Engineering Cultures Assignment 2022

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Part 1
Park Chung Hee had a very good engineer ́s plan of national economic development in
the year 1970s, the president presented banners to some selected secondary schools. The students
could take longer time training in their specific industries. This enables the students to get trained
for being industrial technicians1. The student starts the training in their early life and this
exposes them to the industry thus they get a lot of the required experience in the job market. In
the year, President Park announced a new way of developing chemical and heavy industries
producing heavy equipment, steel, and large scale chemicals. The engineering schools the
president had set aside would give experience labor and support his programs of setting these big
companies2.
During this time the president would provide incentives and economic support to the
family-owned industries which showed a quick growth in exports. Due to the lack of material
resources to develop advanced chemical and heavy industries, the president assists in obtaining
the license of companies and protecting them from other developed firms in other countries3.
President ́s good status plan was energetically supported by the second economy activities and
economy of spirit where he helped in scaling up his vision for techno educational advancements
1 Almeida, Heitor, Sang Yong Park, Marti G. Subrahmanyam, and Daniel Wolfenzon. "The
structure and formation of business groups: Evidence from Korean chaebols." Journal of
Financial Economics 99, no. 2 (2011): 447-475.
2 Byun, Kiyong, and Minjung Kim. "Shifting patterns of the government’s policies for the
internationalization of Korean higher education." Journal of Studies in International Education
15, no. 5 (2011): 467-486.
3 Kym, Inyoung, and Moon Hyun Kym. "Students' Perceptions of EMI in Higher Education in
Korea." Journal of Asia TEFL 11, no. 2 (2014).

via industrialization. Park supported the construction of new infrastructures in the rural to attract
villagers to help in the development of these industries.
After the death of Park, his programs elevated technicians (engineers) to scholar icon
officials of his mental nationality image. By the 1980s there was leadership and democratic shift
of industrial development to Chaebols from the government. By the beginning of 1990, there was
a new economic competitiveness image to substitute the anti-communism of the error of Park.
The chemical and heavy industries were then substituted with communication, electronic and
information technologies and training of citizens to fit the new job. Male engineers lost visibility
and coherence as the technological icons which made them to strengthen a sense of service from
both male and female engineers in a new status, as individual experts.
Part 2
From the video, we see that Korean society during the 1990s was very committed to
improving the industrial status of the country. There were a support that was obtained from
leaders where they also organized some labor movements to ensure that the workers were highly
protected and could easily air out their views4. There were several training schools which had
been started by President Park to assist in the training of technical courses. Even though by the
year 1990 after the death of president Park the heavy and chemical industries were changed to
electronic and information companies the students could still learn the skills of the new
expertise. Students at younger ages could get practical training in these schools and they can
4 Glassman, Jim, and Young-Jin Choi. "The Chaebol and the US military-industrial complex:
Cold War geopolitical economy and South Korean industrialization." Environment and Planning
A 46, no. 5 (2014): 1160-1180.