The dilemmas of empowered labor in Korea: Korean workers in the face of global capitalism

Asian Survey

Volumn 40, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 227-250

  Koo, Hagen ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CAPITALISM; EMPOWERMENT; LABOR MARKET; TRADE UNION;

SOUTH KOREA;

EID: 0033898393     PISSN: 00044687     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/3021131     Document Type: Article

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13. Jong-kyu Park, formerly a member of the Commission for the Labor Law Revision, said: "The military regimes, which lacked legitimacy, tried to counterbalance their suppression of collective labor movement with better treatment of individual workers at the expense of employers." See Jong-kyu Park, "Major Issues about Revised Labor Laws," Korea Focus 5:1 (1997), p. 57.
14. Jong-kyu Park, formerly a member of the Commission for the Labor Law Revision, said: "The military regimes, which lacked legitimacy, tried to counterbalance their suppression of collective labor movement with better treatment of individual workers at the expense of employers." See Jong-kyu Park, "Major Issues about Revised Labor Laws," Korea Focus 5:1 (1997), p. 57.
15. Yong Cheol Kim, "Industrial Reform and Labor Backlash in South Korea: Genesis, Escalation, and Termination of the 1997 General Strike," Asian Survey 38:12 (December 1998), pp. 1142-60.
16. Opposition parties were more strongly opposed to the security agency law than to the new labor bills. See Jong-kyu Park, "Major Issues about Revised Labor Laws," p. 63.
17. Don-kwan Lee, "Nodongpup chaebol robiro twijiphyotta" [The labor laws were overturned by chaebol lobbies], Sisa Journal, January 30, 1997, pp. 19-21.
18. Ibid., p. 1158.
19. Kim addresses this issue in a later coauthored paper: Yong Cheol Kim and Chung-in Moon, "Globalization and Workers in South Korea" in Globalization and South Korea, ed. Samuel S. Kim (New York: Cambridge University Press, forthcoming in 2000).
20. For the most informative and insightful analyses of the sources of the South Korean economic crisis, see Ha-Joon Chang, "Korea: The Misunderstood Crisis," World Development 26:8 (1998), pp. 1555-61; Ha-Joon Chang, Hong-Jae Park, and Chul Gyue Yoo, "Interpreting the Korean Crisis: Financial Liberalization, Industrial Policy and Corporate Governance," Cambridge Journal of Economics 22:6 (1998); and Chung-in Moon, "Adjustment Failures, Economic Crisis and IMF Conditionalities: The Case of South Korea" (paper presented at the 17th World Congress of the International Political Association, Seoul, August 1998).
21. For the most informative and insightful analyses of the sources of the South Korean economic crisis, see Ha-Joon Chang, "Korea: The Misunderstood Crisis," World Development 26:8 (1998), pp. 1555-61; Ha-Joon Chang, Hong-Jae Park, and Chul Gyue Yoo, "Interpreting the Korean Crisis: Financial Liberalization, Industrial Policy and Corporate Governance," Cambridge Journal of Economics 22:6 (1998); and Chung-in Moon, "Adjustment Failures, Economic Crisis and IMF Conditionalities: The Case of South Korea" (paper presented at the 17th World Congress of the International Political Association, Seoul, August 1998).
22. For the most informative and insightful analyses of the sources of the South Korean economic crisis, see Ha-Joon Chang, "Korea: The Misunderstood Crisis," World Development 26:8 (1998), pp. 1555-61; Ha-Joon Chang, Hong-Jae Park, and Chul Gyue Yoo, "Interpreting the Korean Crisis: Financial Liberalization, Industrial Policy and Corporate Governance," Cambridge Journal of Economics 22:6 (1998); and Chung-in Moon, "Adjustment Failures, Economic Crisis and IMF Conditionalities: The Case of South Korea" (paper presented at the 17th World Congress of the International Political Association, Seoul, August 1998).
23. Ibid.
24. Kyung-Sup Chang, "Social Ramifications of South Korea's Economic Fall: Neo-Liberal Antidote to Compressed Capitalist Industrialization?" Development and Society 28 (June 1999), pp. 49-91. Chang's article offers a careful analysis of the social consequences of the economic crisis in Korea.
25. Su-Hon Kim, "Deoisang nosacheongwi teulori seoji anketa" [We will no longer play an accessory role in the tripartite council], Wolgan JoongAng Win [Monthly JoongAng Win] (February 1999).
26. Economist, November 14, 1998, p. 14.
27. Hee-Yeon Cho, Han'guk ui minjujuui wa sahoe undong [Democracy and social movements in South Korea] (Seoul: Tangdae, 1998); and Sunhyuk Kim, "State and Civil Society in South Korea's Democratic Consolidation: Is the Battle Really Over?" Asian Survey 37:12 (December 1997), pp. 1135-44.
28. Hee-Yeon Cho, Han'guk ui minjujuui wa sahoe undong [Democracy and social movements in South Korea] (Seoul: Tangdae, 1998); and Sunhyuk Kim, "State and Civil Society in South Korea's Democratic Consolidation: Is the Battle Really Over?" Asian Survey 37:12 (December 1997), pp. 1135-44.