[KS] Re: Koreanstudies digest, Vol 1 #523 - 3 msgs

[HAHM Chaibong]

As one of the "extremely conservative" scholars with "all too obivous"
"political bias" that Mr. Tikhonov mentions, I felt complelled to reply.
That Korea is still greatly influenced by Neo-Confucianism (Sungli-hak or
Chuja-hak) is the obvious starting point of my own inquiries into Korean
politics, society, and culture.  That Confucianism has influenced Korea's
economic and political development should not be news to anyone either.  A
corollary of this is that Koreans were not imbued with the values of
"private property," "individual rights," and "democracy," from the
beginning.  In fact, such values and the institutions that nurture and
support them were only introduced to the Korean scene in the past 50 years
or so.  Given this, it should also be obvious that Koreans who effected the
enormous economic and political transformation of the past half a century
grew up in the traditional "Confucian" milieu and based their political,
economic, and social behavior on Confucian values, tenets, and institutions.

Explaining South Korea's political and economic rise, then is tantamount to
explaining how Confucian values and institutions operated as "functional
equivalents" or substitutes for the values and institutions of democracy and
the free market which she lacked at the start of her great transformation.
This is where the institutions of Confucian family and "yonjul" (affective
networks), among other things, come into play.  Whether one approves of such
institutions in the present, past, or the future, is beside the point. What
I am trying to do is to understand what happened.  In my view, ignoring the
role that Confucianism played, again, whether one approves of it or not, is
to paint an incomplete picture.

Today, South Korea is the in the throes of "reform" fever. In fact, calls
for "reforms" have been a permanent part of the Korean political and
economic landscape for the past 50 years. This shows that Koreans themselves
were never under the illusion that the institutions and practices that they
have adopted were "perfect" or "ideal," be they Confucian, democratic, or
capitalist. In fact, they always thought it was "corrupt" and "inefficient."
The beauty of it is that they produced astonishing results despite the
internal and external criticism.  Again, this is in no way to justify them
or to call for their continued use in the future.  It is only to give an
"objective" and "accurate" description of what happened.

The intellectually challenging part of expalining South Korean politics and
economy lies precisely in the fact that a country that had such meager
resources, natural, historical, or intellectual, to meet the challenges of
industrialization and democratization, have succeeded to the degree that it
has. The role of Confucianism is an integral and fascinating part of the
story that we need to tell.

Of course, both personally and intellectually, I think there are facets of
Confucianism that are still of great value and relevance to the modern
world. But, that is another story.

HAHM Chaibong
Professor, Department of Political Science, Yonsei University, Seoul,
120-749 Korea
Adjunct Professor, Department of Government, Georgetown University (Spring,
2003)
Visiting Professor, Departement of East Asian Studies, Princeton University
(Spring, 2003)
Tel: US 703-850-3293 (until August 31, 2003)
Email: cbhahm at yonsei.ac.kr

The following is a partial list of my writings in English that deal with
this theme. Some of these can be downloaded from my webpage that Mr.
Tikhonov so kindly referred you to.

"The Family v. the Individual: The Politics of Family Law in Korea," Daniel
A. Bell & Hahm Chaibong eds., Confucianism for the Modern World (Cambridge:
Cambridge University Press, 2003, forthcoming)

"Why Asian Values?", Korea Journal, Vol. 41, No. 2, Summer, 2001, pp.
265-274.



 “Confucian Rituals and the Technology of the Self: A Foucaultian
Interpretation,” Philosophy East and West, Vol. 51, No. 3, July 2001.



"Postmodernism in the Post-Confucian Context: Epistemological and Political
Considerations,” Human Studies 24:29-44, 2001



 “How the East was Won: Orientalism and the New Confucian Discourse in East
Asia,” Development and Society, Vol. 29, No. 1, June 2000, pp. 97-109.



"Confucianism and Western Rights: Conflict or Harmony?” Responsive
Community, Winter 1999/2000, Vol. 10, Issue 1.



"The Cultural Challenge to Individualism,” Journal of Democracy, January,
Vol. 11, No. 1, 200, pp. 127-134.



"Democratic Reform and Consolidation in South Korea: The Promise of
Democracy,” (co-author, Rhyu Sang-young), Moon Chung-in and Mo Jongryn,
eds., Democratization and Globalization in Korea: Assessments and Prospects
(Seoul: Yonsei University Press, 1999.)



