Currently, defense and aerospace companies are hiring tens of thousand of developers and expanding their production plants, but to meet the shortage, they are pushing for overseas production. There were two important turning points in Korean weapons development. First, when Russia defaulted, they paid their debts with the latest weapons instead of cash, which led to rapid progress in Korean weapons development, and the other was the missile range extension agreement with the United States (300 km).
@@jasoncrouch99781 Those Brown Bear transfers didn't involve any advanced arms technology and ended nearly twenty years ago. In 1990, the Roh Tae-woo government agreed to provide $3 billion in economic cooperation loans to the Soviet Union. Some $1.47 billion had been transferred when the Soviet Union collapsed on 26 December 1991. The successor Russian government guaranteed the debts of the Soviet Union but only $19.1 million in cash and $12.7 million in aluminum had been repaid when in July 1995 the two governments renegotiated $450 million worth of debt to be repaid in-kind with raw materials, helicopters, and defense supplies. The first tranche comprised a $214 million transfer of 33 T-80 U tanks, 33 BMP-3 armored vehicles, 70 Metis-M anti-tank missile launchers with 1,250 projectiles, and 50 Igla portable anti-aircraft missile launchers with 700 projectiles, completed in 1998. After rejecting an offer of unsafe and poorly-maintained Soviet submarines, a second tranche valued at $534 million transferred 2 T-80 main battle tanks, BMP-3 fighting vehicles, 156 Metis-M launchers with 11,500 rounds of ammunition, 3 Murena air-cushion boats, Il-103 prop trainers, Ka-32 helicopters, and 6 ANSAT helicopters between 2002 and 2006. In June 2019 South Korea rejected a proposed third tranche comprising Kamov firefighting helicopters. The Russian Ministry of Strategy and Finance later agreed to repay the remaining $280 million in cash by 2025, but has defaulted due to denial of access to dollars through its Export-Import Bank. South Korean banks are believed to carry an additional $1.7 billion exposure to Russian government bonds largely covered by credit default swaps early in the current Ukraine conflict.
Korea's obsession for artillery started centuries ago. When China invented black powder and rocket arrow, one interested Goryeo man Choi Mu-seon reverse-engineered the gunpowder recipe and made his own version of rocket arrow. Rocket arrows were usually fired by handheld launchers until Choi, his son and several Joseon researchers developed wagons called hwacha that fire hundred rockets at once. They brought this MLRS to several war fronts including Jurchen and Japan until matchlocks became more common. The love for artillery didn't stop at hwacha; Joseon dynasty is known for their extensive use of artillery cannons and firearms, and the tradition still goes on.
I'll chip in $2 specifically to ask: What if Asianometry and Perun got together to whip up some sort of deep-dive/free-form discussion/whatever format they might find appropriate, about the geopolitics of semiconductors? 😁❤️
It is worth noting that Park abandoned the government-driven, investment-driven development model in the early 1979. (Xi JInping is still addicted to this model, since it gives power and priviledge to the CCP.) In October that year, he was assassinated after 3 years' intense tensioin with Carter administration. The succeeding military government kept on the sound strategy "make the government role smaller, make the market-consumer role bigger." By 1988, South Korea got on the track to become an advanced country, with the retreat of the military from politics, by fierce demonstrations for about 4 years. There was a joke for the great upheaval in June 1987. " We work during day time; we demonstrate during the evening." In short, every agent did its role. Park, the succeeding generals, and the citizens.
Let's not put too much lavish praise on the Chun administration. His government killed hundreds of its own citizens in pro-democracy protests in Gwangju in 1980.
I don't know where you got your information from but Park didn't "abandon" it. 1. the Americans were concerned with a state led model, Having capitalist orgs involved in the process made them more comfortable. Plus the latter group could mobilize resources and could acquire the managerial expertise without political obstructions from other countries. 2. "Investment led model" are you being intentionally daft ? Korean state's investment(loans, export subsidies, grants) made up more than 30% of their gdp in 1979 and it's only gone up since. The "Evil" of investment led model is that it under cuts the competition, in your case the Americans. No point in being salty about it. America wanted a consumer first model with cultural and socially liberal social norms that aid it, leading to your industries being uncompetitive and your labor force(especially in select industries) being relatively lazy. The Chinese had an industrialize by any means necessary policy(So they stole and reverse engineered and built out their own research base. They've been consistently increasing their r&d spending since mid 2000s, Also poaching talent is an excellent way to acquire domestic technical competence, Like they did with LMS). They more or less succeeded and the only thing holding them back right now is US technology sanctions and even that has at worst slowed them down for a decade or two. Chinese are closer to the US in terms of Technological development than the Soviets ever were. So whining about investment led growth while the American state is pretty much doing the same is kinda disingenuos. One of the key reason as to why the Japanese fell off was the Plaza accords, Unlike the Japanese the Chinese aren't an occupied(with military installations and what not) vassal state(American assistance was instrumental in propping up LDP) that America can arm twist, It'd be interesting to see that play out, esp. the kind of tools(hard and soft) America might use. You are welcome to correct me if I got something wrong.
@t.s.d.1376 i am a 65 years old South Korean. I lived this period. From the end of · the start of the Iranian revolution, South Korea fell into a serious crisis. Two competing policies. One is 성장론 "government & investment" driven. The other is 안정론. "Market-driven".
The President Rhee administration arrested Park, a general and sentenced him NOT to death BUT to life imprisonment. Then almost immediately released him, made him a civilian serving the MoD. This was 1948. Rumor says that Park collaborated when he was arrested. When the war broke out, Park was reinstated as a gerneral and made the head for war time logistics, which was a vital position It seems that the colleagues in the Army knew that Park was a very intelligent and not-corruprt person, though he had got deeply involved with the Communists. Park was a son of a poor farmer. He self-made himself as a teacher. Then he went to the Military Academy of the Manchu State, a puppet of Japan. Then, upon graduating, he was chosen to attend the Royal Army Academy of Japan. It is noteworthy that Japan made some bright Koreans into prosecutors, judges, civil servants and officers, who have authority over the populace, including the Japanese residents. Some Africans make a joke out of this: "Why on earth did you want independence, when you can send Japanese people into jail, and lead them as civil servants and officers?" Koreans have wanted to be themselves. They want to play the (sometimes life-or-death) identity game, which they have played against the Continent for the last 2,000 years.
