I'd say technology infrastructure in S Korea. S.Korea is a densely populated small country. Mexico is roughly 2x bigger in land mass than the US. SKorea focuses on high value technology product. Mexico is largely agricultural except when the US builds facilities for production there.
Mexico
GDP per capita $9,962
S.Korea
GDP per capita $34,744
https://countryeconomy.com/countries...-korea?sc=XE92
Originally Posted by royamcr
uhhh what?
"Mexico is roughly 2x bigger in land mass than the US."
this has to be a typo, right???
2
United States 3.8 million square miles 2013
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Mexico 758,449 square miles 2013
you can double check my numbers and yours here ...
https://www.nationmaster.com/country...a/Square-miles
anyway, back to Mexico vs. South Korea. you are correct that technology is a huge factor in tiny little South Korea's vast difference in GDP. you could fit 20 South Korea's in Mexico yet by your GDP per capita numbers South Korea is 3.5 times per capita of Mexico.
Mexico does have resources beyond agriculture. they have mining resources and oil, to name a few.
all this just proves what i already posted, Mexico is it's own worst enemy and the culprit for about 100 years is its nationalist/socialist total mismanagement of it's vast size and resources. this is why it is dirt poor and 40 million prime laborers illegally enter the US to work minimum wage jobs which when you compare the conversion rate to the peso makes them well off by Mexican standards.
i have the perfect solution to the ILLEGAL immigration problem. the US should simply annex Mexico and make it a vassal state of the US. we can send US Troops not compromised by the Mexican cartels to stop their wars and eliminate the corrupt Mexican government which is two-faced in it's taking of bribes from the cartels while jabbering to the world and Mexican population that they are "committe4d" to stopping the cartels.
a WIN-WIN!