"The Korean peninsula during the Cold War provided a cruel but historically unparalleled real-world "experiment" in the relationship between polity and material advance: an ethnically and culturally homogenous nation was, in 1945, suddenly divided by an arbitrary boundary line and then subjected...

Preface -- About the author -- South Korea's economy at a crossroads -- Chaebol's role in South Korea's economic development -- South Korea-United States free trade agreement -- South Korea's free trade agreement with China -- South Korea's income inequality -- South Korea's ageing demography...

Contents: Preface -- Introduction -- Part I: Socioeconomic developments and social trust in Korea -- 1. Social trust: its concepts, determinants, roles, and raising ways -- 2. Recent economic development and emerging social issues in Korea -- 3. Social evolution in conjunction with economic...

Contrary to the widely-held view that the East Asian developmental state is neutral in terms of the relationship between capital and labour, this text argues that the developmental state exists to promote the interests of capital over labour