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Rule of law and law reform in Korea
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- Issue Date
- 1995
- Citation
- Korean Journal of Policy Studies, Vol.10, pp. 49-79
- Abstract
- As a theater of historical experimentation, Korean society merits special
attention. Economic and social transformations that unfolded over two centuries
or more in Western societies and over more than a century in Japan have
exploded in a far shorter time in Korea. Various features of Korean society are
radically heterogeneous in origin: some echo feudal structures of the pre-modem
Chosun Dynasty, which lasted through the 1890s. Others stem from institutions
of Japanese colonial rule(1905-1945), from the American military occupation of
1945-1948, from the corrupt autocracy of Syngman Rhee(1948-1960) or from the
"developmental dictatorships" that ruled Korea by military decree from 1961
until only a few years ago. In the quasi-pluralistic Korean society of today, a
commerce-centered network of relations interacts with oligarchical structures
deeply rooted in recent as well as remote history. Confronted with
unprecedented challenges, internal and external, Korea presently is in a period
of transition, groping its way toward democratization while trying to maintain
momentum for sustained economic development.
- ISSN
- 1225-5017
- Language
- English
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