The Park Chung Hee Era: The Transformation of South Korea

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This is the sixth English monograph published by EAI. It is the culmination of 13 years of research by Professor Kim Byung-kook, the founding director of EAI, and 23 scholars from Korea and abroad, beginning in 1998. This book aims to reveal the achievements and failures of President Park Chung Hee by analyzing the political, economic, social, and international relations of the Park Chung Hee era from multiple perspectives. The 23 chapters of "The Park Chung Hee Era" comprehensively explain the trajectory of how the Republic of Korea escaped poverty and achieved high economic growth by re-examining the origins of the Park Chung Hee regime, its political processes, economic and social policies, and international relations. It also includes comparative studies with China, Japan, Taiwan, the Philippines, and Latin American countries by foreign scholars. Professor Ezra F. Vogel, a renowned East Asian studies scholar at Harvard University's Department of Social Science, co-edited the book with Professor Kim Byung-kook.

Table of Contents

Introduction ｜ Byung-Kook Kim

Part I Born in a Crisis

1. The May Sixteenth Military Coup ｜ Yong-Sup Han

2. Taming and Tamed by the United States ｜ Taehyun Kim and Chang Jae Baik

3. State Building: The Military Junta’s Path to Modernity ｜ Hyung-A Kim

Part II Politics

4. Modernization Strategy: Ideas and Influences ｜ Chung-in Moon and Byung-joon Jun

5. The Labyrinth of Solitude: Park and the Exercise of Presidential Power ｜ Byung-Kook Kim

6. The Armed Forces ｜ Joo-Hong Kim

7. The Leviathan: Economic Bureaucracy under Park ｜ Byung-Kook Kim

8. The Origins of the Yushin Regime: Machiavelli Unveiled ｜ Hyug Baeg Im

Part III Economy and Society

9. The Chaebol ｜ Eun Mee Kim and Gil-Sung Park

10. The Automobile Industry ｜ Nae-Young Lee

11. Pohang Iron & Steel Company ｜ Sang-young Rhyu and Seok-jin Lew

12. The Countryside ｜ Young Jo Lee

13. The Chaeya ｜ Myung-Lim Park

Part IV International Relations

14. The Vietnam War: South Korea’s Search for National Security ｜ Min Yong Lee

15. Normalization of Relations with Japan: Toward a New Partnership ｜ Jung-Hoon Lee

16. The Human Rights Conundrum and the United States, 1974-1979 ｜ Yong-Jick Kim

17. The Search for Deterrence: Park’s Nuclear Option ｜ Sung Gul Hong

Part V Comparative Perspective

18. Nation Rebuilders: Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, Lee Kuan Yew, Deng Xiaoping, and Park Chung Hee ｜ Ezra F. Vogel

19. Reflections on a Reverse Image: South Korea under Park Chung Hee and the Philippines under Ferdinand Marcos ｜ Paul D. Hutchcroft

20. The Perfect Dictatorship? South Korea versus Argentina, Brazil, Chile, and Mexico ｜ Jorge I. Domínguez

21. Industrial Policy in Key Developmental Sectors: South Korea versus Japan and Taiwan ｜ Gregory W. Noble

Conclusion ｜ Byung-Kook Kim