Reassessing the Park Chung Hee Era, 1961-1979

"Wider in perspective . . . Kim and Sorensen's book includes contributions by historians, an anthropologist, a literary critic and even a former CEO of POSCO. . . [and] chapters on the labor movement and rural society, and . . . popular mentalities under . . .'compressed modernization.'."

- Charles K. Armstrong (Global Asia)

"The merely curious will find that Reassessing the Park Chung Hee Era tells the basic history of Park's nearly eighteen years as president . . . whereas serious scholars of Korean history will find the variety of interpretation, extensive bibliographic notes, and transliterations . . . a springboard for further study."

- Nathan Hoskinson (Asian Affairs)

"Overall, it provides a rich source of information on a variety of issues that are well explored. It can be used by students and scholars to simply understand the economic and political dynamics of South Korea during an authoritarian time, and can also be put in a comparative perspective with other Asian countries that went through similar political and economic developmental processes.""

- Sooh-Rhee Ryu (Asian Studies Review)

"Overall, it provides a rich source of information on a variety of issues that are well explored. It can be used by students and scholars to simply understand the economic and political dynamics of South Korea during an authoritarian time, and can also be put in a comparative perspective with other Asian countries that went through similar political and economic developmental processes.""

- Sooh-Rhee Ryu (Asian Studies Review)