"The Post-Confucian State and Economic Development,” Law in a Changing
World: Asian Alternatives, Morigiwa Yasutomo, ed. (Stuttgart: Franz Steiner
Verlag, 1998)



"The Confucian Tradition and Economic Reform in South Korea,” in Jongryn
Mo, Chung-in Moon eds., Democracy and the Korean Economy (Stanford: Hoover
Institution Press, 1998.)



The Clash of Civilizations Revisited: A Confucian Perspective,” in Selim
Rashid ed., The Clash of Civilizations?: Asian Responses (Dhaka, Bangladesh:
The University Press Limited, 1997.)



"The Confucian Political Discourse and the Politics of Reform in Korea,”
Korea Journal, Vol. 37, No. 4, Winter, 1997, pp. 65-77.




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> Date: Sun, 09 Feb 2003 17:25:54 +0100
> To: Koreanstudies at koreaweb.ws
> From: Vladimir Tikhonov <vladimir.tikhonov at east.uio.no>
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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
> (http://suny.yonsei.ac.kr/%7Esclew/ ), seems to contain some English as
> well. Other prominent one is Ham Chaebong
> (http://polisci.yonsei.ac.kr/%7Ecbhahm). 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.
>
> V.Tikhonov
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
> At 13:56 07.02.2003 -0700, you wrote:
> >I am not sure how much relevance it would have, but here is something
that
> >your advisee might find interesting.
> >
> >Hoyt Tillman, Business as a Vocation: The Autobiography of Mr. Wu Ho-su.
> >Havard University Press, 2002.  This is Prof. Tillman's translation (with
an
> >introduction and epilogue) of Huang Chin-shing's Ban shiji de fendou: Wu
> >Huoshi xiansheng koushu zhuanji (Taibei: Yunchen wenhua gongsi, 1990).
Mr.
> >Wu Ho-su is a Taiwanese businessman.  Here is a short introduction from
the
> >web site of Harvard University Press:
> >
> >-------------------------------
> >Wu Ho-Su (1919-1986) pioneered business ventures ranging from cloth and
> >synthetic fiber industries to department stores and life insurance. This
son
> >of a crippled former coolie began as a laborer for a Japanese
> >cloth-importing company in the 1930s, but eventually became a manager and
> >then an independent entrepreneur. Overcoming business obstacles in Chiang
> >Kai-shek's Nationalist-ruled Taiwan after 1945, Mr. Wu painstakingly
built
> >Shinkong into Taiwan's sixth-largest business enterprise by the 1980s.
This
> >account of Wu Ho-Su's life, developed by Mr. Wu working directly with Dr.
> >Huang Chin-shing of the Academia Sinica, one of Taiwan's most
distinguished
> >historians, is instructive for the lessons it offers about both business
> >practices in East Asia and their interplay with Confucian values. The
book
> >recounts with graphic examples the changing role of family and other
> >networks in Taiwan's economic "miracle" and in the region more generally.
> >The blend that Mr. Wu evidenced of business acumen and concern for
> >Confucianism, in turn, raises broader questions of the type that scholars
> >and businesspeople have strenuously debated since the time of Max Weber
> >about the compatibility of Confucian norms and modern business practices.
> >
> >-----------------------------------------
> >
> >Best,
> >
> >Young Kyun Oh
> >Instructor of Korean
> >Arizona State University
> >Dept. of Languages and Literatures
> >(480)727-7447
> >http://www.asu.edu/clas/dll/kor/korean.html
> >http://www.learnkorean.com
> >----- Original Message -----
> >From: "Morgan Pitelka" <mpitelka at oxy.edu>
> >To: <Koreanstudies at koreaweb.ws>
> >Sent: Tuesday, February 04, 2003 2:17 PM
> >Subject: [KS] Confucianism and economic development
> >
> >
> > >
> > > Dear Colleagues,
> > >
> > > One of my advisees is conducting research on the connection between
> > > Confucianism and economic development in postwar South Korea. He is
> > > interested in both practice and discourse. In other words, he is not
> > > assuming that the connection always exists and is important, but
rather
> > > expects that in many examples the rhetoric of Confucianism became a
> > > corporate and state tool in the attempt to construct certain kinds of
> > > identities and encourage certain kinds of behavior.
> > >
> > > The problem he is encountering is a plethora of vague references to
the
> > > Confucian-development connection (particularly in discussions of the