Park was also a massive opportunist. As mentioned in the video he was a member of the South Korean Worker's Party before the Korean War: the guy literally would switch to whichever allegiance that he saw fit, from his days in Manchuria until his final days. His entry of South Korea into the Vietnam War was one of his plans that he cooked up as well where IIRC America initially refused until negotiations were done on what South Korea would receive in return. EDIT; Fun anecdote, a friend's elderly uncle who served in Vietnam (As part of the ROKMC attachment) said his units apparently buried some weapons and tanks upon receiving them and would write them off as losses. But when the ROKA/MC pulled out, they dug up the weapons and took them to South Korea. Not sure how true this is, but a tidbit nonetheless especially given that it's no secret that South Korea did develop its arms industry from a variety of American (and some Soviet) weaponry.
Im only here to fill in some blanks. While he was school teacher, Japan implmented more discrimtory policies and Park stood up for his students. He almost assaaulted the principle and quickly resigned before repercussions. Many people do not know that Park had an older brother that was a well regarded Korean Independence fighter. They were very close, and Park stayed with him after he was fired. Suddenly, he applied for the Manchuokuo Army. The Manchukuo Army was the only Japanese military branch that had mass uprising that killed many high ranking Japanes officers. It also proven that there was a Korean indepdendence secret society within the Manchuokuoa Army. The criteria to be considered an INdepdendence fighter is to commit an heroic act. Not simply being in an organization, 4 people testified after his death that he was in this secret society. Parks brother was killed at a protest over food rationing when it turned into a riot. His brothers friends were communhist and lied to him that an American soldier killed him. They took advantage of his grief and when he found out on his own that it was a Korean police officer not a US soldier he felt betrayed and taken advantage of. Then they were all arrested, and he confessed. KNowing full well his confession was more than they needed to guarentee a death sentence. He wanted to bring down the ones who took advantage of him, and led them to a document that contained their entire roster. While he was waiting execution, another former member of the Manuchoa Army, Gen. Paik Sun-yup had Parks sentence commuted. Another member of the SKWP, who was in Paiks unit was not saved. When asked why he didnt save his former friend but saved Park. He gave a vague reason liek "just dont my job", but many speculate that Paik was also in this secret society. So no, he wasn't an oppurtunitst, practically all Koreans in the MA were ultra nationalist. Source (Cho Gap-che: he was a journalist and Parks nemesis, but after his death under covered the truth about him. He was no traitor.)
This illustrates how a leader with resolution and vision could transform an entire country and its people especially when that country has little to nothing to lose and start from. Time to time some people talk about what separates Korea from other similarly impoverished countries. It was this man featured in this video. It's ironic he is vilified how harsh he was by Korea's liberals and yet those liberals are the greatest beneficiaries of his harsh leadership.
Great contents! However there is one factual inaccuracy. A company was chosen for each weapons class. Tank - Hyundai SpH - Samsung APV - Doosan Ammo - Poosan and Hanhwa (Hanhwa literally means Korean Explosives) Ships - Hyundai and Daewoo Later Aircraft - Samsung (MRO at Korean Air) This all changed during Asian Financial Crisis where consolidation took place.
@@Ben..... Yes. All the forgotten weapons have been remembered, and his new content is boring af. Also, he completely blew up his relationship with InrangeTV and brutality matches in the US.
@@Hansengineering Dont know anything about the inrange stuff but he is currently uploading like 1 or 2 of a kind developmental firearms out of European state armories. The kind of stuff no one even knows about. That is what i want to know about.
lee kyung seo is my grandfather. cool to see his name come out in this vid. there is a book written about the missile project called 백곰, 도전과 승리의 기록, which roughly means white (polar) bear, a story of challenge and victory.
'The US wanting SK to sholder more of the defence but impeading them from gaining to mean to' is a thing that has been consistant thoughout the years even now.
How on Earth do you make me care about the story of South Korea's weapons industry? But you do and I'm always entertained by your videos. I always look forward to watching them!
Desite the controversies and authoritarian rules, President Park did South Korea an immense favor and lead the country into what it is today. Without his intervention, the country would've still been a third world nation, not a first world nation that it is today.
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34k is correct for the Korean War, I didn't catch that specific number, but it makes sense he's be talking about the Korean war, in a video about Korea.
The two-pronged pincer attack by the two leading slideshow-based content delivery channels is designed to fix, isolate and, ultimately, thoroughly entertain the exposed part of the audience that is interested in Korean defense industry. This is a part of an overall strategic campaign of Korean Defense marketing to push into a previously stalled directions.
And the USA are taking the same action in Ukraine...trying to micro manage the War, control weaponry, yet no skin in the game.... Fortunately Ukraine has realised this and is taking action to develop its Military industry
USA has also anticipated certain actions may provoke Russian into lowering its nuclear threshold. So in addition, the US has been doing some technology transfers with Ukraine in regards to "certain" arms category. It has greatly aided Ukraine Arms Industry.
@@simonnot8487 I'm sure the American patriots are heavily assisting Ukrainian Arms Industry. 👍 The USA state is merely not hindering the progress & letting it happen, it seems - not actively helping (that much).
If you're willing to engage in guerilla tactics, you may win with foreign support (Napoleonic Spain, mid century Vietnam, etc). But yes, indigenous military industry is important.
Samsung produced various weapon system while ago, but now sold off the business to Hanwha, artillery shell company. Hyundai and LG also have considerable weapon business. Now defunct Daewoo produced assault rifle. Many major Korean conglomerates participated in defense industry.
One of the great South Korean success stories for their weapons industry is the PMC (Precision Made Cartridges) company. Founded in 1968, it eventually became one of the largest ammo producers in the world, being produced in South Korea and the US. PMC (the famous plain Yellow box) was commonly sold in the US starting in the 1980's and known for its great quality and consistency as well being very affordable. Initially, its main products were common American designed ammo used in their military firearms including 45 ACP, 30-06, 7.62x51, and even 9mm. Even today PMC produces a large line of ammo for both the military and civilian market.
2:04 "Pok (Bok) Chunghee" I applaud the narrator for saying Pok (Bok) rather than Park. "Park" is an anglicized pronunciation and spelling of 박, which is officially romanized as Bak.
@@iu2 You are the one delighted one name wasn't anglicized. I didn't care. Seems odd you are concerned about anglicized words in an English-language presentation. Are you stupid or deranged?
@@iu2 I had no expectations. I don't care if the name was anglicized or not. You are the one making a big deal about a word not being anglicized in an English-language presentation. You seem to be disturbed.
The most important is steel making method such as high tensile steel. Without this technique, you cant produce anything. But how did they get this technique?
