
Throughline: How Korean culture went global
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The Korea of My Parents
In the 1950s, South Korea was a shambles. The country had one of the lowest per capita GDPs in the world. Park Chung-hee took power and ruled with an iron fist. Civil liberties and political freedoms were limited. But night culture developed where people stayed out all night.
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