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By Hyung-A Kim, Clark W. Sorensen

ISBN-10: 0295991402

ISBN-13: 9780295991405

The Republic of Korea accomplished a double revolution within the moment 1/2 the 20 th century. in precisely over 3 a long time, South Korea reworked itself from an underdeveloped, agrarian kingdom into an prosperous, industrialized one. even as, democracy changed an extended sequence of army authoritarian regimes. those historical alterations all started lower than President Park Chung Hee, who seized energy via an army coup in 1961 and governed South Korea until eventually his assassination on October 26, 1979. whereas the state's dominant position in South Korea's speedy industrialization is extensively approved, the measure to which Park used to be for my part liable for altering the nationwide personality continues to be hotly debated. This publication examines the reason and beliefs in the back of Park's philosophy of nationwide improvement so that it will evaluation the measure to which the nationwide personality and ethical values have been reconstructed.
Hyung-A Kim is affiliate professor of Korean politics on the Australian nationwide college, and writer of Korea's improvement lower than Park Chung Hee: fast Industrialization, 1961-1979. Clark W. Sorensen is director of the guts for Korean reviews, collage of Washington, and writer of Over the Mountains Are Mountains: Korean Peasant families and Their variations to fast Industrialization. the opposite individuals are Myung-Koo Kang, Young-Jak Kim, Tadashi Kimiya, Hagen Koo, Gaven McCormack, Nak-Ch'ong Paik, James B. Palais, and Seok-Man Yoon.

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The “Measures for Weapons Supply with Foreign Loans” also included eight separate terms and conditions for security purposes. For details, see O Wŏnch’ol, Han’gukhyŏng kyŏngje kŏnsŏl, 7: 242; and Kim Chŏngnyŏm, A, Pak Chŏnghŭi, 296–97. 28. S. Reaction in Event of North Korean Aggression,” undated attachment of a memorandum sent to Carl Albert, speaker of the House of Representatives, from the Office of the Deputy Assistant Secretary (security assistance), OASD/ISA, Documents concerning relations between the USA and the ROK between the fall of Saigon (April 1975) and the Tree Incident in the DMZ (August 18, 1976), Washington, DC, Gerald Ford Library.

47. Hyung-A Kim, Korea’s Development, Chapter 9. 48. William H. , Massive Entanglement, Marginal Indulgence, 47. 49. Don Oberdorfer, “End of the Carter Withdrawal,” The Two Koreas, 108. 50. Washington Post, May 19, 1977. 51. Yi Tongbok, “Bessi saryŏnggwan,” 260–87. 52. Don Oberdorfer, The Two Koreas, 91. 53. Memorandum of Conversation, Kennedy and ROK Ambassador Kim, June 17, 41 42 Hyung-A Kim 1963, NSF, Country, Box 127, John F. Kennedy Library. 54. See National Security Decision Memorandum (NSCM) 282 and 309, National Security Study Memoranda and Decision Memoranda, 1974–1977, Box 2, Gerald Ford Library.

S. containment strategy toward North Korea, the creation of the HCI triumvirate showed Park’s centralized approach to power, which he saw as necessary in order to carry out the restructuring of the government and industries as the means to achieving South Korea’s all-out industrial revolution. In contrast to Park’s turbulent personal past, blotted with pro-Japanese collaboration and communist activities, O Wŏnch’ŏl was born into a wealthy landlord family in North Korea on October 2, 1928. In his final year in chemical engineering at Seoul National University, O entered the Korean Air Force when the Korean War broke out and served until August 1957 as a major.

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