In the half century after 1945, South Korea went from an impoverished, largely rural nation ruled by a succession of authoritarian regimes to a prosperous, democratic industrial society. No less impressive was the country’s transformation from a nation where a majority of the population had no formal education to one with some of the world’s highest rates of literacy, high school graduates, and university students. Drawing on their premodern and colonial heritages a… More >>

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