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Acknowledgements

Research for this article has been carried out with support from Dong-A University.

Notes

East Asia may denote both Northeast and Southeast Asia, or just Northeast Asia. Singapore is geographically part of Southeast Asia, but its cultural and political economic characteristics are quite similar to those of Northeast Asian countries. Thus, when we classify Singapore as part of East Asia, it is assumed to share many Northeast Asian characteristics.

See Chang (2012a) on the definition and class bias of developmental citizenship.

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Yoo-Jean Song

Contact address: Department of Sociology, Dong-A University, Busan 602-760, South Korea

Kyung-Sup Chang

Contact address: Department of Sociology, Seoul National University, Seoul 151-746, South Korea

Gabriel Sylvian

Contact address: Department of Korean Language and Literature, Seoul National University, Seoul 151-742, South Korea