Les nouveaux pays industrialisés après la crise : le cas coréen

In few decades, South Korea left its status of country among the poorests in the world to become one of the most industrialized ones. Submitted to a dictatorial regime since the Korea war, it has succeeded its democratic transition. In the following of the 1997–98 asiatic crisis, it was ranged among the most important net market. For these different reasons, South Korea constitutes a wide scale laboratory for studying the conditions of a successfull development, the impact of the asiatic crisis or the challenges of globalization. Yet, in France at least, researchers have shown few interest for this country. After examining the korean model from the 50’s up to now, the author tries to give some explanation of this paradox.