2nd Edition

Troubled Tiger Businessmen, Bureaucrats and Generals in South Korea

By Mark L. Clifford Copyright 1998
    390 Pages
    by Routledge

    390 Pages
    by Routledge

    This analysis of modern Korea includes: the imprisonment and sentencing of two former presidents of South Korea for their role in the Kwangju uprising and on various charges of corruption; the death of Kim II Sung and the resultant North-South standoff; and recent labour and student protests.

    1: Uneasy Alliances; 2: Bone Ranks, Buddhas, and Slaves; 3: Economic Warrior; 4: To Build a Nation; 5: The High Priest of Steel; 6: Yushin; 7: The Big Push; 8: Chaebol; 9: Slowdown; 10: The Assassination; 11: Democracy Denied; 12: Purification; 13: The Crunch; 14: From Reform to Scandal; 15: To Die in Rangoon; 16: Dangerous Corner; 17: The Big Boom; 18: Shifting into Overdrive; 19: Surrender; 20: Workers; 21: Purges and Medals; 22: Coping with Success; 23: Joining the Big Leagues; 24: The End of the Beginning

    Biography

    Mark L. Clifford