Overview: Presents long-run time series economic data for Korea for the first time.Helps explore the historical background of the South Korean growth miracle.Covers all major economic sectors comprehensively.This book presents economic statistics of Korea in the past three centuries, focusing on the century following 1910. The data, typically time series rather than cross-sectional, are given in 22 chapters, which refer to population, wages, prices, education, health, national income and wealth, and technology, among others. Rather than simply putting together available data, the contributors
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