在过去两年中,韩国的经济已经从1997年东亚经济危机中恢复过来,速度比任何人预料得都快。事实上,韩国已经成为国际货币基金组织(IMF)的“自由市场”或“新自由主义”经济结构调整的新广告,而IMF正在向发展中世界持怀疑态度的公众推销这套结构调整方案。2000年初,IMF就开始兜售韩国从危机中“戏剧性复苏”。不仅韩国的出口高于危机以前,而且,IMF高兴地声称,“在过去两年中,大胆的政策和对改革的承诺已经使韩国成为一个更加开放,更有竞争力,更市场导向的经济体。” In the past two years, South Korea’s economy has recovered from the 1997 East Asian economic crisis at a rate faster than anyone expected. In fact, South Korea has become a new advertisement for the “free market” or “neoliberal” economic restructuring of the International Monetary Fund (IMF), which is currently promoting the structural adjustment to the skeptical public in the developing world. In early 2000, the IMF began selling South Korea’s “dramatic recovery” from the crisis. Not only has South Korea’s exports outpaced the crisis, but the IMF is pleased to state that “in the past two years, bold policies and commitment to reform have made South Korea a more open, competitive and market-oriented economy ”