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How Korean Culture Went Global

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A Brief History of the War in South Korea

I'm an armed force's radio announcer on the air with the news of the world as soon as it happens, sports round ups and current events. We also have to think about how devastated economy was in 19 fiftis, right after the war. South karea had been run into the ground, the land carpet bombed to dust, where food was scarce. The country had one of the lowest bricapita g d ps in the world. It was a precarious moment. And when american soldiers replaced the japanese as occupiers, they brought their own soft power in directly s of our times.

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