We look at Korea's industrialization strategy and experience from the 1960s to the mid-1990s. Three elements of the Korean industrial development and structural change are discussed: 1) its outward orientation and export push, 2) its climb up the ladder of comparative advantage, and 3) its...

Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Part 1. State Projects of Legibility and Simplification -- Chapter 1. Nature and Space -- Chapter 2 . Cities, People, and Language -- Part 2. Transforming Visions -- Chapter 3. Authoritarian High Modernism -- Chapter 4. The High-Modernist...