South Korea
Challenging Globalisation and the Post-Crisis Reforms
- 1st Edition - December 30, 2008
- Editors: Young-Chan Kim, Doo-Jin Kim, Young Kim
- Language: English
- Hardback ISBN:9 7 8 - 1 - 8 4 3 3 4 - 4 7 2 - 8
- eBook ISBN:9 7 8 - 1 - 7 8 0 6 3 - 2 5 1 - 3
South Korea: Challenging globalisation and the post-crisis reforms examines the major economic issues flowing from the Korean financial crisis of 1997 and covers such issues as… Read more
South Korea: Challenging globalisation and the post-crisis reforms examines the major economic issues flowing from the Korean financial crisis of 1997 and covers such issues as industrial relations, macroeconomic sectors, the role of administrations, and corporates’ globalisation process by over-expanded foreign direct investment. The chapters contained in this book are written by a wide variety of contributors, including a former government technocrat, president’s advisory board member, plus leading Korean economy specialists.
- Includes empirical surveys from the leading academics in Korea
- Exclusively research methodology on each topic
- First attempt to explain limited but historically important period economic policy
Students and academics in Asian studies, international relations, and law
Preface - systematic change in Korea since the IMF crisis; Introduction: Korean economy in the globalisation era: the Kim Young-Sam period; Korean Chaebol: going global and over-expanded FDI; ‘Dismal leadership’ or macroeconomic fatigue? An analysis of the Kim Young-Sam administration’s role in the 1997 economic crisis; Labor relations during the Korean civil government; Kim Young-Sam’s reform and unexpected tragedy that followed; The Korean financial crisis and government policies: perception and response; Bipolarization of the Korean economy and its policy implications; Implications of Korea’s Segyehwa policy; The IMF crisis and the crisis of the Korean labour movement; Beyond neo-liberal globalization: agenda for the Korean reformist government.
- Edition: 1
- Published: December 30, 2008
- Language: English
YK
Young-Chan Kim
Affiliations and expertise
Greenwich University, UKDK
Doo-Jin Kim
Affiliations and expertise
Frankfurt University, GermanyYK
Young Kim
Affiliations and expertise
Graduate School of National Intelligence, KoreaRead South Korea on ScienceDirect