Oh Won-chol's picture is really funny to me. Imagine seeing that picture of a grandfather or relative and thinking that they're just a regular old man.
The incident on the boat was why Kim Dae jung converted to Christianity. They stopped the boat and were getting ready to throw him off. He closed his eyes and thought to himself that he wished someone would save him. He opened his eyes and saw a helicopter from a distance. It was the Japanese Coast Guard, they thought his boat was from North Korea. Those are his words.
Really interesting the newspaper article at 21:11 is from the "Ames Daily Tribune", now called just the "Ames Tribune", in Ames, Iowa. I went to school at Iowa State University there and was aware of the large number of South Korean's there (some truly excellent restaurants and food!). I wonder if this article was especially relevant to Tribune readers because it was "news from home"?
Republic of Korea Reserve Forces (향토 예비군) & the Agency of Defense Development or ADD (국방과학연구소) are what I get from the transcript, that's the best professional subtitle can be.
Since ancient times, the civilized countries of East Asia were China and the Korean Peninsula, and the only Asians who could make porcelain, an ancient semiconductor, were the Chinese, Koreans. Since China has been conquered by foreign peoples for over 3,000 years, it is unclear how much of China's history is Chinese, but the Han, Song, and Ming dynasties can be clearly seen as Chinese history. Ancient India, unlike today, had hundreds of kingdoms divided into, but it was definitely a civilized region that spread Buddhism, and Thailand and Cambodia were also centralized civilized countries ruled by kings. Japan was an isolated island that had not been exposed to continental civilization until the 1400s, and when Portugal and Spain opened their ports, it was able to absorb Western civilization and awaken, and using that power, it invaded the Korean Peninsula, which had been a leading country for generations, and even dreamed of conquering China and India. I think the rapid changes in GDP of China, S.Korea, and India are the process of countries that had been wealthy civilized countries since ancient times but temporarily became impoverished after experiencing colonies and wars regaining their original positions.
Wdym unclear, there's countless sources to read about each ruling class throughout Chinese history. You're confusing ethnicity and nationality here. Japan, China, Korea, Vietnam are not countries made up of one ethnic group but rather multiple. In the case of China, the Han was most dominant, and Vietnam, the Kinh the dominant group. Chinese dynasties like the Qing and Yuan which were led by the Manchu and Mongol ethnic groups respectively, are still Chinese.
Well India was united under various kingdoms like the Mauryans, Mughals and the Delhi Sultanate for some time. But centralized rule lasted for short time, out of India's 5,000 year history before British it was united under one empire for only around 900-1000 years approximately and even then the southernmost part was politically independent. When Buddhism started spreading around 250-200 BCE around Asia India was under Mauryan Empire which covered most of the Indian subcontinent.
@thesenate8477 Northeast Asians do in the form of Amur and Liao ancestry. Southeast Asians, members of the sundadont, are very genetically different and ought to be considered in relation to East Asians as North Africans or West Asians to Europeans.
Seeing how the Japanese economy developed and re-developed and seems to be looking to follow in Korea's footsteps with regards to non-lethal military aid, I wonder what the next few decades will hold for countries in the middle.
Well, if you are going to make 2.1 millions of them in 7 years, yeah. Spending a few months in a shack with off the shelf components wouldn't be an option for mass production wouldn't it?
An interesting tidbit of the obsession for self-sufficiency is the Korean standard issue shoulder arm in the form of the Daewoo K2. Arguably takes the best portions of both the AR-15 and AK platforms into a single unit with a folding stock and accepts NATO standard magazines and 5.56mm ammunition. There was a neat "K-series" exhibit in the War Memorial of Korea in Seoul back when I last checked it out in 2018. An interesting display of both prototype and future adoptions of small arms - all domestically produced, of course. There was also a big display of domestically-produced ammunition, materiel, artillery shells, mortals, heavy caliber weapons. Also conveniently NATO-standard calibers for maximum compatibility with U.S. Weapons systems.
Everyone who doesn't know a lot about guns says this but in reality it takes some of the advantages of the ar15 and many of the disadvantages of the AK and combines them to make a rifle that is just acceptable. It's not very good, just acceptable. The horrible long piston gas system of the AK is the core of where its main mechanical problems come from.
Although not possible to implement 1:1 nowadays, this optimistic and inspiring tale shows that it's possible to develop strong military industry despite deficiencies in technology and know-how. Take notes EU!
I geew up next to a Nike missile base - laughably retro now, but with all these missiles flying around these days, it wouldn't surprise me if some of them resembled the old Nike-X system.
All too often a key factor is left unemphasized: the *enormous* amounts of foreign aid, military aid, and foreign direct investment from the United States throughout the war and post-war periods. It was practically an undeclared Marshall Plan
The dual-use of civilian industry is an idea so brilliant sounding that I can’t see why every state isn’t doing this. Of course there are downsides: secrecy of the technology, finding the right incentives to get civilian industry to participate but not so high that its simply a bad deal for tax-payers, and huge complexity in integration of all these parts, meaning there is a high market friction to change manufacturers. But it at least partially solves the big issue of defence production capability as means of deterrence. You want to have high production capability precisely so you never need to consume or spend money on its full output. I think what west missed is that the economy is only partially linked to defence capability. Overall industry and manufacturing is much more concrete. West ended up with extremely wealthy economy and highly skilled labour force, as well as extremely advanced defence industry, but our labour force and industry struggles to surge up the production. The industry we have outside of defence industry understantably never invested to produce stuff they never before produced. The defence industry on the other hand never really had the scale, even if some governments tried to sweeten the deal for excess capacity.
Great video! A bit of editorial feedback: I don't think you need to say "country's's" since you were only referring to one country and it sounds weird. Distracts from your content. Even for plural "countries' ", it would be better not to pronounce the implied "'s" and just let the context disambiguate for you. Anyways, love your videos, so nice to see on you Dwarkesh Patel's channel as a real person and not AI, even though this is a faceless TH-cam channel. Unless.... it's the AI replicating your voice and saying "countries's" from your script text?
Small english language observation over several videos: You don't have to pronounce the pluralizing " 's " on words that already end in 's'. "North Koreans'" vs "North Koreanses". I don't think it's wrong, but it's definitely extra.
A fascinating and well researched overview of a period of South Korean history of which I was largely ignorant. Although this is of course hardly a new insight, it's worth reflecting on the fact that, at the end of the war, North and South Korea were on a more or less equal footing economically. As the video alludes to, by the end of the 1970's this was no longer true, and that gap would widen considerably in the ensuing decades. Thanks for the history refresher.
