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South Korea
Index
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 Tae Woo, who was elected president of the Sixth
Republic in 1987 (as well as under the previous president, Chun
Doo Hwan, 1980-87), South Korea has been struggling to maintain
its economic successes. Movement in more democratic directions
has been much slower than economic development. Political unrest,
labor strikes, and student agitation continued to challenge the
government in the early 1990s.
Sources of information included books, scholarly journals,
foreign and domestic newspapers, official reports of governments
and international organizations, and numerous periodicals on
Korean and East Asian affairs. Chapter bibliographies appear at
the end of the book, and brief comments on some of the more
valuable sources recommended for further reading appear at the
end of each chapter. A Glossary also is included.
Spellings of place-names used in the book are in most cases
those approved by the United States Board on Geographic Names.
However, the generic parts appended to some geographic names have
been dropped and their English equivalents substituted: for
example, Cheju Island, not Cheju-do, and South Ch'ungch'ong
Province, not Ch'ungch'ong-namdo. The name South Korea has been
used where appropriate in place of the official name, Republic of
Korea. The McCune-Reischauer system of transliteration has been
employed, except in cases of the names of some prominent national
figures, internationally recognized corporations, and the city of
Seoul, where the more familiar journalistic equivalent is used.
The names of Korean authors writing in English are spelled as
given.
Measurements are given in the metric system. A conversion
table is provided to assist those readers who are unfamiliar with
metric measurements (see
table 1, Appendix).
The body of the text reflects information available as of
June 1990. Certain other portions of the text, however, have been
updated: the Introduction discusses significant events that have
occurred since the completion of research and the Bibliography
includes recently published sources thought to be particularly
helpful to the reader.
Data as of June 1990
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