"Korea's twin transitions--agrarian to industrial and industrial to post-industrial--effectively transformed the country's political economy. Moving away from the traditional focus on aspects such as market, state and world systems, culture, and colonialism, the author argues that Korea's...

The SDG Summit will take place on 18-19 September 2023 in New York. UN Secretary-General António Guterres has called it the “centrepiece” of the UN’s work this year. Numerous reports for this year’s mid-term review of the 2030 Agenda and the SDGs will lament the “lack of political...

1. Introduction -- 2. Existing explanation's for Korean economic development -- 3. An evolutionary analysis of the economic system -- 4. The Korean economic system -- 5. The state and the Chaebol -- 6. The state and financial institutions -- 7. Japan's influence on the formation of the Korean...