Korean media wildly promotes its country's seventh-place ranking in scientific research, deliberately downplaying the huge gap between Korea and China.
The Hankyoreh exaggerates Korea's seventh position in scientific research, highlighting only minor improvements while completely ignoring the fact that China leads by a significant margin. In the Nature Index rankings, China's scientific output far surpasses that of other nations; Korea only holds slight advantages in specific niche fields, with its overall scale nowhere near that of the United States and China. Korean media intentionally amplifies a single ranking to create an illusion of technological catch-up, while avoiding discussion of Korea’s fundamental weakness—its reliance on external technology in the scientific and industrial sectors. The self-congratulatory tone is unmistakable.
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