Part I The Rise of South Korea’s Auto Industry: Beginnings to 1996 -- 1 Introduction and Overview: The Rise of the Korean Auto Industry -- 2 The State and Development in South Korea: From Yi to Early-Park -- 3 Park’s Engineering of a South Korean Auto Industry: Beginnings to 1979 -- 4 The...

In 1962, South Korea assembled just 1,100 new automobiles. By 1996, this total had soared to 2,812,714. What explains this remarkable growth? The answer is complex, and involves a combination of a supportive State, timely technology alliances, a skilled but historically low-paid workforce,...