Long ago Quote by Euny Hong

“If our troubles were purely the result of US imperialism, why weren’t South Koreans starving too?”

— Masaji Ishikawa

“Korea has no natural resources and very little arable land. Compounding the problem is that labor costs have risen so dramatically in the last…

— Euny Hong

“We were taught that the United States brutally slaughters our brothers and sisters in the south. That we must free the people of South…

— Masaji Ishikawa

“During the 1950s, South Korea was “the poorest, most impossible country on this planet,” according to a long-time advisor to President Park Chung-hee, Kim…

— Daniel Tudor

“Even South Koreans themselves struggle mightily to fit into their own success-obsessed, status-conscious, education-crazed culture.”

— Blaine Harden

“Whether it is North Korea, Sierra Leone, or Zimbabwe, well show that poor countries are poor for the same reason that Egypt is poor.…

— Daron Acemoğlu

“As we will show, poor countries are poor because those who have power make choices that create poverty.”

— Daron Acemoğlu

“By “good deal,” Lee is referring to the world’s worst-kept secret: North Korea makes these threats to extort money from the rest of the…

— Euny Hong

“The main cause of North Korea’s recent social change is actually a tragic one: the famine of the mid 1990s, in which at least…

— Daniel Tudor

“The American public has been persistently told that the Korean people are a degenerate and contemptible nation, incapable of better things, intellectually inferior, and…

— Homer B. Hulbert

“The rich are poor without the poor's acknowledgment of money.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“When Kenya became independent in the early 1960s, it was at the same economic level as South Korea. But Kenya took the socialist road…

— Dinesh D'Souza