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...

Contents: Preface -- Introduction -- Part I: Socioeconomic developments and social trust in Korea -- 1. Social trust: its concepts, determinants, roles, and raising ways -- 2. Recent economic development and emerging social issues in Korea -- 3. Social evolution in conjunction with economic...