Digital development in Korea
Building an information society - by Myung Oh and James F. Larson
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 20298291 |
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| Authors | Sung‐young Kim (0000-0002-8245-7156, University of Auckland, corresponding author), Sung-Young Kim (Discipline of Politics and International Relations; The University of Auckland; Auckland New Zealand) |
| Year | 2014 |
| Volume | 64 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | E5-E9 |
| Publication date | 2014-04-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of Communication (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0021-9916 • E-ISSN: 1460-2466 |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press (OUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1111/jcom.12081 |
| OpenAlex | W2082061539 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 5 |
Understanding why and how the breakneck growth of South Korea's information and communication technologies (ICT) sector and its contribution to the country's transformation into the rich club of nations is a challenging task, to say the least. To those familiar with Korea's ICT development, in the last 30 years it has been driven by a plethora of governmental plans involving many influential individuals from the Presidential Office to engineers in the Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute—once considered the technological powerhouse behind the scenes of the Korean ICT sector. There are few who have the experience and knowledge to make sense of all the pieces of the puzzle of Korea's ICT development. The authors of this study can be counted among those few. The first author, Myung Oh, brings to bear his direct experience through a prestigious career as a former Vice-Minister and Minister of the Ministry of Information and Communication—seen as the heart of Korea's developmental drive in ICT—and later as Deputy Prime Minister among other influential roles. The second author, James Larson, builds on his wealth of knowledge first presented in his influential 1995 publication The Telecommunications Revolution in Korea
Christian ministry · Economics · Information and Communications Technology · Management · Political science · Politics · Presidential system · Prime minister · Sociology · Asian Industrial and Economic Development · China's Socioeconomic Reforms and Governance · ICT Impact and Policies · Law
| Highly cited | No |
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