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We come full circle. South Korean chaebols got rich off Vietnam War (korean marine mercenaries for US) and now they get rich off capitalizing Vietnam. I see lo
by spxneo 3y ago
We come full circle. South Korean chaebols got rich off Vietnam War (korean marine mercenaries for US) and now they get rich off capitalizing Vietnam.
I see lot of Korean-Vietnamese couples/biracial children as well. Crazy how much sway a small group of people have (in both countries).
- huac 3y ago> Over the nine-year period of South Korean troop commitments to Vietnam, 40% of the country's overall export earnings during this period came from the money combat personnel were paid, making an average of $200 million each year. > The total cost to the United States of paying for Korean participation was "peanuts compared to what it would be for a comparable number of Americans," but those payments are estimated to account for 4 percent of the GNP in 1967 and totalling more than one billion dollars. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/South_Korea_in_the_Vietnam_War https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/South_Korea_in_the_Vietnam_War -- I did not know this!