Work-in-progress thesis statement

So after about 8 months of research out on Heuksando here is what I am thinking.

Describing Korea's coastal management system as one operating according to internationally proscribed Integrated Coastal Management (ICM) principles is misleading and simplistic.

Effective management systems are always contextually situated. Transferring so-called generic "management models," what we are currently referring to as "good governance" principles, to foreign contexts is impossible.

Koreans operate political and managerial systems that are highly influenced by a long Confucian history.

It is more accurate to understand Korea's coastal management system in light of this context, and as a product of it, rather than to hastily label it as an ICM system.

Work-in-progress thesis statement