Oliver Kim

Oliver Kim is the expert voice in Getting entrepreneurial in Korea (Summer School). He explains South Korea as a development case built from partial advantages, Land Reform And Equality In Development, Strategic Industrial Policy, and Export Discipline, then uses Bangladesh and North Korea to test what parts of that model transfer.

His source role is comparative rather than biographical. He links the East Asian Tigers to rapid convergence, treats garment production as an early Industrial Ladder rung, introduces Flying Geese Model, and argues that North Korea has entrepreneurial talent but suppresses growth because alternative centers of market power threaten the state.

Connections

• Planet Money - show context for the Summer School source.
• South Korea, Bangladesh, and North Korea - main country cases.
• Export Discipline, Industrial Ladder, Flying Geese Model, and Marxist-Leninist State Capacity - concepts he explains in the source.