Re-Inventing Africa’s Development
Linking Africa to the Korean Development Model
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Open AccessComparison of headspace–SPME and SPME-Arrow–GC–MS methods for the determination of volatile compounds in Korean salt–fermented fish sauce
A new solid phase microextraction (SPME)-Arrow method was evaluated for the analysis of volatile compounds in kanari-aekjeot, a Korean traditional salt–fermented sand lance sauce, and compared it to the standard ...
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Assessing the Role of Foreign Aid, Donors and Recipients
This chapter focuses on the role of foreign aid and takes issue with the intellectual circles’ habit of criticizing aid and blaming donors. In order to get to the heart of the matter, the author asks a simple ...
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Uncovering the Main Root Cause: The Mindset Factor
In this chapter, the author shifts gear to a whole different level of ‘mind over matter‘, postulating that there is such thing as the principle, overarching root cause of Africa’s underdevelopment: the people’...
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Reasons for Optimism and the Tasks at Hand
In this chapter, the author offers much-needed positivity in the discourse on Africa’s development by elaborating on the reasons to be optimistic and hopeful. But this is conditional and the message is clear: ...
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Policy Recommendations for Africa
This section presents comprehensive policy recommendations for Africa. The overarching theme is ‘the need for drastic turnaround’. An important question asked here is: ‘What induces people to act?’ The mechani...
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The Essence of the Korean Model of Development
In this chapter, the author produces a much-needed conceptualized Korean development model featuring all the crucial elements characterizing Korea’s development—foundational, psychological, economic and socio-...
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Re-setting the Priorities
The two mottos epitomizing this chapter are ‘realizing the nature of the problems’ and ‘shifting focus to attitudes and ethics’. The underlying logic here is that because Sub-Saharan African countries have not...
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Disillusionment and Dilemma
In this chapter, the author sets out on a journey to unlock the mystery behind Africa’s development by putting this complex issue in perspective. He traverses history and zooms in on the great ‘African paradox...
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Review of Conventional Explanations
This chapter is aimed at objectively assessing various possible reasons for Africa’s poverty and underdevelopment. It reviews the conventional or popular explanations for Africa’s prolonged predicament, as wel...
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Finding the Missing Links
This chapter takes a step further in the methodical ‘building-block’ approach aimed at deriving ultimate solutions for Sub-Saharan African countries’ development. At the outset, the nature of Africa’s underper...
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Korea’s Path of Development in Retrospect
Here, the case of Korea’s development is examined applying the same ‘building-block’ approach. This chapter scrutinizes Korea’s evolution in a time-linear and multi-dimensional fashion, taking us through its h...
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Engineering Rural Development for Africa
The key word in this chapter is ‘change’. Here the author stresses that ‘change’ in the mindset and behaviour of the people, as well the leaders, is quintessential for Africa’s development. How can such change...
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Applicability of the Korean Development Model for Africa
This chapter and the ensuing chapters constitute a crucial part of this work where the Korean model of development is applied to Sub-Saharan Africa. The ideas discussed here form the integral part of the ‘buil...
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Enacting Bold but Harmonious Change
This concluding chapter touches on the following themes: ‘recap** the fundamentals (of development)’; ‘moving from economic dualism to a medium-building approach’; the question of ‘aid-versus-business’; and ...
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A study of the quality characteristics of frozen Korean rice cake by using different thawing methods
The characteristics of frozen rice cakes after thawing them using different methods, such as standing at room temperature (NT), running water (RWT), pan-grill (PT), steam (ST), microwave (MWT), and superheated...
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Open AccessMass and angular momentum of black holes in 3D gravity theories with first order formalism
We apply the Wald formalism to obtain masses and angular momenta of black holes in three dimensional gravity theories using the first order formalism. Wald formalism suggests that the entropy of a black hole c...
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Changes in major polyphenolic compounds of tea (Camellia sinensis) leaves during the production of black tea
The objective of this study was to quantify the polyphenolic compounds present in tea samples during black tea processing, and to determine the correlation between the contents of individual catechins and thea...
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Optimization of thermal processing conditions for brown rice noodles
Based on the current thermal processing conditions for rice noodles (80–85 °C for 20–30 min), we used response surface methodology to find brown rice (BR) noodle processing conditions that maximize the noodles...
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Effect of millimeter waves on the microbiological and physicochemical properties of Korean rice wine Makgeolli
Millimeter waves are electric waves between 30 and 300 GHz. They are known to affect microbial growth. Here, the effects of millimeter waves on the microbiological and physicochemical properties of Makgeolli irra...