North Korea was more advanced and wealthier than the south for several years after the war. ROK was on par, economically, with Haiti in 1960 - though ROK had more industrial capability than Haiti.
"Third world" is really an inaccurate term, and certainly in the context of the time. South Korea was squarely in the 1st World. The terms derive from the Three Worlds model of international relations, which separated the globe into three blocs: the 1st World was NATO and its allies; the 2nd World was the Warsaw Pact and allies; the 3rd World was comprised of the unaligned countries. No regard was taken for national wealth or prosperity, which is why Switzerland, Austria, Sweden, and Ireland, for example, were all 3rd World countries, they were all neutral. Similarly, along with South Korea, other 1st World countries included the Philippines, Thailand, Pakistan, and even most of Latin America. Pedantic, I know, but I'm a pedant, so....
The term is widely used differently nowdays, and means a different thing. Your definitions aren't wrong - it's just that your dictionary is outdated. 😶❤
I am younger than the post-cold war world, so I actually had NO IDEA about this. It makes so much sense. I thought second world was any nation that wasn’t capitalist or well connected to the global free trade, but still developed. Like Cuba could be argued to be such nation, having modern medicine and generally higher quality of life than many nations in the global south that aren’t under trade embargo, and so are more free to trade globally. But a definition that only takes to account alliances is much more sensible. I just never realised. I’m not sure if it was success or hubris of the first world nations that I saw the world as synonym for developed nations. I thought my whole life I was living in a first world country, while actually Finland was definitely a third world country during cold war, more often than not leaning heavily to second world.
SK is not surrounded by powerful enemies, at most to its north where NK and China lies. Japan and SK are both under US rule while the rest of Asia doesn't have the manpower or the guts to risk angering the US.
Hi, congratulations for your channel, it is a really good one. Could you make a video about Taiwan's Weapons Industry ? To me looks like people from Taiwan is not really concern about China's plan to take control of Taiwan, because Taiwan is not spending a big percentege of the GDP on defence, but you are born in Taiwan, for sure you know much more than me.
Hmm 🧐 quite a intersting to know that President Park had adopted the economic development of south Korea from Pakistan and development of arm industry by looking into the 1971 indo pak war
Hi are you interested in doing a video on JEOL vs FEI? I have been working on the field of structural biology and have always been interested in how FEI (now owned by ThermoFisher) is a lot more popular at the high-end these days, even though it seemed JEOL got to the 300kV cryo-EM two years ahead. (PS: no structural biology is not going to be killed by AI, Alphafold kinda sucks and stayed that way since 2020)
Before today a perun x asianometry collab wasn't something I even knew i wanted.
I totally came in here to request this…please tell me it’s a thing?!?!
Please give.
💯 would love to see perun and asianometry collab. They both have unique approaches to economics
Collab let's go!
hypohystericalhistory would be amazing too!
Need part 2, a look at South Korea’s current arms industry.
Would LOVE this. ❤
A collab with Perun on this would be double the fun! 🏆
Perun already did it himself
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Currently, defense and aerospace companies are hiring tens of thousand of developers and expanding their production plants, but to meet the shortage, they are pushing for overseas production. There were two important turning points in Korean weapons development. First, when Russia defaulted, they paid their debts with the latest weapons instead of cash, which led to rapid progress in Korean weapons development, and the other was the missile range extension agreement with the United States (300 km).
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Those Brown Bear transfers didn't involve any advanced arms technology and ended nearly twenty years ago.
In 1990, the Roh Tae-woo government agreed to provide $3 billion in economic cooperation loans to the Soviet Union. Some $1.47 billion had been transferred when the Soviet Union collapsed on 26 December 1991. The successor Russian government guaranteed the debts of the Soviet Union but only $19.1 million in cash and $12.7 million in aluminum had been repaid when in July 1995 the two governments renegotiated $450 million worth of debt to be repaid in-kind with raw materials, helicopters, and defense supplies.
The first tranche comprised a $214 million transfer of 33 T-80 U tanks, 33 BMP-3 armored vehicles, 70 Metis-M anti-tank missile launchers with 1,250 projectiles, and 50 Igla portable anti-aircraft missile launchers with 700 projectiles, completed in 1998.
After rejecting an offer of unsafe and poorly-maintained Soviet submarines, a second tranche valued at $534 million transferred 2 T-80 main battle tanks, BMP-3 fighting vehicles, 156 Metis-M launchers with 11,500 rounds of ammunition, 3 Murena air-cushion boats, Il-103 prop trainers, Ka-32 helicopters, and 6 ANSAT helicopters between 2002 and 2006.
In June 2019 South Korea rejected a proposed third tranche comprising Kamov firefighting helicopters. The Russian Ministry of Strategy and Finance later agreed to repay the remaining $280 million in cash by 2025, but has defaulted due to denial of access to dollars through its Export-Import Bank.
South Korean banks are believed to carry an additional $1.7 billion exposure to Russian government bonds largely covered by credit default swaps early in the current Ukraine conflict.
It looks like half of Asianometry's audience also watches Perun. Would've been amazing if the two caught up there - two of my favourite channels.
Perun? dont compare the two lol. The ozzie is owful.
@@mznxbcv12345 I'm not sure you understand, or ever understand, just how pathetic you sound.
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@@mznxbcv12345 Perun is great.🏆❤ Your channel is... not.
Perun's presentation and slides have quite a similar format to Jon's. Perun's is longer though.
Samsung: guess we’re making intercontinental ballistic missiles now
Typical SAMSUNG W
But software updates only for 4 years😊😊
@@gikigill788huawei: software updates?😂
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W for them.
For everyone else? 😅
Samsung's defense business has long been spin offed to Hanwha and you are still ignorant as hell.
Korea's obsession for artillery started centuries ago. When China invented black powder and rocket arrow, one interested Goryeo man Choi Mu-seon reverse-engineered the gunpowder recipe and made his own version of rocket arrow. Rocket arrows were usually fired by handheld launchers until Choi, his son and several Joseon researchers developed wagons called hwacha that fire hundred rockets at once. They brought this MLRS to several war fronts including Jurchen and Japan until matchlocks became more common.
The love for artillery didn't stop at hwacha; Joseon dynasty is known for their extensive use of artillery cannons and firearms, and the tradition still goes on.
