Reassessing the Park Chung Hee Era, 1961-1979: Development, Political Thought, Democracy, and Cultural Influence

Contents

Contents Preface | vii List of Illustrations | ix Introduction hyung-a kim and clark w. sorensen | 3 PART ONE—Development 1 Heavy and Chemical Industrialization, 1973–1979: South Korea’s Homeland Security Measures | 19 hyung-a kim 2 POSCO: Building an Institution | 43 seok-man yoon 3 The Cold War and the Political Economy of the Park Chung Hee Regime | 66 tadashi kimiya SPECIAL ESSAY 4 How to Think about the Park Chung Hee Era | 85 nak-chung paik PART TWO—Political Thought, Democracy, and Labor 5 Park Chung Hee’s Governing Ideas: Impact on National Consciousness and Identity | 95 young Jak kim 6 Democracy in South Korea: An Optimistic View of ROK Democratic Development | 107 James b. palais 7 Labor Policy and Labor Relations during the Park Chung Hee Era | 122 hagen koo PART THREE—Cultural Influence and Civil Society 8 Rural Modernization under the Park Regime in the 1960s | 145 clark w. sorensen 9 Compressed Modernization and the Formation of a Developmentalist Mentalité | 166 myungkoo kang 10 The Park Chung Hee Era and the Genesis of Trans-Border Civil Society in East Asia | 187 gavan mccormack Bibliography | 205 Contributors | 220 Index | 222 ...