The Mobilization Clinic: The Legacy of the Korean Developmental State in the KoreaAID Project in Ethiopia

KoreaAID, the new international development initiative of the South Korean government, was launched in Ethiopia in 2016 during the Park, Geun-Hye administration. Despite their critical stances towards promoting the Korean developmental state model in Ethiopia, Korean aid workers voluntarily sacrificed individual life and morality by mobilizing a vast number of their partners and rural residents who had collaborated in the New Village Movements and family planning projects they had implemented in Ethiopia. I examine calculative rationalities and mobilizations via mobile medical units as the legacies of the Korean Developmental State among Korean aid workers in their voluntary mobilization for KoreaAID project.