Historiography of ‘Park Chung Hee Era’: Reassessing the Republic of Korean under Park Chung Hee regime in English language perspectives
Keywords:
Historiography, Park Chung Hee, Republic of Korea, Park Chung Hee Era, Authoritarian NostalgiaAbstract
This article aims to provide aspects and explanations of the Republic of Korea under the Park Chung Hee Era with English historiography using the ‘Authoritarian Nostalgia’ resurged trend of military regimes on mainstream academics in two periods of that historiography; before 1997 and after 1997. The result reveals that many Korean scholars have also described the Park Chung Hee Era as one of the parts of the Longue Durée historical approach and other social science disciplines before 1997. Then, after 1997, in the aftermath of the democratization and the financial crisis, they increasingly used the alternative theory and intensified those disciplines and concepts to study more in-depth. Various scholars grasped these in two ways: criticized or glorified, along with Hyung A Kim as a trailblazer. Moreover, after half of the 2010s, this era has extended various approaches which make classification extremely difficult.
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