산업화기(1960~70) 한국기업가정신과 유교

Abstract

The research on entrepreneurship began in earnest since the late 1980s. Such an innovative entrepreneurship received the attention of developed countries including USA and Europe. Entrepreneurship in Korea has received attention from the late 1990s. One hundred years passed in Korea since the emergence of modern companies, which include Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd., Hyundai Motor Co., Ltd., POSCO, Hyundai Heavy Industries Co., Ltd.. In addition, global corporations in Korea are increasing and Korea became the world’s 10th trading partner. Korea is the only nation that joined the ranks of developed countries in such a short time. P. Drucker mentioned that Korea in entrepreneurship is the most active nation. Thus, almost every country in the world is interested in Korea’s characteristic entrepreneurship. However, the full story of entrepreneurship in Korea become unknown, because it is hard to find a common denominator from entrepreneurs’ consciousness, view of value, and behaviors. Nonetheless, it is interesting to intermittently appear new research on the relationship between Confucian culture and entrepreneurship in Korea. Because Confucian culture in Korea is distributed as widely and strongly as China, it is highly correlated with European management customs. Although research based on the Eastern philosophical point of view has been actively done, it is relatively scarce to do study from the perspective of economy and management. That is, no research has been done to investigate how a foreign business culture harmonizes with indigenous Confucian culture. This results seem to be the lack of interdisciplinary research. The current study focused on the relationship of negotiation between entrepreneurship and Confucian culture, because the researcher was very curious about how entrepreneurship has been developed during the industrialized period(1960~1970) when the miracle on the Han River based on can-do spirit, paternalism, and business patriotism was achieved. This study attempted to highlight theoretical and practical aspects that Confucianism affected the livelihoods of the public during the Goryeo dynasty(918-1391)) and the Joseon Dynasty(1392-1910). In addition, the present study focused on the process that the view of gain thinks of righteousness along with the influx of the Western culture at the end of 19th century is established to Confucian capitalism of the unity of gain and righteousness under Japanese imperialism. Confucian management philosophy became parent trees of Korean entrepreneurship for the industrialized period. A Korean Confucian capitalism model could be identified from business activity by Kim Sung-soo, founder of Kyungbang Co., Ltd. However, this study is just a start due to the researcher’s the little lack of ability and limited data.