The Korean Economy: From a Miraculous Past to a Sustainable Future (Harvard East Asian Monographs)

South Korea Has Been Held Out As An Economic Miracle{u2014}as A Country That Successfully Completed The Transition From Underdeveloped To Developed Country Status{u2014}and As An Example Of How A Middle-income Country Can Continue To Move Up The Technology Ladder Into The Production And Export Of More Sophisticated Goods And Services. But With These Successes Have Come Challenges, Among Them Poverty, Inequality, Long Work Hours, Financial Instability, And Complaints About The Economic And Political Power Of The Country{u2019}s Large Corporate Conglomerates, Or chaebol. the Korean Economy Provides An Overview Of Korean Economic Experience Since The 1950s, With A Focus On The Period Since Democratization In 1987. Successive Chapters Analyze The Korean Experience From The Perspectives Of Political Economy, The Growth Record, Industrial Organization And Corporate Governance, Financial Development And Instability, Labor And Employment, Inequality And Social Policy, And Korea{u2019}s Place In The World Economy. A Concluding Chapter Describes The Country{u2019}s Economic Challenges Going Forward And How They Can Best Be Met. The Volume Also Serves To Summarize The Findings Of Companion Volumes In The Harvard-korean Development Institute Series On The Korean Economy, Also Published By The Harvard University Asia Center. The Political Context -- Perspectives On Growth -- Financial Development And Liberalization -- Government And Business Groups -- Population, Employment, Education, And Welfare -- Developing And Maintaining Export Competitiveness -- Challenges Of Reunification. Barry Eichengreen, Wonhyuk Lim, Yung Chul Park, And Dwight Perkins. Includes Bibliographical References And Index. South Korea has been held out as an economic miracle as a country that successfully completed the transition from underdeveloped to developed country status and as an example of how a middle-income country can continue to move up the technology ladder into the production and export of more sophisticated goods and services. But with these successes have come challenges, among them poverty, inequality, long work hours, financial instability, and complaints about the economic and political power of the country's large corporate conglomerates, or chaebol. The Korean Economy provides an overview of Korean economic experience since the 1950s, with a focus on the period since democratization in 1987. Successive chapters analyze the Korean experience from the perspectives of political economy, the growth record, industrial organization and corporate governance, financial development and instability, labor and employment, inequality and social policy, and Korea's place in the world economy. A concluding chapter describes the country's economic challenges going forward and how they can best be met. The volume also serves to summarize the findings of companion volumes in the Harvard-Korean Development Institute series on the Korean economy, also published by the Harvard University Asia Center The Korean Economy provides an overview of Korean economic experience since the 1950s, with a focus on the period since democratization in 1987. Chapters analyze the Korean experience from a wide range of economic and social perspectives, as well as describing the country's economic challenges going forward and how they can best be met.