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Overview

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.


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780674061064
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Publication date: 04/01/2011
Sold by: Barnes & Noble
Format: eBook
Pages: 744
File size: 2 MB

About the Author

Byung-Kook Kim is Professor of Political Science and International Relations, Korea University.

Table of Contents

Contents Introduction Part One - Born in a Crisis 1. The May Sixteenth Military Coup 2. Taming and Tamed by the United States 3. State Building: The Military Junta’s Path to Modernity through Administrative Reforms Part Two - Politics 4. Modernization Strategy: Ideas and Influences 5. The Labyrinth of Solitude: Park and the Exercise of Presidential Power 6. The Armed Forces 7. The Leviathan: Economic Bureaucracy under Park 8. The Origins of the Yushin Regime: Machiavelli Unveiled Part Three - Economy and Society 9. The Chaebol 10. The Automobile Industry 11. Pohang Iron & Steel Company 13. The Chaeya 12. The Countryside Part Four - International Relations 14. The Vietnam War: South Korea’s Search for National Security 15. Normalization of Relations with Japan: Toward a New Partnership 16. The Security, Political, and Human Rights Conundrum, 1974–1979 17. The Search for Deterrence: Park’s Nuclear Option Part Five - Comparative Perspective 18. Nation Rebuilders: Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, Lee Kuan Yew, Deng Xiaoping, and Park Chung Hee 19. Reflections on a Reverse Image: South Korea under Park Chung Hee and the Philippines under Ferdinand Marcos 20. The Perfect Dictatorship? South Korea versus Argentina, Brazil, Chile, and Mexico 21. Industrial Policy in Key Developmental Sectors: South Korea versus Japan and Taiwan Conclusion: The Post-Park Era Notes Acknowledgments List of Contributors Index of Persons

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Stephan Haggard

This remarkable book will establish itself as the most significant work on the Park period.

Stephan Haggard, Graduate School of International Relations and Pacific Studies, University of California San Diego

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