If you read the paper, South Korea is clearly not the only country to exhibit this trend. Pretty much every non-western developed nation has nuclear power which

If you read the paper, South Korea is clearly not the only country to exhibit this trend. Pretty much every non-western developed nation has nuclear power which is competitive with other nations. It makes perfect sense that South Korea, being an extremely advanced economy which also waited to go nuclear and thus did so with technologies that incorporate many lessons learned, along with a very well structured program for implementation, saw some of the best results.