Japan claims that Korea could develop due to modernized social overhead capital that Japan built during colony.
There are some arguments about this claim so I want to ask your opinion.
Korea economy growth and Japan
Hunter Flores
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Zachary Bailey
I can not say that Japan has no influence at all. But the Korean War would have destroyed many of the social overhead capital. And they have installed more economic facilities in North Korea, but now South Korea lives better? This means that the efforts after the liberation had a greater impact on economic growth.
Jaxon Scott
fucking MB
Alexander Lee
IMF is more fuck.
Easton Kelly
japanese support wasn't confined to colonial period though. post-war aid was also very important. nk was richer than sk until 70s or so since japan left more heavy industry infrastructure there than we did in sk and they went south as it wore down, while sk got an array of new infrastructure and technology essential for development through extensive supports from japan (and america) again after the 1965 treaty for rapprochement. foundation of POSCO with japanese support for example ushered in the period of rapid growth which you call miracle; steel is the cornerstone of an industrialized country, you know.
>In the 1960s, South Korean administration concluded that self-sufficiency in steel and the construction of an integrated steelworks were essential to economic development.[citation needed] Since South Korea had not possessed a modern steel plant prior to 1968,[5] many foreign and domestic businesses were skeptical of Seoul's decision to invest so heavily in developing its own industry,[citation needed]
>Japan provided the money for the construction of the initial plant, following an agreement made at the Third South Korea-Japan Ministerial Meeting in 1969.[6] Financing included US$119million in government grants and loans,[7][8] US$54 million in credit from the Export-Import Bank of Japan, and technical assistance from Nippon Steel and other corporations.[6][9] This cooperation was one consequence of the normalization of relations with Japan in 1965 and reflected the view of the government of Japan as noted in the Nixon-Sato communique of November 21, 1969, that "the national security of the Republic of Korea is essential to the security of Japan."[10]
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Leo Gomez
>the government banned working more than 52 hours a week
>Korean families cry because they won't be able to make a living now
such is life in "developed" hell Korea
if we worked 55-70 hours/week, we'd have the same GDP per capita and salaries like Koreans. Korean GDP per hour is very low, literally Eastern European tier
nothing to be proud of
Kevin Butler
Why Korean and Japs are always fighting?
Grayson Myers
cuz we're all monkeies
Sebastian Reyes
구강 성교해도 되나요?
Evan Watson
THEY do activity to diminish us in liars.
Chase Sanders
Gabriel Campbell
Koreans won't stop lying about Japan, they're obsessed
Sebastian Long
GDP per capital is not salaries
Brandon Diaz
But you work 70 hours/week, while Europeans work for 35-40 hours week max.
But it is related
Joseph Hall
in 2018
Koreans work 52 hours a week.
Overtime is illegal.
Your information is old information.
And Korea's minimum hourly wage is 8350 won
This is about $ 7 to $ 8, higher than Japan.
Logan Collins
>Korea's minimum hourly wage is 8350 won
that gave fatal damages to one-person business. Lol
and now nobody can stop a few financial groups that are actually ruling South Korea. Moron
Camden Parker
> in other words, there were nearly fifteen Japanese officials in KoreaforeveryFrenchadministratorinVietnam.27 ThepresenceofKorean bureaucrats,trainedandemployedbytheJapanese,wasalsosizable:Nearly 40,000 Koreans qualified as government officials on the eve of the Second WorldWar.WhilemostoftheKoreansdidnotoccupyseniorpositionsinthe colonialgovernment,therecanbelittledoubtthattheybecameanintegral part of a highly bureaucratic form of government over the four decades of colonial rule. Moreover, during the Second World War, as the demand for Japanese officials grew elsewhere, many Koreans moved up in the bureaucratic hierarchy. This sizable cadre of Japanese-trained Korean bureaucrats virtually took over the day-to-day running of a truncated South Korea, first under American military government and eventually when a sovereign state was formed.
State-Directed Development: Political Power and Industrialization in the Global Periphery, page 35.
Wyatt Bailey
korea owes a great debt to japan.
life in korea was much better for koreans when it was ruled by japan
Luis Flores
>A third pattern concerns the geographical distribution of industry. Those wishing to deny continuities with the colonial period again point to the fact that much of the industry was located in the north and was thus not inherited by South Korea. Although this is partly true, insofar as the largest chemical and other heavy industries were indeed located in the northern provinces, a number of qualifications are called for. The chemical, metal, and electricity generating industries, which were concentrated in the north, constituted 30, 8, and 2.2 percent, respectively, of the total industrial production in 1938,93 for a total of some 40 percent. But nearly half of all industry was probably located in the south.94 The nature of southern industries was also distinct, tending to be in such fields as food processing, textiles, machines and tools, and tobacco-related industries. By contrast, the industries in the north were highly capital-intensive, high-cost production units that were not well integrated into the local economy. Northern industries were much more likely to evolve into white elephants, requiring continuous and extensive maintenance and upgrading, rather than into nimble, labor-intensive exporters of consumer products.
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Nolan Barnes
>The average annual rate of growth in industry (including mining and manufacturing) during 1910–40 was nearly 10 percent; and by 1940, nearly 35 percent of the total commodity production originated in the industrial sector.69 While analyzing the why and how of this experience, as well as its long-term significance, the main point is not that South Korea somehow inherited a relatively industrialized economy. It did not! A fair amount of the heavy industry was located in the north and significant industrial concentrations were destroyed during the Korean War. Nevertheless, a war-destroyed economy with an experience of rapid industrialization behind it is quite different from a tradition-bound, stagnating, agrarian economy. In the former the institutions and practices of industrialization–the knowledge and ideas associated with industrialization – continue to live on.
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Pic related is page 42, outlining differences in effectiveness between the Japanese colonial state and the former Yi kingdom.
Asher Robinson
That should address every point you raised.