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In the 1960s South Korea embarked on full-blown economic development and achieved a certain measure of progress. In 1995 the country’s per capita GDP surpassed $10,000 for the first time, and in the following year it joined the OECD, thereby entering the ranks of the developed countries. Very rapid industrialization and urbanization have occurred in South Korea through this process of economic development.
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The rate for South Korea comes from the 1996 Environment White Paper by South Korea’s Environment Ministry, while that for Japan is from the Environment Agency’s Quality of the Environment in Japan, 1996 edition.
First Comprehensive National Development Plan, 1972, p. 82.
In fact, in interviews conducted by one of the authors (Cheong Deoksu) in the Ulsan area, a factory manager said he gets by with paying light fines even if he does not pay emission surcharges. Apparently there are some recent instances in which factories received criminal penalties.
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Japan Enviromental Council. (2000). Republic of Korea. In: The State of the Environment in Asia. Springer, Tokyo. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-4-431-68380-3_6
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