Developmental Neoliberalism and Hybridity of the Urban Policy of South Korea

Locating Neoliberalism in East Asia: Neoliberalizing Spaces in Developmental States

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 86-113

  Choi, Byung Doo ^a  

^a Daegu University   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Advent of neoliberalism in South Korea, the late 1980s; Developmentalism, neoliberalism, and "Developmental Neoliberalism"; Industrial restructuring in the 1980s, neoliberalism ending economic crisis; Market dominance, process of neoliberalization; Neoliberalism, mode of ideology adhering to market mechanisms; Shift from developmentalism to neoliberalism, in South Korea; South Korea, battleground for free market, statist development advocates; South Korea, shallow or roll back, to deep or roll out neoliberalism; South Korean economic development, success, until 1997 crisis; South Korean urban policy, developmental neoliberalism, hybridity

Indexed keywords

EID: 84887196355     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9781444346657.ch4     Document Type: Chapter

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