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Book/Printed MaterialImage 1 of South Korea : a country study area handbook series South Korea a country study
- Contributor: Library of Congress. Federal Research Division - Shaw, William - Savada, Andrea Matles
- Date: 1992-01-01
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Book/Printed MaterialImage 2 of South Korea : a country study
- Contributor: Library of Congress. Federal Research Division - Shaw, William - Savada, Andrea Matles
- Date: 1992-01-01
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Book/Printed MaterialImage 3 of South Korea : a country study
- Contributor: Library of Congress. Federal Research Division - Shaw, William - Savada, Andrea Matles
- Date: 1992-01-01
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Book/Printed MaterialImage 4 of South Korea : a country study
- Contributor: Library of Congress. Federal Research Division - Shaw, William - Savada, Andrea Matles
- Date: 1992-01-01
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Book/Printed MaterialImage 5 of South Korea : a country study South Korea a country study Federal Research Division Library of Congress Edited by Andrea Matles Savada and William Shaw Research Completed luneJ 990
- Contributor: Library of Congress. Federal Research Division - Shaw, William - Savada, Andrea Matles
- Date: 1992-01-01
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Book/Printed MaterialImage 6 of South Korea : a country study On the cover North Watchtower Suwon Castle Fourth Edition First Printing 1992 Library of Congress CataloginginPublication Data South Korea a country study Federal Research Division Library of Congress edited by Andrea Matles...
- Contributor: Library of Congress. Federal Research Division - Shaw, William - Savada, Andrea Matles
- Date: 1992-01-01
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Book/Printed MaterialImage 7 of South Korea : a country study Foreword This volume is one in a continuing series of books prepared by the Federal Research Division of the Library of Congress under the Country Studies Area Handbook Program sponsored by the...
- Contributor: Library of Congress. Federal Research Division - Shaw, William - Savada, Andrea Matles
- Date: 1992-01-01
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Book/Printed MaterialImage 8 of South Korea : a country study
- Contributor: Library of Congress. Federal Research Division - Shaw, William - Savada, Andrea Matles
- Date: 1992-01-01
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Book/Printed MaterialImage 9 of South Korea : a country study Acknowledgments This edition supercedes South Korea A Country Study published in 1982 The authors wish to acknowledge their use of portions of that edition in the preparation of the current book Various...
- Contributor: Library of Congress. Federal Research Division - Shaw, William - Savada, Andrea Matles
- Date: 1992-01-01
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Book/Printed MaterialImage 10 of South Korea : a country study
- Contributor: Library of Congress. Federal Research Division - Shaw, William - Savada, Andrea Matles
- Date: 1992-01-01
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Book/Printed MaterialImage 11 of South Korea : a country study Contents Page Foreword iii Acknowledgments v Preface xiii Country Profile xv Introduction xxiii Chapter 1 Historical Setting 1 ChongSik Lee ORIGINS OF THE KOREAN NATION 3 THE THREE KINGDOMS PERIOD 4 THE...
- Contributor: Library of Congress. Federal Research Division - Shaw, William - Savada, Andrea Matles
- Date: 1992-01-01
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Book/Printed MaterialImage 12 of South Korea : a country study THE TRANSITION 52 The Democratic Republican Party 53 The New Democratic Party 53 STUDENTS IN 1980 54 GENERAL CHUN DOO HWAN TAKES OVER 54 The Kwangju Uprising 55 The Chun Regime 56...
- Contributor: Library of Congress. Federal Research Division - Shaw, William - Savada, Andrea Matles
- Date: 1992-01-01
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Book/Printed MaterialImage 13 of South Korea : a country study Health Care and Social Welfare 130 Chapter 3 The Economy 135 Daniel Metraux THE JAPANESE ROLE IN KOREA S ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT 139 THE GOVERNMENT ROLE IN ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT 140 Industrial Policies 143...
- Contributor: Library of Congress. Federal Research Division - Shaw, William - Savada, Andrea Matles
- Date: 1992-01-01
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Book/Printed MaterialImage 14 of South Korea : a country study Telecommunications 182 FOREIGN ECONOMIC RELATIONS 183 Aid Loans and Investment 183 Foreign Trade Policy 188 Exports and Imports 188 KOREA IN THE YEAR 2000 190 The Setting 190 The Role of Science...
- Contributor: Library of Congress. Federal Research Division - Shaw, William - Savada, Andrea Matles
- Date: 1992-01-01
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Book/Printed MaterialImage 15 of South Korea : a country study Chapter 5 National Security 267 Rodney P Katz DEVELOPMENT OF THE ARMED FORCES 271 Koguryo Silla and Koryo Kingdoms 271 The Choson Dynasty and the Japanese Colonial Period 272 The South Korean...
