Park Chung-hee Quotes
In May 1961 when I took over power as the leader of the revolutionary group, I honestly felt as if I had been given a pilfered household or bankrupt firm to manage. Around me I could find little hope of encouragement. The outlook was bleak. But i had to rise above this pessimism to rehabilitate the household. I had to destroy, once and for all, the vicious circle of poverty and economic stagnation. Only by reforming the economic structure would we lay a foundation for decent living standards.
Park Chung-hee, 1917–1979, President of South Korea, Quoted in Frank B. Gibney, An economy in armor; in Korea's quiet revolution, 1992
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Although the Premier recognizes the importance of environmental protection it is difficult for China and other developing countries to make the necessary trade off’s at the expense of slower growth which means continued poverty. Even in the United States with all its affluence, slowing economic growth for environmental reasons is politically very difficult.
Tibet and some other ethnic enclaves of China have been almost impervious to the general improvement in the standard of living that China accomplished at the end of the 20th century and beginning of the 21st. China is not the only nation to have this difficulty. Some would argue that America still has it with some of its Native American nations. The great challenge is trying to develop and modernize a culture that does not want to be modernized at the moment but still wants many of the benefits of modernization.
It was finally passed and signed into law on August 22, 1996
He was concerned that if steps were taken to protect the environment and they slowed or shrank economic growth, the burden would fall disproportionately on the poor.
Tragically, the world paid a terrible price for the German upheaval before the better world finally emerged.
Viscount Morley of Blackburn
This was an incredible prediction that few people thought was possible. This speech was given in the early days of WWII when it was far from clear that we would win.
The Mormon settlement of the West has, from an economic development point of view, produced a successful model that few have ever even approached. Using techniques that ranged from classic capitalism to classic socialism, they blended both systems into a unique structure of their own. The results were spectacular despite the fact that the Mormons faced boycotts from manufacturers throughout the country and could borrow no money from banks, and never received any financial help from the Federal or any other government but their own. Even if they had gone into heavy debt, the results would have been spectacular, but achieving all that without any debt whatsoever is one of the most successful economic developments in the history of the world.
Park Chung-hee was a South Korean politician and army general who served as the President of South Korea from 1963 until his assassination in 1979, assuming that office after first ruling the country as head of a military dictatorship installed by the May 16 military coup d'état in 1961. Before his presidency, he was the chairman of the Supreme Council for National Reconstruction from 1961 to 1963 after a career as a military leader in the South Korean army.
