During World War II, Japan ruled Korea for 48 years, and when Japanese colonial rule ended in 1945, which implied separation from imperial system of division of labor, Japanese entrepreneurs and skilled workers returned to Japan, forcing a number of firms and plants to stop operating. ... The worst thing that ever happened to Korea was the war between those two parts. ... Due to the fact that Korea has been divided by two parts, from now on, I will only focus on the economy of South Korea. After the war, Korean (South) per capital GDP grew by 7.3% per each year from 1962 to 1991. ... In the...

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Influences of international powers have shaped Korean economy in many ways. ... United States plays a crucial role for war-devastated Korea in the 1950s. ... The Vietnam War provided economic opportunity at the right time. Korea was in dire need of new sourced of foreign exchange. Another was the construction boom in the Middle East, which came just as the Vietnam War winding down (Eckert et al., 1990, p. 411). ...

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Brief Economic History and Government Policy Korea was one of the poorest countries in world after experiencing two wars. World War II and Korean war (1950 ~ 1953). ... There have been many explanations for Korea's successful story. ... A third factor was Korea's abundant and highly productive labor force. ... After two major wars, the country even with a food shortage experienced lack of capital. ...

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Globalization in South Korea can be a challenge. ... Graph of South Korea's annual export from 1971 to 2007. ... This will decrease conflicts and war that occur due to territorial issues. ... There are many wars that happen due to territorial issues (Frieden, Lake, Schultz, 2014). ... When nations decide to disregard boundaries drawn by history, culture, language, and religion, there will not be unnecessary tension and war. ...

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In order for them to cross their annoyance, Japan needed advantages over other countries and so, they break out wars, which brought them to a new start. ... Moreover, as results of victories in the wars, Japan ranked itself as first-class nation and befitted its new status. ... However, although it seems like Japan had made exploitative act toward Korea by ranking them as second-class citizens and Japan having prerogative rights over Korea, economy in Korea at the time was incredible. Japan so call, modernizing Korea by Building railways, installing factories and blossoming new opportunitie...

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Singapore and Malaysia contain a rich racial mix, while Korea and Japan are very homogeneous societies. ... Japan, Singapore, Malaysia, and Korea developed rapidly under positive international circumstances, at least until the late 1980s. ... (Industrial Development) These countries received a considerable amount of explicit and implicit economic assistance from the United States during the cold war era, and this provided money at the initial stage of economic development. ... In contrast to Korea, Japan, Malaysia, and Singapore, those nations that did not develop significantly displayed o...

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For example, a car could be designed in Germany, the car's silicon chips made in South Korea and the assembly of larger electronic components done in Malaysia, mechanical parts made in Mexico, the main car assembly done in Eastern Europe and the marketing, distribution and retail responsibilities going back to Germany. ...

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Introduction The Australian Agriculture Company specializes in agribusiness. The company produces agricultural products, beef, and cattle. The company's main focus is cattle and beef production, but it also produces sorghum, cotton, wheat, and chickpeas. In other words, AA Co's focus is agriculture and agriculture-related business. The company's headquarter located in Brisbane, Queensland where it has 7 million hectares of land (AA C0, 2016). ...

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For example, 30 years ago, South Korea was as poor as Ghana. ... C2: Globalism avoids the harms of statism Sub A: Statism produces war When a statist, sovereign attitude is accepted and united globalistic effort is tossed out harms soon follow because the nationalistic attitude creates conflicts of interest and ultimately wars. ... Statism needs war; a free country does not. ... Observe that the major wars of history were started by the more controlled economies of the time against the freer ones. ...

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In a country such as Korea the rapid growth in labour productivity, the high rates of savings and capital accumulation and the investment by households in education were all-important factors in the growth of the economy after the Korean War. ...

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Due to inter ethnic power struggles the country was involved in many civil wars. ... Islam taught its followers to use war and violence as a tool to spread the religion. ... As a result of Nigeria's alliance with France they have established relationships with Russia, North Korea, Iran, Iraq, Libya, Indonesia, Turkey, and China. ...

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It is because Malaysia has to face a stiff competition from other East Asia "tycoon" such as Korea and Japan, which have more sophisticated technology and a bigger market and as the result, a better product than us. ... And in around May this year, due to the recent war in Iraq and the SARS outbreak in Asia, Dr. ...

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During that time, Asian economies had been following an economic model developed by the Japanese since World War II. ... Since 1960 the region's top performers---Japan, Hong Kong, South Korea, Singapore, Taiwan, Indonesia, Malaysia and Thailand---grew more than twice as fast as the rest of East Asia, three times as fast as Latin America and South Asia, and five times faster than sub-Saharan Africa. ... Earlier it was stated that the Asian economies were following a model developed by the Japanese in the years following World War II. ...

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While there have been periods of growth, the fifteen years immediately following World War II and the 1970's showed large economic growth, Brazil has always been a country deep in debt and riddled with poverty. ... Asian countries such as Thailand, Indonesia, and South Korea sought international help from the International Monetary Fund. ...

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Wars and hostility is a strain on the economy causing depletions of important resources to be spent on defense instead of on the deserving population. ... One of the major factors in depriving Pakistan of its economic stability was the succession of East Pakistan; Apart form the war expensed that it deprived us of a major source of inexpensive labor force and revenues. ...

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Some kind of 'cost benefit analysis' is not so easy when globalisation is perhaps the most over used and under specified concept in the international policy sciences since the passing of the 'Cold War'. ...

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