Overview : a historical and institutional perspective / Lee-Jay Cho -- Antecedent to economic growth : President Rhee and Prime Minister Chang / Robert T. Oliver -- Institutional reforms for national economic management / Ki Jun Rhee -- Role of business corporations and entrepreneurs in the...

"This book problematises the statist underpinnings of the concept of the 'developmental state,' both in terms of state-society and national-global relations, challenging the notion that the state is the agent of national development qua being autonomous from the domestic and global economies....

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...