The Secret to South Korea’s Success
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2020/05/whats-south-koreas-secret/611215/
“Juxtaposing the South Korean response with the American
tragedy, some commentators have chalked up the difference to an ancient culture
of docile collectivism and Confucianism across the Pacific. This observation
isn’t just racist. It also exoticizes Korea’s success and makes it seem like
the inevitable result of millennia of cultural accretion, rather than something
the U.S., or any other country, can learn from right now. The truth is that the
Korean government and its citizens did something simple, admirable, and all too
rare: They suffered from history, and they learned from it.”