The USA and the formation of the scientific and technical policy of the Republic of Korea in the period from the 1960s to the late 1990s
Abstract. The article investigates the formation and implementation of the scientific and technical policy of the Republic of Korea in 1960-1990. The 60-year experience of using "five-year plans" in planning activities in South Korea is analyzed. The role of the United States in the formation and implementation of this policy is reflected. The materials of scientific articles devoted to the designated topic were used in the work. To implement the research, the method of analogy was used to conduct a comparative analysis when comparing the experience of Soviet industrialization of the 1920s-1930s, North and South Korea in the context of the industrialization of a certain type. Based on the results, the analysis of factors that positively or negatively influenced the formation of the scientific and technical policy of the Republic of Korea was carried out. The conclusion is made about the significant role of both the people of the Republic of Korea and its government for the implementation of the grandiose project of modernization of the country.
Keywords: Republic of Korea, the USA, science and technology policy
Highlights:
♦ American economics is perceived in the modern world as the discoverer of the South Korean "economic miracle";
♦ the close military-technical cooperation with the United States played an important role in the formation of the country`s scientific and technical policy;
♦ the main result of the modernization of the country was the formation of a sustainable scientific and technical policy of the Republic of Korea.
Vasily E. Grudev - Ministry of Investment Policy of the Sakhalin Region, Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk, Russia