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Park Chung Hee and Modern Korea - The Roots of Militarism, 1866-1945 (Hardcover)
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Park Chung Hee and Modern Korea - The Roots of Militarism, 1866-1945 (Hardcover)
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For South Koreans, the twenty years from the early 1960s to late
1970s were the best and worst of times-a period of unprecedented
economic growth and of political oppression that deepened as
prosperity spread. In this masterly account, Carter J. Eckert finds
the roots of South Korea's dramatic socioeconomic transformation in
the country's long history of militarization-a history personified
in South Korea's paramount leader, Park Chung Hee. The first volume
of a comprehensive two-part history, Park Chung Hee and Modern
Korea: The Roots of Militarism, 1866-1945 reveals how the
foundations of the dynamic but strongly authoritarian Korean state
that emerged under Park were laid during the period of Japanese
occupation. As a cadet in the Manchurian Military Academy, Park and
his fellow officers absorbed the Imperial Japanese Army's ethos of
victory at all costs and absolute obedience to authority. Japanese
military culture decisively shaped Korea's postwar generation of
military leaders. When Park seized power in an army coup in 1961,
he brought this training and mentality to bear on the project of
Korean modernization. Korean society under Park exuded a
distinctively martial character, Eckert shows. Its hallmarks
included the belief that the army should intervene in politics in
times of crisis; that a central authority should plan and monitor
the country's economic system; that the Korean people's "can do"
spirit would allow them to overcome any challenge; and that the
state should maintain a strong disciplinary presence in society,
reserving the right to use violence to maintain order.
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