Sunday, April 3, 2011

Following Up: Korea's Rank

You may have gone home and asked your parents and your girlfriend's parents if you could find out the previous four generations. And maybe not. Let's zip to the future for a moment and take a quick peek at Korea's ratings on a few important websites we described earlier on in Comparative Politics.

I had written about a disappointing article that the CPJ noted about South Korea's increasing grip on the freedom of the press. Perhaps these links will point to more helpful information on the accessability of South Korea.

I have included some of the facts and tables that I found very interesting to note about South Korea's progression over time in each of the categories represented below... The first show over 30 years of information. The second shows 10 years of information.


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South Korea is really not hitting very high scores on its governance indicators. Of the six listed above, S.K. is "in the green" of Government Effectiveness and Rule of Law... NOT Political Stability which is getting the lowest scores, while Voice and Accountability and Control of Corruption are tied just above Political Stability. 

Here are the stats (in Percentile 0-100th):

                        V&A                PS               GE                  RQ                  RoL               CoC

1996                63.2                41.8             77.7                 64.4                 77.1                68.4   
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1998                66.8                45.7             63.6                 62.9                 73.8                64.6
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2000                67.3                47.6             76.2                 69.3                 76.2                63.6
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2002                70.2                50.5             80.1                 74.6                 76.7                69.9
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2003                69.7                51.4             78.2                 71.7                 72.4                67.5
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2004                71.2                59.1             79.6                 75.6                 76.2                68.9
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2005                72.1                62.0             82.0                 73.2                 81.4                71.8
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2006                68.3                56.3             83.5                 72.2                 72.4                68.4
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2007                67.8                58.7             85.5                 79.1                 82.9                72.9
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2008                67.3                57.4             82.6                 72.5                 76.1                69.1
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2009                68.2                52.4             83.3                 75.2                 82.5                71.4
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Corruption Perception I

2010 --  5.4 
2009 --  5.5
2008 --  5.6
2007 --  5.1
2006 --  5.1
2005 --  5.0
2004 --  4.5
2003 --  4.3
2002 --  4.5
2001 --  4.1

Just looking at the last decade of recorded scores for South Korea, it seems like the country has improved slightly. It mainly hangs in the balance as a country that really has a good amount of corruption but has hope for the future -- possibly. The highest recorded was 2008, and it has fallen .2 in the past 2 years... Hopefully it will not fall further, but the CPJ article may very well be an indication of troubles under President Lee Myung-bak.

-Jess
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