Friday, August 14, 2020

Country Explain | A Brief About Country History, Country Development, Country Economy

"Education is the passport to the future, for tomorrow belongs to those who prepare for it today"   ~ Malcolm X


 

Today we are going to know about the story of South Korea who becomes a developed nation from the underdeveloped country. To know about this first of all we have to know about South Korea's History.

Modern History:

From 1910 to 1945 Korea was a colony of Japanese empire. During the Japan colonialism 8 companies were formed that have become very big today like LG, Mitsubishi and many more.Those companies were started because there was a lot of foreign trade at that time and Japan traded heavily through Korea. The majority of rich people in Korea were Japanese. 

Japan also attacked all the islands in the pacific region and this is the case during the World War. At that time, Japan had exploited Korea a lot economically and Korea came into the poorest areas of the world. There was also a lot of hunger. When Japan lost the World War in 1945, it surrendered that area and went back. The sub-Korean territory was divided into two parts the southern part had gone to the US and the northern to the USSR. From 1945 to 1960, the Korean war continued in the meantime, up to 25% of the properties were damaged.


Then How Was The Country Recovered?

In 1950, when the first government was formed in Korea, it brought the Farm Land Reform Act. Under the act, the government privatized all the land in Korea which was occupied by Japan and distributed it among the poor farmers. In 1963, Japan gave $800 million to Korea as an economic co-operation because it had done too much economic exploitation in Korea. Earlier in 1961, the military overthrew the their Democratic Party under the Junta rule. At that time, Korea was heavily dependent on foreign aid, due to this, Koreans started building the structure of self-supporting economy. And the first five year plan was brought our, that five year plan was focused on these things: Agriculture, Energy Industries like Electricity, Coal Mine, Transport facilities like Train, Airport, Roads and Export Payment was also taken care so that the Balance of Payment goes to surplus.


Korea focused on heavy electronic industries from 1972 to 1981, which resulted in Korea become the 11th largest economy in the world. Similarly, Korea moved from the list of very poor countries to the list of rich countries in 35 years. Korea's 30% of GDP started coming from the industry sector itself. It is also called Miracle of Han River, Korea also hosted the Olympics in 1988.

Comparison India Vs Korea 

Both South Korea and India started with the agriculture based economy. But South Korea brought structural transformation in its policies that opened up a lot of doors for foreign markets in the country. And their export-oriented policies proved to be the trump card for the Korea.



South Korea had a very good growth rate from the 1960's to early 2000's but currently India is one of the fastest growing economy in the world. As you have seen in this trend, the green trend is of South Korea and the blue one is of India. In the initial trend, South Korea is in very good growth from India. But India has been growing much better than Korea since 2000. 

If we now talk about GDP, South Korea's GDP is $1.626 trillion and it comes in the 12th rank of the world. At the same time, India's GDP is $3.2 trillion and it is ranked 5th in the world. But when we talk about per capita income then these facts becomes reversed Korea's per capita income is $31,430 and it ranks 27th in the world whereas per capita income of India is $2,171 and it is ranked 139th in the world.

Human Development Index that is HDI it s a composite mixture of health, education, life expectancy and per capita income. India has got 0.647 points in this, which comes in the medium range. On the other hand, South Korea has got 0.906 points which comes in very high range. If we talk about rankings, India is at 129th position and Korea is at 22nd position. Inequality of income is almost common in India and South Korea. According to Oxfam's report India's 1% population holds the 73% wealth of the country.



South Korea has greatly promoted the education in its country. That's why today Korea has become the territory in the world where most people are graduated. And South Korea along with Taiwan, Singapore and Hong Kong are in the list of developed countries of Asia. There has been a loss in the stock market many times and the reason is the military crisis of the North Korea. It has brought many influences in the financial market of South Korea.



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