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The economists that were trained in the U.S. and helped transition Korean economy to market -- it may have been University of Missouri, Columbia. Harry Truman basically launched (the American side of) the Korean war, and in one of his speeches to the Korean people, he invited Koreans to get education in America, and of course he suggested the school he went to. (I know this as the local of Columbia, MO; the Econ Dept still trains economists for the Korean government en mass.)

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