1st Edition

Foreign Direct Investment in Post-Crisis Korea European Investors and 'Mismatched Globalization'

By Judith Cherry Copyright 2007
218 Pages
by Routledge

224 Pages
by Routledge

224 Pages
by Routledge

In this book Judith Cherry analyses the impact of economic and cultural globalization on efforts to promote inward foreign direct investment (IFDI) in South Korea over the past four decades. The book traces the development of Korean IFDI policy from one of restriction and control to one of encouragement and promotion. Specifically, it focuses on the challenges inherent in reforming the ‘software’... Read more

Introduction and Theoretical Framework  1. Korea and Inward Foreign Direct Investment 1962-1992  2. Globalization in the Kim Young-Sam Era: Segyehwa and Inward Foreign  3. The 1997 Financial Crisis and the ‘IMF Era’: Segyehwa in Transition  4. Inward Foreign Direct Investment in Post-crisis Korea I (1998-2002)  5. Inward Foreign Direct Investment in Post-crisis Korea II (2003-2006)  6. The Republic of Korea, the European Union and the European Free Trade Area (1962-2006)  7. Case Study: European Investors in Post-crisis Korea  8. Conclusions

Biography

Dr Judith Cherry is the Lecturer in Korean Business and Management at the University of Sheffield. She is the author of Korean multinationals in Europe and received the MBE in 1999 for services to exports to Korea.

"...This book provides a much-needed contribution to the literature in debating the process of Korean globalization. This book will attract a large audience including source and host (Korean government), officials, the Korean business community, existing and potential foreign investors in Korea, plus a group of investors who have never considered Korea at all. Many of the anecdotal experiences reflected in the book offer valuable lessons to countries that are in a similar stage of economic development and industrialization process."

- You-Il Lee, Pacific Affairs: Volume 83, No. 1 – Spring 2010