Neoliberalization of South Korea

No doubt South Korea's neoliberalization has been closely influenced by the ideologies, policies, and experiences of the precedingly neoliberal West, but neoliberal shifts in the South Korean context have most critically conflated with the conditions and structures of its own distinctive developmental political economy and life world. Over nearly four decades of apparent neoliberal transitions, the country is now simultaneously neoliberal, developmental, neoliberally developmental, and developmentally neoliberal. Such complexities and contradictions are systematically analyzed in this transdisciplinary volume written by leading analysts of South Korea and beyond. They exhaustively cover the political, economic, social, and cultural dimensions of South Korea's neoliberalization in conjunction with its earlier developmental order and latest all-front restructuring.

Looks at Korean neoliberalization as a distinct political economy Examines structural pitfalls of Korean neoliberalism Discusses the dilemma of structural incongruity between different developmental goals

Autorentext

Chang Kyung-Sup is SNU Distinguished Professor of Sociology, Seoul National University, South Korea

Kim Se-Kyun is Professor Emeritus in Department of Political Science, Seoul National University, South Korea.

Keun Lee is SNU Distinguished Professor of Economics, Seoul National University, South Korea.

Inhalt

Introduction: Critical Issues and Debates in South Korea's Neoliberalizatio.- Chapter 2. Neoiberalism and Democracy in South Kore.- Chapter 3. The Dilemmas of Korea's New Democracy in an Age of Neoliberal Globalizatio.- Chapter 4. The Neoliberal Police State and South Korean Democracy.- Chapter 5. From Developmental State to Developmental Neoliberalism: Korean Capitalism in the Aftermath of Neoliberalism.- Chapter 6. From Catch-up to Convergence? Transformation of Capitalism in South Korea.- Chapter 7. The Chaebol, Economic Reform, and Counter-Democratic Neoliberalis.- Chapter 8. The Social Resilience of Organized Labor in Neoliberal Korea: The Case of the Construction Industry.- Chapter 9. Youth Labor Market Segmentation and Policy Preferences in the Neoliberal Er.- Chapter 10. The Vacillation of Culture in Neoliberal South Korea.- Chapter 11.The Construction of Neoliberal Women in Post-IMF Korean Society.- Chapter 12. Neoliberal Korea, Developmental Liberal Asia .