@article{ART003313425},
author={OH, JEYEON},
title={Creating a University for National Development - The Formation and Characteristics of the ‘University and National Development’ Debate in the late 1960s -},
journal={Journal of Humanities},
issn={1598-8457},
year={2026},
number={100},
pages={85-122}
TY - JOUR
AU - OH, JEYEON
TI - Creating a University for National Development - The Formation and Characteristics of the ‘University and National Development’ Debate in the late 1960s -
JO - Journal of Humanities
PY - 2026
VL - null
IS - 100
PB - Institute for Humanities
SP - 85
EP - 122
SN - 1598-8457
AB - This paper focuses on the concept of “national development,” grounded in developmentalism, which, in the late 1960s, functioned as a mechanism for aligning universities with the Park Chung-hee government’s discourse of national modernization. Specifically, it examines how, under the banner of national modernization promoted by the Park Chung-hee regime, universities internalized developmentalism through the mediation of national development and how this process, in turn, transformed the university itself. In the midst of the national modernization discourse, universities recognized national development as their mission, especially through the practice of social service, and actively engaged in it. Universities were not merely passive recipients of modernization, but active agents that advanced national development while pursuing their own institutional development by prioritizing social service functions. However, in this process, regardless of the Park Chung-hee government’s intentions, the emphasis on modernization and national development was reshaped according to the internal logic of the universities. Many university members emphasized both university autonomy and the role of higher education as well as solving economic and social challenges such as industrialization. Debates also arose over points of conflict with traditional conceptions of the university. Nevertheless, it is difficult to find cases in which national development or modernization itself was questioned or criticized. Accordingly, since the 1970s, universities have been reorganized to form closer relationships with both capital and the government, primarily through industry-academia cooperation.
KW - University;National Development;National Modernization;Developmentalism;Social Service
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OH, JEYEON. (2026). Creating a University for National Development - The Formation and Characteristics of the ‘University and National Development’ Debate in the late 1960s -. Journal of Humanities, 100, 85-122.
OH, JEYEON. 2026, "Creating a University for National Development - The Formation and Characteristics of the ‘University and National Development’ Debate in the late 1960s -", Journal of Humanities, no.100, pp.85-122.
OH, JEYEON "Creating a University for National Development - The Formation and Characteristics of the ‘University and National Development’ Debate in the late 1960s -" Journal of Humanities 100 pp.85-122 (2026) : 85.
OH, JEYEON. Creating a University for National Development - The Formation and Characteristics of the ‘University and National Development’ Debate in the late 1960s -. 2026; 100 : 85-122.
OH, JEYEON. "Creating a University for National Development - The Formation and Characteristics of the ‘University and National Development’ Debate in the late 1960s -" Journal of Humanities no.100(2026) : 85-122.
OH, JEYEON. Creating a University for National Development - The Formation and Characteristics of the ‘University and National Development’ Debate in the late 1960s -. Journal of Humanities, 100, 85-122.
OH, JEYEON. Creating a University for National Development - The Formation and Characteristics of the ‘University and National Development’ Debate in the late 1960s -. Journal of Humanities. 2026; 100 85-122.
OH, JEYEON. Creating a University for National Development - The Formation and Characteristics of the ‘University and National Development’ Debate in the late 1960s -. 2026; 100 : 85-122.
OH, JEYEON. "Creating a University for National Development - The Formation and Characteristics of the ‘University and National Development’ Debate in the late 1960s -" Journal of Humanities no.100(2026) : 85-122.
