If the Koreans are such high IQ people why Korea was a s**t hole until a few decades ago ? They suddenly got smarter out of the blue ?
You have to go to S. Korea to understand (as well as read their history).
They got lucky with a couple of serial military dictators (especially Park, Chung Hee) who helped the chaebols (conglomerates Like Samsung, Daewoo, Hyundai, LG) and encouraged industrial exports using incentives (the Hyundai, Kia, Daewoo auto industries were propped up on govt. incentives and favorable rate loans from the govt.).Centralized planning from the Chaebols also helped.
In personal experience, South Koreans are almost like Bengalis in polish and social stratification (that I have come across) and no more or no less talented. Their social values are similar to ours (at least upper middle class ones). Their family values and names for Dad/Mom (Oppa, Omma) is similar to ours. Difference is, they live in a much colder place and are partial to alcohol like the Irish. This is a trait of cold climate people.
However - their organizational skills are better (they don't put up with chaos and corruption like we do) and their govt. made better policies in the 50s/60s/70s. Back in the 60's, S. Korea used to send electrical engg. teams to Dhaka and Karachi to learn how we distribute electricity in our cities in Pakistan. And now look at them - they are beating Apple in selling cellphones.
Japanese organization is of course way better than ours and WAS a bit better than S. Korean situation (some would say this is an understatement). But it is what it is.
At one time (post WWII) Korea was extremely poor (much poorer than Bengal) because of agricultural issues and cold climate. They suffered several horrible famines. But like we see at present, hard work and good govt. policy changed all that.
They were doing a lot better than even China in the late 90's, but the Patriot missile treaty with the US, caused fallouts with China, almost all S. Korean exports to China stopped and even K-Pop Boy Band tours were cancelled. China is stealing a lot of Korean Thunder, but Koreans shifted gears and went with high tech and auto sales in advanced countries, will be a while until China gets competitive in those markets with Samsung and Hyundai.
Right now we are at least twenty years behind S. Korea.
I know this may come as a shock to you Bangladeshis, but we have nothing to boast on, IQ or otherwise.
Putting others down is only a thin veil of "feel good" feeling for us Bangladeshis.
S. Korea is a clean, advanced and modern country. They don't have broken rickshaws, broken buses in the streets like we do. Hell - we are even worse in some cases than third tier cities in India, we have to call a spade a spade. This is because we let a bunch of chhotolok India-pa-chata Bandar goondas control our govt. who also control our Transport Mafia. These ex-ricksha-walla chowkidar type goondas are from mofussil (suburban) towns and are trying to run Dhaka like their mofussil goonda fiefdoms.
Just visit Seoul one of these days, you will see the difference between Dhaka and Seoul. This changed in less than thirty years.
A world class city like Dhaka - should not have illegal brickmaking ovens running in the city outskirts, spewing polluting black smoke and rickshaws should not be clogging up six-lane expressways. It has been fifty effing years, Rickshaws need to go!! Learn to WALK - lazy Bangali idiots!!
I am embarrassed to put up videos about broken buses running in the Dhaka streets with no fitness - which this govt. has not been able to solve in two decades. Establish some law and order, get these buses off the streets!! The transport ministers need to be shot for the piss poor job they did. How does a police force allow rickshaws to ply on freeways and expressways?? It is chaos unprecedented!!
Ours is also a effed up country anyway you look at it - GDP hoopla notwithstanding. We have a LONG way to go.
Forget Korea, let's try to be better than 3rd tier cities in India first.
From Wiki,
"South Korea's economy was small and predominantly
agricultural well into the mid-20th century. However, the policies of
President Park Chung Hee spurred rapid
industrialisation by promoting large businesses, following his seizure of power in 1961.
The First Five Year Economic Plan[3] by the government set
industrial policy toward new investment, and chaebols were to be guaranteed loans from the banking sector. The chaebol played a key role in developing new industries, markets, and
export production, helping make
South Korea one of the
Four Asian Tigers.
Although South Korea's major industrial programs did not begin until the early 1960s, the origins of the country's entrepreneurial elite were found in the political economy of the 1950s. Very few Koreans had owned or managed larger corporations during the Japanese colonial period. After the departure of the Japanese in 1945, some Korean businessmen obtained the assets of some of the Japanese firms, a number of which grew into the chaebols of the 1990s.
[4]
The companies, as well as certain other firms that were formed in the late 1940s and early 1950s, had close links with
Syngman Rhee's First Republic, which lasted from 1948 to 1960. It is confirmed that many of these companies received special treatment from the government in return for kickbacks and other payments.
[4]
When the military took over the government in 1961, its leaders announced that they would eradicate the corruption that had plagued the Rhee administration and eliminate "injustice" from society. Some leading industrialists were arrested and charged with corruption, but the new government realized that it would need the help of entrepreneurs if the government's ambitious plans to modernize the economy were to be fulfilled. A compromise was reached, under which many of the accused corporate leaders paid fines to the government. Subsequently, there was increased cooperation between corporate and government leaders in modernizing the economy.
[4]:152
Government-chaebol cooperation was essential to the subsequent economic growth and astounding successes that began in the early 1960s. Driven by the urgent need to turn the economy away from consumer goods and light industries toward heavy, chemical, and import-substitution industries, political leaders and government planners relied on the ideas and cooperation of chaebol leaders. The government provided the blueprints for industrial expansion; the chaebol realized the plans. However, the chaebol-led industrialization accelerated the monopolistic and oligopolistic concentration of capital and economically profitable activities in the hands of a limited number of conglomerates.
[4]
Park used the chaebol as a means towards economic growth. Exports were encouraged, reversing Rhee's policy of reliance on imports. Performance quotas were established.
[4]
Chaebols were able to grow because of two factors: foreign loans and special favors. Access to foreign technology also was critical to the growth of the chaebol through the 1980s. Under the guise of "guided capitalism," the government selected companies to undertake projects and channeled funds from foreign loans. The government guaranteed repayment should a company be unable to repay its foreign creditors. Additional loans were made available from domestic banks. In the late 1980s, chaebols dominated the industrial sector and were especially prevalent in manufacturing, trading, and heavy industries.
[4]"
en.wikipedia.org