Korean dynasty: Hyundai and Chung Ju Yung [Hardcover]

Donald Kirk (Author)

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Drawing from his 20-plus years of journalistic experiences in the region, Kirk reports on Hyundai, Korea's largest business conglomerate (or chaebol). Kirk examines the Hyundai group in the context of Korean history, social and political systems, and business. A central feature of his well-written work is the controversial business and political life and career of Hyundai's founder, Chung Ju Yung, age 78. Based on the author's personal interview, discussions with executives both inside and outside of Hyundai, and public information, the work takes an unauthorized look at a number of the leading companies within the Hyundai group. This storylike account of Korea's largest chaebol, which is told in the context of Korea's rise from a Third World to a world-class economic power, complements Mark Clifford's Troubled Tiger (LJ 8/94). Recommended for executives, scholars, and students of business and the social sciences.
Joseph W. Leonard, Miami Univ., Oxford, Ohio
Copyright 1994 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an alternate Hardcover edition.

Product Details

• Hardcover: 382 pages
• Publisher: M.E. Sharpe (1994)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 962716030X
• ISBN-13: 978-9627160304
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #8,525,213 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Donald Kirk, from Washington, D.C., travels to South Korea, with stops in London, the middle east, Japan, Hong Kong and the Philippines, among other places, writing on the confrontation of forces in the post-9/​11 era.

From 1997 through 2003, Don was Seoul correspondent for the International Herald Tribune, also filing for The New York Times and CBS, covering nuclear and economic crises. In addition, he has written articles for such diverse magazines as Institutional Investor, Far Eastern Economic Review, The New Leader, Future Korea Journal, National Review, Kyoto Journal and Hemispheres and commentaries for newspapers ranging from The Wall Street Journal Asia and South China Morning Post in Hong Kong to the Los Angeles Times, Providence Journal, Washington Examiner and Newsday.

Don first visited Seoul in 1972 as Far East correspondent for the Chicago Tribune and has covered major events in Korea from the assassination of President Park Chung Hee in 1979 and the Kwangju revolt in 1980 to every presidential election since adoption of the "democracy constitution" in 1987.

From 1988 to 1994, he focused on economics and labor, writing Korean Dynasty: Hyundai and Chung Ju Yung, a critical study of Hyundai, Korea's largest chaebol, and its founder. Again in Seoul, he wrote Korean Crisis: Unraveling of the Miracle in the IMF Era, published in 2000, and, most recently, Korea Betrayed: Kim Dae Jung and Sunshine, a critical biography of the former South Korean president who passed away in August 2009.

He continues to write commentaries and file for CBS and The Christian Science Monitor. The University of Maryland University College in 2004 awarded him an honorary doctorate as "one of the United States' most knowledgeable observers and commentators on Asia."

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4.0 out of 5 stars Detailed Research on the Korean Chaebol, December 21, 1998

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Wong Yin Shing "Nicho Wong" (Hong Kong / Singapore) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Korean Dynasty: Hyundai and Chung Ju Yung (Paperback)

This is an excellent and a very detailed report on one of the Korean Chaebol, Hyundai.

You will understand how the Korean economy is structured and operating in South Korea and why they have the problems facing today.

Also very valuable is the part on the difference between Japanese and Korean business operation in the States. It reminds the rest of the world about what difficulities would be encountered and what issues should be pay attention to.