Excerpts from Books and Wikipedia
"Perhaps nothing better illustrates this stress upon learning than the fact that Korea (43 million population) has around 1.4 million students in higher education, compared with 145,000 in Iran (54 million), 15,000 in Ethiopia (46 million), and 159,000 in Vietnam (64 million); or the further fact that already by 1980 “as many engineering students were graduating from Korean institutions as in the United Kingdom, West Germany, and Sweden combined.” [Kennedy: Preparing for 21st Century, Kindle Edition, Location 3601]