>impoverished after ww2
>most of population is illiterate
>today it’s the most innovative economy
How did South Korea succeed where the rest of the global south failed? They’re one of the few developing nations to have escaped the middle income trap as well. This is to be more then just IQ
OP, they literally were already on economic control since the 1980s, hello Nintendo? Oh yeah, you were born after 2001
2002, i know most people on here re Gen X but there are still post-Floyd riot zoomers
a. South Korea isn't in the global south
b. It's been a US vassal state since WW2, companies like Samsung wouldn't exist without this connection.
That’s the thing, many other 3 world countries were American vassals
Not very many were actually, and most of those that are were introduced later (e.g. Vietnam, which is also on an upward trajectory).
Do you have any countries you think are?
This
Hurry is a cesspool of fucking shallow polite narcissistic cunts
They have a debt based (jewish) economy now.
We were anxious to provide capitalist counterexample countries in East Asia specifically as an ideological counterweight to the PRC, so we poured tons of money and support into post-war SK and Japan
White men gave them science.
Exactly. South Korea, Taiwan and post war Japan were all vassals who were injected with American capital(aka funny money), to build them up. Rest of Asia was impoverished and its blood was sucked. China too only rose because Americans saw them as a bulwark against SU post Sino-Soviet split and made a deal. This era is coming to an end though.
Most of Latin America
>This is to be more then just IQ
not necessarily, very few countries have higher avg iq than south korea
they did not develop before because of extreme collectivism and isolationist policies
they made a corporate state fusion between their chaebol super corps and the fed govt that was very effective. they have an interesting modern history.
CIA backed coups/destabilisation != being a vassal state
America absolutely PUMPED South Korea, Japan, and even China with capital to make them a bulwark against the Soviets, their geopolitical enemy. Asians have naturally hugh IQs do they can take advantage but America's capital did most of the heavy lifting.
That isn't why Korea never developed, they just aren't a very impressive people who are always under the control of another nation (China, Japan, USA). Look at how Seoul looked at the turn of the century.
America never pumped Japan as much (if at all) in comparison to Korea or Taiwan. This is why Japan doesn't have as sophisticated a semiconductor industry, and why many companies that opened branches in Japan ended up losing control of them (SEGA and JVC for example).
Samsung was used to disrupt the manufacture of electronics products and components in Japan.
>east asian iq (even in the 1800s, japan was a great power and could challenge european military force. china was at the foreront of technological innovation for like a millenium, it's just beginning again to return back to its previous stature)
> strong government control (south korea wasn't a democracy until the 90s) on the economy to develop the chaebols, industrial base, 5 year plans, hard working culture
>deep relation with US. america provided financial assistance, investments, and a military alliance
of course now, it's also america's bitch and its tradition/social fabric is getting devoured by neoliberal capitalism with a political system that mostly serves the rich
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The collectivism isn't even that extreme, it was historically more local than regional or national, but this was particularly harmful to economic development because production was for the most part tightly centered around indissoluble clan collectives which prevented the liquidation of labor and consolidation of capital / the means of production which enabled the industrial revolution