This ninth title in the series Studies in the Modernization of the
Republic of Korea offers new insights into the role of finance in a
rapidly developing country. Combining history and theory, it
provides a rigorous test of previous theoretical propositions. The
study illustrates the complexity of the Korean financial system and
the danger of easy generalization from partial evidence. The two
major components of the financial system are brought into focus-one
regulated and statistically recorded, the other unregulated,
unrecorded. The burden of financial intermediation shifts from one
to the other largely in response to government policy measures. By
looking only at the regulated sector, previous studies have often
misperceived the role of the financial system and the effects of
government policies. The financial scandal in Seoul in May 1982
vividly demonstrated that the unregulated part of the system is
still important and that overregulation of the "modern" part
generates strong pressures for perpetuating the illegal,
unregulated, "traditional" financial institutions.
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