Innovation, Investment and Intellectual Property in South Ko ...

Ruth Taplin

• 16 april 2018
• 9781138221925

Samenvatting:

This book charts the growth in innovation, investment and the development of intellectual property rights in South Korea during the Park to Park presidential period, exploring how far South Korea’s industrial success can be attributed to these factors. The Korean cultural tendency of the double-edged sword of cult and rapid action is assessed within this framework of business success.

South Korea known as the hermit kingdom was wrenched from its isolation in the mid-seventies with the forced industialisation of its economy by Park Chung-hee during his dictatorial regime. This led South Korea to becoming the most rapidly industialised country in the world with world class technology and a population who are largely digitally proficient. The course is charted from the rule of Park Chung-hee to his democratically elected daughter President Park Geun-hye who is now on trial for corruption. The legacy of the Park to Park era is not only the most fruitful in Korean history but the most tumultuous, most recently because of the accelerated nuclear ambitions of North Korea. The analysis is through the framework of investment, innovation and intellectual property rights and the double edged sword of cult and rapid action, so central to Korean culture.