Troubled tiger : businessmen, bureaucrats, and generals in South Korea
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.
Print Book, English, 2015
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Routledge, London; New York, 2015
xiii, 373 Seiten : map ; 24 cm
9780765601407, 9780765601414, 0765601400, 0765601419
1013726989
Map of Korea
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
"An East gate book."--Titelseite