Metropolis Yayınları How Korea Became Korea

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This book tells the story of south korea (and its curious neighbor north korea), a country that was devastated by colonialism, war, poverty, and political coups, but managed to build one of the most developed societies in the world, overturning all expectations.

“the young generation came to know south korea as an industrialized, wealthy, modern country where vibrant social-cultural life prevailed.

however, when south korea is mentioned, one would think of an extraordinarily poor and traditional country that has spent millions of lives trying to heal the wounds of a terrible civil war.

it's been years.

As an economist who is fond of economic development theories and discussions, i learned that in the early 1960s, south korea had a per capita income and an average education period that was half of turkey's, but thirty years later, the per capita income had tripled and the average education period had doubled. now there is a country in front of us.

Since then and until today we have been debating: how did a society that had been subjected to thirty-five years of brutal japanese colonialism, had been burned and destroyed in the civil war, had then been governed by forty years of dictatorship, and was also extremely attached to its traditions, manage to achieve such a miraculous development and modernization move? Many books have been published to date by various experts on this miracle.

this book is different.

North-east asian expert journalist and author andrew salmon, who has lived in south korea for years, tells us the story of this extraordinary transformation not only in terms of economic dimensions, but also with the sacrifices made for democracy, the uprisings, the tortures, the assassinations and executions, the difficult struggle between conservatism and modernization, in a way that tastes like a historical novel and in a remarkably fluent language.

” -seyfettin gürsel director of the economic and social research center (betam) of bahçeşehir university product name: how did korea become korea? Product code: 9786056669392 author: andrew salmon publication year: 2020 cover type: cardboard cover number of pages: 152 paper type: 2. Dough turner:

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• Origin: TR