South Korea is how the rise of the end

Monday, June 16, 2014 Clear Ideas at Flight 54J, CA123

"What's going on in South Korea?" My friend Jack joked at me at an old Korean restaurant in Wangjing a few days ago. We have lived in this South Korean enclave outside the Fourth Ring Road in Northeast China for many years and are very familiar with the Korean neighbors. Korean streets full of letters often make us both illegitimate foreigners. Sometimes we drink, will be like the northeastern people love bragging, too Cantonese too astute, ridiculed the Korean eclectic segments. Every now and then, the pride of a false nation, a great power, will overflow. However, life and career are sometimes contradictory. If I do not gossip like the eldest brothers who drink beer in summer, I do not think they are sensitized in the perspective of women's shopping, traveling and beauty. Instead, they are based on a thinker's Angle of thinking, then, South Korea is not worth it, the question whether there is value?

Today, I departed from home to check-in, and I had a problem with my mind until I read some Korean information that I read with me: "In 2010, South Korea joined the Development Assistance Committee and ranks among the developed countries in the world. Found the value between. Why was this country that was as impoverished as China in the 1950s could become a developed country in just half a century?

If not the traditional stronghold of Japan, South Korea should be the first and only one after World War II formally upgraded from a developing country to a developed country millions of population-level countries. We should know that South Korea has only the same family base as Zhejiang Province and its population is similar and has poor resources. It was ruled by Japan for decades and was now controlled by the U.S. military in wartime command. It can not be regarded as a complete sovereignty country. If international competition is like a card game, Koreans must be a bad hand.

Sadly, South Korea is like a sandwich where there is no fresh meat in the sandwich. It is quite uncomfortable to sandwiche the big powers. Honorablely, in the face of North Korea's unreasonable appearance, the two traditional powers Japan, China's first-hand cards, and the Pacific player on the far East remote control of the American player, South Korea in this complex game, not only did not lose, but it's more and more money.

The Japanese have long been alert to the potential of Koreans. In the 1970s, some Japanese scholars once asserted that in the future China will become a superpower and that South Korea will also rise up as a powerful country. Japan may only shoulder the shoulder with South Korea. Sure enough, after decades, Japan's automobiles, electronic technology and information products were hit hard by South Korea. Regrettably, Chinese people do not seem to be able to sum up enough respect to South Korea. In China, Koreans are not respected as much as Europeans and Americans even better than Japanese or Singaporeans; companies in South Korea work as brightly as their counterparts in Germany, the United States or Switzerland; Koreans do not enjoy the same reputation as Europeans and Americans , Japanese, so good; in the academic circle, South Korea's research is not as American research, Japanese studies, North Korean studies and even Southeast Asian studies are so important.

Of course, there are many reasons for the history, social, media, psychology, culture and bilateral interaction in the ROK. But what I want to express is whether the Chinese can find more Korean advantages worth learning. I think there should be at least four points:

First, the per capita GDP of South Korea in 2013 was 26,000 U.S. dollars. It was the only emerging country that successfully crossed the trap of the middle class after the Cold War. As defined by the World Bank, emerging market countries will enter the period of contradictions accumulated in their development after the per capita GDP surpasses the poverty trap of $ 1,000. If the economic growth is slowed or stagnated, democratic chaos, polarization between rich and poor, and corruption occur, Urbanization, shortage of public services, employment difficulties, social unrest, lack of faith, fragile financial system and so on, so that it is very difficult for per capita GDP to reach the level of 10,000 U.S. dollars. Many countries in Latin America have seen a great retrogression in social development. Many economists also think that at this delicate period China now has any knowledge of what it can learn from its "leapfrog experience."

Second, South Korea is one of the few countries that make a net profit in the export of cultural industries. The total economic output of cultural industries is about 7% of GDP, while that of China is only 2%. Cultural industry has brought positive social vitality, the country's image, earned a positive dividend for Koreans, that feeling like playing cards began to catch 3 but not discouraged, stunned caught four 3, forming a bomb that . Korean pop music, movies, TV series on the Chinese influence, no less than China's traditional Chinese culture. More importantly, South Korea has also closely integrated popular culture with Confucianism and pioneered the marketization of the traditional cultural industry that flourished. In 1998, the ROK government put forward the strategy of "establishing a country based on culture" and received tremendous results within a short period of more than 10 years. Is not it just the reference China that proposed the strategy of "strengthening its power through culture" a few years ago?

Third, South Korea is a rare country where industrial strategies have succeeded in catching up and surpassing the world. High-end technology and advanced equipment have all along led the world trend. South Korea's leading industries are shipbuilding, electronics, automobiles and semiconductors. Among them, the shipbuilding industry in South Korea accounted for more than half of the global market share, the semiconductor industry ranked second in the world, and the R & D investment accounted for more than 3% of GDP, ranking the third in the world. If South Korea used to be a trade deficit with product assemblers "