2013
DOI: 10.1163/15685314-12341297
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South Korea during the Park Chung Hee Era: Explaining Korea’s Developmental Decades

Abstract: Despite the voluminous literature on South Korea’s rapid economic development and social transformation in the 1960s and 1970s, the literature in English on Park Chung Hee — the political figure who indelibly marked this era — is still lacking. Furthermore, the existing studies approach the subject of Korea’s fateful decades from general theoretical perspectives, such as the developmental state. This approach inevitably flattens out historical particularity in the process. A recent edited volume, The Park Chun… Show more

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“…In order to achieve the rapid economic development, they employed more centralized way of implementing the EOIP based on the government-led development mechanism. Furthermore, their leadership style based on authoritarianism and militarism made a big impact on every sector of Korean society and changed Korean society in many aspects, such as the authoritarian presidential system with a long-term seizure of power, the government-led chaebol system, and the government-controlled surveillance system (Gemici, 2013). Thus, these social changes made Korean society in the 70s and 80s visibly hierarchical, closed, and centralized in that the implementation of the EOIP in South Korea was made by more government-led development mechanism.…”
Section: Discussionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…In order to achieve the rapid economic development, they employed more centralized way of implementing the EOIP based on the government-led development mechanism. Furthermore, their leadership style based on authoritarianism and militarism made a big impact on every sector of Korean society and changed Korean society in many aspects, such as the authoritarian presidential system with a long-term seizure of power, the government-led chaebol system, and the government-controlled surveillance system (Gemici, 2013). Thus, these social changes made Korean society in the 70s and 80s visibly hierarchical, closed, and centralized in that the implementation of the EOIP in South Korea was made by more government-led development mechanism.…”
Section: Discussionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…The Korean War, which occurred between 1950 and 1953, resulted in 4 million deaths and decimated most industrial and economic structures in Korea (Lee, 2001). Between the 1960s and 1990s, Korea experienced rapid industrialization fueled by export‐oriented policies, low taxes, and low investment in individual welfare (Gemici, 2013; Kim & Vogel, 2011). During the late‐1990s, Korea experienced the Asian financial crisis, which ended its period of rapid economic growth and introduced an era of high economic uncertainty, particularly among new entrants to the economy (Cooke & Jiang, 2017).…”
Section: Ideational Factors Shaping Family Life In Koreamentioning
confidence: 99%