- Contributor: Library of Congress. Federal Research Division - Shaw, William - Savada, Andrea Matles
- Date: 1992-01-01
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Book/Printed MaterialImage 16 of South Korea : a country study Index 381 List of Figures 1 Administrative Divisions of South Korea 1990 xxii 2 Korea During the Three Kingdoms Period Fifth to Sixth Centuries AD 6 3 South Korea in Its Asian...
- Contributor: Library of Congress. Federal Research Division - Shaw, William - Savada, Andrea Matles
- Date: 1992-01-01
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Book/Printed MaterialImage 17 of South Korea : a country study Preface Like its predecessor this study attempts to review the history and treat in a concise and objective manner the dominant social political economic and military aspects of South Korea Under Roh...
- Contributor: Library of Congress. Federal Research Division - Shaw, William - Savada, Andrea Matles
- Date: 1992-01-01
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Book/Printed MaterialImage 18 of South Korea : a country study
- Contributor: Library of Congress. Federal Research Division - Shaw, William - Savada, Andrea Matles
- Date: 1992-01-01
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Book/Printed MaterialImage 19 of South Korea : a country study Country Profile Country Formal Name Republic of Korea Short Form South Korea Term for Citizens Koreans Capital Seoul Date of Independence August 15 1948 Geography Location and Size Strategic location in waters...
- Contributor: Library of Congress. Federal Research Division - Shaw, William - Savada, Andrea Matles
- Date: 1992-01-01
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Book/Printed MaterialImage 20 of South Korea : a country study Land Boundary 238 kilometers with North Korea Disputes Demarcation Line with North Korea Liancourt Rocks claimed by Japan Topography and Drainage Approximately 70 percent of land area mountains and uplands Principal ranges...
- Contributor: Library of Congress. Federal Research Division - Shaw, William - Savada, Andrea Matles
- Date: 1992-01-01
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Book/Printed MaterialImage 21 of South Korea : a country study years for women in 1990 reflects dramatic improvements in health conditions Death rate declined significantly from 138 deaths per 1 000 in late 1950s to 6 per 1 000 in 1990 Infant...
- Contributor: Library of Congress. Federal Research Division - Shaw, William - Savada, Andrea Matles
- Date: 1992-01-01
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Book/Printed MaterialImage 22 of South Korea : a country study products popular food and important export commodity Inade quate forestry resources Foreign Trade Annual trade in 1988 more than US100 billion first time world s tenth largest trading nation Major trading part...
- Contributor: Library of Congress. Federal Research Division - Shaw, William - Savada, Andrea Matles
- Date: 1992-01-01
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Book/Printed MaterialImage 23 of South Korea : a country study elected for one fiveyear term by direct popular vote 224 members of 299member National Assembly elected by popular vote for four year term in April 1988 rest appointed by political parties according...
- Contributor: Library of Congress. Federal Research Division - Shaw, William - Savada, Andrea Matles
- Date: 1992-01-01
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Book/Printed MaterialImage 24 of South Korea : a country study missileattack craft minesweepers patrol boats and amphibious craft Military Budget 5 percent GNP US10 billion 1989 estimate Military Production Domestic defense industry begun in early 1970s provides approximately 70 percent of weapons...
- Contributor: Library of Congress. Federal Research Division - Shaw, William - Savada, Andrea Matles
- Date: 1992-01-01
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Book/Printed MaterialImage 25 of South Korea : a country study
- Contributor: Library of Congress. Federal Research Division - Shaw, William - Savada, Andrea Matles
- Date: 1992-01-01
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Book/Printed MaterialImage 26 of South Korea : a country study Korea Bay Jetton 33 Sea 126 128 NORTH KOREA 34 o Inch Demarcation fine 1 68roiHtariZ9d_gor s S Ch unch dn 4 KANGWON t Seoul KYONGGI Suwon Province boundary National capital Province...
- Contributor: Library of Congress. Federal Research Division - Shaw, William - Savada, Andrea Matles
- Date: 1992-01-01
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Book/Printed MaterialImage 27 of South Korea : a country study Introduction FOR NEARLY A HALFCENTURY the Republic of Korea South Korea and the United States have maintained a close rela tionship Since the mid1980s South Korea has been the seventh or eighth...
