This study is to examine the historical formation and role of the Korean complex culture that worked as cultural underpinnings of the Korean state-led ‘catch-up’ economic growth in the 1960s. What was the role of historically overdeterminded complex culture in the Korean developmental state-led 'catch-up' economic growth?Unilateral rule of Confucian culture in Chosun Dynasty, Japanese-imposed colonial modernity over segmented Confucian culture, the misconceived and unprepared decolonization project of American Military Government in Korea(AMGK), the Korean War, and authoritarian rules were factors that are responsible for the overdetermination of the Korean cultural complexity. However this cultural complexity brought unintended consequences in providing fruitful cultural resources to the strategic actors in a specific historical juncture. In the 1960s, the Korean complex culture served as fruitful cultural resource base for the military regime that was about to build a developmental state in order to assign the leading role in the state-led economic growth. The Korean complex culture had elective affinity with the catch-up economic growth project in that they both share ‘can-do’ spirit of accomplishing one's purpose by fair means or foul. This means that the cultural complexity allows the state managers to have a wide range of freedom of choices in building the developmental state itself and in designing, mobilizing and performing the catch-up growth.
This study is to examine the historical formation and role of the Korean complex culture that worked as cultural underpinnings of the Korean state-led ‘catch-up’ economic growth in the 1960s. What was the role of historically overdeterminded complex culture in the Korean developmental state-led 'catch-up' economic growth?Unilateral rule of Confucian culture in Chosun Dynasty, Japanese-imposed colonial modernity over segmented Confucian culture, the misconceived and unprepared decolonization project of American Military Government in Korea(AMGK), the Korean War, and authoritarian rules were factors that are responsible for the overdetermination of the Korean cultural complexity. However this cultural complexity brought unintended consequences in providing fruitful cultural resources to the strategic actors in a specific historical juncture. In the 1960s, the Korean complex culture served as fruitful cultural resource base for the military regime that was about to build a developmental state in order to assign the leading role in the state-led economic growth. The Korean complex culture had elective affinity with the catch-up economic growth project in that they both share ‘can-do’ spirit of accomplishing one's purpose by fair means or foul. This means that the cultural complexity allows the state managers to have a wide range of freedom of choices in building the developmental state itself and in designing, mobilizing and performing the catch-up growth.
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