March 21, 2008
South Korea Seeks a New Role as a Higher-Education Hub
New arrivals in South Korea receive a crash course on the country's startling transformation at Incheon International Airport. The gleaming terminal, opened in 2001, squats in a foggy flatland of rice paddies and scrawny forests about an hour west of the capital, Seoul.
Two generations ago, much of the southern half of the Korean peninsula looked similar, until ambitious technocrats helped turn one of Asia's poorest nations into the 11th largest economy in the world.
Now they
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