Your K-9 Thunder is impressive. Building your 1:35 Academy kit now. Hope to get the A1 version
I'll chip in $2 specifically to ask:
What if Asianometry and Perun got together to whip up some sort of deep-dive/free-form discussion/whatever format they might find appropriate, about the geopolitics of semiconductors? 😁❤️
Done!
SK-Hynix makes the best memory chips used by NVDA!
Let freedom ring the cash registers!
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Thank you for your contribution; you speak for me as well 👍
Let's set a new benchmark: Asianometry and Perun with Ret. Gen. Stanley McChrystal.
Or podcast episode
I ship it! 🌚
It is worth noting that Park abandoned the government-driven, investment-driven development model in the early 1979. (Xi JInping is still addicted to this model, since it gives power and priviledge to the CCP.)
In October that year, he was assassinated after 3 years' intense tensioin with Carter administration. The succeeding military government kept on the sound strategy "make the government role smaller, make the market-consumer role bigger." By 1988, South Korea got on the track to become an advanced country, with the retreat of the military from politics, by fierce demonstrations for about 4 years. There was a joke for the great upheaval in June 1987. " We work during day time; we demonstrate during the evening."
In short, every agent did its role. Park, the succeeding generals, and the citizens.
Let's not put too much lavish praise on the Chun administration. His government killed hundreds of its own citizens in pro-democracy protests in Gwangju in 1980.
Highly inspiring.🏆❤
How does it give power and privilege to ccp? And what policy park adopted after abandoning government driven investment driven model?
I don't know where you got your information from but Park didn't "abandon" it.
1. the Americans were concerned with a state led model, Having capitalist orgs involved in the process made them more comfortable. Plus the latter group could mobilize resources and could acquire the managerial expertise without political obstructions from other countries.
2. "Investment led model" are you being intentionally daft ? Korean state's investment(loans, export subsidies, grants) made up more than 30% of their gdp in 1979 and it's only gone up since.
The "Evil" of investment led model is that it under cuts the competition, in your case the Americans. No point in being salty about it.
America wanted a consumer first model with cultural and socially liberal social norms that aid it, leading to your industries being uncompetitive and your labor force(especially in select industries) being relatively lazy. The Chinese had an industrialize by any means necessary policy(So they stole and reverse engineered and built out their own research base. They've been consistently increasing their r&d spending since mid 2000s, Also poaching talent is an excellent way to acquire domestic technical competence, Like they did with LMS). They more or less succeeded and the only thing holding them back right now is US technology sanctions and even that has at worst slowed them down for a decade or two. Chinese are closer to the US in terms of Technological development than the Soviets ever were.
So whining about investment led growth while the American state is pretty much doing the same is kinda disingenuos. One of the key reason as to why the Japanese fell off was the Plaza accords, Unlike the Japanese the Chinese aren't an occupied(with military installations and what not) vassal state(American assistance was instrumental in propping up LDP) that America can arm twist, It'd be interesting to see that play out, esp. the kind of tools(hard and soft) America might use.
You are welcome to correct me if I got something wrong.
@t.s.d.1376 i am a 65 years old South Korean. I lived this period. From the end of · the start of the Iranian revolution, South Korea fell into a serious crisis. Two competing policies. One is 성장론 "government & investment" driven. The other is 안정론. "Market-driven".
This is a good companion to TH-cam presenter Perun about the arms industry especially with regards to Korea.
Asianometry does more/better slides. Creates more interesting narratives. But Perun would probably agree. Overlap, but not redundant.
Good timing with Perun’s video on this earlier today
The President Rhee administration arrested Park, a general and sentenced him NOT to death BUT to life imprisonment. Then almost immediately released him, made him a civilian serving the MoD. This was 1948.
Rumor says that Park collaborated when he was arrested. When the war broke out, Park was reinstated as a gerneral and made the head for war time logistics, which was a vital position It seems that the colleagues in the Army knew that Park was a very intelligent and not-corruprt person, though he had got deeply involved with the Communists.
Park was a son of a poor farmer. He self-made himself as a teacher. Then he went to the Military Academy of the Manchu State, a puppet of Japan. Then, upon graduating, he was chosen to attend the Royal Army Academy of Japan. It is noteworthy that Japan made some bright Koreans into prosecutors, judges, civil servants and officers, who have authority over the populace, including the Japanese residents. Some Africans make a joke out of this: "Why on earth did you want independence, when you can send Japanese people into jail, and lead them as civil servants and officers?"
Koreans have wanted to be themselves. They want to play the (sometimes life-or-death) identity game, which they have played against the Continent for the last 2,000 years.
Thank you ❤... This was a phenomenal read 💪❤
Despite his poor background, Park was quite a bright student. Aided him later in life. The man was a leader worth following.
Park was also a massive opportunist. As mentioned in the video he was a member of the South Korean Worker's Party before the Korean War: the guy literally would switch to whichever allegiance that he saw fit, from his days in Manchuria until his final days. His entry of South Korea into the Vietnam War was one of his plans that he cooked up as well where IIRC America initially refused until negotiations were done on what South Korea would receive in return.
EDIT; Fun anecdote, a friend's elderly uncle who served in Vietnam (As part of the ROKMC attachment) said his units apparently buried some weapons and tanks upon receiving them and would write them off as losses. But when the ROKA/MC pulled out, they dug up the weapons and took them to South Korea. Not sure how true this is, but a tidbit nonetheless especially given that it's no secret that South Korea did develop its arms industry from a variety of American (and some Soviet) weaponry.
뱅모 요즘 유튜브에서 사는갑네
Im only here to fill in some blanks. While he was school teacher, Japan implmented more discrimtory policies and Park stood up for his students. He almost assaaulted the principle and quickly resigned before repercussions. Many people do not know that Park had an older brother that was a well regarded Korean Independence fighter. They were very close, and Park stayed with him after he was fired. Suddenly, he applied for the Manchuokuo Army.
The Manchukuo Army was the only Japanese military branch that had mass uprising that killed many high ranking Japanes officers. It also proven that there was a Korean indepdendence secret society within the Manchuokuoa Army. The criteria to be considered an INdepdendence fighter is to commit an heroic act. Not simply being in an organization, 4 people testified after his death that he was in this secret society.
Parks brother was killed at a protest over food rationing when it turned into a riot. His brothers friends were communhist and lied to him that an American soldier killed him. They took advantage of his grief and when he found out on his own that it was a Korean police officer not a US soldier he felt betrayed and taken advantage of. Then they were all arrested, and he confessed.
