The Park Chung Hee Era: The Transformation of South Korea by Hyug Baeg Im, Min Yong Lee, Joo Hong Kim, Jorge I. Domínguez, Taehyun Kim, Sung Gul Hong, Jung-Hoon Lee, Ezra F. Vogel, Byung-joon Jun, Nae-Young Lee, Yong-Jick Kim, Chang Jae Baik, Byung-Kook Kim, Hyung-A Kim, Yong-Sup Han, Eun Mee Kim, Paul D. Hutchcroft

The Park Chung Hee Era: The Transformation of South Korea
Hyug Baeg Im, Min Yong Lee, Joo Hong Kim, Jorge I. Domínguez, Taehyun Kim, Sung Gul Hong, Jung-Hoon Lee, Ezra F. Vogel, Byung-joon Jun, Nae-Young Lee, Yong-Jick Kim, Chang Jae Baik, Byung-Kook Kim, Hyung-A Kim, Yong-Sup Han, Eun Mee Kim, Paul D. Hutchcroft

744 pages • first pub 2011 (editions)

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In 1961 South Korea was mired in poverty. By 1979 it had a powerful industrial economy and a vibrant civil society in the making, which would lead to a democratic breakthrough eight years later. The transformation took place during the years of Pa...