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ICT Standards Cooperation among China-Japan-Korea: ‘In the Same Bed with Different Dreams'

ICT Standards Cooperation among China-Japan-Korea: ‘In the Same Bed with Different Dreams'

Hanah Zoo, Heejin Lee, Jooyoung Kwak
Copyright: © 2015 |Volume: 13 |Issue: 1 |Pages: 18
EISBN13: 9781466675650|ISSN: 2470-8542|EISSN: 2470-8550|DOI: 10.4018/IJSR.2015010101
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Zoo, Hanah, et al. "ICT Standards Cooperation among China-Japan-Korea: ‘In the Same Bed with Different Dreams'." IJSR vol.13, no.1 2015: pp.1-18. http://doi.org/10.4018/IJSR.2015010101

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Zoo, H., Lee, H., & Kwak, J. (2015). ICT Standards Cooperation among China-Japan-Korea: ‘In the Same Bed with Different Dreams'. International Journal of Standardization Research (IJSR), 13(1), 1-18. http://doi.org/10.4018/IJSR.2015010101

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Zoo, Hanah, Heejin Lee, and Jooyoung Kwak. "ICT Standards Cooperation among China-Japan-Korea: ‘In the Same Bed with Different Dreams'," International Journal of Standardization Research (IJSR) 13, no.1: 1-18. http://doi.org/10.4018/IJSR.2015010101

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Abstract

As the Free Trade Agreement (FTA) between China and Korea is completed, and one among China, Japan and Korea (CJK) is being discussed, a renewed attention is given to the three countries' efforts to establish a Northeast Asian regional standards cooperation mechanism. In this paper, two ICT-oriented standards cooperative programs among the three countries, CJK-SITE and CJK-ITSM, are selected as a research setting and examined. The analysis indicates that the slow progress of CJK ICT standards cooperation can be explained by two conflicting perspectives: techno-regionalism and techno-nationalism. From the techno-regionalism perspective, standards cooperation will position CJK at a more strategic standing to effectively respond to the ever-intensifying global standards wars over the international ICT market. However, there exist significant gaps among the three countries as to why and how to purse the standards cooperation. The authors attribute the gaps to techno-nationalism which dominates the agenda of each country's national standardization policy. Despite the apparent rationales for regional cooperation, as a Chinese proverb says, it seems that the three countries go to ‘the same bed with different dreams.'

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