IT Development in Korea

A Broadband Nirvana?

Kwang-Suk Lee (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

182 Seiten

2015
Routledge (Verlag)
978-1-138-85816-9 (ISBN)

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This book investigates the contextual factors that led to Korean society becoming ‘broadband heaven’ — the most wired nation in the world — by scrutinizing the historical contexts surrounding the Korean Information Infrastructure (KII) project (1995–2005), which aimed to establish a nationwide high-speed backbone network, as well as its later evolution, which involved redesigning the public infrastructure.

The book details the hidden mechanisms and the real elements of building the ‘broadband heaven’: the global constraints conditioning its telecom policies, the dense state–capital linkages, and the bureaucratic desire for social control. It draws on the state-in-society approach to analyze the deformations caused by the symbiosis between the state and big business in implementing the rosy vision of the broadband network. This book provides insights into how to formulate future telecom policies along much more democratically participatory lines while restraining the overwhelming power of the telecom oligopolies and conglomerates. It stands alone as a comprehensive study of the recent East Asian model of IT development, written specifically to examine Korea’s socio-historical mechanisms for promoting physical speed and broadband mobility.

This book will be important reading to anyone interested in Korean Studies, Information Technology and I.T. Development.

Kwan-Suk Lee is an assistant professor in the Graduate School of Public Policy and Information Technology at Seoul National University of Science and Technology, Seoul, South Korea; and Honorary Visiting Fellow at the University of Wollongong, Australia.

Introduction: South Korea as Broadband Heaven? 1. The Political Economy of Networked Mobility: A Theoretical Overview 2. From a Physical Infrastructure to a Virtual Infrastructure in Modern Korea 3. Local Telecommunications Policy within the Digital Mode of Global Capitalism 4. The State–Business Symbiosis in Korea’s Broadband Infrastructure Plan 5. The Transformation of State Surveillance Practices toward a Grid of Control Conclusion: Beyond a Developmental State Model

Reihe/Serie	Routledge Advances in Korean Studies
Zusatzinfo	13 Tables, black and white; 17 Line drawings, black and white
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	156 x 234 mm
Gewicht	294 g
Themenwelt	Mathematik / Informatik ► Informatik ► Netzwerke
	Mathematik / Informatik ► Informatik ► Theorie / Studium
	Mathematik / Informatik ► Informatik ► Web / Internet
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Kommunikation / Medien ► Medienwissenschaft
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Spezielle Soziologien
	Wirtschaft ► Betriebswirtschaft / Management ► Wirtschaftsinformatik
ISBN-10	1-138-85816-1 / 1138858161
ISBN-13	978-1-138-85816-9 / 9781138858169
Zustand	Neuware