Robert Wade Institute of Development Studies, University of Sussex, Brighton, Sussex, UK.

• 1 State control and irrigation; 2 South Korean agriculture, administration and irrigation; 3 SY (a pseudonym) Farmland Improvement Association; 4 The organization of main functions; 5 The farmers and the system; 6 SY FLIA as government bureaucracy and social group: 7 Irrigation reform and the comparative study of irrigation organization; 8 State control and interpretations of South Korean development.

Robert Wade Institute of Development Studies, University of Sussex, Brighton, Sussex, UK.

• 1 State control and irrigation; 2 South Korean agriculture, administration and irrigation; 3 SY (a pseudonym) Farmland Improvement Association; 4 The organization of main functions; 5 The farmers and the system; 6 SY FLIA as government bureaucracy and social group: 7 Irrigation reform and the comparative study of irrigation organization; 8 State control and interpretations of South Korean development.