The defence manufacture [Republics of Korea ](https://defence24.pl/page-tagow/korea-south) present is among the most advanced in the world, offering a wide scope of technologically advanced products. It is hard to believe that in the 1970s it was very modest and was incomparably weaker even with the Polish industry. How did the Koreans manage to get this far in just over 40 years, and what can we learn from them in Poland?