Troubled Tiger: Businessmen, Bureaucrats, and Generals in South Korea

by Mark L. Clifford

This is a behind-the-scenes account of South Korea's rise to economic power. It explains the interaction of military, bureaucratic and business interests that have created South Korea. A particular strength of the book is the analysis of the formative Park Chung Hee era.

Genres: History

350 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 1994

About the author

MARK L. CLIFFORD is president of the Committee for Freedom in Hong Kong and the former executive director of the Asia Business Council. He is editorial chair of the Asian Review of Books, a Council on Foreign Relations member, and a board member at Next Digital. He served as editor-in-chief of both English-language papers in Hong Kong, The Standard and the South China Morning Post. An honors history graduate of UC Berkeley and a Walter Bagehot Fellow at Columbia University, he holds a University of Hong Kong Ph.D. in Hong Kong history.