PublishedTuttle, December 2012 |
ISBN9780804842525 |
FormatHardcover, 288 pages |
Dimensions20.3cm × 13cm |
South Korea has long been overshadowed by Japan and China, but this small country is one of the great national success stories of the postwar period. From a failed tradition, ruined and partitioned by war, and sapped by half-century of colonial rule, South Korea transformed itself in just fifty years into an economic powerhouse and a democracy that serves a model for other countries.
How is it able to achieve this, with no natural resources and a tradition of authoritarian rule? Who are the Koreans - and did they accomplish this second Asian miracle? Having accomplished it, what will they do now?
Here's the latest review of Korea: The Impossible Country in
Oxford University magazine
