Rural Poverty in the Republic of Korea: Trends and Policy Issues

Ki-Whan Chung and Nae-Won Oh

Asian Development Review (ADR), 1992, vol. 10, issue 01, 91-124

Abstract: Korea was one of the least developed countries in the world when was liberated from Japanese colonial occupation in 1945. Immediately after liberation, the country was divided into the North and the South. The South had 65.8 per cent of the total population and 47.8 per cent of the territory. Most natural resources and heavy industrial facilities were located in the North. The partition of the nation made the South a poor agrarian country with a high population density. The division of Korea into two confronting ideological polities resulted in a war in 1950 which destroyed lives, industrial facilities and agricultural production bases…

Date: 1992
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