1st Edition

Korea's Development Under Park Chung Hee

By Hyung-A Kim Copyright 2004
300 Pages 12 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

304 Pages 12 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

304 Pages 12 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

Based on personal interviews with the principal policy-makers of the 1970s, Korea's Development under Park Chung-Hee examines how the president sought to develop South Korea into an independent, autonomous sovereign state both economically and militarily. Kim provides a new narrative in the complex task of exploring the paradoxical nature and effects of Korea's rapid development which maintains... Read more
Part One: Road to Military Revolution
Part Two: Military Rule and Nation Building
Part Three: From Top-Down Rural Development to Yusin Reform

Biography

Hyung-A Kim is a Research Fellow at the Centre for Asia Pacific Social Transformation Studies (CAPSRTAMS), University of Wollongong, Australia.

'This book is an excellent analysis of the development policy of Korea and the associated political developments in recent years.' - Journal of Contemporary Asia