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South Korea had no oil for fuel, no ore for steel, no gold, no diamonds, no natural resources whatsoever, but harsh climate and mountainous hills, and lots of poverty-stricken people. With their starving kids on their back, our mothers worked on the rice paddies, the factories and plants. Our aunts and uncles worked as nurses and miners in Germany, our sisters in wig and shoe factories, our brothers as builders in Saudi Arabia, Iraq, etc.
Our fathers laid highways even if we had no vehichles to run on them, and built steel refinery plants even though we had no steel ore and no industry to use them for, and built oil refineries though we had no crude petroleum and no vehicles to consume them. They, our parents sent us to school with starving stomach. Our parents worked hard and built modern Korea for their children and grandchildren, and many more generations to come.
Sadly, my children, nephews and nieces hardly know how much their parents and grandparents have suffered.
Why Korea
Absolute Poverty Through 50s~70s
South Korea As of 2014
Documentaries about South Korea
Racism & Safety in Korea
My name is Kim Chang Hee, 김창희, 金倉熙, or Thomas Kim, born in 1967, South Korea. When I was just a little kid, I used to wear pants with a big maple leaf on it. That maple leaf was, I came to know of it later, the national flag of Canada. My family, like most other Korean families at that time, lived on Canadian charity flour whose bag had a big maple leaf on it. My mom enrolled me in 1972, at age of 5, to the elementary school, hoping her last son (among his 8 sibilings) not to get starved, for a loaf of bread the school handed out to each of their students for lunch. I had to walk about 1.5 kilo meters (about 1 mile) every morning to school, along with my older sister, constantly urging me to move faster.
Education, the Highest Priority
The education for their children is the highest priority for most Korean families. It is not just modern phenomenon or trend in Korea, but deeply rooted upon the thousands year old Korean tradition. Even the Korean alphabet was created by King Sejong the Great to help his subject to communicate through written forms.
Korea had both public and private schools even thousands years ago. Since the era of Koryo kingdom about 1 thousand years ago. high officials were elected through rigorous nationwide exams. This tradition petrified in the heart of modern Koreans.
Health Care in Korea
What is Life Like in Korea
Black or white, you will be stared at in Korea. Caucasians may have more opportunties. Yes, it is definitely true. Most Koreans may have never seen black or white people in person. But I can assure you that they do not stare at you because they are xenophobias or racists. They just do it simply out of sheer curiosity.
Korea is higly homogeneous society. Most of them may have never talked to foreigners like you. Quite a number of them are ignorant of foreign culture. Come to Korea, and let them know how cool and intelligent the black people are.
It will not be changed in a day... but it will be changed some day that all people are repsected regardless of his skin.
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