Restructuring 'Korea Inc.'
Restructuring 'Korea Inc.'

Author: Jang-Sup Shin

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2003-01-16

Total Pages: 157

ISBN-13: 1134469381

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The 1997 South Korean financial crisis not only shook the country itself but also sent shock waves through the financial world at large. This impressive book critically assesses the conventional wisdom surrounding the Korean crisis and the performance of the IMF-sponsored reform programme.Looking first at the strengths and weaknesses of 'Korea Inc.

Restructuring Korea Inc
Restructuring Korea Inc

Author: Jang-Sup Shin

Publisher: Taylor & Francis Group

Published: 2002-12-31

Total Pages: 155

ISBN-13: 9786610056019

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The 1997 South Korean financial crisis not only shook the country itself but also sent shock waves through the financial world at large. This impressive book critically assesses the conventional wisdom surrounding the Korean crisis and the performance of the IMF-sponsored reform programme. Looking first at the strengths and weaknesses of 'Korea Inc.' in comparison with other East Asian countries, the authors describe the challenges faced by Korea in the 1990s due to the acceleration of globalisation. By arguing that the transition attempted by Korea was badly conceived and ill designed, Restructuring Korea Inc. focuses on corporate reform after the crisis that has led to the running up of huge 'transition costs'. This snappy, informative and readable book has a broad historical overview and with its suggestions for structural change for Korea, this book is an important contribution not only to Asian studies, but also to the study of financial crises and the political economy of economic reform.

Economic Crisis and Corporate Restructuring in Korea
Economic Crisis and Corporate Restructuring in Korea

Author: Stephan Haggard

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2003-02-26

Total Pages: 374

ISBN-13: 9780521823630

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Asian business conglomerates have clearly been successful agents of growth, mobilizing capital, borrowing technology from abroad and spearheading Asia's exports. However, these firms have long had a number of organisational and financial weaknesses, including heavy reliance on debt, that make them vulnerable to shocks. Nowhere was this more true than in Korea, where the large corporate groups known as chaebol have dominated the economic landscape. This collection of essays by leading political scientists and economists provides a comprehensive look at the chaebol problem in the wake of the Asian financial crisis. The authors consider the historical evolution of the chaebol and their contribution to the onset of economic turmoil in 1997. The book analyses the government's short-run response to corporate and financial distress, and outlines an agenda for longer-term reform of the financial system, corporate governance and the politics of business-government relations.

Adapt, Fragment, Transform
Adapt, Fragment, Transform

Author: Pyŏng-guk Kim

Publisher: Shorenstein Asia-Pacific Research Center

Published: 2012

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781931368216

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Byung-Kook Kim is chancellor of the Korea National Diplomatic Academy. He has taught at the Department of Political Science and International Relations, Korea University, and was also the founding director of the East Asia Institute. --

The Global Financial Crisis and the Korean Economy
The Global Financial Crisis and the Korean Economy

Author: Jang-Sup Shin

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2013-12-04

Total Pages: 198

ISBN-13: 1317950259

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The world economy fell into a global financial crisis in 2008/9 and is still jittered by its aftershocks. Like other financial crises happened in the world economy, it came as a surprise. In historical perspective, financial crises should be understood as a natural fact of life in the world economy and a more pertinent question that should be posed would be why people so easily forget and do not learn from the historical experience. This book deals with the question in two ways. First, it investigates the frame of mind that distances people from the reality of life. At the heart of it, it argues that there are wrong perceptions on the working of the world economy, in particular, the international financial market. It summarizes them as ‘the five conventional wisdoms’ in the international financial market and, by critically examining them, it draws on ‘the five financial theorems’, which would provide intellectual pillars for a more realistic understanding of the global financial market. Second, the book examines in detail the case of an emerging market economy that fell into a financial crisis twice in the recent decade. South Korea provides us with an interesting case of emerging market financial crises that came as ‘surprises’: it faced a financial crisis in 1997/98 after it had been acclaimed as one of ‘East Asian miracle economies’ and it was again befallen to a crisis during the global financial crisis in 2008/2009 after it was widely regarded as a country that had recovered from the crisis with one of the most successful implementations of the IMF-sponsored reforms. The book attempts to provide the readers with a realistic understanding of emerging market financial crises by interpreting the recent global financial crisis and the Korean crises with some general concepts manifested in ‘the five financial theorems’. It also tries to draw more general implications for policy management of emerging market economies.