KNowing full well his confession was more than they needed to guarentee a death sentence. He wanted to bring down the ones who took advantage of him, and led them to a document that contained their entire roster. While he was waiting execution, another former member of the Manuchoa Army, Gen. Paik Sun-yup had Parks sentence commuted. Another member of the SKWP, who was in Paiks unit was not saved.
When asked why he didnt save his former friend but saved Park. He gave a vague reason liek "just dont my job", but many speculate that Paik was also in this secret society. So no, he wasn't an oppurtunitst, practically all Koreans in the MA were ultra nationalist.
Source (Cho Gap-che: he was a journalist and Parks nemesis, but after his death under covered the truth about him. He was no traitor.)
This illustrates how a leader with resolution and vision could transform an entire country and its people especially when that country has little to nothing to lose and start from. Time to time some people talk about what separates Korea from other similarly impoverished countries. It was this man featured in this video. It's ironic he is vilified how harsh he was by Korea's liberals and yet those liberals are the greatest beneficiaries of his harsh leadership.
Great contents!
However there is one factual inaccuracy.
A company was chosen for each weapons class.
Tank - Hyundai
SpH - Samsung
APV - Doosan
Ammo - Poosan and Hanhwa (Hanhwa literally means Korean Explosives)
Ships - Hyundai and Daewoo
Later
Aircraft - Samsung (MRO at Korean Air)
This all changed during Asian Financial Crisis where consolidation took place.
Desperately looking for a forgotten weapons x asianometry collab.
forgotten weapons is basically over.
@@Hansengineeringhe puts out 5 videos a week. wut?
@@Ben..... Yes. All the forgotten weapons have been remembered, and his new content is boring af. Also, he completely blew up his relationship with InrangeTV and brutality matches in the US.
@@Hansengineering Dont know anything about the inrange stuff but he is currently uploading like 1 or 2 of a kind developmental firearms out of European state armories. The kind of stuff no one even knows about. That is what i want to know about.
@@Ben..... He has to travel overseas to make content because no one will work with him anymore.
lee kyung seo is my grandfather. cool to see his name come out in this vid. there is a book written about the missile project called 백곰, 도전과 승리의 기록, which roughly means white (polar) bear, a story of challenge and victory.
Your gramps is part of the legend. Ty
Once again, excellent video. Bro drops mega bangers.
Your videos are incredibly well made. More power to you!
'The US wanting SK to sholder more of the defence but impeading them from gaining to mean to' is a thing that has been consistant thoughout the years even now.
Asianometry + Perun would be amazing. It's so cool to see so many subscribe to both.
"inadvertent technology transfer" @19:51 🤣
How on Earth do you make me care about the story of South Korea's weapons industry? But you do and I'm always entertained by your videos. I always look forward to watching them!
Desite the controversies and authoritarian rules, President Park did South Korea an immense favor and lead the country into what it is today. Without his intervention, the country would've still been a third world nation, not a first world nation that it is today.
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58,000 Americans died in Vietnam. Not 30k but great vid non the less
The 20k macnamaras morons don’t count .
34k is correct for the Korean War, I didn't catch that specific number, but it makes sense he's be talking about the Korean war, in a video about Korea.
Pretty sure he ment up till that particular point and not the toll post war
He said death to 1968, not the total to 1974.
@yootoobvyooer ahhh my bad homie
I follow both Perun and Asianometry so seeing this tripped me out
Park Chung-hee was a great leader. A real statesman, not a politician. We have too many of those.
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The two-pronged pincer attack by the two leading slideshow-based content delivery channels is designed to fix, isolate and, ultimately, thoroughly entertain the exposed part of the audience that is interested in Korean defense industry. This is a part of an overall strategic campaign of Korean Defense marketing to push into a previously stalled directions.
It’s working I think, I would apply to work for the company that works with ROK defence sector
Why did I read this with a Perun voice in my mind lel
Thanks for a great lesson on a topic I didn't even know I was interested in
14:03 what a photo 👍🏻
It's Korean Costanza! Is that gortex?
And the USA are taking the same action in Ukraine...trying to micro manage the War, control weaponry, yet no skin in the game....
Fortunately Ukraine has realised this and is taking action to develop its Military industry
USA has also anticipated certain actions may provoke Russian into lowering its nuclear threshold. So in addition, the US has been doing some technology transfers with Ukraine in regards to "certain" arms category. It has greatly aided Ukraine Arms Industry.
@@simonnot8487 I'm sure the American patriots are heavily assisting Ukrainian Arms Industry. 👍
The USA state is merely not hindering the progress & letting it happen, it seems - not actively helping (that much).
Smart, if you can’t provide the arms for defense, you’ve already lost.
If you're willing to engage in guerilla tactics, you may win with foreign support (Napoleonic Spain, mid century Vietnam, etc). But yes, indigenous military industry is important.
I really hope you do a video on the military industrial complex in the USA and the UK.
More interested in the Military Industry Complex of Soviet-Union/Russia & China.
Samsung produced various weapon system while ago, but now sold off the business to Hanwha, artillery shell company. Hyundai and LG also have considerable weapon business. Now defunct Daewoo produced assault rifle. Many major Korean conglomerates participated in defense industry.
One of the great South Korean success stories for their weapons industry is the PMC (Precision Made Cartridges) company. Founded in 1968, it eventually became one of the largest ammo producers in the world, being produced in South Korea and the US. PMC (the famous plain Yellow box) was commonly sold in the US starting in the 1980's and known for its great quality and consistency as well being very affordable. Initially, its main products were common American designed ammo used in their military firearms including 45 ACP, 30-06, 7.62x51, and even 9mm. Even today PMC produces a large line of ammo for both the military and civilian market.
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2:04 "Pok (Bok) Chunghee"
I applaud the narrator for saying Pok (Bok) rather than Park. "Park" is an anglicized pronunciation and spelling of 박, which is officially romanized as Bak.
On the other hand, all the other pronunciations in the video are highly anglicized.
@@joetrey215 The narrator does not speak Korean, so what did you expect?
@@iu2 You are the one delighted one name wasn't anglicized. I didn't care. Seems odd you are concerned about anglicized words in an English-language presentation. Are you stupid or deranged?
@@iu2 I had no expectations. I don't care if the name was anglicized or not. You are the one making a big deal about a word not being anglicized in an English-language presentation. You seem to be disturbed.
@@joetrey215 Nobody asked if you cared. Nobody cares what you think. Go away. Mute.
respect to Mr.Park
The timing with Perun’s video was awesome!
Great video, truly fascinating.
