Byung-Kook Kim
Biographic Data
| ID | 3959516 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Byung-Kook Kim |
| GIVEN NAMES | Byung-Kook |
| FAMILY NAME | Kim |
| SIGNATURE | KIM B |
| AFFILIATIONS | Korea University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-0000-7670 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 7 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 20 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 6 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1991 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2011 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
The Park Chung Hee Era
In 1959 South Korea was mired in poverty. By 1979 it had a powerful industrial economy and a vibrant civil society in the making, which would lead to a democratic breakthrough eight years later. The transformation took place during the years of Park Chung Hee’s presidency. Park seized power in a coup in 1961 and ruled as a virtual dictator until his assassination in October 1979. He is credited with modernizing South Korea, but at a huge politica…
Park Chung Hee Era
The U.S.–South Korean Alliance
December 2002 shook up South Korea's conservative establishment and its U.S. ally. Five days before the South Korean presidential election, with a quarter of the electorate still remaining undecided, leaders of nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) and religious activists staged a massive candlelight vigil in front of Seoul's city hall to protest against “unequal” provisions in South Korea's Status of Forces Agreement (SOFA) with its U.S. ally. Th…
The Politics of Financial Reform in Korea, Malaysia, and Thailand
This article analyzes the impact of political regime and state bureaucracy on policy responses to the 1997 financial crisis in Korea, Malaysia, and Thailand. The political regime type — classified broadly into democracy and authoritarianism — is found to shape the direction of policy responses by influencing the political elites' understanding on causes, processes, and consequences of the crisis, whereas the state bureaucracy — classified into hy…
Crony Capitalism’ in South Korea, Thailand and Taiwan
A new myth is in the making. Once held as a model of development by practitioners and theorists alike, East Asia's Newly Industrializing Countries (NICs) are now identified as an epitome of ‘crony capitalism,’ a perversely deformed system of political and economic exchange driven by rent seekers. The privileged few have allegedly captured the state to pillage banks and sabotage market forces in pursuit of rents. But imbued with Confucian norms, w…
Economic Policy and the Economic Planning Board (EPB) in Korea
(1992). Economic Policy and the Economic Planning Board (EPB) in Korea. Asian Affairs: An American Review: Vol. 18, SYMPOSIUM: Class, Economy, and Polity in Korea, pp. 197-213
The Transition to Export-led Growth in South Korea
Two basic positions have framed recent debates about South Korea's remarkable economic growth. The neoclassical position traces South Korea's take-off to a set of policy reforms in 1964 and 1965 that launched the country on the path toward export-led growth (Frank, Kim, and Westphal 1975; Kuznets 1977; Krueger 1979). Policy was far from laissez-faire, but on the whole, the reforms moved Korea in a more market-oriented direction that sought to exp…
The Transition to Export-led Growth in South Korea
Two basic positions have framed recent debates about South Korea's remarkable economic growth. The neoclassical position traces South Korea's take-off to a set of policy reforms in 1964 and 1965 that launched the country on the path toward export-led growth (Frank, Kim, and Westphal 1975; Kuznets 1977; Krueger 1979). Policy was far from laissez-faire, but on the whole, the reforms moved Korea in a more market-oriented direction that sought to exp…
Crony Capitalism’ in South Korea, Thailand and Taiwan
A new myth is in the making. Once held as a model of development by practitioners and theorists alike, East Asia's Newly Industrializing Countries (NICs) are now identified as an epitome of ‘crony capitalism,’ a perversely deformed system of political and economic exchange driven by rent seekers. The privileged few have allegedly captured the state to pillage banks and sabotage market forces in pursuit of rents. But imbued with Confucian norms, w…
The U.S.–South Korean Alliance
December 2002 shook up South Korea's conservative establishment and its U.S. ally. Five days before the South Korean presidential election, with a quarter of the electorate still remaining undecided, leaders of nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) and religious activists staged a massive candlelight vigil in front of Seoul's city hall to protest against “unequal” provisions in South Korea's Status of Forces Agreement (SOFA) with its U.S. ally. Th…
Economic Policy and the Economic Planning Board (EPB) in Korea
(1992). Economic Policy and the Economic Planning Board (EPB) in Korea. Asian Affairs: An American Review: Vol. 18, SYMPOSIUM: Class, Economy, and Polity in Korea, pp. 197-213
The Transition to Export-led Growth in South Korea
Two basic positions have framed recent debates about South Korea's remarkable economic growth. The neoclassical position traces South Korea's take-off to a set of policy reforms in 1964 and 1965 that launched the country on the path toward export-led growth (Frank, Kim, and Westphal 1975; Kuznets 1977; Krueger 1979). Policy was far from laissez-faire, but on the whole, the reforms moved Korea in a more market-oriented direction that sought to exp…
Economic Policy and the Economic Planning Board (EPB) in Korea
(1992). Economic Policy and the Economic Planning Board (EPB) in Korea. Asian Affairs: An American Review: Vol. 18, SYMPOSIUM: Class, Economy, and Polity in Korea, pp. 197-213
Crony Capitalism’ in South Korea, Thailand and Taiwan
A new myth is in the making. Once held as a model of development by practitioners and theorists alike, East Asia's Newly Industrializing Countries (NICs) are now identified as an epitome of ‘crony capitalism,’ a perversely deformed system of political and economic exchange driven by rent seekers. The privileged few have allegedly captured the state to pillage banks and sabotage market forces in pursuit of rents. But imbued with Confucian norms, w…
The Politics of Financial Reform in Korea, Malaysia, and Thailand
This article analyzes the impact of political regime and state bureaucracy on policy responses to the 1997 financial crisis in Korea, Malaysia, and Thailand. The political regime type — classified broadly into democracy and authoritarianism — is found to shape the direction of policy responses by influencing the political elites' understanding on causes, processes, and consequences of the crisis, whereas the state bureaucracy — classified into hy…
The U.S.–South Korean Alliance
December 2002 shook up South Korea's conservative establishment and its U.S. ally. Five days before the South Korean presidential election, with a quarter of the electorate still remaining undecided, leaders of nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) and religious activists staged a massive candlelight vigil in front of Seoul's city hall to protest against “unequal” provisions in South Korea's Status of Forces Agreement (SOFA) with its U.S. ally. Th…
The Park Chung Hee Era
In 1959 South Korea was mired in poverty. By 1979 it had a powerful industrial economy and a vibrant civil society in the making, which would lead to a democratic breakthrough eight years later. The transformation took place during the years of Park Chung Hee’s presidency. Park seized power in a coup in 1961 and ruled as a virtual dictator until his assassination in October 1979. He is credited with modernizing South Korea, but at a huge politica…
Park Chung Hee Era
Political science (6 works) · Law (5 works) · Asian Industrial and Economic Development (4 works) · Economics (4 works) · Law (4 works) · Politics (4 works) · Socioeconomic Development in Asia (3 works) · Development economics (2 works) · Economy (2 works) · Market economy (2 works)