Reassessing The Park Chung Hee Era 1961 1979

Reassessing The Park Chung Hee Era 1961 1979 Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle version is available to download in english. Read online anytime anywhere directly from your device. Click on the download button below to get a free pdf file of Reassessing The Park Chung Hee Era 1961 1979 book. This book definitely worth reading, it is an incredibly well-written.

Reassessing the Park Chung Hee Era, 1961-1979

Author : Hyung-A Kim,Clark W. Sorensen
Publisher : University of Washington Press
Page : 245 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2011-12-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780295801797

Get Book

Reassessing the Park Chung Hee Era, 1961-1979 by Hyung-A Kim,Clark W. Sorensen Pdf

The Republic of Korea achieved a double revolution in the second half of the twentieth century. In just over three decades, South Korea transformed itself from an underdeveloped, agrarian country into an affluent, industrialized one. At the same time, democracy replaced a long series of military authoritarian regimes. These historic changes began under President Park Chung Hee, who seized power through a military coup in 1961 and ruled South Korea until his assassination on October 26, 1979. While the state's dominant role in South Korea's rapid industrialization is widely accepted, the degree to which Park was personally responsible for changing the national character remains hotly debated. This book examines the rationale and ideals behind Park's philosophy of national development in order to evaluate the degree to which the national character and moral values were reconstructed.

Colonial Rule and Social Change in Korea, 1910-1945

Author : Hong Yung Lee,Yong-Chool Ha,Clark W. Sorensen
Publisher : Center for Korea Studies Publi
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2015-08-03
Category : History
ISBN : 0295806621

Get Book

Colonial Rule and Social Change in Korea, 1910-1945 by Hong Yung Lee,Yong-Chool Ha,Clark W. Sorensen Pdf

"A Center for Korea Studies publication."

Over the Mountains Are Mountains

Author : Clark W. Sorensen
Publisher : University of Washington Press
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2013-08-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9780295804651

Get Book

Over the Mountains Are Mountains by Clark W. Sorensen Pdf

Clark Sorensen presents a description of the economic and ecological organization of rural Korean domestic groups and an analysis of their adaption to the changes brought about by Korea's rapid industrialization. Still one of the only book-length studies of rural, peasant Korean households, Over the Mountains Are Mountains shows how the industrialization of Korea led neither to the proletarianization of the peasants nor to a fundamental change in the structure of rural families, but rather to strategic changes in patterns of migration, labor allocation, and residence.

Late Industrialization, Tradition, and Social Change in South Korea

Author : Yong-Chool Ha
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2024-02-13
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0295752262

Get Book

Late Industrialization, Tradition, and Social Change in South Korea by Yong-Chool Ha Pdf

South Korea's rapid industrialization occurred with the rise of powerful chaebǒl (family-owned business conglomerates) that controlled vast swaths of the nation's economy. Leader Park Chung Hee's sense of backwardness and urgency led him to rely on familial, school, and regional ties to expedite the economic transformation. Late Industrialization, Tradition, and Social Change in South Korea elucidates how a country can progress economically while relying on traditional social structures that usually fragment political and economic vitality. The book proposes a new framework for macro social change under late industrialization by analyzing the specific process of interactions between economic tasks and tradition through the state's mediation. Drawing on interviews with bureaucrats in the Ministry of Commerce and Industry as well as workers and others, Yong-Chool Ha demonstrates how the state propelled industrialization by using kinship networks to channel investments and capital into chaebǒl corporations. What Ha calls "neofamilism" was the central force behind South Korea's economic transformation as the state used preindustrial social patterns to facilitate industrialization. Ha's account of bureaucracy, democratization, and the middle class challenges assumptions about the universal outcomes of industrialization.

Spaces of Possibility

Author : Clark W. Sorensen,Andrea Arai
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : Difference (Psychology)
ISBN : 0295998415

Get Book

Spaces of Possibility by Clark W. Sorensen,Andrea Arai Pdf

Contributors -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z

Korean Skilled Workers

Author : Hyung-A Kim
Publisher : University of Washington Press
Page : 231 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2020-05-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9780295747224

Get Book

Korean Skilled Workers by Hyung-A Kim Pdf

South Korea’s triumphant development has catapulted the country’s economy to the eleventh largest in the world. Large family-owned conglomerates, or chaebŏls, such as Samsung, Hyundai, and LG, have become globally preeminent manufacturing brands. Yet Korea’s highly disciplined, technologically competent skilled workers who built these brands have become known only for their successful labor-union militancy, which in recent decades has been criticized as collective “selfishness” that has allowed them to prosper at the expense of other workers. Hyung-A Kim tells the story of Korea’s first generation of skilled workers in the heavy and chemical industries sector, following their dramatic transition from 1970s-era “industrial warriors” to labor-union militant “Goliat Warriors,” and ultimately to a “labor aristocracy” with guaranteed job security, superior wages, and even job inheritance for their children. By contrast, millions of Korea’s non-regular employees, especially young people, struggle in precarious and insecure employment. This richly documented account demonstrates that industrial workers’ most enduring goal has been their own economic advancement, not a wider socialist revolution, and shows how these individuals’ paths embody the consequences of rapid development.

