Is there a bigger succes story than this?

>used to be an agrarian dictatorship devastated by war only a couple of decades ago with barely any industry to speak of
>small population and no natural resources to speak of
>state introduced a brutal but effective education capaign
>nowadays it's one of the most technologically advanced countries in the world, with a booming industry, educated people and a first rate standard of living
They should be an example to us all.

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>They should be an example to us all.
We should all become US satellite to join a get-rich-quick scheme only to have the world's most suicidal population and adopt a work ethic akin to robots?

Pretty much that also happened to the other three Asian Tigers, and nowadays it's also happening in Macau and China and to a lesser extend in other countries like Chile, UAE or Malaysia.

>educated people and a first rate standard of living

poppycock

Proof free markets and capitalism make everything better.

Shanghai was declared a Special Economic Zone in 1991, now it's the only non-shit area in China.

It is because Korea used Japan and America well.
South Korea is defending North Korea and China,
Japan was forced to support Korea.

Until the 1990s, Korea was a backward country,
It was collapsing in 1997 due to the Asian economic crisis.
Since then, the United States and Japan have started to attack Korea economically.
(Do not believe 100% of America)

Since South Korea 's President 'Kim Dae jung' has overcome the IMF crisis, South Korea has reached its present state.

The ineffective, corrupt Korean big corporations went bankrupt and made them compete abroad.
Daewoo, Korea's second-largest conglomerate, went bankrupt during this period.
(Until the 90's, Korean companies were poor companies.)

In the case of Taiwan, which was similar to that of Korea, until the early 2000s, it was richer than Korea, and even downplayed Koreans.

However, Taiwan was satisfied with subcontracting Japanese and American companies.
Taiwan did not make their own big company.

However, Korea has started to make its own company brand and to challenge into the world.
(In fact, this is because Korea did not believe in Japan and America.)

At first, the world laughed at Korean products and Korean companies
However, Korea did not give up until the end and challenged and achieved various achievements.
(Many countries fail at this stage: Brazil, Russia, Malaysia, etc.)

Since the 90s, Korea has started to cultivate cultural industries and has started to build IT infrastructure quickly.

This is because the 21st century was expected to be the era of culture and information.
Eventually, by the year 2012, the Korean Culture was dominant in Asia.

It is the fourth industrial revolution era in the future.
(AI, Big Data, Automatic Operation, 3D Printer, Virtual Reality, Semiconductor, Robot, etc.)
A country that quickly reads this era and plans first, will remain the most successful country In the next 10 to 20 years,

no.
Thailand, the Philippines, Malaysia, South America and so on all adopted capitalism and the free market system. But it failed.
That is not all.

I have never seen any South korean to be happy.

based!

Britain is also dominated by the United States.

The present age can not resist the power of the United States.

And in proportion to population, plastic surgery is more common in Europe, America, and South American countries than Korea.