ABSTRACT
This chapter outlines a historical sketch of the Korean human resource management (HRM) system from the Japanese colonial period up to 1987. In order to delineate this historical trajectory, we have divided it into three different periods: (1) the Japanese colonial period (1910-1945); (2) the transitional and rebuilding period after national independence (1945-1961); and (3) industrialization (1962-1987).
