Moon Manyong
Korea Research Institute for the History of Science, Technology and Civilization, South Korea.
Hist Sci (Tokyo). 2012;21(3):161-73.
In South Korea, the Green Revolution has been commonly understood as the development and dissemination of new rice varieties ('Tongil' rice) and the rapid increase of rice yield in the 1970s. However, revolutionary success in agriculture was not the only green revolution South Korea experienced; another green revolution lay in the success of reforestation projects. In the 1970s, South Korea's forest greening was closely related to its agricultural revolution in several ways. Therefore, South Korea's Green Revolution was an intrinsically linked double feature of agriculture and forestry. This two-pronged revolution was initiated by scientific research - yet accomplished by the strong administrative mobilization of President Park Chung Hee's regime. The process of setting goals and meeting them through a military-like strategy in a short time was made possible under the authoritarian regime, known as 'Yushin', though the administration failed to fully acknowledge scientific expertise in the process of pushing to achieve goals.
在韩国，绿色革命通常被理解为20世纪70年代新水稻品种（“统一”水稻）的开发与推广以及水稻产量的迅速增长。然而，农业领域的革命性成功并非韩国经历的唯一一次绿色革命；另一次绿色革命在于造林项目的成功。在20世纪70年代，韩国的森林绿化在几个方面与农业革命密切相关。因此，韩国的绿色革命本质上是农业和林业相互关联的双重特征。这场双管齐下的革命由科学研究发起，但却是通过朴正熙政权强有力的行政动员才得以实现。在被称为“维新”的独裁政权下，通过类似军事的战略在短时间内设定目标并实现目标的过程成为可能，尽管政府在推动实现目标的过程中未能充分认可科学专业知识。
