Korea: The Impossible Country: South Korea's Amazing Rise from the Ashes: The Inside Story of an Economic, Political and Cultural Phenomenon

by Daniel Tudor

Book Overview

South Korea's amazing rise from the ashes: the inside story of an economic, political, and cultural phenomenon Long overshadowed by Japan and China, South Korea is a small country that happens to be one of the great national success stories of the postwar period. From a failed state with no democratic tradition, ruined and partitioned by war, and sapped by a half-century of colonial rule, South Korea transformed itself in just fifty years into an...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0804842523
• ISBN13: 9780804842525
• Release Date: November 2012
• Publisher: Tuttle Publishing
• Length: 320 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 5.5" x 8.0"