> > > chaebol) combined with a lack of specific evidence.
> > >
> > > Can anyone suggest materials that might be useful in the study of this
> > > issue? Interviews, case studies, diaries, corporate PR, etc.? I've
pasted
> > > the basic reading list he is working with at this point to the bottom
of
> > > this message. (I am a specialist in East Asian premodern ceramics and
> > > cultural history, and thus out of my depth when it comes to modern
> >economic
> > > history.)
> > >
> > > Thanks,
> > >
> > > Morgan
> > >
> > > *****************
> > > Morgan Pitelka
> > > Asian Studies Department
> > > 408 Johnson Hall
> > > Occidental College
> > > 1600 Campus Road
> > > Los Angeles, CA 90041
> > > 1-323-259-1421
> > > mailto:mpitelka at oxy.edu
> > > *****************
> > >
> > > Amsden, Alice. Asia's Next Giant: South Korea and Late
Industrialization.
> > > Oxford, 1989.
> > >
> > > Borthwick, Mark. The Pacific Century: The Emergence of Modern Pacific
> >Asia.
> > > Westview, 1992.
> > >
> > > Brook, Timothy and H.V. Luong. Culture and Economy: The Shaping of
> > > Capitalism in Eastern Asia. Michigan, 1997.
> > >
> > > Chung Kae H. and H.C. Lee. Korean Managerial Dynamics. Praeger, 1989.
> > >
> > > Cummings, Bruce. Korea's Place in the Sun: A Modern History. Norton,
1997.
> > >
> > > Das, Dilip K. Korean Economic Dynamism. St. Martin's Press, 1992.
> > >
> > > Kim, Eun M. Big Business, Strong State: Collusion and Conflict in
South
> > > Korean Development, 1960-1990. State University of New York, 1997
> > >
> > > Steers, Richard M. Made in Korea: Chung Ju Yung and the Rise of
Hyundai.
> > > Routledge, 1999.
> > >
> > > Tai, Hung-chao. Confucianism and Economic Development: An Oriental
> > > Alternative? Washington Institute Press, 1989.
> > >
> > > Ungson, Gerardo R., R.M. Steers, and S.H. Park. Korean Enterprise: The
> >Quest
> > > for Globalization. Harvard Business School, 1997.
> > >
> > >
> > >
>
> Vladimir Tikhonov,
> Department of East European and Oriental Studies,
> Faculty of Arts,
> University of Oslo,
> P.b. 1030, Blindern, 0315, Oslo, Norway.
> Fax: 47-22854140; Tel: 47-22857118
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> http://www.geocities.com/volodyatikhonov/volodyatikhonov.html
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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=3D"http://suny.yonsei.ac.kr/~sclew/"=
>  eudora=3D"autourl">http</a>://suny.yonsei.ac.kr<a=
>  href=3D"http://suny.yonsei.ac.kr/~sclew/" eudora=3D"autourl">/%7Esclew/
> </a>), seems to contain some English as well. Other prominent one is Ham
> Chaebong
> (<a href=3D"http://polisci.yonsei.ac.kr/~cbhahm" eudora=3D"autourl"><font
co=
> lor=3D"#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>
> <br>
> V.Tikhonov  <br>
> <br>
>    <br>
> <br>
> <br>
> <br>
> <br>
> <br>
> <br>
> <br>
> At 13:56 07.02.2003 -0700, you wrote:<br>
> <blockquote type=3Dcite class=3Dcite cite>I am not sure how much relevance
i=
> t
> 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>
> <br>
> -------------------------------<br>
> 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=20
> 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>
> <br>
> -----------------------------------------<br>
> <br>
> 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=3D"http://www.asu.edu/clas/dll/kor/korean.html"=
>  eudora=3D"autourl">http://www.asu.edu/clas/dll/kor/korean.html</a><br>
> <a href=3D"http://www.learnkorean.com/"=
>  eudora=3D"autourl">http://www.learnkorean.com</a><br>
> ----- Original Message -----<br>
> From: "Morgan Pitelka" <mpitelka at oxy.edu><br>
> To: <Koreanstudies at 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=3D"mailto:mpitelka at oxy.edu"=
>  eudora=3D"autourl">mailto:mpitelka at 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>
> <x-sigsep><p></x-sigsep>
> Vladimir Tikhonov,<br>
> Department of East European and Oriental Studies,<br>
> Faculty of Arts,<br>
> University of Oslo,<br>
> P.b. 1030, Blindern, 0315, Oslo, Norway.<br>
> Fax: 47-22854140; Tel: 47-22857118<br>
> Personal web page:
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>
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> From: "Bretzke, James" <JBRETZKE at JSTB.EDU>
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> I might suggest some of the references in my annotated research
