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South Koreäs triumphant development has catapulted the country¿s economy to the eleventh largest in the world. Large family-owned conglomerates, or chaeb¿ls, such as Samsung, Hyundai, and LG, have become globally preeminent manufacturing brands. Yet Koreäs 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 criti...

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.

Examines the rationale and ideals behind Park's philosophy of national development

Hyung-A Kim is associate professor of Korean politics at the Australian National University, and author of Korea's Development under Park Chung Hee: Rapid Industrialization, 1961-1979. Clark W. Sorensen is director of the Center for Korean Studies, University of Washington, and author of Over the Mountains Are Mountains: Korean Peasant Households and Their Adaptations to Rapid Industrialization. The other contributors are Myung-Koo Kang, Young...

Based on personal interviews with the principal policy-makers of the 1970s, this book examines how the president sought to develop South Korea into an independent, autonomous sovereign state both economically and militarily.