The Park Chung Hee Era : : The Transformation of South Korea / / ed. by Byung-Kook Kim, Ezra F. Vogel.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Asian Studies Backlist (2000-2014) eBook Package
• MitwirkendeR: Baik, Chang Jae,; Domínguez, Jorge I.,; Han, Yong-Sup,; Hong, Sung Gul,; Hutchcroft, Paul D.,; Im, Hyug Baeg,; Jun, Byung-joon,; Kim, Byung-Kook,; Kim, Eun Mee,; Kim, Hyung-A,; Kim, Joo-Hong,; Kim, Taehyun,; Kim, Yong-Jick,; Lee, Jung-Hoon,; Lee, Min Yong,; Lee, Nae-Young,; Lee, Young Jo,; Lew, Seok-jin,; Moon, Chung-in,; Noble, Gregory W.,; Park, Gil-Sung,; Park, Myung-Lim,; Rhyu, Sang-young,; Vogel, Ezra F.,
• HerausgeberIn: Kim, Byung-Kook,; Vogel , Ezra F. ,
• Place / Publishing House: Cambridge, MA : : Harvard University Press, , [2011]; ©2013
• Year of Publication: 2011
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (744 p.) :; 5 tables

In 1959 South Korea was mired in poverty. By 1979 it had a powerful industrial economy and a vibrant civil society in the making, which would lead to a democratic breakthrough eight years later. The transformation took place during the years of Park Chung Hee's presidency. Park seized power in...

Table of Contents

• Frontmatter
• Contents
• Introduction:
• Part I. BORN IN A CRISIS
• Chapter One. The May Sixteenth Military Coup
• Chapter Two. Taming and Tamed by the United States
• Chapter Three. State Building: The Military Junta's Path to Modernity through Administrative Reforms
• Part II. POLITICS
• Chapter Four. Modernization Strategy: Ideas and Influences
• Chapter Five. The Labyrinth of Solitude: Park and the Exercise of Presidential Power
• Chapter Six. The Armed Forces
• Chapter Seven. The Leviathan: Economic Bureaucracy under Park
• Chapter Eight. The Origins of the Yushin Regime: Machiavelli Unveiled
• Part III. ECONOMY AND SOCIETY
• Chapter Nine. The Chaebol
• Chapter Ten. The Automobile Industry
• Chapter Eleven. Pohang Iron & Steel Company
• Chapter Twelve. The Countryside
• Chapter Thirteen. The Chaeya
• Part IV. INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS
• Chapter Fourteen. The Vietnam War: South Korea's Search for National Security
• Chapter Fifteen. Normalization of Relations with Japan: Toward a New Partnership
• Chapter Sixteen. The Security, Political, and Human Rights Conundrum, 1974-1979
• Chapter Seventeen. The Search for Deterrence: Park's Nuclear Option
• Part V. COMPARATIVE PERSPECTIVE
• Chapter Eighteen. Nation Rebuilders: Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, Lee Kuan Yew, Deng Xiaoping, and Park Chung Hee
• Chapter Nineteen. Reflections on a Reverse Image: South Korea under Park Chung Hee and the Philippines under Ferdinand Marcos
• Chapter Twenty. The Perfect Dictatorship? South Korea versus Argentina, Brazil, Chile, and Mexico
• Chapter Twenty - One. Industrial Policy in Key Developmental Sectors: South Korea versus Japan and Taiwan
• Conclusion:
• Notes
• Acknowledgments
• Contributors
• Index