> bibliography:  Bibliography on East Asian Religion and Philosophy (Mellen,
> 2002).  I have a section there Business and Economic Ethics in Asia (pp.
> 223- 230), plus the index is fairly extensive for other topics.  There are
a
> considerable number of sections and entries that deal with aspects of
> Confucianism as well.
>
> James T. Bretzke
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Vladimir Tikhonov [mailto:vladimir.tikhonov at east.uio.no]
> Sent: Sunday, February 09, 2003 8:26 AM
> To: Koreanstudies at koreaweb.ws
> Subject: Re: [KS] Confucianism and economic development
>
>
> 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 ( http
> <http://suny.yonsei.ac.kr/~sclew/> ://suny.yonsei.ac.kr /%7Esclew/
> <http://suny.yonsei.ac.kr/~sclew/> ), seems to contain some English as
well.
> Other prominent one is Ham Chaebong (
<http://polisci.yonsei.ac.kr/~cbhahm>
> http://polisci.yonsei.ac.kr/%7Ecbhahm). 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.
>
> V.Tikhonov
>
>
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> At 13:56 07.02.2003 -0700, you wrote:
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> I am not sure how much relevance it would have, but here is something that
> your advisee might find interesting.
>
> Hoyt Tillman, Business as a Vocation: The Autobiography of Mr. Wu Ho-su.
> Havard University Press, 2002.  This is Prof. Tillman's translation (with
an
> introduction and epilogue) of Huang Chin-shing's Ban shiji de fendou: Wu
> Huoshi xiansheng koushu zhuanji (Taibei: Yunchen wenhua gongsi, 1990).
Mr.
> Wu Ho-su is a Taiwanese businessman.  Here is a short introduction from
the
> web site of Harvard University Press:
>
> -------------------------------
> Wu Ho-Su (1919-1986) pioneered business ventures ranging from cloth and
> synthetic fiber industries to department stores and life insurance. This
son
> of a crippled former coolie began as a laborer for a Japanese
> cloth-importing company in the 1930s, but eventually became a manager and
> then an independent entrepreneur. Overcoming business obstacles in Chiang
> Kai-shek's Nationalist-ruled Taiwan after 1945, Mr. Wu painstakingly built
> Shinkong into Taiwan's sixth-largest business enterprise by the 1980s.
This
> account of Wu Ho-Su's life, developed by Mr. Wu working directly with Dr.
> Huang Chin-shing of the Academia Sinica, one of Taiwan's most
distinguished
> historians, is instructive for the lessons it offers about both business
> practices in East Asia and their interplay with Confucian values. The book
> recounts with graphic examples the changing role of family and other
> networks in Taiwan's economic "miracle" and in the region more generally.
> The blend that Mr. Wu evidenced of business acumen and concern for
> Confucianism, in turn, raises broader questions of the type that scholars
> and businesspeople have strenuously debated since the time of Max Weber
> about the compatibility of Confucian norms and modern business practices.
>
> -----------------------------------------
>
> Best,
>
> Young Kyun Oh
> Instructor of Korean
> Arizona State University
> Dept. of Languages and Literatures
> (480)727-7447
> http://www.asu.edu/clas/dll/kor/korean.html
> <http://www.asu.edu/clas/dll/kor/korean.html>
> http://www.learnkorean.com <http://www.learnkorean.com/>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Morgan Pitelka" <mpitelka at oxy.edu>
> To: <Koreanstudies at koreaweb.ws>
> Sent: Tuesday, February 04, 2003 2:17 PM
> Subject: [KS] Confucianism and economic development
>
>
> >
> > Dear Colleagues,
> >
> > One of my advisees is conducting research on the connection between
> > Confucianism and economic development in postwar South Korea. He is
> > interested in both practice and discourse. In other words, he is not
> > assuming that the connection always exists and is important, but rather
> > expects that in many examples the rhetoric of Confucianism became a
> > corporate and state tool in the attempt to construct certain kinds of
> > identities and encourage certain kinds of behavior.
> >
> > The problem he is encountering is a plethora of vague references to the
> > Confucian-development connection (particularly in discussions of the
> > chaebol) combined with a lack of specific evidence.
> >
