South Korea has been held out as an economic miracle as a
country that successfully completed the transition from
underdeveloped to developed country status and as an example of how
a middle-income country can continue to move up the technology
ladder into the production and export of more sophisticated goods
and services. But with these successes have come challenges, among
them poverty, inequality, long work hours, financial instability,
and complaints about the economic and political power of the
country s large corporate conglomerates, or chaebol."
The Korean Economy" provides an overview of Korean economic
experience since the 1950s, with a focus on the period since
democratization in 1987. Successive chapters analyze the Korean
experience from the perspectives of political economy, the growth
record, industrial organization and corporate governance, financial
development and instability, labor and employment, inequality and
social policy, and Korea s place in the world economy. A concluding
chapter describes the country s economic challenges going forward
and how they can best be met. The volume also serves to summarize
the findings of companion volumes in the Harvard-Korean Development
Institute series on the Korean economy, also published by the
Harvard University Asia Center."
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