The colonial state in Korea undertook numerous other infrastructural projects. First, Korea was the gateway to imperial expansion into China, and therefore the Government-General invested heavily in infrastructure, the result was that Korea’s roads and railways were among the finest that a developing country inherited from their colonial past; Second, as mentioned above the Japanese made significant investments in Korea in primary education; and Third, the colonial government ran a number of enterprises directly such as: railways, communications, opium, salt, and tobacco; the regular financial contribution that these public undertakings made to public revenues, they were run relatively efficiently.
After reading and defining the narrative of this research the question is “why they succeed.”
In the very beginning we know that the Japanese are interested to Korean’s and their lands, because Japan saw control of Korea as something that would enhance its growth and development.