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South Korea’s ‘rags-to-riches’ development is often cited as a ‘man-made’ miracle. It is a miracle in the sense that in the span of the past three decades the country underwent the kind of structural transformation that today’s industrialized countries took almost a century to achieve.1 The transformation was accomplished with relatively equitable income distribution by international standards.2
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Kim, K.S. (1995). The Korean Miracle (1962–80) Revisited: Myths and Realities in Strategies and Development. In: Stein, H. (eds) Asian Industrialization and Africa. International Political Economy Series. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-13178-5_4
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