This article criticizes that the personnel management system for Korean public officials is seriously lacking competition among public employees and fails to nurture their competence and confidence due to too much reliance on rank, seniority, closed recruitment, and excessive rotation of...

In this paper, we examine the impact of the labor regulation on firm's employment. South Korea's labor reform in 2007 restricted the duration of the specific types of temporary contract — fixed term and dispatched contract — to maximum two years and required those temporary contracts to be...

This paper investigates the reason why Korea's export suddenly and rapidly expanded in the early 1960s. By doing so, it hopes to throw light on the unresolved issue, whether it was market-liberalizing or interventionist policies that explain Korea's rapid growth and industrialization. Evidences...