South Korea shows how it's done

Entrepreneurial spirit and innovation are alive and well in South Korea, says Lars Henriksson. And that spells opportunities for adventurous investors.

South Korea, sandwiched between the two East Asian superpowers, shows how to get ahead in today's global economy. For much of the second half of the20th century, Korea pulled itself up by its bootstraps making itself rich by building huge industrial conglomerates and exporting their wares to the West. But that's the old story. Then China changed the world economy and Korea was adaptable enough to change with it.

Today, Korea faces its neighbours, and is defined by high-tech and a thriving entrepreneurial sector.

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Lars is an emerging-markets expert, with many years of 'on the ground' experience hunting down profit opportunities in Asia. Lars spent ten years living in Malaysia and Thailand, seeking out strategic opportunities, before moving to London to manage the Oracle Asia Absolute Fund. In short, Lars has real knowledge of where the opportunities in Asia are.