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

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

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...