1950년대 이승만정권의 대한조선공사 경영정상화 추진 과정과 귀결

Abstract

This article analyzes the process of the Rhee Syngman regime's promotion of normalization of management of the Korea Shipbuilding Corporation in the 1950s and confirms the results. To mention the results first, there were policy efforts such as expanding facilities and seeking privatization, but the results were insignificant. Attempts to build large ships through facility expansion, which began with the government-led planned shipbuilding, and attempts to privatize them for management efficiency were not properly made. The reason why Korea Shipbuilding Corporation's management normalization efforts failed to produce results can be pointed out from various angles such as policy, management, and market. However, the fundamental reason was that 10 years, including three years of war, were not enough to fill the insufficient capital and technology of the large shipyard, which had virtually only facilities left after liberation, with only policy efforts. As a result, private entrepreneurs with capital and management capabilities that can generate profits and grow by efficiently operating heavy industry factories that require huge amounts of funds have not grown. Although huge funds were invested through finance and aid, accumulation of technology enough to compete with foreign used ships in the domestic market still needed time. As the failure to normalize management led to worsening management, the only way left for the government, which excluded the dismantling of the shipyard from the solution option, was “a return to the inevitable state-run system.” The Rhee Syngman regime stopped its privatization drive and reviewed the return to the state-run, but it collapsed in a situation where it could not reach a conclusion. Following the Chang Myone regime that ended in the search for a solution, the Park Chung-hee regime re-established the Korea Shipbuilding Corporation Act as a special law in 1962, returning the Korea Shipbuilding Corporation to the state-run system. Looking at the management system alone, the Korea Shipbuilding Corporation went back to the 1950s.