ABSTRACT
In this chapter, the South Korean state-agricultural sector relationship is explored through analysis of changes in a pivotal agricultural sector organization, the National Agricultural Cooperative Federation (NACF or nonghyop in Korean). The NACF, like many organizations in South Korean society that were established during the period of bureaucratic authoritarian rule (1961–1987), bears the mark of strong state intervention. As Koo has stated, ‘Hardly anything socially consequential in South Korea is left untouched by the regulatory actions of the state, and few groups in society exist without some kind of state sanction.’1 NACF organizational development exemplifies state creation and manipulation of the organizational sinews of societal sectors in South Korea.
