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In 1988, South Korea hosted the Olympic Games in Seoul. The government bid for and planned the Games as a message to the international community that South Korea was a modern, industrialised and democratic country. But well before the opening ceremony, the South Korean ‘miracle’ had already begun to unravel.
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Minns, J. (2006). The South Korean ‘Miracle’ in Decline. In: The Politics of Developmentalism. International Political Economy Series. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230625563_6
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