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South Korea

#3 of 18 by healthy life years

Current employee: Lee Jae Myung

Official government site โ†—
โš”๏ธ Military : ๐Ÿงช Trials Ratio
235.8:1

For every $1 spent finding out which medicines work, South Korea spends $236 on military.

๐ŸŽฎ Game Metrics

โค๏ธ Healthy Life Years (HALE)
73.1
Global avg: ยท Target:
Needs +11.9 years to hit treaty target
๐Ÿ’ฐ GDP Per Capita
$32.4K
Median income: $17.1K
World Bank 2023

๐Ÿ’ฃ Military vs ๐Ÿงช Medicine

๐Ÿ’ฃ Military Spending$47B/yr
๐Ÿงช Clinical Trials$201M/yr

Scaled to the same axis as military โ€” the bar is 0.42% of military spending

๐Ÿงฌ Total Medical Research$3B/yr
๐Ÿฅ Health Spending / Capita$3.9K

๐Ÿ“Š Spending Profile

๐Ÿ’ฃ
Military Spending/yr
$47B
2.8% of GDP
SIPRI 2024 โ†—
๐Ÿฅ
Health Spending/capita
$3.9K
OECD 2023
โณ
Life Expectancy
83.7 yrs
WHO 2023
โš–๏ธ
Military : Trials Ratio
236:1
Weapons per $1 of government clinical trials
๐Ÿ”ฌ
Military : Research Ratio
15.8:1
Weapons per $1 of total government medical research
๐Ÿงฌ
Gov Medical Research/yr
$3B
Total research budget (basic science + overhead + admin)
KHIDI + NRF health research ~KRW 4T โ†—
๐Ÿงช
Gov Clinical Trials/yr
$201M
Actual interventional trials, not total research overhead
Estimated: ~6.7% of $3B medical research budget โ†—
๐Ÿ”ซ
Arms Exports/yr
$6B
SIPRI Arms Transfers 2023 โ†—
๐Ÿ’ณ
Debt
54% of GDP
IMF 2024

๐Ÿ’€ Body Count

๐Ÿ’ฅ Countries Bombed

Vietnam

๐Ÿ“œ Death Ledger

Sourced regime and conflict entries summed into the body-count total.

Vietnam massacres by South Korean forces
Documented minimum for massacres by South Korean troops in Vietnam.
Period
1964โ€“1973
Deaths
9,000
documented-minimum

โš–๏ธ Justice & Domestic

๐Ÿ”ช
Homicide Rate /100K
0.6
UNODC 2023
โ›“๏ธ
Incarceration /100K
92
World Prison Brief 2024 โ†—
๐Ÿ”
Murders Solved
97%
KNPA 2023

๐Ÿ—ณ๏ธ South Korea Politician Alignment

Every politician's votes scored against what citizens actually want via pairwise comparison. The gap between what they vote for and what you'd vote for, expressed as a single number.

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๐ŸŽฏ Fix South Korea's Score

South Korea spends $47B/yr on military and $201M/yr testing which medicines work. The 1% Treaty redirects 1% of the first number to the second. The deposit funds the campaign to make it happen.

South Korea Government Scorecard | The Earth Optimization Game