careytommy37:


My question was directed at the OP. Your answer totally went of point. Go back and read the OP to understand my comment

Thanks for the clarificaiton

careytommy37:
Did South Korea also have electricity pre-1950?
So how come South Korea is able to provide 100% electric power to all her citizens.
Continue giving excuses for failure.

If you had a working brain, you would ask yourself why South Korea and other 'tiger economies' are so radically different from their neighbours, Burma, Nepal, North Korea, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh, Cambodia etc, in terms of development.

After WW2 the victorious allies engaged in massive transfer of technology, massive funding, and huge credit flows to a select group of Asian countries, which included South Korea, to create a capitalist bulwark in the Asia-Pacific against Soviet communist influence.

They also gave unprecedented western market access to those countries to sell their finished goods. That was what led to the industrialisation of those 4 or 5 selected countries. It was externally generated.

Without that western intervention, South Korea would be no different from Cambodia or Myanmar.

WoundedLamb:
Hhmm... But these are two very different tracks. These countries were in existence before electricity was invented. They invented electricity at some point in their existence and some decades later, they came up with technologies to spread it all over the West. It's not as if it took them years to catch up with some pre-existing technology. We are not asking Nigeria to invent electricity or create anything, we are asking Nigeria to harness a technology that has been in existence long before the country was born. Please, let's not compare adoption with invention.

Just an opinion.

Smart posts like this one make we rethink my not-so-great position that many of our people are dumb. I am sorry I had to develop such admittedly hasty and short sighted view just because I have encountered so many dumbos on this forum, especially some of our young people.

Bravo. I respect your post, Sir

I think Nigerians don't want 247 light, look at how Nigerians keep using illegal connection and how they are always ready to beat anybody that comes to cut their light, so how can we develop our electric industry

Rossiminku:


If you had a working brain, you would ask yourself why South Korea and other 'tiger economies' are so radically different from their neighbours, Burma, Nepal, North Korea, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh, Cambodia etc, in terms of development.

After WW2 the victorious allies engaged in massive transfer of technology, massive funding, and huge credit flows to a select group of Asian countries, which included South Korea, to create a capitalist bulwark in the Asia-Pacific against Soviet communist influence.

They also gave unprecedented western market access to those countries to sell their finished goods. That was what led to the industrialisation of those 4 or 5 selected countries. It was externally generated.

1.Actually both South and North Korea got the same transfer of tech and whatever.

2.EVEN THEN...South Korea was a mess by the 1960's. One CIA agent even in a confidential report thought that North Korea was the better country..and this CIA agent was a lady that ABSOLUTELY hated communist regimes in general and NK in particular.

3.The trick South Korea used...1) generous tax breaks to their conglomerates in return for them manufacturing and providing jobs. 2) they also patched things up with Japan the old enemy and got a huge compensation benefit...something which their dictatorial leader General Park was not forgiven for by his people...considering how Japan opressed Korea in the past. 3) protectionisim 4) massive investment in educaiton. 5) Park their dictator allowed economists to do their job with minimal interference from him.6) meritrocracy...to really out of these world levels. 7) Yeah they got access to Western markets.

North Korea got a lot of cash and equipemnt infusion from the Communist World..same as South Korea. The problem was that they were an absolute dictatroship...and one big problem with dictatorships is that it stifles innovaiton completely..something that South Korea did not suffer.Also, NK was not a capitalist society. The reason why capitalisim works is people expect to be paid for their work. North Korea was busy taking loans up and down and doing nothing...until it was too late...by the time communisim collapsed everywhere else, the money stopepd flowing..then things got rough.

Burma, Nepal, etc...all those countries are not developed for a variety of reasons. Cambodia...yeah I'll blame foreign powers (to write about that go take time)

WoundedLamb:
Hhmm... But these are two very different tracks. These countries were in existence before electricity was invented. They invented electricity at some point in their existence and some decades later, they came up with technologies to spread it all over the West. It's not as if it took them years to catch up with some pre-existing technology. We are not asking Nigeria to invent electricity or create anything, we are asking Nigeria to harness a technology that has been in existence long before the country was born. Please, let's not compare adoption with invention.

Just an opinion.

First of all, electricity was not "invented".

It was discovered.

Electricity is a naturally occurring phenomenon, as seen inter alia by lightning. Indeed, our physical bodies comprise electrically charged atoms and neutrons.

Also, Nigeria, like everywhere else, has 'harnessed' electricity, but, as is the case with EVERY large, developing country, is still in the process of making it available to all citizens 24/7.

That is largely due to the expense and time involved in spreading power supply to hundreds of millions of people.

EVERY western nation of large size experienced that time gap between harnessing electricity, and making it widely available, which is the point of this thread, so your post is baseless.