The Political Consequences of the Asian Economic Crisis : the Case of South Korea

本文分析了韩国自1997年以来为克服亚洲金融危机所必需的劳资关系改革过程。首先，本研究透过访谈部分劳资、政府或政党三方委员会委员，并分析有关劳工问题的出版资料，探讨韩式劳资关系与经济危机之间的因果关系。第二，以金泳三政权时期的劳资关系改革推进委员会和金大重政权时期的三劳资政委员会的制度和功能动态为中心，分析了工会、执政党、财阀集团之间的政治动态。组建劳资政委员会是为了让工会在政治上有一定的发言权，以换取工会的运动更加温和。从某种意义上说，它已经制度化，使社会社团主义机制在韩国扎根。但它的实际功能一直很难实现。相反，韩国社会在没有足够的安全网的情况下，正在迅速走向新自由主义。这一过程的具体内容，请参阅附件中题为《经济危机和韩国劳资关系制度的‘改革’》的文章。该研究项目还分析了1970年前后韩国的外交政策，对克服经济危机的分析也有一定的借鉴意义。韩国政府要想克服危机，除了国内的结构改革外，还需要得到美国、日本等其他国家政府的支持。本文通过对美韩两国有关越南战争和亚太理事会的外交文件的档案分析，根据韩国对美政策的不同目的和手段，提炼出韩国外交政策的三种模式，即：(1)适应模式(2)过度承诺模式(3)自治模式。与亚洲经济危机相比，该分析就如何应对美国和日本提出了非常有趣的建议。在本研究中，我将韩国和台湾在20世纪60年代末的外交政策进行了比较。我将在克服危机的过程中对韩国和台湾进行更认真的比较研究。”我曾经写过一篇文章，题目是《1960年代韩国外交政策的三种模式》。这篇文章将作为韩日政治学者共同研究的成果，作为该书的一个章节出版。此外，我还将撰写一篇题为《1960年代韩国和台湾外交政策的比较研究》的文章，并于3月23日至34日在台湾中央研究院proonea主办的国际会议上发表。少

This study analyzes the reform process of South Korea's capital-labor relations, which is necessary for overcoming the Asian Economic Crisis from 1997 on. First, this project tries to explore the causal relations between the Korean style of capital-labor relations and the economic crisis by getting the information from interviewing some members of the Tripartite Commission consisting of the labor, the capital, and government or political parties, and analyzing the published materials concerning the labor problems. Second, Focusing on the institutional and functional dynamics of both the committee for reforming the labor-management relations under the Kim Youngsam regime and the Tripartite Commission from the first term till the third term under the Kim Daejoong regime, this study tries to analyze the political dynamics among the labor unions, government party, and the chaebol owners' group. The Tripartite Commission has been organized to let the labor unions take some share in the poli … More cy decision-making process in exchange for making its movements more moderate. In a sense, It has been institutionalized to make societal corporatist mechanism take root in Korea. But its actual functions have been very difficult to be fulfilled. On the contrary Korean society is going rapidly along the neo-liberalist ideas without having adequate safety-net. You can know about the details of the process if you read the attached article which title is "the Economic Crisis and the 'Reform' of the Labor-Capital Relations' Regime in Korea."This research project has also analyzed the Korea's foreign policy around 1970, which gives some insights to the analysis of overcoming the economic crisis. Korean government needs to get the support of the governments of such other countries as US and Japan besides the domestic structural reform in order to overcome the crisis. Based on the archival analysis of the US and Korea's diplomatic documents concerning the Vietnam War and ASPAC (the Asia-Pacific Councils), this study abstracts three patterns of Korea's foreign policy according to the various purposes and means of the policy toward US, which are (1) adaptation (2) over-commitment (3) autonomy. The analysis provides very interesting suggestions about how to deal with US and Japan in comparison with the case of the Asian Economic crisis. In this study I have compared Korea's case with the Taiwan's case about their foreign policy late in 1960s. I will try to do more serious comparative study of Korea and Taiwan in overcoming the crisis. I have written an article of which title is 'Three Patterns of South Korea's Foreign Policy in 1960s.' The article will be published as one chapter of the book which is a product of the joint study of Korean and Japanese political scientists. Besides I will write another article of which title is 'The Comparative Study of the Korean and Taiwanese Foreign Policy in 1960s, ' and make its presentation in the International Conference sponsored by the PRONEA, Academia SINICA, Taiwan on March 23-34. Less