Comparisons between South Africa and South Korea tend to urge the emulation of the apparent economic success won by the Asian nation. However, any parallels between the economic trajectories of the two countries might be more apt in a far darker realm.
is that the notion of a clean relationship between big business and government is something of a unicorn. Moreover, the drama seems to show that a country pushing hard to move out of underdevelopment through the use of neoliberal economics is bound to fall into these sorts of underhand relationships.
As in the case of South Africa, the system of state tender invites fraud and embezzlement, a state intelligence begging to be captured, and a cohort of top public servants who must of necessity be drawn into complicity. Becauseis a TV drama, the state tender in question is heightened; it is the purchase of warplanes from competing international arms manufacturers, not underhand dealings with Samsung, as was the case in the real-life downfall of Park.
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