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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:#212121">I would like to announce the publication of a new book by Harvard University Asia Center, Peter Banseok Kwon’s<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><b><i>Cornerstone of the Nation: The
Defense Industry and the Building of Modern Korea under Park Chung Hee</i></b>:</span><span style="color:#212121"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<i><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:#212121">Cornerstone of the Nation</span></i><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:#212121"> is the first historical account of the complex alliance of military and civilian forces that catapulted South Korea’s conjoined
militarization and industrialization under Park Chung Hee (1961–1979). Kwon reveals how Park’s secret program to build an independent defense industry spurred a total mobilization of business, science, labor, and citizenry, all of which converged in military-civilian
forces that propelled an unprecedented model of modernization in Korea. Drawing on largely untapped declassified materials from Korea and personal interviews with contemporaneous participants in the nascent defense industry, as well as declassified US documents
and other external sources, Kwon weaves together oral histories and documentary evidence in an empirically rich narrative that details how militarization shaped the nation’s rapid economic, technological, political, and social transformation. <i>Cornerstone
of the Nation</i> makes the case that South Korea’s arms development under Park may be the most durable and yet least acknowledged factor behind the country’s rise to economic prominence in the late twentieth century. Through an analysis that simultaneously
engages some of the most contested issues in Korean historiography, development literature, contemporary politics, and military affairs, this book traces Korea’s distinct pathway to becoming a global economic force.</span><span style="color:#212121"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:#212121">For more about the book, or to pre-order, please visit:
<a href="https://www.hup.harvard.edu/books/9780674297135">https://www.hup.harvard.edu/books/9780674297135</a></span><span style="color:#212121">
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">With many thanks,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Daniel Seungchurl Lee<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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Daniel Seungchurl Lee<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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</span><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#212121;mso-ligatures:none">Japan/Korea Editor | Harvard University Asia Center | CGIS Room s118 | 1730 Cambridge Street | Cambridge, MA 02138 | (617) 496-8684 | <a href="https://asiacenter.harvard.edu/publications" title="https://asiacenter.harvard.edu/publications"><span style="color:#0078D7">https://asiacenter.harvard.edu/publications</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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