Troubled Tiger: Businessmen, Bureaucrats and Generals in South Korea

ISBN-13: 9780765601407 / Angielski / Twarda / 1997 / 390 str.

Mark L. Clifford

Opis

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 Il Sung and the resultant North-South standoff; and recent labour and student protests.

Spis treści

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

O autorze

Mark L. Clifford