Robert Smith
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2,515 appearances
7 recordings
1 series
first heard Jul 2026
last heard 26 Aug
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actually keep score.
They would ask Korean companies, how many tons of steel did you sell to the United States today?
How many cars?
And the companies that excelled in exporting got more government support, more money.
Окей, лиц река Сов Креан ресипи.
Redistribute the land, reduce inequality, give subsidies to industry, but also push those companies to try to compete in the world with the best of the best.
But this recipe is just the start of our lesson today.
When we return, we will hear our first case study about how one of the crucial early technologies a country tends to master is clothing, textiles, what a t-shirt can teach us about how poor countries become rich after the break.
Class.
I know we've been around the world and then some, but please, no napping today.
The summer school motto is awake, alert, and enthusiastic.
We've talked about the South Korean model for development, but can Korea export those ideas, those skills, that know-how to other countries?
Our first case study says: yes, you can teach some of this stuff, specifically textile manufacturing.
In the 1960s, South Korea started to make clothing for the world.
They had a little help.
The US was ramping up the fight in Vietnam, and it needed clothing and other materials.
Close by.
So American military money starts to fund the growth of the textile and manufacturing industries in Korea.
By the 1970s, Korea is moving into higher tech manufacturing, and they're teaching other poor countries how to make the textiles that they once did, countries like Bangladesh.
This was one of the first times we see other countries trying the South Korea playbook with the help of South Korea.
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