{"id":21550,"date":"2026-02-19T16:08:59","date_gmt":"2026-02-19T16:08:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=21550"},"modified":"2026-02-19T16:09:00","modified_gmt":"2026-02-19T16:09:00","slug":"why-taiwan-is-richer-than-japan-and-korea","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=21550","title":{"rendered":"Why Taiwan Is Richer Than Japan and Korea"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Taiwan has a higher GDP per capita than South Korea and Japan. Taiwan&#8217;s median wealth per adult is about the same as the US. The US has higher average wealth because of a handful of super rich people.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Why Taiwan Is Richer Than Japan and Korea\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/N4QfrJvqYzI?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Taiwan has a higher GDP per capita than South Korea and Japan. Taiwan&#8217;s median wealth per adult is about the same as the US. The US has higher average wealth because of a handful of super rich people. <\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=N4QfrJvqYzI<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[1349,217,165,1348,420,724,333,619,1277],"class_list":["post-21550","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-share","tag-economic-growth","tag-economics","tag-economy","tag-gdp","tag-japan","tag-south-korea","tag-taiwan","tag-united-states","tag-wealth"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21550","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=21550"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21550\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21551,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21550\/revisions\/21551"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21550"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21550"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21550"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}