Late Industrialization, Tradition, and Social Change in South Korea

Author : Yong-Chool Ha
Publisher : University of Washington Press
Page : 338 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2024-03-19
Category : History
ISBN : 9780295752280

Get Book

Late Industrialization, Tradition, and Social Change in South Korea by Yong-Chool Ha Pdf

South Korea's rapid industrialization occurred with the rise of powerful chaebǒl (family-owned business conglomerates) that controlled vast swaths of the nation's economy. Leader Park Chung Hee's sense of backwardness and urgency led him to rely on familial, school, and regional ties to expedite the economic transformation. Late Industrialization, Tradition, and Social Change in South Korea elucidates how a country can progress economically while relying on traditional social structures that usually fragment political and economic vitality. The book proposes a new framework for macro social change under late industrialization by analyzing the specific process of interactions between economic tasks and tradition through the state's mediation. Drawing on interviews with bureaucrats in the Ministry of Commerce and Industry as well as workers and others, Yong-Chool Ha demonstrates how the state propelled industrialization by using kinship networks to channel investments and capital into chaebǒl corporations. What Ha calls "neofamilism" was the central force behind South Korea's economic transformation as the state used preindustrial social patterns to facilitate industrialization. Ha's account of bureaucracy, democratization, and the middle class challenges assumptions about the universal outcomes of industrialization.

Beyond Death

Author : Charles R. Kim,Jungwon Kim,Hwasook B. Nam,Serk-Bae Suh
Publisher : University of Washington Press
Page : 392 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2019-02-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780295746333

Get Book

Beyond Death by Charles R. Kim,Jungwon Kim,Hwasook B. Nam,Serk-Bae Suh Pdf

Suicide and martyrdom are closely intertwined with Korean social and political processes. In this first book-length study of the evolving ideals of honorable death and martyrdom from the Chosŏn Dynasty (1392–1910) to contemporary South Korea, interdisciplinary essays explore the changing ways in which Korean historical agents have considered what constitutes a sociopolitically meaningful death and how the surviving community should remember such events. Among the topics covered are the implications of women’s chaste suicides and men’s righteous killings in the evolving Confucian-influenced social order of the latter half of the Chosŏn Dynasty; changing nation-centered constructions of sacrifice and martyrdom put forth by influential intellectual figures in mid-twentieth-century South Korea, which were informed by the politics of postcolonial transition and Cold War ideology; and the decisive role of martyrdom in South Korea’s interlinked democracy and labor movements, including Chun Tae-il’s self-immolation in 1970, the loss of hundreds of lives during the Kwangju Uprising of 1980, and the escalation of protest suicides in the 1980s and early 1990s.

The Park Chung Hee Era

Author : Byung-Kook Kim,Ezra F. Vogel
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 753 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2013-03-11
Category : History
ISBN : 9780674265097

Get Book

The Park Chung Hee Era by Byung-Kook Kim,Ezra F. Vogel Pdf

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.

Peace Corps Volunteers and the Making of Korean Studies in the United States

Author : Seung-Kyung Kim,Michael Edson Robinson
Publisher : Center for Korea Studies Publi
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2020
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0295748133

Get Book

Peace Corps Volunteers and the Making of Korean Studies in the United States by Seung-Kyung Kim,Michael Edson Robinson Pdf

"Among the scholars who have built the field of Korean studies are former Peace Corps volunteers who served in South Korea in the 1960s and 1970s before pursuing advanced degrees in anthropology, history, and literature. These scholars, who formed the core of the second generation of Korean Studies scholars in the US, reflect in this volume on their personal experience of serving during Korea's period of military dictatorship, on issues of gender and the Peace Corps experience, and on how random assignment to Korea sparked fascination and led to lifelong professional involvement with the country. Two chapters by Korean studies scholars who were not Peace Corps volunteers (one American and one Korean) assess how Peace Corps volunteers have influenced development of the field"--

The Authoritarian Public Sphere

Author : Alexander Dukalskis
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 188 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2017-01-20
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781315455525