- Contributor: Library of Congress. Federal Research Division - Shaw, William - Savada, Andrea Matles
- Date: 1992-01-01
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Book/Printed MaterialImage 28 of South Korea : a country study Geographically poised between China and Japan Korea devel oped its own social and cultural patterns More deeply influenced than Japan by Chinese culture Korea adopted the Chinese model of monarchy and successive...
- Contributor: Library of Congress. Federal Research Division - Shaw, William - Savada, Andrea Matles
- Date: 1992-01-01
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Book/Printed MaterialImage 29 of South Korea : a country study Given the tragic and bitter legacy of the loss of national indepen dence under Japanese colonial rule the experience of national par tition in 1945 and the ensuing civil war educational authorities...
- Contributor: Library of Congress. Federal Research Division - Shaw, William - Savada, Andrea Matles
- Date: 1992-01-01
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Book/Printed MaterialImage 30 of South Korea : a country study country s exports faced increasing competition from laborrich Third World countries and Seoul sought to shift to knowledge intensive and hightechnology industries By 1990 according to a Ministry of Education study one...
- Contributor: Library of Congress. Federal Research Division - Shaw, William - Savada, Andrea Matles
- Date: 1992-01-01
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Book/Printed MaterialImage 31 of South Korea : a country study community in the 1980s About 20 percent of the population was Buddhist whereas a somewhat larger and more rapidly growing Christian community gave South Korea the second largest propor tion of Christians...
- Contributor: Library of Congress. Federal Research Division - Shaw, William - Savada, Andrea Matles
- Date: 1992-01-01
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Book/Printed MaterialImage 32 of South Korea : a country study South Korea s economic growth continued to be driven by the import of raw materials and semifinished components the latter proportionally declining in the late 1980s and the export of finished industrial...
- Contributor: Library of Congress. Federal Research Division - Shaw, William - Savada, Andrea Matles
- Date: 1992-01-01
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Book/Printed MaterialImage 33 of South Korea : a country study As South Korea continued to industrialize and urbanize during the 1980s the agricultural sector drifted into stepchild status Offi cial support for rice prices dropped behind the rate of inflation in the...
- Contributor: Library of Congress. Federal Research Division - Shaw, William - Savada, Andrea Matles
- Date: 1992-01-01
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Book/Printed MaterialImage 34 of South Korea : a country study of the state security apparatus and tight restriction of the media By the second half of the decade however Chun s government had lost considerable political capital In the National Assembly elections...
- Contributor: Library of Congress. Federal Research Division - Shaw, William - Savada, Andrea Matles
- Date: 1992-01-01
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Book/Printed MaterialImage 35 of South Korea : a country study prevailed in the absence of government misconduct In 1990 however the government admitted to one serious legal breach the diversion of more than US14 million dollars from the 1987 national budget to...
- Contributor: Library of Congress. Federal Research Division - Shaw, William - Savada, Andrea Matles
- Date: 1992-01-01
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Book/Printed MaterialImage 36 of South Korea : a country study and called unsuccessfully for new elections A small number of legislators from Kim Young Sam s party also objected to the new superparty and eventually formed the small Democratic Party Kim Dae...
- Contributor: Library of Congress. Federal Research Division - Shaw, William - Savada, Andrea Matles
- Date: 1992-01-01
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Book/Printed MaterialImage 37 of South Korea : a country study to proliferate and to protest trade liberalization measures Profes sional associations of university teachers journalists and lawyers also became increasingly outspoken on political issues The major business conglomerates chaebol sought a greater...
- Contributor: Library of Congress. Federal Research Division - Shaw, William - Savada, Andrea Matles
- Date: 1992-01-01
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Book/Printed MaterialImage 38 of South Korea : a country study or approved slightly more than half of a promised US3 billion package of loans commodity credits and project assistance to the Soviet Union and it was expected that Seoul s aid program...
- Contributor: Library of Congress. Federal Research Division - Shaw, William - Savada, Andrea Matles
- Date: 1992-01-01
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Book/Printed MaterialImage 39 of South Korea : a country study implemented through a NorthSouth Coordinating Committee and Red Cross channels Through the 1970s however further discus sions stalled as each side reaffirmed its position in an effort to claim and retain the...
- Contributor: Library of Congress. Federal Research Division - Shaw, William - Savada, Andrea Matles
- Date: 1992-01-01
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Book/Printed MaterialImage 40 of South Korea : a country study discussions began in 1984 concerning a North Korean proposal to cohost the 1988 Seoul Olympic Games After an interlude fol lowing the North Korean bombing of a South Korean airliner over the...
- Contributor: Library of Congress. Federal Research Division - Shaw, William - Savada, Andrea Matles
- Date: 1992-01-01