National Security, Knowledge Transfer, and the Making of Industry and Technology Policies(1967-1976)；“A Similar Project Being Constructed in Taiwan”: Fertilizer Plant and the US-Taiwan-South Korea Engineering Network during the 1950s

Date(s)： 2023/04/14

Time： 15:00~17:00

Venue： Research 1st Meeting Room

Host： 雷祥麟教授（近史所研究員兼所長）

Speaker：Prof. Chao Hsiang-Ke (Department Economics, NTHU University); Juyoung Lee (Ph.D. Candidate, Johns Hopkins University; Taiwan Fellowship Visiting Scholar, Institute of STS, National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University)

Organizer： IMH「科技與現代東亞的歷史共構」共同研究專題

“A Similar Project Being Constructed in Taiwan”: Fertilizer Plant and the US-Taiwan-South Korea Engineering Network during the 1950s
 Juyoung Lee (Ph.D. Candidate, Johns Hopkins University; Taiwan Fellowship Visiting Scholar, Institute of Science, Technology and Society, National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University)
 When engineering projects for postwar rehabilitation and nation-building flourished in East Asia during the 1950s, national governments and multilateral organizations relied on outsourced engineering expertise for their construction projects. From preliminary planning to post-construction training, every process of the projects provided a market for engineering companies. American engineering companies competitively entered this East Asian market, jumping from one country to another to sell their knowledge services. This presentation takes the construction of fertilizer plants as a case study to demonstrate how American companies carried knowledge, experience, and human networks between Taiwan and South Korea. Using archival sources from the US, Taiwan, and South Korea, this presentation argues that the ground-level interactions of the three countries’ triangular engineering networks shaped the industrial landscape of East Asia.
 

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