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

Table of Contents

Preface

List of Illustrations

Introduction / Hyung-A Kim and Clark W. Sorensen

Part One | Development

1. Heavy and Chemical Industrialization, 1973-1979: South Korea’s Homeland Security Measures / Hyung A-Kim

2. POSCO: Building an Institution / Seok-Man Yoon

3. The Cold War and the Political Economy of the Park Chung Hee Regime / Tadashi Kimiya

SPECIAL ESSAY

4. How to Think about the Park Chung Hee Era / Nak-Chung Paik

Part Two | Political Thought, Democracy, and Labor

5. Park Chung Hee’s Governing Ideas: Impact on National Consciousness and Identity / Young Jak Kim

6. Democracy in South Korea: An Optimistic View of ROK Democratic Development / James B. Palais

7. Labor Policy and Labor Relations during the Park Chung Hee Era / Hagen Koo

Part Three | Cultural Influence and Civil Society

8. Rural Modernization under the Park Regime in the 1960s / Clark W. Sorensen

9. Compressed Modernization and the Formation of a Developmentalist Mentalite / Myungkoo Kang

10. The Park Chung Hee Era nad the Genesis of Trans-Border Civil Society in East Asia / Gavan McCormack

Bibliography

Contributors

Index

About the Author

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-Jak Kim, Tadashi Kimiya, Hagen Koo, Gaven McCormack, Nak-Ch'ong Paik, James B. Palais, and Seok-Man Yoon.

Reviews

"Wider in perspective . . . Kim and Sorensen's book includes contributions by historians, an anthropologist, a literary critic and even a former CEO of POSCO. . . [and] chapters on the labor movement and rural society, and . . . popular mentalities under . . .'compressed modernization.'."
*Global Asia*

"The merely curious will find that Reassessing the Park Chung Hee Era tells the basic history of Park's nearly eighteen years as president . . . whereas serious scholars of Korean history will find the variety of interpretation, extensive bibliographic notes, and transliterations . . . a springboard for further study."
*Asian Affairs*

"Overall, it provides a rich source of information on a variety of issues that are well explored. It can be used by students and scholars to simply understand the economic and political dynamics of South Korea during an authoritarian time, and can also be put in a comparative perspective with other Asian countries that went through similar political and economic developmental processes.”"
*Asian Studies Review*

"Overall, it provides a rich source of information on a variety of issues that are well explored. It can be used by students and scholars to simply understand the economic and political dynamics of South Korea during an authoritarian time, and can also be put in a comparative perspective with other Asian countries that went through similar political and economic developmental processes.”"
*Asian Studies Review*