"Behind the so-called 'Miracle of Han River" was a brutal and dark reality." South Korea's 1980's 'concentration camp' Related The South Korean economy of today has a background in brutality, the Korean War, a military dictatorship-led development, government-chaebol cooperation , achieving high productivity with acquiring technology and imposing the longest working hours in the world in the 1960s, a big foreign aid (especially from the U.S. and Japan) ...
“The West won the world not by the superiority of its ideas or values or religion (to which few members of other civilizations were converted) but rather by its superiority in applying organized violence. Westerners often forget this fact; non-Westerners never do.” —Samuel P. Huntington, The Clash of Civilisation and the Remaking of the World Order, 1996, p. 51