Globalisation and Korean Foreign Investment

Publication Date	October 2004
Publisher	Ashgate Publishing
Product Type	Book
Pages	220
ISBN Number	9780754631668
Product Code	ASH00303

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Summary

Addressing a previously ignored area, this text analyses two converging factors: globalisation and Korean foreign direct investment policy. It looks at the emergence of the Korean government's globalisation objectives, and at the response of the chaebol, the business groups that brought about their country's rapid industrialisation. The chapters reveal a complex story with political as well as economic dimensions. They also note the impact of the 1997 crisis, and the growing importance of inward investment. The book, therefore, covers developments in Korean economic policy from the Chun-Roh regime to the Kim Dae-Joong era.

Content

Introduction: interpreting the idea of a global economy, John Turner and Young-Chan Kim
The theory of Korean foreign direct investment, Young-Chan Kim and Yongrok Choi
Paradoxes of globalization: some thoughts on a much abused concept, Carlos A.P Machado
Global capitalism and the Asian financial crisis, Douglas J Sikorski
Korean direct investment in EU: global Koreanization, Judith Cherry
Inward foreign direct investment policy and practice: an Anglo-Korean comparison, John Turner and Young-Chan Kim
Globalization or de-globalization: what role for the World Trade Organization?, Stephen Young and Thomas L
Brewer
Whither global capitalism?, John Dunning
Bibliography
Index.