As a result of this state-business alliance, the economy was successful in exporting manufactured goods; a substantial strata of Korean entrepreneurs developed, who either flourished while cooperating with the state, or who wished for larger government support so they could also flourish. In either case, a “model” of development inspired by Meiji Japan, but also transformed in a colonial setting – was in the making that would situate a state-directed economy with state- business alliance at the heart of the strategy of transformation.