The Dual Green Revolutions in South Korea : Reforestation and Agricultural Revolution under the Authoritarian Regime

• MOON Manyong

  Korea Research Institute for the History of Science, Technology and Civilization, KAIST

抄録

In South Korea, the Green Revolution has been commonly understood as the development and dissemination of new rice varieties (Tongil rice) and the rapid increase of rice yield in the 1970s. However, revolutionary success in agriculture was not the only green revolution South Korea experienced; another green revolution lay in the success of reforestation projects. In the 1970s, South Korea's forest greening was closely related to its agricultural revolution in several ways. Therefore, South Korea's Green Revolution was an intrinsically linked double feature of agriculture and forestry. This two-pronged revolution was initiated by scientific research - yet accomplished by the strong administrative mobilization of President Park Chung Hee's regime. The process of setting goals and meeting them through a military-like strategy in a short time was made possible under the authoritarian regime, known as Yushin, though the administration failed to fully acknowledge scientific expertise in the process of pushing to achieve goals.

収録刊行物

• Historia scientiarum. Second series : international journal of the History of Science Society of Japan

  Historia scientiarum. Second series : international journal of the History of Science Society of Japan 21 (3), 161-173, 2012-03-31

  日本科学史学会

キーワード

• Green Revolution
• Park Chung Hee
• Yushin regime
• Tongil rice
• reforestation projects

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• CRID: 1570009753005256832
• NII論文ID: 110009436627
• NII書誌ID: AA11081495
• ISSN: 02854821
• 本文言語コード: en
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