Industrial Development in Singapore and South Korea

A Challenge to Development Economics

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ID11157155
AuthorsJean Raphaël Chaponniere (corresponding author)
Year1985
Volume7
Issue2
Pages127-147
Publication date1985-09-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueContemporary Southeast Asia (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0129-797X
PublisherISEAS - Yusof Ishak Institute (PUBLISHER • SG)
DOI10.1355/cs7-2e
OpenAlexW1999241324
LanguageEN
Citations received2
References cited8

Drawing a comparison between Singapore and South Korea* may seem like an unfounded exercise, these countries being so highly dissimilar to each other in both geographical and historical features. Singapore, an equatorial city-state with 2.5 million people, has a smaller population than Busan, the second largest city of South Korea, a temperate country with 40 million people and the capital of which, Seoul, has a population close to 10 million. Being a city-state Singapore possesses no hinterland; on the other hand, South Korea has 98,000 square kilometres and is characterized, together with Japan and Taiwan, by having the highest population density in relation to cultivable land of any country in the world. A creation of the British Empire, Singapore was founded in 1819 because of its strategic location and natural harbour ? factors that bestowed advantages on its entrepot trade. In contrast, Korea, a unified kingdom since the sixth century AD, remained a completely closed pre-modern society, the Hermit Kingdom, until 1876 when it was forced to open its doors to the outside world by Japan and later became (in 1910) a Japanese colony

Economic growth · Economics · Political science · Asian Industrial and Economic Development · Socioeconomic Development in Asia

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