一、引论本文旨在探究在过去的半个世纪中,在韩国语境下,法律怎样能够和发展(尤其是经济发展)有意义地联系起来。二战后,韩国成为世界上为数不多的几个能够成功进行民主化的同时还能使经济迅速增长的国家之一。仅仅在半个世纪的时间里,韩国社会实现了民主化政治发展以及市场经 I. INTRODUCTION The purpose of this article is to explore how law can be meaningfully linked to development (especially economic development) in the past half a century in the Korean context. After World War II, South Korea became one of the few countries in the world that succeeded in democratizing while at the same time rapidly growing its economy. In half a century’s time, Korean society has achieved the democratization of political development and the market economy