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1 online resource |
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data file |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Acknowledgements -- Laws and regulations of the retail industry -- Note on romanisation -- Theories and framework -- Introduction -- Literature review -- Theoretical framework -- Hypotheses -- Data and methodology -- Backward, unstratified retail industry and rapid economic growth in the 1970s -- Overview of rapid economic growth in the 1970s -- Backwardness of the retail industry in the 1970s -- Consumption repression, frugal consumers and passive retail industry in rapid economic growth in the 1970s -- Collective behaviour of frugal consumers in the 1970s -- The limitation of department stores -- Modernising, stratifying retail industry and rapid economic growth since the 1980s: the golden age of the department store industry I -- The state of inequality since the 1980s -- Stratifying retail industry in expansion of the retail industry : modern department store vs. traditional market -- Consumption liberalisation, aggressive consumers and active retail industry in rapid economic growth since the 1980s -- The change of the political environment -- The beginning and the expansion of consumer finance -- Emergence of mass consumption -- The change of strategy by the department store industry -- The stratified retail industry and the sign of relatively low economic growth since the middle of the 1990s : the golden age of the department store industry II -- The financial crisis and lower economic growth since the mid-1990s -- The aggravation of inequality and the shrinking of consumption -- Return of the department stores to luxury goods with the stratification of the retail industry -- Distinctive evolution of Korean retailing : theoretical consideration and contemporary developments -- The short heyday of the department store -- The limitation of the conflict theory in the korean retail industry -- The different trajectory of retail evolution : the Korean-style discount store format -- Conclusion -- Epilogue: Korean retailing since the 2000s -- Bibliography -- Index. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Retail trade -- Korea (South) -- History.
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Retail trade. |
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Korea (South) |
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History. |
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Department stores -- Korea (South) -- History.
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Department stores. |
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Economic development -- Korea (South) -- History.
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Economic development. |
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Social stratification -- Korea (South) -- History.
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Social stratification. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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History.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Yi, Jong-Hyun. History of Korean modern retailing 9789004274211 (DLC) 2015028925 (OCoLC)915135818 |
| ISBN |
9789004274228 (electronic book) |
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9004274227 (electronic book) |
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9789004274211 |
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9004274219 |
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