Examines how primary social ties fueled economic growth
South Korea’s rapid industrialization occurred with the rise of powerful chaebǒl (family-owned business conglomerates) that controlled vast swaths of the nation’s economy. Leader Park Chung Hee’s sense of backwardness and urgency led him to rely on familial, school, and regional ties to expedite the economic transformation. Late Industrialization, Tradition, and Social Change in South Korea elucidates how a country can progress economically while relying on traditional social structures that usually fragment political and economic vitality. The book proposes a new framework for macro social change under late industrialization by analyzing the specific process of interactions between economic tasks and tradition through the state’s mediation.
Drawing on interviews with bureaucrats in the Ministry of Commerce and Industry as well as workers and others, Yong-Chool Ha demonstrates how the state propelled industrialization by using kinship networks to channel investments and capital into chaebǒl corporations. What Ha calls ’neofamilism’ was the central force behind South Korea’s economic transformation as the state used preindustrial social patterns to facilitate industrialization. Ha’s account of bureaucracy, democratization, and the middle class challenges assumptions about the universal outcomes of industrialization.
Late Industrialization, Tradition, and Social Change in South Korea is also available in an open access edition, DOI 10.6069/9780295753249
Om författaren
Yong Chool-Ha is Korea Foundation Professor of Korean Social Science at the University of Washington. He is the coauthor of Russia’s Choice at the Crossroads (in Korean) (Seoul National University Press, 2006) and Global Standards and Identity in Korean Society (in Korean) (Seoul National University, 2006); editor of The International Impact of Colonial Rule in Korea (Center for Korea Studies Publications, University of Washington, 2019); and coeditor of Colonial Rule and Social Change in Korea 1910-1945 (Center for Korea Studies Publications, University of Washington, 2013).
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