How did pacific rim nations such as south korea and taiwan escape the typical third world cycle of poverty and dependence?

Production of goods from electronics, automobiles and clothing is relative to the prosperity and development of South Korea’s industry. South Korea is one of the four considered economic tigers of the Pacific Rim whose work week is about 50 hours--considered as the world’s longest.

Taiwan, the world’s twentieth largest, is not recognized by the United Nations, is also one of the economic tigers. The country has major industries and entrepreneurial acts. 

the process is called revolution because it was a process of great economic-social transformations that began in england in the xviii century.

the industrial mode of production spread throughout much of the northern hemisphere throughout the xix and early xx centuries.

the effect of this revolution was the distance between the countries, with respect to economic and political power.   after all, not all industrialized at the same time, remaining in the condition of suppliers of raw materials and agricultural products to the industrialized countries.

these differences mark to this day the nations of the world that are divided between developed and developing countries. one way to measure whether a country is advanced is to assess how industrialized it is.