A Schumpeterian Analysis of the Saemaul Undong Movement in 1970s South Korea within the CDD Framework 1 Djun Kil Kim In the 1970s, the Park Chung Hee government launched the Saemaul Undong (New Village) Movement to address the widening urban-rural income gap. This is often interpreted as a politically- motivated project due to the fact that promoting the SU movement requires a political system capable of sufficient gathering of resources. This paper takes on a different perspective in looking at the com- ponents of the SU movement. The goal of this paper is two-pronged: to identify elements of Community-Driven Development (CDD) in the SU movement, and to analyze the SU movement using Schumpeterian concepts in order to draw some implications from the SU model for the economic development in the developing world. While the movement was implemented prior to the conception of CDD as a framework, the elements of CDD of community participation, civic capacities and *Professorial & Research Chair of Samsung Korean Studies Program, College of Arts & Sciences, University of Asia & the Pacific, Pearl Drive, Ortigas Center, Pasig City 1605, Philippines. (E-mail):
[email protected], (Tel): +63 2 637 0912 to 26 loc. 287, (Fax): +63 2 637 0912 to 26 loc. 369. This paper reproduced through a Schumpeterian lens the Asia Development Bank report “The Saemaul Undong Movement in the Republic of Korea: Sharing Knowledge on Community-Driven Development” done by the author as a con- sultant to the ADB regional capacity development technical assistance project, Sharing Knowledge on CDD in Asia and the Pacific (RETA 7543) in 2010-11.