Both Koreas answered colonial disruption with directive corporatism

Evidence

Yet since 1953 and the end of the war, the governments in both north and south, the Democratic People’s Republic and the Republic, have attempted to contain the lasting consequences of these disruptions in exactly the same way. The DPRK has had what might be described as its ‘corporate familism’ with a self-described ‘great leader’ in the Confucian manner; the ROK, directed in the 1960s and 1970s by a man who had been an officer in the Japanese army, has had its ‘New Spirit’ movement. In the one, there has been a direction and nominally socialist corporatism; in the other, a directive and nominally capitalist one. — Diego Gambetta, Trust - Making and Breaking Cooperative…, 1635

Categorization

• XREF: North and South Korea mirroring each other’s directive corporatism despite opposite nominal ideologies echoes the Cold War structure the reader is already studying.