Culture of Korea

HISTORY: Byung Chull Lee the founder of Samsung Company started his first business in Taegu, Korea, in 1938. In 1968, his son, Lee Kun-hee joined the Samsung Group and took over the chairmanship on December 1, 1987, just two weeks after the death of his father. On June 8, 2012, Dr. Oh-Hyun Kwon was formally selected as Chief Executive Officer of Samsung Electronics Co. by the company's Board of Directors. Work force strength: On April 23, Samsung Electronics announced that the number of its…

glorifies members of the North Korean military while depicting crimes by South Korea and the US. In its cast were several US soldiers who had defected to North Korea. The Korean War was a conflict between the democratic South Korea and communist North Korea, regarding the events of Japan’s surrender, the war, and the aftermath. Subsequent to the atomic bomb on Hiroshima, Japan surrenders, and the US and the Soviet Union invades Korea, political differences between the two raise conflict, and…

How did each ruler of the Kim Dynasty come to power? North Korea has been under a dictatorship where even the most loved soldier can be executed. North Korea is in an systematic tyranny. A tyranny is usually thought of as cruel and oppressive, and it often is, but the original definition of the term was rule by persons who lack legitimacy, whether they be malign or benevolent. The Kim Dynasty has been ruling North Korea since 1948. How does the Kim Dynasty and their systematic tyranny, millions…

The government is currently tracking our movements through surveillance and using modern technology to profile and record citizens. Our bureaucracy is using technology such as CCTV’s(closed circuit television) to track our behavior in real life and manipulating social media in order to to track our movements on the internet. This constant surveying is similar to the paranoid world of 1984. Author George Orwell expressed his worry for what the world will become in his classic novel, 1984. In the…

was a historical event that effects the world still today. On September 30, 1950 the united nation forces crossed the 38 parallel that separated North Korea and South Korea. The war in Korea did not begin on this date but this date is very important to the war. Previously the war began on June 25, 1950 North Korea lunched an attack on South Korea who is apart of the United Nations. With this…

Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. Is a South Korean multinational electronics company headquartered in Suwon, South Korea. Through extremely complicated ownership structure with some circular ownership, it is the flagship division of the Samsung Group, accounting for 70% of the group's revenue in 2012. It is the world's second largest information technology company by revenue, after Apple..Samsung Electronics has assembly plants and sales networks in 80 countries and employs around 370,000 people.…

In the world of Kpop, there are groups that consist of talented idols who have strengths of many. Members of a kpop group have specific positions appointed towards them and their strengths. Amongst fans and the industry, there are 5 known positions: the leader, rapper, dancer, vocalist, and visual. It is important to acknowledge these positions because all together, they represent what a group is all about. For starters, the leader is known to be the most important position in a kpop…

Samsung was founded in 1938 in Daegu, South-Korea by Lee Byung-chul. The company originally started as a trading company that mainly produced and exported groceries. Throughout the 1950s and 1960s, as the company began to grow, Samsung got into other businesses like insurance, retail, securities, and textiles. During the late 1960s, Samsung entered the electronics industry with the name Samsung Electronics. Not long after that, its first black and white TV was released. In the 1970s, the company…

catching-up patterns in the semiconductor industry between South Korea and Taiwan. What are their relative merits and demerits? Introduction The Gerschenkron model is a framework that views the catching up process of countries in the “historical and comparative perspective” (Shin, 2005). It states that the differences in the degree of backwardness affects the strategies and institutions undertaken by the countries. However, while South Korea and Taiwan were both extremely backward countries,…

Average 400 Shinto shrines in Kyoto, Japan. Kyoto’s temples get a lot of attention from visitors, but some of the city’s 400-plus shrines are also first-rate attractions in their own right. Kyoto is Japan in a nutshell. It’s the cultural and historical heart of the country. It’s the best place in all Japan. To Example traditional temples, shrines, gardens, geisha, restaurants and festivals. In short, Kyoto is the most rewarding destination in all of Japan and it should be at the top of any Japan…