Get Book

The Authoritarian Public Sphere by Alexander Dukalskis Pdf

Authoritarian regimes craft and disseminate reasons, stories, and explanations for why they are entitled to rule. To shield those legitimating messages from criticism, authoritarian regimes also censor information that they find threatening. While committed opponents of the regime may be violently repressed, this book is about how the authoritarian state keeps the majority of its people quiescent by manipulating the ways in which they talk and think about political processes, the authorities, and political alternatives. Using North Korea, Burma (Myanmar) and China as case studies, this book explains how the authoritarian public sphere shapes political discourse in each context. It also examines three domains of potential subversion of legitimating messages: the shadow markets of North Korea, networks of independent journalists in Burma, and the online sphere in China. In addition to making a theoretical contribution to the study of authoritarianism, the book draws upon unique empirical data from fieldwork conducted in the region, including interviews with North Korean defectors in South Korea, Burmese exiles in Thailand, and Burmese in Myanmar who stayed in the country during the military government. When analyzed alongside state-produced media, speeches, and legislation, the material provides a rich understanding of how autocratic legitimation influences everyday discussions about politics in the authoritarian public sphere. Explaining how autocracies manipulate the ways in which their citizens talk and think about politics, this book will be of interest to students and scholars of Asian politics, comparative politics and authoritarian regimes.

Park Chung Hee and Modern Korea

Author : Carter J. Eckert
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 511 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2016-11-07
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780674659865

Get Book

Park Chung Hee and Modern Korea by Carter J. Eckert Pdf

For South Koreans, the early 1960s to late 1970s were the best and worst of times—a period of unprecedented economic growth and deepening political oppression. Carter J. Eckert finds the roots of this dramatic socioeconomic transformation in the country’s long history of militarization, personified in South Korea’s paramount leader, Park Chung Hee.

Samurai Among Panthers

Author : Diane Carol Fujino
Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
Page : 476 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780816677863

Get Book

Samurai Among Panthers by Diane Carol Fujino Pdf

The first biography of Asian American activist and Black Panther Party member Richard Aoki

Developmental Mindset

Author : Elizabeth Thurbon
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2016-06-09
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781501704161

Get Book

Developmental Mindset by Elizabeth Thurbon Pdf

The Asian financial crisis of 1997–1998 was supposed to be the death knell for the developmental state. The International Monetary Fund supplied emergency funds for shattered economies but demanded that states liberalize financial markets and withdraw from direct involvement in the economy. Financial liberalization was meant to spell the end of strategic industry policy and the state-directed "policy lending" it involved. Yet, largely unremarked by analysts, South Korea has since seen a striking revival of financial activism. Policy lending by state-owned development banks has returned the state to the core of the financial system. Korean development banks now account for one quarter of all loans and take the lead in providing low-cost finance to local manufacturing firms in strategic industries.Elizabeth Thurbon argues that an ideational analysis can help explain this renewed financial activism. She demonstrates the presence of a "developmental mindset" on the part of political leaders and policy elites in Korea. This mindset involves shared ways of thinking about the purpose of finance and its relationship to the productive economy. The developmental mindset has a long history in Korea but is subject to the vicissitudes of political and economic circumstances. Thurbon traces the structural, institutional, political, and ideational factors that have strengthened and at times weakened the developmental consensus, culminating in the revival of financial activism in Korea. In doing so, Thurbon offers a novel defense of the developmental state idea and a new framework for investigating the emergence and evolution of developmental states. She also canvasses the implications of the Korean experience for wider debates concerning the future of financial activism in an era of financialization, energy insecurity, and climate change.

Top-Down Democracy in South Korea

Author : Erik Mobrand
Publisher : University of Washington Press
Page : 215 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2019-04-19
Category : History
ISBN : 9780295745480

Get Book

Top-Down Democracy in South Korea by Erik Mobrand Pdf

While popular movements in South Korea rightly grab the headlines for forcing political change and holding leaders to account, those movements are only part of the story of the construction and practice of democracy. In Top-Down Democracy in South Korea, Erik Mobrand documents another part – the elite-led design and management of electoral and party institutions. Even as the country left authoritarian rule behind, elites have responded to freer and fairer elections by entrenching rather than abandoning exclusionary practices and forms of party organization. Exploring South Korea’s political development from 1945 through the end of dictatorship in the 1980s and into the twenty-first century, Mobrand challenges the view that the origins of the postauthoritarian political system lie in a series of popular movements that eventually undid repression. He argues that we should think about democratization not as the establishment of an entirely new system, but as the subtle blending of new formal rules with earlier authority structures, political institutions, and legitimizing norms.