ABSTRACT
The plethora of theoretical and empirical reviews on how South Korea has been swiftly modernised for a successful case of economic and political development converges upon the diverse aspects of the developmental state in the process of its state-building and modernisation. The Korean developmental state keeps evolving, with multifaceted characteristics from its old industrial coalition with the business sector, to a democratic developmental state. The totality of the Korean experiences as the developmental state can be recast against the backdrop of new theorising about the state and society and reconsidered as the crucial evidence to identify and postulate developmental propinquity to Northeast Asia beyond Korea.
