1980년대 정주영의 탈이념적 남북경협과 북방경제권 구상

Abstract

As the 1980s passed Chung Ju-yung suggested that North-south economic union and Northern economic zone initiative would connect North Korea and the "limitless vault of natural resources" in Siberia and Manchuria to the South Korean domestic market and to demand for raw materials required for the production of goods and products for export. In Chung's first visit to the North in January of 1989, he bypasses the ambiguous and passive process of the government's 'incompetent" to disentangle North-South relations in order to pursue a plan of "opening North Korea" along the principle of free enterprise. Faced with the realities of the Korean economy's reduction in productivity, Chung quality as a creative and commonsensical businessman can be seen in his push to overcome the wall of national division and confront the mitigating factors in order to create a place on the Asian continent where free enterprises led by the people could unfold. However, this commonsense businessman was only one person, the roots of the Cold War in Korean society were deep and Korea industry's low level of retrocedence indicates as much.