[Alberta's Child]

It doesn't matter if they were household names in America in 1967. If nothing else, most of them were prominent companies in Korea long before anyone ever heard of them here.

Kia Motors was established in 1944. Hyundai's parent company was founded in 1947, and was established as an auto manufacturing company in 1967. Samsung was founded in 1938. LG Electronics began as GoldStar in 1958.

In other words ... three of those four companies existed even before the Korean War.

... Afghanistan can be a stable country that stands on it's own ...

Get real. The place is an 'effing dump, and will probably be a dump for hundreds of years. How many Islamic countries around the world are "stable" by any measure?

[Old Teufel Hunden]

"How many Islamic countries around the world are "stable" by any measure?"

Seriously? Ok, I'll give you a few. United Arab Emirates, Kuwait, Jordan, Egypt, Indonesia... I could go on.

"Get real. The place is an 'effing dump, and will probably be a dump for hundreds of years."

Have you ever been there or ever studied it's history? I will just say we will have to agree to disagree on this one...