The Park Chung Hee Era: The Transformation of South Korea

by EzraF.Vogel (Author), Byung - Kook Kim (Author), JorgeI.Domínguez (Author), EzraF.Vogel (Author), Chang Jae Baik (Author), JorgeI.Domínguez (Author), Yong-supHan (Author), Yong–supHan (Author), Chang Jae Baik (Author), Byung –kook Kim (Author)

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  2013

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  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.