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"Korea's twin transitions--agrarian to industrial and industrial to post-industrial--effectively transformed the country's political economy. Moving away from the traditional focus on aspects such as market, state and world systems, culture, and colonialism, the author argues that Korea's so-called 'second state' was revitalized through the 'people's movement' and the more recent 'citizens movement'. The 'second state' provided incremental pressure to subvert the agrarian equilibrium of a previous era dominated by the Yangban aristocracy as well as the industrial equilibrium enforced by large business conglomerates. This book is an attempt to acknowledge the sacrifices made by the Korean people to enlarge the basis of Korean capitalism, bringing the wider society into its framework"--
List of contents
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
About the author
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).
Summary
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'.
