Moving the Wealth of the Nation: The Rise of Korea's Modern Shipping Industry

How did Korea build one of the world’s major shipping industries within a few decades after liberation? What roles did colonial legacies, state policy, and maritime entrepreneurship play in this transformation?
This book traces the development of the Korean shipping industry from 1910 to 2010. It challenges the widely held assumption that Japanese colonial rule laid the foundations of modern Korean shipping. Instead, it shows that the industry emerged largely after liberation through the in...