This Line Could Have Come From the Book by Acemoglu and Robinson!

Park Geun-hye, second from right, leader of Saenuri Party and the top candidate to be the next president of South Korea, shakes hands with supporters in Incheon, South Korea in April.
“My father’s biggest achievement was to motivate the South Korean people, to show them we could become prosperous if we worked hard,” she said in an interview last year. “He taught me to love my country, and serve my country.”


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