Overview
- Examines domestic and global activities of South Korea’s five automakers
- Loaded with data previously unavailable in English
- Expands on rise and future prospects of Korean automakers and Korea’s domestic auto industry
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Table of contents (11 chapters)
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Front Matter
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The Rise of South Korea’s Auto Industry: Beginnings to 1996
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Korean Carmaker Stories, 1962–1996
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Volume 1—Conclusion and Summary
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About this book
In 1962, South Korea assembled just 1,100 new automobiles. By 1996, this total had soared to 2,812,714. What explains this remarkable growth? The answer is complex, and involves a combination of a supportive State, timely technology alliances, a skilled but historically low-paid workforce, aggressive pricing, savvy entrepreneurs, and fortuitous circumstances. Despite this amazing ascent, comparatively little has been written about the Korean auto industry in English. In the first of a two-volume set, this 11-chapter book seeks to help fill this void by providing in-depth examinations of all six of Korea’s automakers from their beginnings through 1996. Uniquely written from the perspective of industry analysts at the time (without knowledge of the Asian Fiscal Crisis), the book should prove informative to practitioners, scholars, and students interested in automotive history, international political economy, Asian studies, and more.
Authors and Affiliations
About the author
A.J. Jacobs is Professor of Sociology at East Carolina University, USA. He is author of Automotive FDI in Emerging Europe: Shifting Locales in the Motor Vehicle Industry (2017) and The Automotive Industry and European Integration: The Divergent Paths of Belgium and Spain (2019).
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: The Korean Automotive Industry, Volume 1
Book Subtitle: Beginnings to 1996
Authors: A. J. Jacobs
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-86347-0
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Business and Management, Business and Management (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive licence to Springer Nature Switzerland AG, part of Springer Nature 2022
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-86346-3Published: 11 December 2021
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-86349-4Published: 11 December 2022
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-86347-0Published: 10 December 2021
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XX, 413
Number of Illustrations: 1 b/w illustrations, 2 illustrations in colour
Topics: Automotive Industry, Industries, Management, International Business