The most important is steel making method such as high tensile steel. Without this technique, you cant produce anything. But how did they get this technique?
Stole it from America
@@antoinedoinell who stole it from America/Germany
Taught by US. Similar with how Japan learned industrial statistics after WW2 from US.
Park Cheung Hee is the axis by which all Korean Politics revolves around, whether they know it or not.
Oh Won-chol's picture is really funny to me. Imagine seeing that picture of a grandfather or relative and thinking that they're just a regular old man.
This video piqued my interests
The incident on the boat was why Kim Dae jung converted to Christianity. They stopped the boat and were getting ready to throw him off. He closed his eyes and thought to himself that he wished someone would save him. He opened his eyes and saw a helicopter from a distance. It was the Japanese Coast Guard, they thought his boat was from North Korea. Those are his words.
I'm convinced this channel could reduce output by 4x and still be considered prolific.
Really interesting the newspaper article at 21:11 is from the "Ames Daily Tribune", now called just the "Ames Tribune", in Ames, Iowa. I went to school at Iowa State University there and was aware of the large number of South Korean's there (some truly excellent restaurants and food!). I wonder if this article was especially relevant to Tribune readers because it was "news from home"?
Fellow ISU grad that was a surprise.
very good topic i was looking for a good source of this topic
Thanks for this. You helped provided valuable context for untangling the complexities of the Uncle Samsik TV series.
Thanks for this. A good history lesson on Korea's 1970's - the world my parents and grand parents lived through.
Excellent background for understanding Korea's strength as a military production superpower.
Alright petition for perun x asianometry collab pls pls (it be hella cool to watch)
Republic of Korea Reserve Forces (향토 예비군) & the Agency of Defense Development
or ADD (국방과학연구소) are what I get from the transcript, that's the best professional subtitle can be.
This is one of my favorite nerds.
a high quality documentary which enlightens us on "state capitalism", based on the civil and military use of certain technologies.
American KIA in Vietnam was 58,000. Don't know where you got 31,000.
YESSS.. Now if only you'd make a video on Korea's EDB and HCI Council.
The Heavy and Chemical Industry (HCI)
@@elektrotehnik94 mostly just three people running the show. Hence the "council"
@Asianometry 5:19 American Casualties in Vietnam is 58,281 not 30k.
Objecton. Rhee' goverment might be corrupt, but he was not corrupt.
Can you do a video on chaebol collaboration with Japan pre WW2
Since ancient times, the civilized countries of East Asia were China and the Korean Peninsula, and the only Asians who could make porcelain, an ancient semiconductor, were the Chinese, Koreans. Since China has been conquered by foreign peoples for over 3,000 years, it is unclear how much of China's history is Chinese, but the Han, Song, and Ming dynasties can be clearly seen as Chinese history. Ancient India, unlike today, had hundreds of kingdoms divided into, but it was definitely a civilized region that spread Buddhism, and Thailand and Cambodia were also centralized civilized countries ruled by kings. Japan was an isolated island that had not been exposed to continental civilization until the 1400s, and when Portugal and Spain opened their ports, it was able to absorb Western civilization and awaken, and using that power, it invaded the Korean Peninsula, which had been a leading country for generations, and even dreamed of conquering China and India. I think the rapid changes in GDP of China, S.Korea, and India are the process of countries that had been wealthy civilized countries since ancient times but temporarily became impoverished after experiencing colonies and wars regaining their original positions.
bro你甚至还贴心的替中国留下了三个朝代💀💀。替日本晚开化了800年💀💀。
谢谢你对东亚人的教导，我们又发现了新的历史💀💀
Wdym unclear, there's countless sources to read about each ruling class throughout Chinese history. You're confusing ethnicity and nationality here. Japan, China, Korea, Vietnam are not countries made up of one ethnic group but rather multiple. In the case of China, the Han was most dominant, and Vietnam, the Kinh the dominant group. Chinese dynasties like the Qing and Yuan which were led by the Manchu and Mongol ethnic groups respectively, are still Chinese.
Well India was united under various kingdoms like the Mauryans, Mughals and the Delhi Sultanate for some time. But centralized rule lasted for short time, out of India's 5,000 year history before British it was united under one empire for only around 900-1000 years approximately and even then the southernmost part was politically independent.
When Buddhism started spreading around 250-200 BCE around Asia India was under Mauryan Empire which covered most of the Indian subcontinent.
@@fuethao8633genetically East Asians have the same origin or so I've heard.
@thesenate8477
Northeast Asians do in the form of Amur and Liao ancestry. Southeast Asians, members of the sundadont, are very genetically different and ought to be considered in relation to East Asians as North Africans or West Asians to Europeans.
Seeing how the Japanese economy developed and re-developed and seems to be looking to follow in Korea's footsteps with regards to non-lethal military aid, I wonder what the next few decades will hold for countries in the middle.
I long to see what the Japanese defence sector is capable of, at scale & properly funded. ❤
The R&D potential especially must be extremely high. 💪
Very interesting.
Definitely can see some similarities in US policy to nowadays Ukraine and Israel wars.
Americans can produce AR15's in their home. How hard can it be to make M16's?
Well, if you are going to make 2.1 millions of them in 7 years, yeah. Spending a few months in a shack with off the shelf components wouldn't be an option for mass production wouldn't it?
An interesting tidbit of the obsession for self-sufficiency is the Korean standard issue shoulder arm in the form of the Daewoo K2. Arguably takes the best portions of both the AR-15 and AK platforms into a single unit with a folding stock and accepts NATO standard magazines and 5.56mm ammunition.
There was a neat "K-series" exhibit in the War Memorial of Korea in Seoul back when I last checked it out in 2018. An interesting display of both prototype and future adoptions of small arms - all domestically produced, of course. There was also a big display of domestically-produced ammunition, materiel, artillery shells, mortals, heavy caliber weapons. Also conveniently NATO-standard calibers for maximum compatibility with U.S. Weapons systems.
Everyone who doesn't know a lot about guns says this but in reality it takes some of the advantages of the ar15 and many of the disadvantages of the AK and combines them to make a rifle that is just acceptable. It's not very good, just acceptable.
The horrible long piston gas system of the AK is the core of where its main mechanical problems come from.
Now producing more than ever.
perfect timing with Perun's video early today.
Thanks!
Although not possible to implement 1:1 nowadays, this optimistic and inspiring tale shows that it's possible to develop strong military industry despite deficiencies in technology and know-how. Take notes EU!
