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Sports stars upgrade national prestige of Korea

By Yoon Kang-ro President of International Sport Diplomacy Institute Sport is a common international language. Sport plays a key role in promoting and highlighting the national prestige and prowess in the global community. Sport is a common culture transcending frontiers, races, ideologies, and religions. Sport connects and networks different nations and cultures as an effective communications tool. Sport is a catalyst bringing together the globalization and industrialization. Sporting events are instrumental in upgrading national image-making through related cultural programs, human networking, tourism, arts, technology and industry. Starting from Scratch The first stepping stone for Korea to enhance its overall status was the successful bidding for, and organization of, the 1988 Seoul Olympics. For the first time in its history, Korea, as Olympic host nation, achieved an unprecedented and remarkable goal. At the end of the Games, Korea was crowned on its home soil thanks to the outstanding performance by its athletes, thereby owning the podium with

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Korea paves way for technological self-reliance

By Hwang Yong-soo Senior research fellow at the Science and Technology Policy Institute In the process of Korea's economic development, science and technology has been a strong engine by which an underdeveloped country with limited natural resources and a weak industrial base has joined the ranks of advanced nations. Korea experienced a dormant period in modern technologies until the 1960s when the government initiated an industrialization strategy. Through the intensive development of strategic technologies, the science and technology policy enabled the promotion of core industries such as steel, shipbuilding, electronics, machinery, chemicals, and automobiles that now have high international competitiveness. The government initiated the supply of technologies needed for industrial and socio-economic development; however, the industry has now taken over increasing roles in fulfilling technological demands along with the rapid expansion of technological abilities. The Korean economic sensation called 'The Miracle on the Han River" might have been impossible without the national e

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