The Institutional Rise of the Chaebols Throughout South Korea's Transitional Vulnerabilities

This book is a case study of South Korea's contemporary political economic history through the lens of the balance between the state and big business. It examines the evolving relationship between the state and the chaebols, or domestic conglomerates, which is at the heart of the Korean trajectory of postwar industrialization and growth. The book proposes that the political transitions over the past 50 years, both authoritarian and democratic, were central markers for the shifting balance b...