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Kim YoungSam and the New Korea
Author: Ron Beyma, Young Sam Kim

THE MIRACLE ON THE HAN — The Republic of Korea in less than 30 years has catapulted itself into the league of the industrialized nations. Today, it is admiringly called "the Miracle on the Han River." Now Kim Young-Sam, a veteran South Korean politician and probably the next president of the Republic of Korea, hopes to make another giant step: To... more » take his country from the authoritatian governments of the past to a modern democracy -- with the freedoms and rights of individuals known to the Western democracies. That would be an enormous acheivement, but no less remarkable than Korea's transition from a feudal, poverty-stricken, stagnant economy.

Kim may be the man to pull it off. For 30 years, he has fought in the opposition against authoritarian politicians of the old Korean society and the younger military, whose dictatorship took over in the 1960s. Kim - a common-sense, pragmatic politician - believes that the Korean personality which has made the economic leap forward can now do the same with the country's political institutions. Although he is himself a product of the old Korean culture and descended from a wealthy family; Kim has shared his countrymen's sufferings - from discrimination in a Japanese school under Tokyo's iron colonial grip before World War II to the postwar period when he spend years under house arrest and was the victim of intimidation by the political police.

Now he says it is a time to put all this behind him, and for his compatriots to build The New Korea. They can do that, he believes, by calling on their diverse cultural heritage - their Confucianism for discipline and community spirit, their Buddhism for humanity and empathy, and their Christianity for the West's heritage of human rights and individual freedom. (Kim himself is a Christian as are nearly half of the people in Korea)

Kim believes that a step-by-step approach can solve the problem of the ruthless regime that has divided his country and governed North Korea under Communism for 45 years. It was the so-called Democratic People's Republic of North Korea which with the former Soviet Union and Communist China, unleashed the bloody and tragic Korean War of 1950-53.

BASED ON INPUT AND INTERVIEWS WITH HISTORIANS, ECONOMISTS, POLITICAL AND GOVERNMENTAL SCHOLARS, EXPERTS ON KOREAN SOCIETY AND MOST IMPORTANTLY ----MR. KIM YOUNG-SAM

ISBN-13: 9780929387895
ISBN-10: 0929387899
Publication Date: 1992
Pages: 186
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Publisher: Bonus Books
Book Type: Hardcover
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