What other first-world countries have an even lower standard of living than Korea?
1) According to the following map, the third world countries were – North and South America except the USA and Canada (1st world) and Cuba (2nd wold) – the whole Africa – the south of Asia with the Middle East except Israel and Turkey (1st world), and in the West, not Japan, South Korea and Taiwan (1st world). The second world countries were the classical East block countries, and the third world were the rest, except Australia and New Zealand (1st world). Soma smaller countries cannot be seen on this map. “First second third worlds map” http://en.wikipedia.org/…/…rd_worlds_map.svg The term “first world” has not much more meaning in Europe nowadays because many “second world” countries are now a part of the European community. 2) “
