The Political Economy of Korea

Korea's twin transitions agrarian to industrial and industrial to post-industrial transformed the country's political economy. Moving away from the traditional focus on aspects such as market, culture, and colonialism, the author argues that Korea's 'second state' was revitalized through the 'people's movement' and 'citizens movement'.

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Dr Jitendra Uttam is Assistant Professor in Korean Studies at Jawaharlal Nehru University, India. His recent publications include two chapters in the edited volumes Korean Science and Technology in an International Perspective (2012) and The Political Economy of the Asia Pacific (2011), and the article "Economics of Converging Theoretical Paradigms: Evidence from Indo-Korean Bilateral Economic Cooperation', which appeared in the Journal of International and Area Studies (2009).

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Korea's twin transitions agrarian to industrial and industrial to post-industrial transformed the country's political economy. Moving away from the traditional focus on aspects such as market, culture, and colonialism, the author argues that Korea's 'second state' was revitalized through the 'people's movement' and 'citizens movement'.

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PART I: TRANSITION IN PERSPECTIVE 1. Perspectives, Arguments and the Structure PART II: LOCATING TWIN TRANSITIONS 2. Situating Korean Political Economy under Twin Transitions PART III: FIRST TRANSITION: AGRARIAN ARISTOCRACY AND ITS DISCONTENTS 3. Yangban-Centered Agrarian Aristocracy and its Social Discontents, 1700-1910 4. Continuation of Status quo under Colonial Economic Drain, 1910-1945 5. Occupation, War, and Land Reform: Reassertion of the 'Second State', 1945-1960 PART IV: SECOND TRANSITION: INDUSTRIAL BOURGEOIS AND ITS DISCONTENTS 6. Nurturing of National 'Industrial Bourgeois' under Authoritarian Polity, 1961-1997 PART V: TRANSFORMATION & TURNAROUND 7. Crisis, Democratic Consolidation and Civil Society Intervention 1997-2007 8. Rise of 'Developmental Liberalism' in the Era of Global Uncertainty, 2008~present 9. Korean Political Economy in Retrospect