South Korea's rapid industrialization occurred with the rise of
powerful chaebÇ’l (family-owned business conglomerates) that
controlled vast swaths of the nation's economy. Leader Park Chung
Hee's sense of backwardness and urgency led him to rely on
familial, school, and regional ties to expedite the economic
transformation. Late Industrialization, Tradition, and Social
Change in South Korea elucidates how a country can progress
economically while relying on traditional social structures that
usually fragment political and economic vitality. The book proposes
a new framework for macro social change under late
industrialization by analyzing the specific process of interactions
between economic tasks and tradition through the state's mediation.
Drawing on interviews with bureaucrats in the Ministry of Commerce
and Industry as well as workers and others, Yong-Chool Ha
demonstrates how the state propelled industrialization by using
kinship networks to channel investments and capital into chaebÇ’l
corporations. What Ha calls "neofamilism" was the central force
behind South Korea's economic transformation as the state used
preindustrial social patterns to facilitate industrialization. Ha's
account of bureaucracy, democratization, and the middle class
challenges assumptions about the universal outcomes of
industrialization.
General
Imprint: |
University of Washington Press
|
Country of origin: |
United States |
Series: |
Korean Studies of the Henry M. Jackson School of International Studies |
Release date: |
February 2024 |
Authors: |
Yong-Chool Ha
|
Dimensions: |
229 x 152mm (L x W) |
Pages: |
288 |
ISBN-13: |
978-0-295-75227-3 |
Categories: |
Books
|
LSN: |
0-295-75227-0 |
Barcode: |
9780295752273 |
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