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Yu-Min Joo,Yooil Bae,Eva Kassens-Noor's Mega-Events and Mega-Ambitions: South Korea’s Rise and the PDF

By Yu-Min Joo,Yooil Bae,Eva Kassens-Noor

ISBN-10: 1137531126

ISBN-13: 9781137531124

This e-book presents a holistic research of South Korea’s strategic use of mega-events in its smooth improvement. It examines the summer time Olympics (1988), the area Expo (1993), the FIFA international Cup (2002), and the iciness Olympics (2018) over the last 30 years of the country’s swift development, and throughout various phases of financial and political improvement. It explains how mega-events helped to safe South Korea’s place at the foreign degree, enhance nationalism, propel monetary progress in export-oriented nationwide businesses, and construct towns that accommodate – in addition to symbolize – South Korea’s development. It thereby highlights the wider implications for today’s international phenomenon of accelerating reliance on mega-events as a catalyst for improvement, whereas the feedback that mega-events do extra damage than reliable proliferates. The e-book is perfect for teachers, policymakers, and people with an curiosity in mega-events and their function within the improvement of non-western countries.

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