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🗓️ 4 May 2017
⏱️ 127 minutes
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0:00.0 | After the Second World War, the Potsdam Conference subdivided the Davidian Nazi Germany into |
0:08.0 | partitions overseen by the victors, the West managed by the United States, United Kingdom |
0:12.0 | and France, and the Eastern region handed to the Soviet Union. |
0:15.0 | This birthed the neighboring nations of West and East Germany, which would see decades |
0:18.3 | of conflict and tell with German reunification at the beginning of the 90s, the book was |
0:21.6 | shut on this particular chapter of history. |
0:24.1 | But in World War II's Pacific Front, the after effects of a different partition still |
0:27.6 | linger. |
0:28.6 | The 1945 division of Korea into the American administered South and the Soviet or vaccine |
0:32.5 | north, a particularly unfair fate for people who suffered miserably under a nightmarish |
0:36.6 | Japanese occupation. |
0:38.3 | Koreans would subsequently endure a brutal proxy war between the Cold War superpowers that |
0:41.9 | killed up to 20% of its population, ending in a people divided between the capitalist |
0:45.7 | democracy, the Republic of Korea, and the decidedly less democratic Democratic People's |
0:49.9 | Republic of Korea, which is endured the totalitarian rules of Kim Il Sung, Kim Jong Il, |
0:54.7 | and now Kim Jong Un. |
0:56.3 | With South Korea, much like its bitter rival Japan, saw explosive economic growth as heavy |
1:00.3 | western investment helped it modernize into a thriving metropolis in powerhouse. |
1:03.9 | To this day, Korean importation and reinterpretation of American culture is seen in its passion |
1:07.6 | for PC gaming, the musical genre of K-pop, and of course in its cuisine. |
1:11.9 | In 1990, the same year the Berlin Wall fell, businessmen Jung Hwo-Woon founded a South |
1:16.9 | Korean chain restaurant serving a dish that would become the adopted national food in |
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