Dear Aidan,<div><br></div><div>There is of course this recent Marxist approach to the South Korean economy, produced by some excellent scholars, including Martin Hart-Landsberg, Kim Soohaeng - the well-known translator of Capital - and my SOAS colleague Dae-oup Chang:</div>
<div><br></div>Marxist Perspectives on South Korea in the Global Economy (2007)<br><div><a href="http://www.ashgatepublishing.com/default.aspx?page=637&title_id=7299&edition_id=9635&calcTitle=1">http://www.ashgatepublishing.com/default.aspx?page=637&title_id=7299&edition_id=9635&calcTitle=1</a></div>
<div><br></div><div>Not sure that it would count as introductory, although I tend to think Marxism is always a good place to start with anything ;-)</div><div><br></div><div>Owen<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Mar 8, 2010 at 2:35 PM, <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:Afostercarter@aol.com">Afostercarter@aol.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
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<div><font size="4"><em>I have a sense of <i><span style="font-family:'Book Antiqua';font-size:14pt" lang="EN-GB">déjà vu
</span></i>here. Did I post earlier on this topic?</em></font></div>
<div><em><font size="4">If so, pray forgive senile amnesia. I don't think anyone
replied.....</font></em></div>
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<div><font size="4">Dear friends and colleagues,</font></div>
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<div><font size="4"><strong>Is there a good up-to-date introductory book on
</strong></font></div>
<div><font size="4"><strong>the South Korean economy?</strong> I don't know
any,</font></div>
<div><font size="4">though this may just reflect my ignorance.</font></div>
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<div><font size="4">When it comes to politics and society, we have </font></div>
<div><font size="4">quite a choice of basic texts. Not so re the
economy,</font></div>
<div><font size="4">apparently. This seems a strange lacuna - and a
</font></div>
<div><font size="4">gap in the market, for anyone minded to write</font></div>
<div><font size="4">(or translate, if there is good stuff in Korean</font></div>
<div><font size="4">that is sufficiently approachable for foreign
readers).</font></div>
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<div><font size="4">When I used to teach, there was Byung-Nak Song's</font></div>
<div><font size="4"><em>Rise of the Korean Economy</em> (OUP). But I don't
think</font></div>
<div><font size="4">this has been updated in a new edition since
2003,</font></div>
<div><font size="4">nor am I sure if it's even in print currently.</font></div>
<div><font size="4"></font> </div>
<div><font size="4">More recently OUP has published </font><span style="font-family:'Book Antiqua';font-size:14pt" lang="EN-GB"><font size="4">Young-Iob Chung's</font></span></div>
<div>
<p style="margin:0cm 0cm 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:'Book Antiqua';font-size:14pt" lang="EN-GB"><font size="4"><em>South Korea in the Fast Lane</em> (2007). But this focuses
on</font></span></p>
<p style="margin:0cm 0cm 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:'Book Antiqua';font-size:14pt" lang="EN-GB"><font size="4">capital formation, and may be too hard for
beginners.</font></span></p>
<p style="margin:0cm 0cm 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:'Book Antiqua';font-size:14pt" lang="EN-GB"><font size="4"></font></span> </p></div>
<div><font size="4">There are of course more specialized works,
including</font></div>
<div><font size="4">on the 1997-98 crisis. At a popular level, Mark Clifford's
</font></div>
<div><font size="4"><em>Troubled Tiger</em> did a good job - but is well
over a decade old.</font></div>
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<div><font size="4">Even at the monograph level, my sense is that we
were</font></div>
<div><font size="4">better served back in the 1980s with those serried
ranks</font></div>
<div><font size="4">of big blue books in Harvard's pioneering series on the
</font><span style="text-transform:none;text-indent:0px;border-collapse:separate;font:medium 'Times New Roman';white-space:normal;letter-spacing:normal;color:rgb(0,0,0);word-spacing:0px"><span style="font-family:verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:11px">
<h1 style="margin-top:0px;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;margin-bottom:0px;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:1.7em;font-weight:normal"><span><em><font size="4" face="Book Antiqua">Economic and Social Modernization of the Republic of
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wishes</font></span></h1>
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<p style="margin:0cm 0cm 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><font size="3"><font face="Times New Roman"><span style="color:black" lang="EN-GB">E: </span><span style="color:black" lang="EN-GB"><a title="mailto:afostercarter@aol.com" href="mailto:afostercarter@aol.com" target="_blank">afostercarter@aol.com</a>,<span> </span><a title="mailto:afostercarter@yahoo.com" href="mailto:afostercarter@yahoo.com" target="_blank">afostercarter@yahoo.com</a><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span>W: <a title="http://www.aidanfc.net/" href="http://www.aidanfc.net/" target="_blank">www.aidanfc.net</a></span></font></font></p>
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</blockquote></div><br><br clear="all"><br>-- <br>Dr Owen Miller<br>Research Associate, Robinson College<br>University of Cambridge<br>Teaching Fellow, Japan and Korea Dept.<br>School of Oriental and African Studies<br>tel: +44 (0) 7780 009 338<br>
e-mail: <a href="mailto:om4@soas.ac.uk">om4@soas.ac.uk</a> // <a href="mailto:om248@cam.ac.uk">om248@cam.ac.uk</a><br>
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