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I am also not sure how relevant my advice will be to your advisee's
inquiry, but I would suggest that reading some of the works by South
Korean proponents of the "Asian Values" theory might be of
certain help. This group of extremely conservative scholars - most of
them,surprisingly, with American educational credentials - suggests that
what is usually identified as "social evil" in South Korea
(regionalism, culture of informal networking known as "yOnjul",
etc.) is, indeed, a valuable part of "Confucian culture", which
gave Korea some advantage over its competitors. Web page of one of them,
Lew Seok-Choon from Yonsei Un-ty
(<a href="http://suny.yonsei.ac.kr/~sclew/" eudora="autourl">http</a>://suny.yonsei.ac.kr<a href="http://suny.yonsei.ac.kr/~sclew/" eudora="autourl">/%7Esclew/
</a>), seems to contain some English as well. Other prominent one is Ham
Chaebong
(<a href="http://polisci.yonsei.ac.kr/~cbhahm" eudora="autourl"><font color="#008000"><u>http://polisci.yonsei.ac.kr/%7Ecbhahm</a></font>)</u>.
Frankly, I would not cite their works without certain reservations
because political bias is all too obvious, but as a particular kind of
pseudo-Confucian socio-political ideology that may be of some interest as
an object for study.<br>
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V.Tikhonov <br>
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At 13:56 07.02.2003 -0700, you wrote:<br>
<blockquote type=cite class=cite cite>I am not sure how much relevance it
would have, but here is something that<br>
your advisee might find interesting.<br>
<br>
Hoyt Tillman, Business as a Vocation: The Autobiography of Mr. Wu
Ho-su.<br>
Havard University Press, 2002. This is Prof. Tillman's translation
(with an<br>
introduction and epilogue) of Huang Chin-shing's Ban shiji de fendou:
Wu<br>
Huoshi xiansheng koushu zhuanji (Taibei: Yunchen wenhua gongsi,
1990). Mr.<br>
Wu Ho-su is a Taiwanese businessman. Here is a short introduction
from the<br>
web site of Harvard University Press:<br>
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Wu Ho-Su (1919-1986) pioneered business ventures ranging from cloth
and<br>
synthetic fiber industries to department stores and life insurance. This
son<br>
of a crippled former coolie began as a laborer for a Japanese<br>
cloth-importing company in the 1930s, but eventually became a manager
and<br>
then an independent entrepreneur. Overcoming business obstacles in
Chiang<br>
Kai-shek's Nationalist-ruled Taiwan after 1945, Mr. Wu painstakingly
built<br>
Shinkong into Taiwan's sixth-largest business enterprise by the 1980s.
This<br>
account of Wu Ho-Su's life, developed by Mr. Wu working directly with
Dr.<br>
Huang Chin-shing of the Academia Sinica, one of Taiwan's most
distinguished<br>
historians, is instructive for the lessons it offers about both
business<br>
practices in East Asia and their interplay with Confucian values. The
book<br>
recounts with graphic examples the changing role of family and
other<br>
networks in Taiwan's economic "miracle" and in the region more
generally.<br>
The blend that Mr. Wu evidenced of business acumen and concern for<br>
Confucianism, in turn, raises broader questions of the type that
scholars<br>
and businesspeople have strenuously debated since the time of Max
Weber<br>
about the compatibility of Confucian norms and modern business
practices.<br>
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Best,<br>
<br>
Young Kyun Oh<br>
Instructor of Korean<br>
Arizona State University<br>
Dept. of Languages and Literatures<br>
(480)727-7447<br>
<a href="http://www.asu.edu/clas/dll/kor/korean.html" eudora="autourl">http://www.asu.edu/clas/dll/kor/korean.html</a><br>
<a href="http://www.learnkorean.com/" eudora="autourl">http://www.learnkorean.com</a><br>
----- Original Message -----<br>
From: "Morgan Pitelka" <mpitelka@oxy.edu><br>
To: <Koreanstudies@koreaweb.ws><br>
Sent: Tuesday, February 04, 2003 2:17 PM<br>
Subject: [KS] Confucianism and economic development<br>
<br>
<br>
><br>
> Dear Colleagues,<br>
><br>
> One of my advisees is conducting research on the connection
between<br>
> Confucianism and economic development in postwar South Korea. He
is<br>
> interested in both practice and discourse. In other words, he is
not<br>
> assuming that the connection always exists and is important, but
rather<br>
> expects that in many examples the rhetoric of Confucianism became
a<br>
> corporate and state tool in the attempt to construct certain kinds
of<br>
> identities and encourage certain kinds of behavior.<br>
><br>
> The problem he is encountering is a plethora of vague references to
the<br>
> Confucian-development connection (particularly in discussions of
the<br>
> chaebol) combined with a lack of specific evidence.<br>
><br>
> Can anyone suggest materials that might be useful in the study of
this<br>
> issue? Interviews, case studies, diaries, corporate PR, etc.? I've
pasted<br>
> the basic reading list he is working with at this point to the
bottom of<br>
> this message. (I am a specialist in East Asian premodern ceramics
and<br>
> cultural history, and thus out of my depth when it comes to
modern<br>
economic<br>
> history.)<br>
><br>
> Thanks,<br>
><br>
> Morgan<br>
><br>
> *****************<br>
> Morgan Pitelka<br>
> Asian Studies Department<br>
> 408 Johnson Hall<br>
> Occidental College<br>
> 1600 Campus Road<br>
> Los Angeles, CA 90041<br>
> 1-323-259-1421<br>
>
<a href="mailto:mpitelka@oxy.edu" eudora="autourl">mailto:mpitelka@oxy.edu</a><br>
> *****************<br>
><br>
> Amsden, Alice. Asia's Next Giant: South Korea and Late
Industrialization.<br>
> Oxford, 1989.<br>
><br>
> Borthwick, Mark. The Pacific Century: The Emergence of Modern
Pacific<br>
Asia.<br>
> Westview, 1992.<br>
><br>
> Brook, Timothy and H.V. Luong. Culture and Economy: The Shaping
of<br>
> Capitalism in Eastern Asia. Michigan, 1997.<br>
><br>
> Chung Kae H. and H.C. Lee. Korean Managerial Dynamics. Praeger,
1989.<br>
><br>
> Cummings, Bruce. Korea's Place in the Sun: A Modern History. Norton,
1997.<br>
><br>
> Das, Dilip K. Korean Economic Dynamism. St. Martin's Press,
1992.<br>
><br>
> Kim, Eun M. Big Business, Strong State: Collusion and Conflict in
South<br>
> Korean Development, 1960-1990. State University of New York,
1997<br>
><br>
> Steers, Richard M. Made in Korea: Chung Ju Yung and the Rise of
Hyundai.<br>
> Routledge, 1999.<br>
><br>
> Tai, Hung-chao. Confucianism and Economic Development: An
Oriental<br>
> Alternative? Washington Institute Press, 1989.<br>
><br>
> Ungson, Gerardo R., R.M. Steers, and S.H. Park. Korean Enterprise:
The<br>
Quest<br>
> for Globalization. Harvard Business School, 1997.<br>
><br>
><br>
></blockquote>
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Vladimir Tikhonov,<br>
Department of East European and Oriental Studies,<br>
Faculty of Arts,<br>
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