Nekostan-e Gharbi wrote:Ellbonnia wrote:
Actually, the rapid modernization of South Korean society was a direct result of post-World War II assistance from the United States. The Korean economy actually stagnated during Japanese occupation as the Japanese exploited their natural resources and manpower to assist the mainland.
Nope.
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Post-War South Korea was a continuation of Japanese Korea. Without the Japanese era US aid may not have helped that much.
Just gonna ignore that all of the increase in industrialization and production were for Japan?
Not Korea? or did you just gloss over this part in your sources:
the industrialization plan to solely benefit Japan
the exploitation of Korean people
the marginalization of Korean history and culture
the environmental exploitation of the Korean Peninsula
the status of Japanese collaborators, subsequently dubbed Chinilpa