Nation Building in South Korea: Koreans, Americans, and the Making of a Democracy

327 Pages·2007·2.464 MB·English

by  Gregg Brazinsky

Nation Building in South Korea
the new cold war history
John Lewis Gaddis, editor
Nation Building in South Korea
and the of a
Koreans, Americans, Making Democracy
gregg brazinsky
The University of
North Carolina Press
Chapel Hill
∫ 2007 The University of North Carolina Press
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Brazinsky, Gregg.
Nation building in South Korea : Koreans, Americans,
and the making of a democracy / Gregg Brazinsky.
p. cm. — (New cold war history)
Includes bibliographical references and index.
isbn 978-0-8078-3120-5 (cloth : alk. paper)
1. United States—Foreign relations—Korea. 2. Korea—
Foreign relations—United States. 3. Democracy—
Korea—History—20th century. 4. Korea (South)—
Politics and government. 5. Korea (South)—Economic
conditions. I. Title.
e183.8.k6b72 2007
327.7305195—dc22 2007000414
11 10 09 08 07 5 4 3 2 1
for my mother, Carol Weiner
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Contents
Acknowledgments xi
Introduction 1
[1] Security over Democracy 13
[2] Institution Building: Civil Society 41
[3] Institution Building: The Military 71
[4] Toward Developmental Autocracy 101
[5] Development over Democracy 127
[6] Engaging South Korean Intellectuals 163
[7] Molding South Korean Youth 189
[8] Toward Democracy 223
Conclusion 251
Notes 261
Bibliography 291
Index 303
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Illustrations
A South Korean school reconstructed 48
through American assistance
An American naval officer tutors his 81
South Korean counterpart
An American officer supervises the 83
training of the rok Army
The rok Army in the 1950s 103
A meeting between President John F. 121
Kennedy and South Korean president
Park Chung Hee
President Ronald Reagan embraces 242
South Korean president Chun Doo Hwan
during his 1983 visit to South Korea