From the desperate era of survival where people would have starved to death without U.S. aid,

to the thrilling behind-the-scenes success story of the 'Five-Year Economic Development Plan,' which the whole world ridiculed as impossible!

“How did South Korea become the developed nation it is today?”

This video is not a condescending boast about the past in the style of "back in my day." It is a weighty record by a 93-year-old former Minister of Finance, intended to convey to the younger generation the true, vivid history of the senior generation who built the economy with tears of blood amidst inexperience and empty hands before our country became a respectable developed nation.

It conveys to the younger generation the true wisdom and painful history of the senior generation who built today's South Korea through tearful efforts on a wasteland.

A weighty economic epic of 1 hour and 46 minutes, told directly by a 93-year-old former Minister of Finance.

Try piecing together the scattered puzzle of the long and arduous 'Miracle on the Han River' right now!

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