"Countries are different, but people are people, and the Koreans are the same as anyone else. Their rise out of poverty in the face of such circumstances to democratic capitalism underlines the theme of our age."
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Michael Breen, The New Koreans: The Story of a Nation (2017), New York: St. Martin's Press, p. 16
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