This is how it was, and this is the reality of the same country today.
Good or bad, I dont know.... though the reality is not for denying!
FAREED ZAKARIA
....."The country had no natural resources, no geographic advantages, a largely illiterate population and a physical infrastructure that had been battered during the war. It faced the menace of North Korea, then staunchly supported by the world’s other superpower, the Soviet Union and China, which had sent millions of soldiers to defeat it in the Korean War".....
The achievement is all the more impressive when you consider where it started. Half a century ago, South Korea was one of the poorest countries on the planet, and nobody would have predicted that it would conjure up an economic miracle. In 1960, its per capita GDP was $158, slightly less than Ghana’s. Today it is over $27,000, almost 20 times that of Ghana.
But poverty only begins to describe South Korea’s woes as it emerged from the Korean War.
Good or bad, I dont know.... though the reality is not for denying!
FAREED ZAKARIA
....."The country had no natural resources, no geographic advantages, a largely illiterate population and a physical infrastructure that had been battered during the war. It faced the menace of North Korea, then staunchly supported by the world’s other superpower, the Soviet Union and China, which had sent millions of soldiers to defeat it in the Korean War".....
The achievement is all the more impressive when you consider where it started. Half a century ago, South Korea was one of the poorest countries on the planet, and nobody would have predicted that it would conjure up an economic miracle. In 1960, its per capita GDP was $158, slightly less than Ghana’s. Today it is over $27,000, almost 20 times that of Ghana.
But poverty only begins to describe South Korea’s woes as it emerged from the Korean War.
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