Geographically speaking, South Korea is a standard peninsula country, but due to its de facto isolation from North Korea, the only land neighbor, it is basically impossible for South Korea to communicate with its surroundings by land, so it still shows more Characteristics of island countries. In terms of size and population, South Korea can barely reach the size of a province in eastern China, and because it has been "reduced to an island" since the beginning of independence, South Korea's early economic foundation was very weak. So in the subsequent North-South game, how did South Korea catch the economic boom and become one of the four dragons in Asia?
First, we need to compare the congenital conditions between the north and the south of the peninsula: because ancient Korea imported culture and technology from the Central Plains, so that the closer to China, the higher the level of productivity, the peninsula as a whole showed a "strong north and weak south" pattern. After Japan invaded Korea in modern times, in order to use the peninsula as a springboard to speed up its encroachment on China, many large-scale industrial facilities were deployed to the north, while the south continued to be dominated by traditional agriculture. Over time, a situation of "Northern Industry and Southern Agriculture" was formed. Even after Japan was defeated and surrendered and the Korean peninsula entered the North-South confrontation, this overall pattern remained unchanged.
After the start of the Cold War, North Korea and South Korea, as agents of the two camps, began a full range of competitions and competitions, while the inherently weak South Korea lost in the first round without any suspense. In the 1950s, North Korea was far ahead of South Korea. At that time, the living standards of residents in the north were far better than those in the south, and even more than enough compared to Japan. However, only ten years later, the situation has changed drastically. Rhee Seungman’s ideas were overthrown. South Korea pinned all its hopes on Park Jung-hee, who was a soldier, and a new era was officially opened.
As the war that lasted for three years destroyed everything, South Korea became poor after the war, but at this moment, Lee Seung-man did not solve the problem from the root, but instead focused on the US economic rescue. Compared with the huge refugee population and the unemployed, the US aid supplies are obviously a drop in the bucket. When people can no longer stand it, Park Zhengxi, then Busan Military Supplies Commander, stood up. After Rhee Seungman was overthrown and went into exile, the new regime quickly established the National Reconstruction Committee. At this moment, for Park Zhengxi and his followers, any slogan is not important. The important thing is that the country must be rescued from the bottom as soon as possible.
Afterwards, Park Jung-hee’s approach is no different from that of China after the 1980s. The core lies in "introducing necessary foreign capital." The turning point in history is often at a certain moment, and from this moment on, South Korea’s economic wings begin to take off. With the injection of more and more funds from the United States and Japan, a large number of advanced enterprises and infrastructure have broken ground in South Korea, and the unemployed population, which was previously high, has also provided a large amount of cheap labor for it. Since then, the increase in employment rate has led to social stability, and the stable environment has attracted more international capital. South Korea’s tax revenue has reached a level that has never been seen before.
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After solving the first problem, the second generation of South Koreans began to focus on supporting their own national enterprises, such as Samsung, Hyundai, LG, etc., which received national key "care" during this period. In less than 30 years, South Korea’s per capita GDP has soared from less than one hundred U.S. dollars at first to tens of thousands of U.S. dollars later, and even held the Seoul Olympics. The tremendous achievements made the world stunned. Although today's South Korea has completely left North Korea behind, just like the previous analysis, South Korea's "isolated island" defects still restrict the country's development in some ways.
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is most typical in terms of diet. Due to the road barriers, Korean fruits, vegetables, eggs, poultry and meat are transported by sea and air, and such transportation methods are either expensive or too expensive, or The speed is too slow to be fresh enough. Therefore, although electronic products have been "bad streets" in South Korea, fresh food is a scarce luxury item. It is not difficult to understand why some Koreans choose to feast on themselves after they come to China.
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