Building a Developmental State: The Korean Case Reconsidered

From Miracle to Crisis and Back: The Political Economy of South Korean Long-Term Development

“…In most cases, the skillreplacing technical changes permitting the flourishing of these industries in the region had already been in place for several decades (Silver 2003, 87-89). In the Korean case, this process was, to a very large extent, directly or indirectly controlled by Japanese and US industrial capital (Chibber 1999;Scott 1987); hence, the shift in Japan's and USA's policy stances towards Korea (that is, their new found support for its incipient EOI process). After the mid-1970s however, the transformations experienced by the Korean economy have resulted not only from the continuous appreciation of the Japanese labour force.…”

Land Tenure, Migration, and Development: A Comparative Case Study

“…Scholarship on Southeast Asian development suggests that state policies affecting both land distribution and domestic agriculture are likely to have significant impacts on development potentials (Chibber 1999;Evans 1995;Amsden 1994;Wade 1993;Hecht et al 2006). These scholars argue, in contrast to scholars who argue for minimal state intervention in the market, that when governments do not protect nationally produced goods from the infl uence of international prices (and guarantee prices for producers and/or help them to market their goods), farmers are more likely to face widely fl uctuating prices for their produce, while lacking sources of credit or assistance (Acevedo, Barry, and Rosa 1995;Hecht et al 2006;Friedman 1993).…”

South Korea during the Park Chung Hee Era: Explaining Korea’s Developmental Decades

“…1990). This -the Korean state's ability to discipline chaebols -depended, in turn, on the socialization of risks and losses through state controlled finance (Chibber, 1999;Woo 1991). Kim focuses on the policies Park Chung Hee adopted to ensure that the South Korean bureaucracy embodied "purposive rationality" instead of being fixated with procedures and "neutral competence."…”

“…However, the role of Japan in Korea's development is not limited to the ideational influences on Park Chung Hee's leadership. Japan was an important factor in Korea's turn toward export-oriented industrialization and capital formation in the second half of the 1960s (Chibber, 1999;Chung, 2007). The turning point was the normalization of relations between Japan and South Korea in 1965.…”