--- title: How Korea Could Help Fix China's Economy description: To save China's economy, look to Korea. Also, how financial aid fails those who need it most and more. canonical: https://time.com/4154660/china-economy-korea/ author: TIME article:opinion: true article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2015-12-18T17:01:07.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-05-11T05:00:43.771Z article:section: Ideas og:title: How Korea Could Help Fix China's Economy og:description: These are today's best ideas og:url: https://time.com/4154660/china-economy-korea/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: TIME og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: How Korea Could Help Fix China's Economy twitter:description: These are today's best ideas twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # How Korea Could Help Fix China's Economy by [The Aspen Institute](https://time.com/author/the-aspen-institute/) ## The Aspen Institute Dec 18, 2015 5:01 PM UTC by [The Aspen Institute](https://time.com/author/the-aspen-institute/) ## The Aspen Institute Dec 18, 2015 5:01 PM UTC **1\.** [**To fix China’s spiraling economy, look to Korea.**](http://www.bloombergview.com/articles/2015-12-18/to-fix-china-s-state-sector-look-to-south-korea) By Michael Schuman in Bloomberg View **2\.** [**Financial aid in higher education is failing those who need it most.**](http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/why-its-harder-than-ever-for-a-poor-kid-to-get-into-a-good-college%5F567066bde4b0e292150f7d40) By Jon Marcus and Holly K. Hacker in the Huffington Post **3\.** [**The Internet can’t defeat ISIS.**](http://thefederalist.com/2015/12/17/why-the-internet-cannot-defeat-isis/) By Jack Butler in the Federalist **4\.** [**What the late Richard Holbrooke can still teach us about today’s wars.**](http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2015/12/afghanistan-isis-richard-holbrooke-213416) By Gordon M. Goldstein and Fredrik Logevall in Politico **5\.** [**Farmers’ market-only food stamps are changing the way people eat in D.C.**](http://civileats.com/2015/12/15/these-10-vouchers-are-changing-the-face-of-d-c-s-farmers-markets/) By Whitney Pipkin in Civil Eats  [_The Aspen Institute_](http://www.aspeninstitute.org/) _is an educational and policy studies organization based in Washington, D.C._ ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"OpinionNewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4154660/china-economy-korea/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4154660/china-economy-korea/"},"headline":"How Korea Could Help Fix China's Economy","datePublished":"2015-12-18T17:01:07.000Z","dateModified":"2026-05-11T05:00:43.771Z","description":"These are today's best ideas","url":"https://time.com/4154660/china-economy-korea/","keywords":["Innovation","Vegetables","China","ISIS","Anonymous","financial aid"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"The Aspen Institute","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/the-aspen-institute/"}],"articleSection":"Ideas","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/ideas/","name":"Ideas"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/innovation/","name":"Innovation"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4154660/china-economy-korea/","name":"How Korea Could Help Fix China's Economy"}}]}] ```