Five books and a film that explain why the country is a cultural superpower as well as an economic one
a lifetime South Korea has undergone a huge transformation. In the mid-20th century, when it was poor and ruled by a dictator, it was not so different from its communist northern neighbour . It has become a democracy of 52m people and an economic and technological powerhouse. Its music and films entrance hundreds of millions of people who don’t speak a word of Korean.
South Korea’s history is a dramatic one. It began with the Korean nation’s birth 5,000 years ago; its founder was the issue of a coupling between the son of the creator god and a bear-become-woman. Devastated by the Korean war of 1950-53, South Korea recovered to become the world’s 13th largest economy. It threw off a military dictatorship in 1987.
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