I geew up next to a Nike missile base - laughably retro now, but with all these missiles flying around these days, it wouldn't surprise me if some of them resembled the old Nike-X system.
“Inadvertent technology transfer.” 🙄
All too often a key factor is left unemphasized: the *enormous* amounts of foreign aid, military aid, and foreign direct investment from the United States throughout the war and post-war periods. It was practically an undeclared Marshall Plan
Without the US SK wouldn't be where it is today.
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The dual-use of civilian industry is an idea so brilliant sounding that I can’t see why every state isn’t doing this.
Of course there are downsides: secrecy of the technology, finding the right incentives to get civilian industry to participate but not so high that its simply a bad deal for tax-payers, and huge complexity in integration of all these parts, meaning there is a high market friction to change manufacturers.
But it at least partially solves the big issue of defence production capability as means of deterrence. You want to have high production capability precisely so you never need to consume or spend money on its full output.
I think what west missed is that the economy is only partially linked to defence capability. Overall industry and manufacturing is much more concrete. West ended up with extremely wealthy economy and highly skilled labour force, as well as extremely advanced defence industry, but our labour force and industry struggles to surge up the production. The industry we have outside of defence industry understantably never invested to produce stuff they never before produced. The defence industry on the other hand never really had the scale, even if some governments tried to sweeten the deal for excess capacity.
Great video! A bit of editorial feedback: I don't think you need to say "country's's" since you were only referring to one country and it sounds weird. Distracts from your content. Even for plural "countries' ", it would be better not to pronounce the implied "'s" and just let the context disambiguate for you.
Anyways, love your videos, so nice to see on you Dwarkesh Patel's channel as a real person and not AI, even though this is a faceless TH-cam channel.
Unless.... it's the AI replicating your voice and saying "countries's" from your script text?
I'm not sure whether the year 1969 always comes up in these videos, or if it's just me noticing when it does.
I'm Korean, well versed in its history, the detail and accurate analysis of this content is simply outstanding. Well done
I just agree HypoHystericalHistory is an equal,especially the video on anti-ship missiles.
Small english language observation over several videos: You don't have to pronounce the pluralizing " 's " on words that already end in 's'. "North Koreans'" vs "North Koreanses". I don't think it's wrong, but it's definitely extra.
I imagine it had something to do with a smiling grandpa to the north
A fascinating and well researched overview of a period of South Korean history of which I was largely ignorant. Although this is of course hardly a new insight, it's worth reflecting on the fact that, at the end of the war, North and South Korea were on a more or less equal footing economically. As the video alludes to, by the end of the 1970's this was no longer true, and that gap would widen considerably in the ensuing decades. Thanks for the history refresher.
North Korea was more advanced and wealthier than the south for several years after the war. ROK was on par, economically, with Haiti in 1960 - though ROK had more industrial capability than Haiti.
Cheap as China, Reliable as Japan, Who tf won't buy those?
"Third world" is really an inaccurate term, and certainly in the context of the time. South Korea was squarely in the 1st World. The terms derive from the Three Worlds model of international relations, which separated the globe into three blocs: the 1st World was NATO and its allies; the 2nd World was the Warsaw Pact and allies; the 3rd World was comprised of the unaligned countries.
No regard was taken for national wealth or prosperity, which is why Switzerland, Austria, Sweden, and Ireland, for example, were all 3rd World countries, they were all neutral.
Similarly, along with South Korea, other 1st World countries included the Philippines, Thailand, Pakistan, and even most of Latin America.
Pedantic, I know, but I'm a pedant, so....
The term is widely used differently nowdays, and means a different thing.
Your definitions aren't wrong - it's just that your dictionary is outdated. 😶❤
Agreed
@@elektrotehnik94 but if referring to the time period that this video takes place in, they are accurate definitions...
I am younger than the post-cold war world, so I actually had NO IDEA about this. It makes so much sense. I thought second world was any nation that wasn’t capitalist or well connected to the global free trade, but still developed. Like Cuba could be argued to be such nation, having modern medicine and generally higher quality of life than many nations in the global south that aren’t under trade embargo, and so are more free to trade globally.
But a definition that only takes to account alliances is much more sensible. I just never realised. I’m not sure if it was success or hubris of the first world nations that I saw the world as synonym for developed nations.
I thought my whole life I was living in a first world country, while actually Finland was definitely a third world country during cold war, more often than not leaning heavily to second world.
世界的定义甚至还和语言相关，中文里第一世界主要指苏联和美国💀💀
The Korean arms industry has no choice but to develop in an environment surrounded by powerful enemies.
SK is not surrounded by powerful enemies, at most to its north where NK and China lies. Japan and SK are both under US rule while the rest of Asia doesn't have the manpower or the guts to risk angering the US.
That was crazy 😮 wow
Me : I don't care about countries that don't exist.
Asianometry : How the Wizardly industry in Middle Earth was developed.
Me : Now I'm imterested
Hi, congratulations for your channel, it is a really good one. Could you make a video about Taiwan's Weapons Industry ? To me looks like people from Taiwan is not really concern about China's plan to take control of Taiwan, because Taiwan is not spending a big percentege of the GDP on defence, but you are born in Taiwan, for sure you know much more than me.
25:45 a good example of why democratic systems suck.
I would definitely watch this movie
Does the reverse engine require an agreement with private companies that own patents for the weapons their tring to recreate
wow and a second one on Korea ! thou areth the GOATOAH!(the greatest of all time on asian history)
I would love to see nmore videos bout Vietnam
Some kind of strange excess _-es_ syndrome going on throughout this one. "Presidents's", "countries's", "worlds's", etc.
Everyone knows that HK originated in South Korea. Or Hankook Kimchi so spicy its a weapon.
Atrocious that america didn't heavily pressured against such developments.
17:24 I wonder if Indira Gandhi declared emergency in India for similar reasons, covertly
Dammit. Spearow Agnew
Spiro
Hmm 🧐 quite a intersting to know that President Park had adopted the economic development of south Korea from Pakistan and development of arm industry by looking into the 1971 indo pak war
And this is why South Koreans are so good at Starcraft
Hi are you interested in doing a video on JEOL vs FEI? I have been working on the field of structural biology and have always been interested in how FEI (now owned by ThermoFisher) is a lot more popular at the high-end these days, even though it seemed JEOL got to the 300kV cryo-EM two years ahead.
(PS: no structural biology is not going to be killed by AI, Alphafold kinda sucks and stayed that way since 2020)
Today's conversation talks about... Samsung :D
Let me guess, Samsung.