History of Korean modern retailing
Subtitle: repressed consumption and retail industry, perceived equality and economic growth
By: by Jong-Hyun Yi
Publisher: Brill
Published: 2015
Place of publication: Boston
Language: eng
Number of pages: 268
ISBN-13: 9789004274211; 9789004274228
Subjects: Social stratification; Department stores; Retail trade; Economic development; History
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Acknowledgements; title: Laws and regulations of the retail industry; title: Note on romanisation; title: Theories and framework; title: Introduction; title: Literature review; title: Theoretical framework; title: Hypotheses; title: Data and methodology; title: Backward, unstratified retail industry and rapid economic growth in the 1970s; title: Overview of rapid economic growth in the 1970s; title: Backwardness of the retail industry in the 1970s; title: Consumption repression, frugal consumers and passive retail industry in rapid economic growth in the 1970s; title: Collective behaviour of frugal consumers in the 1970s; title: The limitation of department stores; title: Modernising, stratifying retail industry and rapid economic growth since the 1980s: the golden age of the department store industry I; title: The state of inequality since the 1980s; title: Stratifying retail industry in expansion of the retail industry : modern department store vs. traditional market; title: Consumption liberalisation, aggressive consumers and active retail industry in rapid economic growth since the 1980s; title: The change of the political environment; title: The beginning and the expansion of consumer finance; title: Emergence of mass consumption; title: The change of strategy by the department store industry; title: 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; title: The financial crisis and lower economic growth since the mid-1990s; title: The aggravation of inequality and the shrinking of consumption; title: Return of the department stores to luxury goods with the stratification of the retail industry; title: Distinctive evolution of Korean retailing : theoretical consideration and contemporary developments; title: The short heyday of the department store; title: The limitation of the conflict theory in the korean retail industry; title: The different trajectory of retail evolution : the Korean-style discount store format; title: Conclusion; title: Epilogue: Korean retailing since the 2000s; title: Bibliography; title: Index.