The important thing is the ‘effect of first-come, first-served.’
The saying that well begun is half done is an adage in our slow-paced society that says, even if it is difficult, we should at least start.
But in an accelerating society, the beginning is not 'half' but 'all'.
This is because the ‘first-come, first-served effect’ works absolutely to your advantage.

Once a first, always a first.
The first-come, first-served effect may be forgotten, but it cannot disappear.
The Dutch commercial revolution, which first introduced humanity to an accelerated society, was reborn as the British Industrial Revolution, and the glory of the British Empire, which first completed an accelerated society, was also splendidly revived in the United States.
It's not that there are no opportunities for a latecomer country.
Because even a small arrival is a first arrival.
Germany's chemical industry and Japan's materials industry still reign as hidden champions, taking advantage of the first-mover advantage, and Korea's semiconductor industry is also evolving by taking advantage of the first-mover advantage.
Moreover, the second great turning point, the so-called Fourth Industrial Revolution, is waiting for the 'first arrival of the new millennium.'
Succeeding in the Fourth Industrial Revolution is currently the only way for us to overtake advanced countries.
Even if you don't become number one in a specific industry while focusing on the 4th Industrial Revolution, you are still successful.
Once you accumulate technology and experience, you can become number one in a similar industry with the same technology.
Hegemony is not limited to 'monopoly hegemony' where one person dominates, but also includes 'oligopoly hegemony' where several people divide up similar industries.
If we do our best for the Fourth Industrial Revolution, we can become a powerful nation that can easily join the ranks of advanced countries as a member of the "oligopoly hegemony."
--- p.206, from “The Effect of First-Come-First”

So the Korean government chose the drastic measure of export-led industrialization.
The plan is to import cutting-edge technology, domestically produce new products from advanced countries, and export them.
A country that can't even make bicycles properly decided to manufacture and export automobiles.
In some ways, it was an absurd choice that ran counter to the liberal trade order.
This is because the plan was to strategically create a 'new' industry that 'does not exist' in the country, not a comparative advantage, or even a comparative disadvantage, and then export it.
The absurd idea of ​​making a color TV and exporting it to developed countries when we can't even make a black and white TV.
But that absurdity became the trigger that created the Miracle on the Han River.
After many twists and turns, once exports were successful, dollars were secured.
With that foreign currency, new technologies were introduced again, advanced products were domestically produced with that technology and exported, and with that foreign currency, new technologies were introduced again.
In the process, we were able to gradually secure export competitiveness.
If things continued like this, I thought we might one day become a developed country.
It was the beginning of a grand dream: hatch an egg, raise a chick, raise it into a chicken, buy a calf, and raise the calf into a cow to create a huge ranch.
--- p.99, “Import Substitution Industrialization vs.
From “Export-led Industrialization”

If there were three great secrets hidden behind the Miracle on the Han River, there are also three prepared strategies for success in the Fourth Industrial Revolution.
The three major innovations—government innovation, social innovation, and external innovation—are not ideologically biased politics, but rather “policies.”
It is a policy only for the people and their livelihood.
There can be no progress or conservatism in the Fourth Industrial Revolution and science and technology.
Now, we must all work together to unify public opinion, consolidate national strength, and dedicate ourselves to the three major innovations.
This is possible through policy, not politics.
Let me emphasize again that policy is about being loyal to the people in order to achieve the goals of the country.
It is to develop the economy and enrich the people's food, clothing, and shelter, and to strengthen national defense and protect the people from invasion by foreign enemies.
If a rich nation and a strong military are intermediate goals of policy, the happiness of the people is the ultimate goal of policy.
So, only maximum welfare is true welfare.
Because welfare is the happiness of the people.
However, unsustainable welfare is nothing more than selling the happiness of future generations to buy our own happiness today.
--- p.362, from “A Leader Who Prioritizes National Interest Over Justification”

If an individual's 'subjective well-being' is a sufficient condition for happiness, then a nation's 'objective well-being' is a necessary condition for happiness.
Unless we were born to suffer poverty and exploitation, or to be ravaged by foreign invasion.
The definition of happiness can vary depending on the times and individual's subjective perspective.
However, we must never overlook the fact that all this happiness begins within the confines of a 'nation'.
Of course, just because a country is wealthy does not mean that all its citizens are rich and happy.
However, it is highly unlikely that someone born in Silicon Valley in a developed country will enjoy the same level of happiness throughout their lives as someone born in a slum in a developing country.
In that sense, the country must develop and the economy must grow.
Only on the foundation of the nation can each individual freely reap the fruits of happiness they desire.
--- p.19, from “The State is a Necessary Condition for Happiness”

So, in China and Joseon, which advocated civil service, who was responsible for exploiting farmers?
He was a nobleman.
Just as religious leaders in Europe offered a carrot, scholars who studied Confucianism offered the logic of exploitation in the name of human morality.
And the role that the knights played was enforced by government officials appointed through the civil service system with the whip of laws and regulations.
Zhu Xi's teachings taught absolute obedience between king and subject, parents and children, husband and wife, and noblemen and commoners, justifying exploitation and maintaining a strictly vertical hierarchical class society.
It is a mistake to think that the emperor of an agricultural society had a spirit of love for the people.
The reason the ruling class distributed food to farmers during a famine was not because they truly sympathized with the hunger of the people, but because they were the people who would be responsible for agricultural production the following year.
In some ways, the love for the people of the agricultural society can be compared to the love of the Mongol army for horses.
In Mongolia, anyone who hit a horse's eye or head was punishable by death.
Soldiers who cooked before feeding their horses in the barracks were also severely punished.
Because if you abuse horses, people will die on the battlefield.
Just like the love for horses for war, the love that the emperor showed to his people in an agricultural society and dynastic state was only to the extent of collecting a lot of taxes.
--- p.53, from “The Birth of Status”

In an industrial society, industry typically refers to manufacturing, also known as atom industry.
The knowledge-based society of the future is one in which the digital industry, or bit industry, represented by computers and the Internet, is added to the modern industrial society.
Bit Industry plays a role in increasing productivity in the industrial society's atom industry through automation, robotization, and artificial intelligence.
Moreover, the bit industry is emerging as a new independent industry with a stagnant production function, like the information network industry.
The knowledge-based society, where the new bit industry is added to the atom industry with increased productivity, is a 'faster accelerating society' with an economic growth rate that is even faster than the accelerating industrial society.

--- p.73, from “From the Age of Atoms to the Age of Bits”