How Did South Korea Industrialize in 20 Years?

[jankren]

Some people say South Korea's instant economic transformation was nothing sort of magical. It took them only 20 years from an agricultural country under dictatorial regime into an industrialized democratic country.

So how did they do it?

[Hookah Smoking Caterpiller]

[jankren]

South Korea isnt Japan.

[Kamos]

Don't be silly Benjamin Franklin is dead, it was probably just financial backing from the US.

[BNS]

Trade and Globalization.

[The Devil's Sergeant]

Sweat shops are wonderful things.

[justicar5]

Sweat shops are wonderful things.

right up their with concentration camps (note Concentration, not death camps) in the annals of human suffering, but hey at least the rich get richer and the poor suffer, perfect liberterian ideological tool. On topic, S. Korea moved away from sweat shop labour as it had been doing previously to full scale industrial production, cars, ships, steel for export, the works, now it is the worlds largest producer of plasma displys (for instance) that and a national culture of respect for work, and workers and strong community feeling (yes it helps)

[BNS]

right up their with concentration camps (note Concentration, not death camps) in the annals of human suffering, but hey at least the rich get richer and the poor suffer, perfect liberterian ideological tool. On topic, S. Korea moved away from sweat shop labour as it had been doing previously to full scale industrial production, cars, ships, steel for export, the works, now it is the worlds largest producer of plasma displys (for instance) that and a national culture of respect for work, and workers and strong community feeling (yes it helps)

That is how they did it like it or not. They used their comparative advantage in labor as a stepping stone up. As their capital and productivity grew so did the quality of their jobs.

Secondly you are no one to judge them by your standards as it was a step up from the harsher and more uncertain conditions of agricultural work. Comparing sweat shops to concentration camps is silly.

[Phier]

They did a constructor rush, kekekeke ^-^.



But seriously they worked their asses off. I recall the Korean joke from the 80's which was the Japanese were lazy.

[S.L.I.G]

South Korea you say?

Starcraft!

They did a constructor rush, kekekeke ^-^.

Sigh. Your age is showing Phier. Koreans play Starcraft. That is their RTS. There is no "constructor" in Starcraft.

[shadyrome]

South Korea you say?

Starcraft! Sigh. Your age is showing Phier. Koreans play Starcraft. That is their RTS. There is no "constructor" in Starcraft.

American only plays halo , By using your logic Anyway its proably from hardwork and effort.

[Claudius Gothicus]

Political/social will to evolve as a country and become a wealthier/more advanced society.

Something that most Latin American countries lack

[S.L.I.G]

American only plays halo , By using your logic Anyway its proably from hardwork and effort.

No. In Korea Starcraft is a national sport. Americans only play...hockey, basketball, soccer and football, by using my logic.

StarCraft
I'm sorry its been close to 20 freeking years since I played the game

Fiiine, thats close enough.

[ivan_the_terrible]

Trade and Globalization.

Yes ..... but with US support. Trade and Globalisation alone cannot be the only factors.

Look at Haiti - it has trade and globalisation. Which is a nice segue to this:

Political/social will to evolve as a country and become a wealthier/more advanced society.

Something that most Latin American countries lack

I disagree completely, on both points. Poverty in Latin America is the result of many factors, not least of which is continuous foreign intervention (as well as other factors, of course). I certainly wouldn't place "political/social will...as a country" as the decisive one. Assuming it's a factor at all, which you'd be hard-pressed to prove, as it's practically impossible to isolate (or even define properly).

[shadyrome]

No. In Korea Starcraft is a national sport. Americans only play...hockey, basketball, soccer and football, by using my logic. Fiiine, thats close enough.

Taekwondo and football are there national sport..

[S.L.I.G]

Taekwondo and football are there national sport..

Officially, maybe.

lulz
damn straight
koreans are good ppl except for the wildfire nationalism which tends to get the better of them;
historical revinionism on the part of koreans can be quite amuisng though
i had no idea korea invented the ICBM

That and Koreans tend to be a little uh, racist.

[Phier]

South Korea you say?

Starcraft! Sigh. Your age is showing Phier. Koreans play Starcraft. That is their RTS. There is no "constructor" in Starcraft.

StarCraft



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T-280 space construction vehicle


The SCV is the terran worker unit. SCVs count as a biological and mechanical unit; they can be healed by medics and other SCVs, but are also vulnerable to a wider range of spells.
The SCV has more hit points than the drone and probe, which may be useful when repelling early game rushes. An SCV may defeat a basic zergling if both are left unsupervised.
The construction of a terran building may be interrupted by destroying the SCV assigned to build it, since the SCV remains heavily exposed during the process. Nevertheless, another SCV can be commanded to finish the building by right-clicking on the incomplete building with an SCV selected.
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I'm sorry its been close to 20 freeking years since I played the game

[Del Valle]

Its very easy to make something from nothing. Just ask any architect, a virgin site is far better for a house than remodeling an old one. Any system really can do it. Just look at Stalin's Five Year Plans which turned Russia from an agricultural backwater to an industrialized superpower. A capitalist example would be the "economic miracle" that occurred in Japan after WW2.

South Korea simply used abundant, cheap labor and lower taxes to lure foreign factories there. Sweat shops were established, which gave native Koreans some good income to begin to invest. Foreign companies also began to invest more heavily in tha area, hoping to gain profit from a developing market. Investments made money which was then invested back into ecomony top make more money, forming exponential growth which catapulted Korea into its current position as an Asian Tiger.

[Nebuchadnezzar]

South Korea simply used abundant, cheap labor and lower taxes to lure foreign factories there. Sweat shops were established, which gave native Koreans some good income to begin to invest.

Doubtful. Labour was never cheap and nor were there sweat-shops. Neither did they flood the west (like China) with cheap trash that broke before you bought it. In the eighties their exports were only a few cars and electrical goods but their wages surpassed that of the west, mostly because of high cost of living. Being high-tech and specialized is what developed them not sweat-shops and Macdonalds stores.

[Del Valle]

Doubtful. Labour was never cheap and nor were there sweat-shops. Neither did they flood the west (like China) with cheap trash that broke before you bought it. In the eighties their exports were only a few cars and electrical goods but their wages surpassed that of the west, mostly because of high cost of living. Being high-tech and specialized is what developed them not sweat-shops and Macdonalds stores.

So they went straight from agricultural backwater to high-tech, industrialized powerhouse?