> > Can anyone suggest materials that might be useful in the study of this
> > issue? Interviews, case studies, diaries, corporate PR, etc.? I've
pasted
> > the basic reading list he is working with at this point to the bottom of
> > this message. (I am a specialist in East Asian premodern ceramics and
> > cultural history, and thus out of my depth when it comes to modern
> economic
> > history.)
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> > Morgan
> >
> > *****************
> > Morgan Pitelka
> > Asian Studies Department
> > 408 Johnson Hall
> > Occidental College
> > 1600 Campus Road
> > Los Angeles, CA 90041
> > 1-323-259-1421
> > mailto:mpitelka at oxy.edu <mailto:mpitelka at oxy.edu>
> > *****************
> >
> > Amsden, Alice. Asia's Next Giant: South Korea and Late
Industrialization.
> > Oxford, 1989.
> >
> > Borthwick, Mark. The Pacific Century: The Emergence of Modern Pacific
> Asia.
> > Westview, 1992.
> >
> > Brook, Timothy and H.V. Luong. Culture and Economy: The Shaping of
> > Capitalism in Eastern Asia. Michigan, 1997.
> >
> > Chung Kae H. and H.C. Lee. Korean Managerial Dynamics. Praeger, 1989.
> >
> > Cummings, Bruce. Korea's Place in the Sun: A Modern History. Norton,
1997.
> >
> > Das, Dilip K. Korean Economic Dynamism. St. Martin's Press, 1992.
> >
> > Kim, Eun M. Big Business, Strong State: Collusion and Conflict in South
> > Korean Development, 1960-1990. State University of New York, 1997
> >
> > Steers, Richard M. Made in Korea: Chung Ju Yung and the Rise of Hyundai.
> > Routledge, 1999.
> >
> > Tai, Hung-chao. Confucianism and Economic Development: An Oriental
> > Alternative? Washington Institute Press, 1989.
> >
> > Ungson, Gerardo R., R.M. Steers, and S.H. Park. Korean Enterprise: The
> Quest
> > for Globalization. Harvard Business School, 1997.
> >
> >
> >
>
> Vladimir Tikhonov,
> Department of East European and Oriental Studies,
> Faculty of Arts,
> University of Oslo,
> P.b. 1030, Blindern, 0315, Oslo, Norway.
> Fax: 47-22854140; Tel: 47-22857118
> Personal web page:
> http://www.geocities.com/volodyatikhonov/volodyatikhonov.html
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> <DIV><SPAN class=221462804-10022003><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff
size=2>I
> might suggest some of the references in my annotated research
> bibliography:  <EM>Bibliography on East Asian Religion and
Philosophy</EM>
> (Mellen, 2002).  I have a section there Business and Economic Ethics
in
> Asia (pp. 223- 230), plus the index is fairly extensive for other
topics. 
> There are a considerable number of sections and entries that deal with
aspects
> of Confucianism as well.</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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> <DIV><SPAN class=221462804-10022003><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff
size=2>James
> T. Bretzke</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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>   <DIV class=OutlookMessageHeader dir=ltr align=left><FONT face=Tahoma
>   size=2>-----Original Message-----<BR><B>From:</B> Vladimir Tikhonov
>   [mailto:vladimir.tikhonov at east.uio.no]<BR><B>Sent:</B> Sunday, February
09,
>   2003 8:26 AM<BR><B>To:</B> Koreanstudies at koreaweb.ws<BR><B>Subject:</B>
Re:
>   [KS] Confucianism and economic development<BR><BR></FONT></DIV>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><BR>V.Tikhonov  <BR><BR> 
>   <BR><BR><BR><BR><BR><BR><BR><BR>At 13:56 07.02.2003 -0700, you
wrote:<BR>
>   <BLOCKQUOTE class=cite cite="" type="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><BR>-------------------------------<BR>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><BR>-----------------------------------------<BR><BR>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 at oxy.edu><BR>To:
>     <Koreanstudies at 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 at oxy.edu"
>     eudora="autourl">mailto:mpitelka at 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><X-SIGSEP>
>   <P></X-SIGSEP>Vladimir Tikhonov,<BR>Department of East European and
Oriental
>   Studies,<BR>Faculty of Arts,<BR>University of Oslo,<BR>P.b. 1030,
Blindern,
>   0315, Oslo, Norway.<BR>Fax: 47-22854140; Tel: 47-22857118<BR>Personal
web
>   page: <A
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