Politics of Scale and the Globalization of the South Korean Automobile Industry
研究了韩国政府如何从保护主义转向自由化政策，吸引外资并推动汽车产业全球化，重点分析了国家与地方力量之间的博弈对政策转变的影响。
Abstract: This article explains the liberalization and globalization of the South Korean automobile industry, with an emphasis on the multiscalar processes of globalization. In particular, it explores the processes by which the South Korean government shifted its policy for the automobile industry, from a nationalist and protectionist orientation toward liberalization in the late 1990s, which, in turn, attracted inward investments from foreign automakers and facilitated the globalization of the nation's automobile market. While exploring the roles of diverse actors and forces—operating at various geographic scales—in these processes, I placed more analytical weight on examining the ways in which contestation between national and local forces contributed to the government's liberalization policy. I argue that the globalization of the South Korean automobile industry in recent years was not only an outcome of the globalizing strategies of foreign automakers, but also was facilitated by an institutional fix by the nation‐state (particularly the liberalization of policy) to a regulatory deficit, which stemmed from the national‐local tension with respect to a state‐led economic restructuring project.