SOUTH KOREA: The Nation That Rebuilt Itself in 50 Years | Travel Documentary

👇 Everything we curated for this South Korea episode. Tours, books, cookbooks, cultural resources.

In 1960, this was one of the poorest countries on Earth, with no oil, no coal, and a per capita income near Ghana's. Its language had spent thirty-five years pushed out of its own schools, its people ordered by law to take new names. Today it sells nearly ten billion dollars of culture a year, and children who have never been there learn to read its alphabet from their phones. This is the story of how South Korea, stripped of its land, its name, and very nearly its language, came to shape what the rest of the world watches, listens to, and eats.

In this documentary, discover how South Korea turned the one thing no one could take, its language, into a cultural force the whole world now follows, from the alphabet a king built for the poor to the secret dictionary recovered in a railway warehouse.