Economic Development of Korea


s: Creating Comparative Advantage


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1970s: Creating Comparative Advantage

  • Backgrounds
    • Losing comparative advantage & Needs to Upgrade Industrial & Export Structure
      • due to rapidly rising wages
      • Catching-up by ASEAN
      • Protectionist barriers against NIES’ export
    • Non-Economic and Political Reasons
      • The Nixon Doctrine (1969)

1970s: Creating Comparative Advantage

  • Policies Used
    • “Carrots and Sticks”
    • Government Subsidies and Tax Concession
      • Preferential & Policy loans to HCI
      • Negative interest rate, combined with higher inflation rate
      • Easy excess to foreign capital with government guarantee
    • Protection of HCI against import
      • 2nd stage import substitution

1970s: Creating Comparative Advantage

  • Policies Used
    • “Carrots and Sticks”
    • Export Promotion by promoting large firms
      • Created General Trading Companies
        • Samsung (1975)
      • Highly Restrictive export target
        • 1975: US$50 million; 1979: US$301 million
        • In returns for substantial rewards including cash subsidies for export earnings
    • SMEs were discriminated

1980s: Quest for Liberalization and Globalization

  • Five Year Economic Development changed to Five Year Economic and Social Development
    • 6th (1982-1986) & 7th (1986-1991) FYESDP
    • Emphasizing Stability, Balance, Efficiency
      • Through Stable Prices, Openness, Competition, Social Development, Social Welfare
    • Average Growth Rate 1982-1991: 10.2% p.a.

1980s: Quest for Liberalization and Globalization

  • Backgrounds for Switch Over
    • Internal Pressure
      • Sectorial Imbalance and Social Inefficiency
        • Associated with HCI Drive & Moral Hazard
        • Socialization of Private Risk
        • Excessive Capacity with Lower Capacity Utilization: 20%
      • Political Instability
        • Assassination of President & 2nd Military Coup
      • Poor Harvest
      • High Inflation associated with Rapidly rising international oil and resources prices
    • External Pressures

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