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Table of Contents:

• Globalization and foreign direct investment: the theoretical perspective
• Economic globalization
• Economic globalization and foreign direct investment
• Cultural globalization
• Hybrid globalization
• 1. Korea and inward foreign direct investment 1962-1992
• The theoretical debate
• Korea and 'expansive globalization'
• Korea and IFDI: the early years (1962-1969)
• Korea and IFDI: the shift to heavy and chemical industries (1970-1983)
• Korea and IFDI: liberalization and deregulation (1984-1992)
• 2. Globalization in the Kim Young-sam era: Segyehwa and inward foreign direct investment (1993-1997)
• Kim Young-sam and Segyehwa
• Segyehwa and Korean IFDI (1993-1997)
• Korean IFDI in the pre-crisis era (1962-1997)
• 3. The 1997 financial crisis and the 'IMF era': Segyehwa in transition
• The search for a scapegoat
• The end of the developmental state? Reform in post-crisis Korea
• Reform and the role of the government
• 4. Inward foreign direct investment in post-crisis Korea I (1998-2002)

• A new strategy for IFDI promotion
• Trends in post-crisis IFDI
• Barriers and hindrances to post-crisis inward investment: economic factors
• Barriers and hindrances to post-crisis inward investment: the business and investment environment
• 5. Inward foreign direct investment in post-crisis Korea II (2003-2006)
• The debate on IFDI policy and strategy
• A new national investment promotion agency: Invest Korea
• IFDI performance under the Roh Moo-hyun administration
• Barriers to investment: the investors' perspective
• 6. South Korea, the European Union and the European Free Trade Area (1962-2006)
• Korea and the EU
• Korea-EU Trade
• Korea and EFTA
• European investment in pre-crisis Korea (1962-1997)
• European investment in post-crisis Korea (1997-2006)
• 7. Case study: European investors in post-crisis Korea
• Korea's competitive advantages
• The domestic market
• Human resources
• The IT environment
• Strategic location
• Barriers to IFDI: mismatches and disconnections
• Implementation of policy and regulations
• The labour market
• The workforce
• Anti-foreign capital sentiment
• Korea's image overseas
• Attitudes towards globalization
• Korea's business and investment environment: suggestions for change
• Education
• The regulatory environment
• Marketing Korea
• 8. Conclusions.

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Author/Creator:

Cherry, Judith

Languages:

English

Language Notes:

Item content: English

Main Work:

Foreign direct investment in post-crisis Korea: European investors and 'mismatched globalization' [by Cherry, J.]

Related Series:

Routledge advances in Korean studies; [volume] 13

Subjects:

Investments, Foreign — Korea (South)

Investments, European — Korea (South)

Korea (South) — Foreign economic relations

Korea (South) — Economic conditions

Korea (South) — Civilization

Investments, Foreign

Investments, European

International economic relations

Economic conditions

Civilization

Korea (South)

General Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (p. [179]-196) and index.
Includes Web resources.

Physical Description:

xi, 201 pages ; 24 cm.

Call Numbers:

HG5780.5.A3 C459 2007

ISBNs:

0415270065 (hbk.)
0203939069 (ebk.)
9780415270069 (hbk.)
9780203939062 (ebk.)

Library of Congress Control Numbers:

2007011515

OCLC Numbers:

86110069