Based on personal interviews with the principal policy-makers of
the 1970s, Korea's Development under Park Chung-Hee examines how
the president sought to develop South Korea into an independent,
autonomous sovereign state both economically and militarily. Kim
provides a new narrative in the complex task of exploring the
paradoxical nature and effects of Korea's rapid development which
maintains that any judgement of Park must consider his achievements
in the socio-economic, cultural and political context in which they
took place. Aspects of Park's government analyzed include: *his
abhorrence of Korea's reliance on the US presence *the Korean model
of state-guided industrialization *Park's rapid development
strategy *the role of the ruling elites *Park's clandestine nuclear
development program *the heavy chemical industrialisation of the
1970s The prevailing popularity of Park in the eyes of the Korean
public is significant and relevant to their acceptance of how their
national development was achieved. This book tells that story while
simultaneously recognizing the flaws in the process. With a great
deal of material never before published, scholars of Korean
politics and history at all levels will find this book a
stimulating account of South Korea in the 1960s and 1970s.
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