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| Neo-liberalization and incorporation in advanced newly industrialized countries: a view from South Korea TY Kong Political Studies 52 (1), 19-42, 2004 | 50 | 2004 |
| Globalization and labour market reform: Patterns of response in Northeast Asia TY Kong British Journal of Political Science 36 (2), 359-383, 2006 | 49 | 2006 |
| Corruption and its institutional foundations: The experience of South Korea TY Kong IDS Bulletin 27 (2), 48-55, 1996 | 46 | 1996 |
| China's engagement-oriented strategy towards North Korea: achievements and limitations TY Kong The Pacific Review 31 (1), 76-95, 2018 | 34 | 2018 |
| Labour and neo-liberal globalization in South Korea and Taiwan TY Kong Modern Asian Studies 39 (1), 155-188, 2005 | 30 | 2005 |
| The Korean Peninsula in Transition DH Kim, TY Kong Macmillan-St Antony's, 1996 | 24* | 1996 |
| From relative autonomy to consensual development: the case of South Korea TY Kong Political Studies 43 (4), 630-644, 1995 | 24 | 1995 |
| Corruption and the effect of regime type: The case of Taiwan TY Kong New Political Economy 9 (3), 341-364, 2004 | 22 | 2004 |
| Power Alternation in South Korea TY Kong Government and Opposition 35 (3), 370-391, 2000 | 19 | 2000 |
| The political obstacles to economic reform in North Korea: The ultra cautious strategy in comparative perspective TY Kong The Pacific Review 27 (1), 73-96, 2014 | 18 | 2014 |
| Labour and globalization: locating the Northeast Asian newly industrializing countries TY Kong Review of International Political Economy 13 (1), 103-128, 2006 | 16 | 2006 |
| Neoliberal Restructuring in South Korea before and after the Crisis TY Kong Developmental Politics in Transition: The Neoliberal Era and Beyond, 235-253, 2012 | 15 | 2012 |
| Cooperation in unlikely settings: the rise of cooperative labor relations among leading South Korean firms TY Kong Politics & Society 40 (3), 425-452, 2012 | 12 | 2012 |
| The Advance of Marketization in North Korea: Between political rigidity and economic flexibility TY Kong Modern Asian Studies 54 (3), 830-867, 2020 | 10 | 2020 |
| Pathways to cooperation: the transformation of labour relations among leading South Korean firms TY Kong Economy & Society 40 (1), 56-83, 2011 | 9 | 2011 |
| Between late-industrialisation and globalisation: The hybridisation of labour relations among leading South Korean firms TY Kong New Political Economy 18 (5), 625-652, 2013 | 8 | 2013 |
| Democratisation and its Aftermath: Transition and Continuity in South Korea TY Kong The Korean Peninsula in Transition, 91-115, 1997 | 7 | 1997 |
| How China views North Korea’s readiness to reform and its influence on China’s North Korea policy in the post-Cold War era TY Kong The Pacific Review 34 (1), 85-112, 2021 | 5 | 2021 |
| East Asian varieties of capitalism and Socio-economic inequality: South Korea and Hong Kong compared YW Chu, TY Kong Journal of Contemporary Asia 54 (1), 61-89, 2024 | 4 | 2024 |
