The Park Chung Hee Era: The Transformation of South Korea

In 1961 South Korea was mired in poverty. By 1979, it had a powerful industrial economy and a vibrant civil society that led to democracy eight years later. This volume examines the transformation as a study in the politics of modernization, contextualizing many historical ambiguities in South Korea's trajectory toward sustainable economic growth.

• | By (Author): Byung-Kook Kim, Ezra F. Vogel (Edited by)
• | Publisher: Harvard University Press
• | Publication Date: Mar 11, 2013
• | Country of Publication: United States
• | Number of Pages: 744 pages
• | Language: NULL
• | Binding: Paperback / softback
• | ISBN-10: 0674072316
• | ISBN-13: 9780674072312