Author: Edward S. Mason
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 168417225X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 590
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Explores the economic and social development of Korea, primarily in the twentieth century. Includes extensive statistical data. Examines the impact of Japanese colonialism and subsequent macroeconomic development, industrialization, rural development, fiscal and financial development, income distribution, the development of foreign trade, the role of education, foreign assistance, and urbanization. Includes 134 tables and 10 figures summarizing historical statistical data.
Author: Lee-Jay Cho
Publisher: University of Hawaii at Manoa
ISBN: 9780824879792
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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Overview : a historical and institutional perspective / Lee-Jay Cho -- Antecedent to economic growth : President Rhee and Prime Minister Chang / Robert T. Oliver -- Institutional reforms for national economic management / Ki Jun Rhee -- Role of business corporations and entrepreneurs in the initial stage of rapid economic development in the Republic of Korea / Bon Ho Koo and Eun Mee Kim -- Dynamics of industrial policy I : export-oriented industrialization, 1961-1971 / Kwang Suk Kim -- Dynamics of industrial policy II : six episodes of heavy and chemical industries development / Kwang Suk Kim -- Science and technology policy in state-guided modernization / Linsu Kim -- Population and development : the Park regime's legacy / Andrew Mason and Lee-Jay Cho -- A new perspective on the "name-changing policy" in Korea / Pal-Yong Moon -- Role of the United States in the economic development of Korea / Lee-Jay Cho -- The bear and the general : lessons from Park Chung Hee's development strategy for Russia in transition / Alexandre Y. Mansourov -- South Korea's struggle for economic development during the Park regime : a Japanese perspective / Toshio Watanabe
Author: Seung-hun Chun
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1351215728
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 460
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How did a country with a dearth of natural resources, a sprawling population congested in a limited arable land transform itself to a modern industrial state within a generation? How could these have been achieved given the lingering geopolitical threats to its very survival as a state, as evidenced by the Korean War and the internecine aggressive posturing of its neighbor from the north? This book looks at strategies, institutional arrangement, role of entrepreneurs and workers in this odyssey, and on how those factors have worked together through effective leadership to transform South Korea’s economic fortunes.
Author: Uk Heo
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107012503
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 229
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This book explores South Korea's phenomenal economic rise and the impact that this has had on the country's foreign policy.
Author: Byung-Kook Kim
Publisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 0674061063
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 753
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In 1961 South Korea was mired in poverty. By 1979 it had a powerful industrial economy and a vibrant civil society in the making, which would lead to a democratic breakthrough eight years later. The transformation took place during the years of Park Chung Hee's presidency. Park seized power in a coup in 1961 and ruled as a virtual dictator until his assassination in October 1979. He is credited with modernizing South Korea, but at a huge political and social cost. South Korea's political landscape under Park defies easy categorization. The state was predatory yet technocratic, reform-minded yet quick to crack down on dissidents in the name of political order. The nation was balanced uneasily between opposition forces calling for democratic reforms and the Park government's obsession with economic growth. The chaebol (a powerful conglomerate of multinationals based in South Korea) received massive government support to pioneer new growth industries, even as a nationwide campaign of economic shock therapy-interest hikes, devaluation, and wage cuts-met strong public resistance and caused considerable hardship. This landmark volume examines South Korea's era of development as a study in the complex politics of modernization. Drawing on an extraordinary range of sources in both English and Korean, these essays recover and contextualize many of the ambiguities in South Korea's trajectory from poverty to a sustainable high rate of economic growth.
Author: Jong-Dae Park
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 3030039463
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 456
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This open access book analyses the development problems of sub-Sahara Africa (SSA) from the eyes of a Korean diplomat with knowledge of the economic growth Korea has experienced in recent decades. The author argues that Africa's development challenges are not due to a lack of resources but a lack of management, presenting an alternative to the traditional view that Africa's problems are caused by a lack of leadership. In exploring an approach based on mind-set and nation-building, rather than unity – which tends to promote individual or party interests rather than the broader country or national interests – the author suggests new solutions for SSA's economic growth, inspired by Korea's successful economic growth model much of which is focused on industrialisation. This book will be of interest to researchers, policymakers, NGOs and governmental bodies in economics, development and politics studying Africa's economic development, and Korea's economic growth model.
Author: Gregg Brazinsky
Publisher: ReadHowYouWant.com
ISBN: 145872350X
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 298
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Nation building has been a ubiquitous component of American foreign policy during the last century. The United States has attempted to create and sustain nation-states that advance its interests and embody its ideals in places ranging from the Philippines to Vietnam to Iraq. At no time did Washington engage in nation building more intensively than during the Cold War. The United States deemed capturing the loyalties of the vast regions of the globe emerging from colonialism as crucial to the struggle against Communism. To achieve this end it launched vast efforts to carve diverse parts of Asia, Africa, and Latin America into reliable ''Free World'' allies. U.S. officials believed that, by providing the right kinds of resources, they could stimulate economic development and democratization in regions where neither of these phenomena had made significant inroads. This book examines one of the most extensive, costly, and arguably successful of these efforts - South Korea.... Throughout these chapters, I have sought to demonstrate the agency of South Koreans in determining the ultimate impact of the United States on their society. To the extent that the U.S. influence could be called hegemonic, American hegemony was a dialectical process that Koreans played a significant role in shaping. To emphasize this point, I have approached the process of nation building from both sides through the use of American and Korean sources. This analysis makes it clear that the evolution of the South Korea we know today did not entirely reflect the will of Americans or Koreans. It was achieved only through constant negotiation between the two. ----Preface.
Author: Edward Sagendorph Mason
Publisher: Harvard Univ Asia Center
ISBN: 9780674231757
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 600
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Preliminary Material -- Introduction -- Modernization in the Third World and in Korea -- The Historical Foundations of Modern Economic Growth -- Economic Development in Macroeconomic Terms, 1953-1976 -- Industrialization and Foreign Trade -- Foreign Assistance and Korean Development -- Rural Development -- Government and Business -- Korean Fiscal and Financial Development -- Education -- Population, Urbanization, and Health -- Income Distribution -- Summary and Conclusions -- Notes -- Selected Bibliography -- Index -- Harvard East Asian Monographs.
Author: Asian Development Bank
Publisher: Asian Development Bank
ISBN: 9290927038
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 115
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The Saemaul Undong movement was a community-driven development program of the Republic of Korea in the 1970s. The movement contributed to improved community well-being in rural communities through agricultural production, household income, village life, communal empowerment and regeneration, and women's participation.This report examines the strengths and weaknesses of the movement along with contributing factors, including institutional arrangements, leadership influence, gender consideration, ideological guidance, and financing. It also reviews existing studies and government data on the movement, and presents excerpts from interviews with key persons engaged in the movement and useful lessons for implementing community-driven development initiatives in developing countries.
Author: Gi-Wook Shin
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 1684173337
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 491
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The twelve chapters in this volume seek to overcome the nationalist paradigm of Japanese repression and exploitation versus Korean resistance that has dominated the study of Korea’s colonial period (1910–1945) by adopting a more inclusive, pluralistic approach that stresses the complex relations among colonialism, modernity, and nationalism. By addressing such diverse subjects as the colonial legal system, radio, telecommunications, the rural economy, and industrialization and the formation of industrial labor, one group of essays analyzes how various aspects of modernity emerged in the colonial context and how they were mobilized by the Japanese for colonial domination, with often unexpected results. A second group examines the development of various forms of identity from nation to gender to class, particularly how aspects of colonial modernity facilitated their formation through negotiation, contestation, and redefinition.
