The macro impacts of Korea's Heavy industry drive re‐evaluated
重新评估韩国重工业驱动政策，指出其虽受批评但不应承担过多指责，该政策通过吸引廉价外资加速结构转型，但项目集中实施导致执行能力紧张。
The Korean heavy industry (HCI) drive has been criticised for the misallocation of capital and for negative spillover effects on growth, inflation, the current account and debt. However, such criticism places too much blame on HCI for the late ‐ 1970s' economic deterioration and gives HCI insufficient credit for the subsequent economic rebound. Korean HCI was a catch‐up exercise which attracted cheap foreign capital to accelerate structural change. Nevertheless, the mid‐1970s' decision to pursue HCI as a Big Push was flawed since it did result in project bunching that strained implementation capacity, despite the safeguards which Korea built into its HCI strategy.