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Korea Yearbook 2008

by Philip Gowman on 14 March, 2009

in Book reviews: Business & economy, Book reviews: DPRK, Book reviews: Film, Book reviews: History, Book reviews: Politics, Book reviews: other

A review of the 2008 Korea Yearbook

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The wave that never was?

8 February 2009 Book reviews: Business & economy
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Mark Russell’s book is a fun and informative account of the Korean entertainment industry. Read a full-length review.

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Donald Kirk on the late 90s financial crisis

19 January 2009 Book reviews: Business & economy
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A review of Donald Kirk’s 1999 book “Korean Crisis: Unraveling of the Miracle in the IMF Era”

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Richard Stubbs: Rethinking Asia’s Economic Miracle

5 October 2007 Book reviews: Business & economy
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(Palgrave MacMillan, 2005)

Stubbs’s thesis is simple: that one of the key drivers of Asia’s economic growth has been not free market economics, not Confucian values, not the developmental state, not Japanese or American hegemony, but war, both hot and cold.
Stubbs takes seven countries – South Korea, Japan, Taiwan, Hong Kong, Singapore, Malaysia and Thailand – [...]

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Ha-Joon Chang: Bad Samaritans

18 July 2007 Book reviews: Business & economy
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Random House, 2007

Read a typical book which espouses liberal free-trade globalisation and a typical reaction is “Yes, but…” Books such as “Lexus and the Olive Tree” are well written, and carry you along in the sweep of the argument. But you have a niggling sense of unease that something must be wrong with what’s being [...]

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Tom Coyner and Song-Hyon Jang: Mastering Business in Korea

5 July 2007 Book reviews: Business & economy
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(Seoul Selection, 2007)

With a title like “Mastering Business in Korea” the current book might well turn off the casual reader. But as well as having, as its title suggests, a business angle, it can also be used as a more general cultural guide. And because this is a practical book written by people who have [...]

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Sea-Jin Chang: Financial Crisis and Transformation of Korean Business Groups

14 November 2006 Book reviews: Business & economy
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The Rise and Fall of Chaebols (Cambridge, 2003)

A welcome and very detailed examination of the history and structure of the Korean business conglomerates. The strengths of this book are manifold. First and foremost is the wealth of evidence sourced from the Korea Information Service which provides some raw data for some hard conclusions. And the [...]

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Mark Clifford: Troubled Tiger

5 July 2006 Book reviews: Business & economy
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(M.E. Sharpe, 1998)

Chronicles the modern history of Korea from the 1960s to the mid-90s, focusing on the drive for economic growth and the control exerted by the Blue House over the direction of the economy. Clifford gives us a politically balanced view, emphasising the successes of Park Chung-hee, but not shrinking from laying bare the [...]

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