Such nationalistic pride is no surprise -- there was a time when tens of thousands of South Koreans queued up to donate their jewelry and medals, in order to help bail their country out of the economic crisis in 1998.

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In 2007, as new customers from China, Russia and India queued up, sales outside America for the first time outstripped those in the traditional home of business aviation.

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