{"id":995,"date":"2008-06-30T07:18:53","date_gmt":"2008-06-30T06:18:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/wordpress\/?p=995"},"modified":"2008-06-30T07:18:53","modified_gmt":"2008-06-30T06:18:53","slug":"forgotten-world-136-south-korea","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/?p=995","title":{"rendered":"Forgotten World (136): South Korea"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s time for another week of postings in my long-running series called Forgotten World &#8211; a look at parts of the world that hardly feature in our media or thoughts. You can check the previous 135 entries <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/#currentaffairs\">here<\/a>.<br \/>\nThe Republic of Korea &#8211; otherwise known as <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/South_Korea\">South Korea<\/a> &#8211; was proclaimed in August 1948 and received UN-backed support from the US after it was invaded by the North two years later. The Korean War ended in 1953 without a peace agreement leaving South Korea technically at war for more than fifty years. The following four decades were marked by authoritarian rule, while government-sponsored schemes encouraged the growth of family-owned industrial conglomerates, known as &#8220;chaebol&#8221;, which helped to create one of the world&#8217;s major economies. A multi-party political system was restored in 1987.<br \/>\nToday South Korea is a nation of 49 million with the 13th largest economy in the world and still among the world&#8217;s fastest growing developed countries. It has a very advanced and modern infrastructure and is a world leader in information technology such as electronics, semiconductors, LCD displays, computers and mobile phones. It is defined as a High Income Nation by the World Bank and an Advanced Economy by the IMF and CIA. A major non-NATO ally, it has the world&#8217;s sixth largest armed forces and one of the ten largest defence budgets in the world.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s time for another week of postings in my long-running series called Forgotten World &#8211; a look at parts of the world that hardly feature in our media or thoughts. You can check the previous 135 entries here. The Republic of Korea &#8211; otherwise known as South Korea &#8211; was proclaimed in August 1948 and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-995","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-world-current-affairs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/995","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=995"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/995\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=995"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=995"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=995"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}