For South Koreans, the twenty years from the early 1960s to late 1970s were the best and worst of times--a period of unprecedented economic growth and of political oppression that deepened as prosperity spread.
The first volume of a comprehensive two-part.
Eckert finds the Roots of South Korea\'s dramatic socioeconomic transformation in the country\'s long history of militarization--a history personified in South Korea\'s paramount leader, Park Chung Hee.
In this masterly account, Carter J.
For South Koreans, the twenty years from the early 1960s to late 1970s were the best and worst of times--a period of unprecedented economic growth and of political oppression that deepened as prosperity spread