Many an idealistic youth could get a lesson or two from Kim Dae Jung of Korea. He was a successful twentysomething businessman when he joined the opposition in the 1950s. There he persevered until he won the highest office amid the Asian Crisis in 1997. His ongoing struggles for economic reform and North-South reunification offer inspiration to those working for peace, prosperity and modernization in Asia.
Globalization is a historically inevitable path.
The entire world will become one market, and nations will cooperate while competing. Economic activities of all nations will be aimed at producing the best but cheapest goods and services and supplying them to the rest of the world, while buying the best and cheapest products from other countries. Any nation will face defeat if it goes against globalization. The age of globalization is also an age of information. Enormous wealth is being created.