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Lee Su Hyun, hardware architect of Stradvision, right, uses a smartphone while sitting on a massage chair as Sung Myung Chul, algorithm engineer, speaks on a smartphone while working in front of a computer at the company's office in Pohang, South Korea, on Monday, Nov. 9, 2015. South Korea isn't the only developed country trying to replicate Silicon Valley's cauldron of innovation, but the efforts of successive presidents to boost science and technology give it an unusual edge. Photographer: SeongJoon Cho/Bloomberg via Getty Images

Lee Su Hyun, hardware architect of Stradvision, right, uses a smartphone while sitting on a massage chair as Sung Myung Chul, algorithm engineer, speaks on a smartphone while working in front of a computer at the company's office in Pohang, South Korea, on Monday, Nov. 9, 2015. South Korea isn't the only developed country trying to replicate Silicon Valley's cauldron of innovation, but the efforts of successive presidents to boost science and technology give it an unusual edge. Photographer: SeongJoon Cho/Bloomberg via Getty Images