Academy of Korean Studies International Conference: Reciprocity in Comparison: Spain, Vietnam, Italy, and Korea

Abstract

On October 29th, 2020, the Academy of Korean Studies in South Korea held an international conference online. The title of the conference was “Reciprocity in Comparison: Spain, Vietnam, Italy, and Korea”. The research presented was wide-ranging, very relevant to cooperative enterprises, which comprise a large and growing sector of social and business organizations, a sector of ever greater socioeconomic relevance worldwide. Reciprocity and related relational phenomena—trust, solidarity, social capital—, mutuality in general, are all crucially important not only for cooperative organizations, but for healthy and meaningful social life in the widest sense.