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Korea's Economy: Man-Made Miracle
Korea's Economy: Man-Made Miracle
By Jon Woronoff
Si-sa-yong-o-sa Publishers, 1983, 296 pp

Although there are many excellent scholarly works on the South Korean economy, this is one of the most readable and comprehensive for the nonspecialist. The author, a journalist who covers East Asia for a number of newspapers, predicts that by the year 2001 the South Korean economy will be nearly four times as big as it now is, with a per capita income of $4,300 in today's dollars.

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