Reassessing the Park Chung Hee Era, 1961-1979 - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Reassessing the Park Chung Hee Era, 1961-1979 write by Hyung-A Kim. This book was released on 2011-12-01. Reassessing the Park Chung Hee Era, 1961-1979 available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The Republic of Korea achieved a double revolution in the second half of the twentieth century. In just over three decades, South Korea transformed itself from an underdeveloped, agrarian country into an affluent, industrialized one. At the same time, democracy replaced a long series of military authoritarian regimes. These historic changes began under President Park Chung Hee, who seized power through a military coup in 1961 and ruled South Korea until his assassination on October 26, 1979. While the state's dominant role in South Korea's rapid industrialization is widely accepted, the degree to which Park was personally responsible for changing the national character remains hotly debated. This book examines the rationale and ideals behind Park's philosophy of national development in order to evaluate the degree to which the national character and moral values were reconstructed.
Colonial Rule and Social Change in Korea, 1910-1945
Colonial Rule and Social Change in Korea, 1910-1945 - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Colonial Rule and Social Change in Korea, 1910-1945 write by Hong Yung Lee. This book was released on 2013-07-15. Colonial Rule and Social Change in Korea, 1910-1945 available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Colonial Rule and Social Change in Korea 1910-1945 highlights the complex interaction between indigenous activity and colonial governance, emphasizing how Japanese rule adapted to Korean and missionary initiatives, as well as how Koreans found space within the colonial system to show agency. Topics covered range from economic development and national identity to education and family; from peasant uprisings and thought conversion to a comparison of missionary and colonial leprosariums. These various new assessments of Japan's colonial legacy may open up new and illuminating approaches to historical memory that will resonate not just in Korean studies, but in colonial and postcolonial studies in general, and will have implications for the future of regional politics in East Asia.
Over the Mountains Are Mountains
Over the Mountains Are Mountains - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Over the Mountains Are Mountains write by Clark W. Sorensen. This book was released on 2013-08-30. Over the Mountains Are Mountains available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Clark Sorensen presents a description of the economic and ecological organization of rural Korean domestic groups and an analysis of their adaption to the changes brought about by Korea's rapid industrialization. Still one of the only book-length studies of rural, peasant Korean households, Over the Mountains Are Mountains shows how the industrialization of Korea led neither to the proletarianization of the peasants nor to a fundamental change in the structure of rural families, but rather to strategic changes in patterns of migration, labor allocation, and residence.
Spaces of Possibility
Spaces of Possibility - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Spaces of Possibility write by Clark W. Sorensen. This book was released on 2016. Spaces of Possibility available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Contributors -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z
The Park Chung Hee Era
The Park Chung Hee Era - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Park Chung Hee Era write by Byung-Kook Kim. This book was released on 2013-03-11. The Park Chung Hee Era available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In 1961 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 a coup in 1961 and ruled as a virtual dictator until his assassination in October 1979. He is credited with modernizing South Korea, but at a huge political and social cost. South Korea's political landscape under Park defies easy categorization. The state was predatory yet technocratic, reform-minded yet quick to crack down on dissidents in the name of political order. The nation was balanced uneasily between opposition forces calling for democratic reforms and the Park government's obsession with economic growth. The chaebol (a powerful conglomerate of multinationals based in South Korea) received massive government support to pioneer new growth industries, even as a nationwide campaign of economic shock therapy-interest hikes, devaluation, and wage cuts-met strong public resistance and caused considerable hardship. This landmark volume examines South Korea's era of development as a study in the complex politics of modernization. Drawing on an extraordinary range of sources in both English and Korean, these essays recover and contextualize many of the ambiguities in South Korea's trajectory from poverty to a sustainable high rate of economic growth.
