Abstract
Few nations have made such rapid strides in industrial development as South Korea. In recent years, numerous publications have addressed the reasons for the country's spectacular industrial ascent, but Jin Cyhn's Technology Transfer and International Production takes up a largely unexplored topic, the efforts of Korean firms to upgrade their technological capabilities [End Page 197] by manufacturing products marketed under familiar labels. Dubbed "original equipment manufacturing" (OEM), this has resulted in a flood of television sets, computer monitors, videocassette recorders, and other products that bear the brand names of well-known Japanese, American, and European companies but in fact have been made in Korean factories.
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