South Korea's Green Revolution : the story of T'ongil

• Main Author: Lee, Livia Yu Ting
• Other Authors: Hallam Stevens
• Format: Final Year Project
• Language: English
• Published: Nanyang Technological University 2022
• Subjects: Humanities::History::Asia::Korea
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/155959
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

In 1978, South Korea announced the success of its Green Revolution. Central to this success was the high-yielding variety (HYV), T’ongil. At the same time, the name T’ongil directly expresses the reunification of the Korean peninsula. How do we then make sense of the creation of this HYV especially...