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Just a few decades ago, the South Koreans were an impoverished, agricultural people. In one generation they moved from the fields to Silicon Valley. They accomplished this through three totally unexpected miracles: economic development, democratization, and the arrival of their culture to global attention.. Who are the Koreans? What are they like? The New Koreans examines how they have been perceived by outsiders, the features that color their "national character," and how their emergence from backwardness, poverty, and brutality happened. It also looks at why they remain unhappy - with the lowest birth rates and highest suicide rates in the developed world. . In The New Koreans, Michael Breen provides compelling insight into the history and character of this fascinating nation of South Korea, and casts an eye to future developments, as well as across the DMZ into North Korea.
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Michael Breen was born near Aylesbury in the UK, grew up in Yemen, Germany, England and Scotland. He studied English Literature and Linguistics at the University of Edinburgh and, after graduating, worked for several years on an oil rig in the North Sea. He has spent most of his adult life in South Korea, first as a freelance reporter writing for The Washington Times and The Guardian, then as a consultant advising companies on North Korea, and later running his own public relations firm. He lives in Seoul.
