List of Tables = ix CHAPTER 1. INTRODUCTION: UNDERSTANDING KOREAN POLITICS = 1 Soong Hoom Kil and Chung-in Moon. Understanding Korean Politics: Four Legacies = 1 Structure of the Book = 4 CHAPTER 2. KOREAN POLITICS: SETTING AND POLITICAL CULTURE = 9 Woon-Tai Kim GeopoliticaI Setting = 10 Economic Setting = 13 Social Setting = 19 Political Culture = 24 Conclusion = 29 CHAPTER 3. DEVELOPMENT OF KOREAN POLITICS A HISTORICAL PROFILE = 33 Soong Hoom Kil American Occupation and the First and Second Republics (1945-1960) = 34 In the Heart of Darkness: Po1itica1 History of the Third through Sixth Republics = 47 Broken Promises: Politics and Economy under the Kim Young Sam Government = 57 Conclusion: Toward a New PoIitical Horizon = 63 CHAFER 4. THE INSTITUTIONAL FOUNDATIONS OF KOREAN POLITICS = 71 David C. Kang Institutions and Politics = 72 InstitutionaI Foundations of Korean Politics = 80 PoIitical Implications for Korean Politics = 89 Conclusion = 98 CHAFER 5. POLITICAL LEADERSHIP IN KOREAN POLITICS = 107 Ki-shik S. J. Hahn The Political Leaders of the First and Second Republics = 108 The Political Leaders of the Third and Fourth Republics = 117 The Pontical Leaders of the Fifth and Sixth Republics = 124 Conchlsion: Evaluating Political Leadership and the Patterns of Official Recruitment = 133 CHAPTER 6. THE POLITICAL PROCESS IN KOREA = 141 Jung Bock Lee Elections in Korea = 142 The Political Parties of Korea = 154 Students, the Military, Mass Media, and Interest Groups in Korea = 161 Conclusion = 170 CHAPTER 7. THE ADMINISTRATIVE PROCESS IN KOREA = 175 Dong-suh Bark History of the Korean Administration: An Overview = 175 Democratization of the AdministrationFunctions of the Administration = 181 Administrative Division of Labor and Resource Mobilization = 192 Enhancing Bureaucratic Performance: Evaluation and Control = 195 ConcIusion = 197 CHAPTER 8. THE POLITICS OF ECONOMIC RISE AND DECLINE IN SOUTH KOREA = 201 Chung-in Moon gnd Sunghack Lim Contending Models of the Political Economy of South Korea: Market, the State, Networks, and the International System = 202 Historical Trajectory of Economic Transformation: An Empirical Overview = 205 Accounting for the Rise and Decline of the Korean Economy = 213 Conclusion = 224 CHAPTER 9. THE FOREIGN AND UNIFICATION POLICIES OF THE REPUBLIC OF KOREA = 231 Byung Chul Koh Themes in South Korea's Foreign PoIicy = 232 Changes in South Korea's Foreign Policy = 244 Continuity and Change in South Korea's Unification Policy = 249 The Unification Policy of the Sixth Republic = 253 The Unification Policy of the Kim Young Sam Government = 258 The "Sunshine" Policy of the Kim Dae Jung Government = 262 Conclusion = 264 CHAPTER 10. UNDERSTANDING THE NORTH KOREAN POLITICAL FRAMEWORK = 269 Sung Chul Yang Approaches to the Study of North Korean PoUtics = 269 Common Elements: Promise versus Practice = 269 Deviations: Objective Conditions and Subjective Attributes = 285 Conclusion = 301 Appendices 1. Suggested Reading List = 309 2. Map of Korea = 319 3. Basic Facts on Korea and the Korean Peninsula = 323 4. Korean Constitution = 327 5. Government Structure of the Republic of Korea = 353 Contributors = 357 Index = 361.