Noble redditor proves the development of American capitalism is the most important event in world history.

For those of you who may not know, South Korea was developed into the capitalist powerhouse it is today by a brutal US-backed dictator named Park Chung-hee.

Despite his clear record of torturing student activists, and other human rights abuses, it's hard to find English-language material that criticizes his regime. (Because the US installed him and that story didn't get out much.) Nevertheless:

"Dominating from 1961 until his assassination in 1979, Park Chung Hee was a powerful anti-Communist dictator and the president of South Korea. He used the forces of torture and fatal violence to bring forth his authority for his country. Park served in the Japanese Imperial armed forces where he was inspired to rule and bring up Korea’s economy. In the early years of his dominance, Korea became the eleventh most successful economies in the world, but this boom eventually died leading Korea into a recession. Although Park industrialized and gained economic growth for Korea, he was seen as a manipulative and exploiting dictator because of his brutality towards some citizens.

When Park was in power, if a citizen was under even the littlest amount of suspicion of communism or again Park’s administration and laws, they were sentenced to torture and sometimes even death. The Korean war lead Korea into an anti-Communist country and a military coup. Park’s power caused widespread human rights abuses which caused great controversy for the country. Due to his goal of national economic growth, Park based his dictatorship on this. He did anything and everything he could to succeed, even if it meant violating human rights."

If you know retirement-age Korean immigrants, ask them about their memories of the 60s and 70s. Police and KCIA thugs often appeared on university campuses to attack the students. People were murdered and disappeared - quite often. Those who were not dissidents worked 12 and 14-hour days non-stop to do their duty for their companies and their country. This fierce loyalty created a country that is basically run, even today, by 3 or 4 large corporate conglomerates. Their incredible power is unquestioned, and the ruling families have made leadership more or less hereditary.

South Korea's industrialization has been an "economic miracle" for some, but it has been bought at an incredibly high cost. So much was sacrificed to build the economy that Korea now has some of the developed world's worst social problems. These include:

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