@article{ART003207190},
author={Seokdong Kim},
title={The Role of Land Reform in Export Promotion in Developmental States: An Implication on the Expansion of Public Concept of Land in South Korea},
journal={Civil Society and NGO},
issn={1599-8568},
year={2025},
volume={23},
number={1},
pages={33-70}
TY - JOUR
AU - Seokdong Kim
TI - The Role of Land Reform in Export Promotion in Developmental States: An Implication on the Expansion of Public Concept of Land in South Korea
JO - Civil Society and NGO
PY - 2025
VL - 23
IS - 1
PB - The Third Sector Institute
SP - 33
EP - 70
SN - 1599-8568
AB - My research examines why East Asian developmental states were able to achieve long-term low inequality as well as economic development during the postwar state-building and rapid industrialization periods despite being governed by growth-oriented and labor-repressive regimes. Developmental states’ economic nationalism led to both land reform and export-oriented industrialization (EOI). These two policies contributed to the nation state’s dual goals of economic development and low inequality, and hence exemplified plan rationality. Under economic nationalism, developmental states initiated progressive land reforms without violence during state building and effectively promoted EOI. EOI is an industrialization policy, not a redistribution policy. But during the industrialization period, EOI indirectly helped developmental states promote distribution and redistribution through employment and educational improvement. My mixed methods approach between quantitative and qualitative research examines how causation from egalitarianism under economic nationalism to developmentalism can be generalizable to world cases beyond developmental states. As a policy implication, while equality in land assets has been a favorable foundation in economic development, polarization in real assets weakens a potential of economic growth in the long term. In Korean society, Seoul-centered land development and polarization in real estates are major causes of low birth rate and local extinction, so it is necessary to expand the public concept of land (土地公槪念).
KW - economic nationalism;East Asian developmental state;land reform;export-oriented industrialization;polarization in real assets;public concept of land (土地公槪念);low birth;local extinction
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Seokdong Kim. (2025). The Role of Land Reform in Export Promotion in Developmental States: An Implication on the Expansion of Public Concept of Land in South Korea. Civil Society and NGO, 23(1), 33-70.
Seokdong Kim. 2025, "The Role of Land Reform in Export Promotion in Developmental States: An Implication on the Expansion of Public Concept of Land in South Korea", Civil Society and NGO, vol.23, no.1 pp.33-70.
Seokdong Kim "The Role of Land Reform in Export Promotion in Developmental States: An Implication on the Expansion of Public Concept of Land in South Korea" Civil Society and NGO 23.1 pp.33-70 (2025) : 33.
Seokdong Kim. The Role of Land Reform in Export Promotion in Developmental States: An Implication on the Expansion of Public Concept of Land in South Korea. 2025; 23(1), 33-70.
Seokdong Kim. "The Role of Land Reform in Export Promotion in Developmental States: An Implication on the Expansion of Public Concept of Land in South Korea" Civil Society and NGO 23, no.1 (2025) : 33-70.
Seokdong Kim. The Role of Land Reform in Export Promotion in Developmental States: An Implication on the Expansion of Public Concept of Land in South Korea. Civil Society and NGO, 23(1), 33-70.
Seokdong Kim. The Role of Land Reform in Export Promotion in Developmental States: An Implication on the Expansion of Public Concept of Land in South Korea. Civil Society and NGO. 2025; 23(1) 33-70.
Seokdong Kim. The Role of Land Reform in Export Promotion in Developmental States: An Implication on the Expansion of Public Concept of Land in South Korea. 2025; 23(1), 33-70.
Seokdong Kim. "The Role of Land Reform in Export Promotion in Developmental States: An Implication on the Expansion of Public Concept of Land in South Korea" Civil Society and NGO 23, no.1 (2025) : 33-70.
