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. Kim provides a new narrative in the complex task of exploring the paradoxical nature and effects of Korea's rapid development which maintains that any judgement of Park must consider his achievements in the socio-economic, cultural and political context in which they took place. Aspects of Park's government analyzed include:*his abhorrence of Korea's reliance on the US presence*the Korean model of state-guided industrialization*Park's rapid development strategy *the role of the ruling elites*Park's clandestine nuclear development program*the heavy chemical industrialisation of the 1970sThe prevailing popularity of Park in the eyes of the Korean public is significant and relevant to their acceptance of how their national development was achieved. This book tells that story while simultaneously recognizing the flaws in the process. With a great deal of material never before published, scholars of Korean politics and history at all levels will find this book a stimulating account of South Korea in the 1960s and 1970s.
Author(s): Kim Hyung-A
Edition: annotated edition
Year: 2003
Language: English
Pages: 304
Book Cover......Page 1
Title......Page 4
Contents......Page 5
List of illustrations......Page 12
Preface......Page 13
Acknowledgments......Page 16
Abbreviations......Page 19
Introduction......Page 22
Road to military revolution......Page 32
Park: a colonized soldier......Page 34
The eve of the military coup: intellectual debate on national reconstruction......Page 60
Military rule and nation-building......Page 88
The military junta: a quest for legitimacy and control......Page 90
The leap forward: alliance with the US......Page 115
Global change: the nation in transition, 1968 72......Page 131
All-out reform......Page 152
Saemal movement: from top-down rural development to Yusin reform......Page 154
The Yusin state......Page 169
Presidential guidance and heavy and chemical industrialization......Page 186
Military modernization 1974 9......Page 209
Conclusion: The legacy of the Park era......Page 224
Conclusion: the legacy of the Park era......Page 226
Long-term Industrial Development Policy 1973......Page 243
Three stages of industrial development in Korea: for selected industries......Page 244
Long-term National Industrial Plan......Page 245
Chronologies of the HCI Triumvirate......Page 246
Notes......Page 253
Bibliography......Page 270
Index......Page 292
