Suh Sang-Chul (1935–1983) was a South Korean economist, educator and administrator.

Biography

He was born as a son of the father, Suh Chang-sun who ran a

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business and the mother, Gwak Bok-sun in

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province in 1935. As Suh graduated

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in 1954, he entered College of Commerce at

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. In 1955, he went to the

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to study, and finished his undergraduate and graduate studies at the Economics Department of

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in 1958 and the following year respectively. Suh focused on studying economic development at

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under the direction of internationally renowned scholar,

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and received his doctorate degree in 1964.서상철 徐相喆
(in Korean) Nate /

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As Suh worked as a professor at Clark University, and at the

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, he experiencing a sense of the international economy and educational experience in economics. In 1972, Suh returned to South Korea and worked as a professor at Department of Economy,

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. Suh also actively participated in developing economic policies, so he served as a member of Foreign Economic Committee in 1973, Tax System Audit Committee, and a director representative of the South Korean branch of the World Bank. He served as Vice-Minister of Construction and then was appointed as Minister of Power Resource in 1982. He died in the

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incident in Burma in 1983 in his performance of his duties during an unofficial tour of President Chun Doo-hwan's to Southwest Asia and Oceania. Suh was posthumously awarded an honorary

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s by his alma mater Clark University in 1984.

Works

*Papers **경제성장에 관한 한국모형 (trans. ''Korea Model on Economic Growth''), (1975) (in Korean) **남북한의 공업화유형비교 (trans. ''Comparison of North and South Korea's Industrialization type'') (1976) (in Korean) *Books **''A Study of Regional Development in Korea'', (1978), Asiatic Research Center, Korea University Press **''Growth and Structural Changes in the Korean Economy, 1910∼1940'' (1976), Cambridge: Council on East Asian Studies, Harvard University

Awards

*Economist Award by '' Maeil Gyeongje Sinmun'' in 1975 *Blue Stripes, Order of Service Merit posthumously awarded in 1983

References

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