This obsession with education has catapulted the resource poor nation consistently atop the global education rankings where in 2014 national rankings of students math and science scores by the Organization for Economic and Cooperation and Development ( OECD ), South Korea ranked second place worldwide, after Singapore.
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Besides, some of the most prosperous areas of the world ( Scandinavia, Germany, the Netherlands, Switzerland, Austria, Japan, South Korea, Taiwan for example ) are resource poor relatively speaking ( Norwegian oil and gas having arrived pretty late in the day ).
