[KS] New Book from the UC Berkeley Center for Korean Studies: The Changing Role of the Korean State

[Berkeley Center for Korean Studies]

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*The Changing Role of the Korean State*
*In the Post Developmental Era*

Hong Yung Lee, ed.
Sunil Kim, ed.

2016, 158 pages.
Logos Verlag Berlin
ISBN 978-3-8325-4332-7
price: 32.00 EUR / e-book 30.50 EUR

How and why has the Korean state changed its way of handling the society
and its markets over the past two decades? *The Changing Role of the Korean
State* finds that the explosion of contentious civil society after
democratization coeval with the outbreak of the financial crisis following
rapid economic growth, are closely associated with the decline of
developmentalism. Despite these profound changes, however, the Korean state
has not totally relinquished its control over the society and the market.
Rather, although its methods have been altered it remains to be highly
interventionalist and regulatory in nature. The state continues to use its
influence to restructure the socio-economic system and rationally manage
spatial arrangements. The book amply demonstrates the residual legacy of
the developmental state in Korea, and it is unlikely that Korea will ever
accept the western liberalist concept of a state which limits its function
to that of a referee for the spontaneous operation of the civil society and
the market.

The contributors of this edited volume delineate the shifting role of the
Korean state from the developmental state, which led economic development
by guiding investment in strategic industries through various means, to a
slightly subtler role as a regulator, supervising the operation of the
market in the changing economic environment. Individual chapters presented
here address this changing but nonetheless vital role that the state plays
in managing the variety of modern socio-economic life in South Korea.

*We thank the Academy of Korean Studies for their generous support in
making this book possible.*

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