Fabulous Secret Shipbuilding Powers

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Context: It is said that Hyundai got funding for Shipbuilding from Britain because their chairman Jeong Juyeong showed a picture of a turtle ship on the 500 KRW bill while requesting, saying that Korea has a high potential given the right conditions.

[u/carolinaindian02 → u/koreangorani]

It turned out they were pretty much on the money, because while shipbuilding capabilities have declined by 80% since the 70s, South Korea, China, and Japan have raced ahead and since then have dominated global shipbuilding.

In fact, the Feds have just reached out to both Hyundai and Hanwha to help build combat vessels.

[u/gorudo-]

Hideyoshi Toyotomi "noooo please don't sink our wooden vessels and disrupt our sea lane from Hakata to Busan"

[u/redracer555 → u/gorudo-]

Admiral Yi: "Turtle ship go brrrrrr."

[u/low_priest → u/redracer555]

Yi blew such a huge whole in Japanese naval conciousness that 400 years later, after Tsushima, Togo interrupted a speech in his honor to object to being compared to Yi. He'd just won Japan's greatest naval history ever, completely dumpstered the navy of a European Great Power, shocked the world, and:

"It may be proper to compare me with Nelson, but not with Korea's Yi Sun-sin, for he has no equal."

And a Russo-Japanese war officer, in his book in 1908: "[A]mong admirals, two further tactical geniuses may be named: in the East, Yi Sun-sin of Korea, and in the West, Horatio Nelson of England. Undoubtedly, Yi is a supreme naval commander even on the basis of the limited literature of the Seven-Year War[.] [...] Nelson is far behind Yi in terms of personal character and integrity. Yi was the inventor of the covered warship known as the turtle ship. He was a truly great commander and a master of the naval tactics of three hundred years ago."

Even at the absolutle pinnacle of their naval achievement, Japanese admirals were nearly tripping over themselves to simp for Big Boy Yi Sun-Sin. As is proper.

[u/TheHistoryMaster2520 → u/low_priest]

Considering how effective Yi was, the Japanese must have tried to buy him over to their side more than once that were lost to history

[u/Severe-Notice-2694]

I like korea's confident.