Contents

Preface

List of Illustrations

Introduction HYUNG-A KIM and CLARK W. SORENSEN

PART ONE—Development

1. Heavy and Chemical Industrialization, 1973–1979: South Korea’s Homeland Security Measures
HYUNG-A KIM

2. POSCO: Building an Institution
SEOK-MAN YOON

3. The Cold War and the Political Economy of the Park Chung Hee Regime
TADASHI KIMIYA

SPECIAL ESSAY

4. How to Think about the Park Chung Hee Era
NAK-CHUNG PAIK

PART TWO—Political Thought, Democracy, and Labor

5. Park Chung Hee’s Governing Ideas: Impact on National Consciousness and Identity
YOUNG JAK KIM

6. Democracy in South Korea: An Optimistic View of ROK Democratic Development
JAMES B. PALAIS

7. Labor Policy and Labor Relations during the Park Chung Hee Era
HAGEN KOO

PART THREE—Cultural Influence and Civil Society

8. Rural Modernization under the Park Regime in the 1960s
CLARK W. SORENSEN

9. Compressed Modernization and the Formation of a Developmentalist Mentalité
MYUNGKOO KANG

10. The Park Chung Hee Era and the Genesis of Trans-Border Civil Society in East Asia
GAVAN MCCORMACK

Bibliography

Contributors

Index