Why did the jeepney not evolve into Kias and Hyundais, to become a national headache?

Five years after World War 2 ended, the US was in another major war where it used Jeepneys — the Korean War of 1950-1953. After the war, as in the Philippines, the US left a huge number of of the same kind of Jeeps.

We were not the only country in Asia where the US army left — or were sold by its entrepreneurial soldiers on the black market — thousands of its all-terrain, hardy vehicle, the Willys Quad , which got to be called Jeep, for GP, or 'General Purpose' vehicle. Filipino entrepreneurs refurbished these vehicles for public transport, its body altered to accommodate up to even 14 passengers much than the four-pax military version.

But after they had become rich their ideologues and economists declare that such policies should be eschewed by underdeveloped nations.He wrote an excellent piece on Korea's economic growth in October last year in The Guardian newspaper entitled 'From carbs to cars: How South Korea's success shows entrepreneurship is a team game' which used that country's automobile industry as the case study for his thesis.

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