. 26-27.

Available through ABI Inform

 

Pinkston, Daniel. "North and South Korean Space Development: Prospects for Cooperation and Conflict", Astropolitics, vol. IV, no. 2 (Aug. 2006), p. 207-227.

 

Scott, William B. "South Korea's Methane Rocket Engine Upstages US Developments", Aviation Week and Space Technology, May 22, 2006, p. 55.

Available through the Aviation Week Intelligence Network

 

Seong, Somi, Steven W. Popper, and Kungang Zheng. Strategic Choices in Science and Technology: Korea in the Era of a Rising China. Rand Corporation, Santa Monica, CA, 2005.

http://www.rand.org/pubs/monographs/MG320/

 

Wagner, Caroline S., Anny Wong, Sungho Lee, and Irene T. Brahmakulam. Phase Transition in Korea-U.S. Science and Technology Relations. Rand Corporation, Santa Monica, CA, 2003.

http://www.rand.org/pubs/monograph_reports/MR1644/

Internet Resources

Centre for Space Science and Technology Education in Asia and the Pacific. 2008 [24 Nov. 2008].

http://www.cssteap.org/

 

Korea Advanced Institue of Science and Technology. 2008 [24 Nov. 2008].

http://www.kaist.edu/edu.html

Note: The institute has been collaborating with NASA's Ames Research Center since Jan. 2008.

 

Korea Aerospace Research Institute. 2007 [24 Nov. 2008].

http://www.kari.re.kr/english/

 

Korea Institute of Science and Technology Information. 2005 [24 Nov. 2008].

http://www.kisti.re.kr/english/

 

Ministry of Education, Science, and Technology. 2008 [24 Nov. 2008].

http://english.mest.go.kr/

 

Office of Electronic Information, Bureau of Public Affairs, US Department of State. Korea, South. 28 June 2008 [24 Nov. 2008].

http://www.state.gov/p/eap/ci/ks/