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In the early 1970s, President Park Chung-hee presented banners to select secondary schools, bearing an honorary title he had created himself: “The Engineer is Bearer of the Nation’s Industrialization.” Engineering high schools for boys were extremely challenging. In order to arrive on site in time, the students had to rise at the break of dawn. Before heading off to training halls for classwork, they participated in the daily chant “Just do it! We can do it!” They would not then return home until after nightfall. During the final six months of a three-year enrollment, they were to devote more than seven hours per day in practical training for specific industries. The students were preparing to become industrial technicians, a category of practitioner that the Park administration was filling with new meaning.1
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Han, K., Downey, G.L. (2014). Engineers for Heavy and Chemical Industries: 1970–1979. In: Engineers for Korea. Synthesis Lectures on Global Engineering. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-02128-2_4
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