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Buch, Englisch, 752 Seiten, Format (B × H): 161 mm x 236 mm, Gewicht: 869 g

Kim / Vogel

The Park Chung Hee Era

The Transformation of South Korea
Erscheinungsjahr 2013
ISBN: 978-0-674-07231-2
Verlag: Harvard University Press

The Transformation of South Korea

Buch, Englisch, 752 Seiten, Format (B × H): 161 mm x 236 mm, Gewicht: 869 g

ISBN: 978-0-674-07231-2
Verlag: Harvard University Press

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.

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Autoren/Hrsg.

Kim, Byung-Kook
Vogel, Ezra F.

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Vogel, Ezra F.
Ezra F. Vogel (1930-2020) is the author of <i>Deng Xiaoping and the Transformation of China</i>, a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award and winner of the Lionel Gelber Prize, and of the international bestseller <i>Japan as Number One</i>. He was Henry Ford II Professor of the Social Sciences Emeritus at Harvard University.

Domínguez, Jorge I.
Jorge I. Domínguez is Antonio Medero Professor of Mexican and Latin American Politics and Economics at Harvard University.

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

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