After considering the problem of decentralizing rural development in South Korea generally, the authors analyze the proliferation period from 1970 to 1979 of Seemaul Undong--South Korea's so-called New Community Movement -- which was an attempt to achieve an integrated rural development program. The final chapter suggests directions for South Korea and draws implications for development elsewhere.

Examines the role of rural development in the overall development of the Korean economy. Separate chapters focus on the growth of agricultural productivity; sources of agricultural growth; regional agricultural production and income; government investment policy; agricultural credit policy; farm price policy; the role of local government; land reform; rural living standards; and off-farm migration. This is one of the studies on the economic and social modernization of Korea undertaken jointly by the Harvard Institute for International Development and the Korea Development Institute.

This book explores the politics of Korean developmental state and commitment of state agents to rapid industrialization within world political economy, focusing the Korean green revolution. It assesses how differences in state/society relationships affect agricultural research system priorities.

Joint author, Dwight Perkins, is an alumnus of Evanston Township High School, class of 1952.