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Korea Development Model Conference | 2010-10-21 20:27

Ppalli ppalli and familism behind Han River miracle

Only 60 years ago, there was no industry and no highly-educated people in Korea. Today the country is a leading economic powerhouse armed with world-class industries such as Samsung, LG, Hyundai and etc.

Korea Development Model Conference | 2010-10-21 20:20

President-conductor of economic orchestra

One of the salient features of Korean politics and governance was the extreme concentration of power in the Blue House. In the decades of the 1960s, 1970s, and 1980s, the gap between the executive branch and the legislative and judiciary branches was huge.

Korea Development Model Conference | 2010-10-21 20:12

A difference a leader makes

It is hard to appreciate, as Korea prepares to bid to host another Olympics and marshals its ideas for the advanced nation debate as chair of the G20, that this country was once dirt poor.

Korea Development Model Conference | 2010-10-21 20:07

Success of Korea’s catch-up development

The history of the role of government in economic affairs goes back as far as the second century B.C. as recorded in “Yantie Run” (Salt and Steel Logic) during the Han Dynasty of China. This classic work describes the debate about government intervention in the production and distribution of salt and steel, as well as other fascinating topics such as trade via tributary excha...

Korea Development Model Conference | 2010-10-21 20:02

Role of energy and water in development

President Park Chung-hee was the first Korean president who saw the symbiotic relationship among economic development, energy, and science and technology, thus creating the Korean Institute of Science and Technology.

Korea Development Model Conference | 2010-10-21 19:45

Why is Korea not afraid to enter geo-economy?

In the 21st century globalization became the objective reality that determines social and economic processes in the world and in all national economies. Today the world economy is forming a new economic system, which in the nearest future, will function as a single and unified organism. At the moment the global geo-economy is only being formed as the result of globalization, ...

Korea Development Model Conference | 2010-10-21 19:44

Role of technological development

When we talk about industrial development, we often face the question of whether to give supremacy to the market or the government. That is, we pose the question as “market vs. the state.” The general consensus among economists is that the market is more efficient than the government in most economic activities. As an economist, I have many good things to say about the market.

Korea Development Model Conference | 2010-10-21 19:40

Korean miracle is work of its people

The United Nations General Assembly recently held a review summit on the eight Millennium Development Goals. The goals are ambitious: achieving universal education, improving children’s and maternal health, creating sustainable environments, eliminating poverty and hunger, combating infectious diseases, supporting gender equality, and emphasizing the use of global partnershi...

Korea Development Model Conference | 2010-10-21 19:34

Zero to superhero and anti-hero

This presentation lays out some broad trends in South Korea’s modern development: its “zero-to-hero” economic rise and its subsequent “hero-to-superhero” political and social development. It also looks at some of the negative collateral problems that this astonishing development spun off, problems which continue to trouble Korea to this day.

Korea Development Model Conference | 2010-10-21 19:24

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