Government of South Korea

Shin In Geun was born in a prison camp in North Korea where he spent his entire childhood not knowing life outside. His father was imprisoned because his relatives fled to south korea during the war. Throughout his life in the camp, shin benefited from extreme luck. Though shin had a harsh and violent life he was very fortunate in his 23 years of living. I believe that Shin from the book Escape from Camp 14 is very fortunate. When shin was going up he barely had food Not even enough to…

The problem that North Korea is facing at the moment is not the fault of the people, but rather the government’s. Kim Jong-un is a communist leader who is purposefully stripping his people of their daily needs and essentials. Food, in North Korea, is a status symbol. The one who is able to receive lavish treatments and expensive food, is usually the government. However, because there is so little in North Korea, not everyone is treated equally and the only way to rise above everyone else, is to…

North Korea is known today as one of the most remote countries in the world. Citizens have no contact with the outside world and are constantly being bombarded with state propaganda. Christianity is a major religion in the world that is widely practiced. Christianity and North Korea are similar in that they both worship a single god, have strict rituals, and their gods both have extreme amounts of power. The most major similarity of North Korea and Christianity is that they both worship a…

Korea has been around since 3000 B.C.E. to 2333 B.C.E. It was around the 1830s and on where immigration to America was starting to happen. 1882 was the year Koreans began to migrate to America more frequently and consistently. Asians immigrating to the U.S. occurred in three main waves, as a result of the different wars and treaties; each wave brought in new ideas and items with them. By the 1830s, Koreans started immigrating to Hawaii. They chose Hawaii as a place to live in due to the…

Kim is an extremely hard and productive worker. During the course of her daily duties, she is always working on some type of project and has little downtime. One major project that Kim has been very passionate about this year was a purge on old firearms. Kim has invested a tremendous amount of work organizing, categorizing, researching, and documenting firearms that are in need of destruction. Outside of these extracurricular projects Kim is meticulously detail orientated. She ensures that even…

An amazing woman came to the rescue of 100 dogs that were facing slaughter in Yulin, China at a dog meat festival. YULIN’S ANNUAL DOG MEAT FESTIVAL The city of Yulin has hosted an annual festival to celebrate the summer solstice since 2009. Sounds fun, right? Except this is a dog meat festival that claims the lives of an estimated 10,000 dogs that are slaughtered and eaten. The belief that dog meat brings good health and good luck is the stupid superstition that drives this festival, where…

In the beginning, it was established that Japan that was in control of Korea from the annexation they made in 1910. April 1945 the Yalta Conference agreed to make a four power trusteeship for Korea near the end of World War two. Korea was split into two pieces, North and South Korea. The United States had control of the southern part of Korea below the 38th parallel, and the Soviet Union occupying the northern area. Later on in that year it was settled that the country would be reconnected and…

The topic of the impending doom of America is a popular one among writers today. Numerous articles claim that America’s rivals increase in power and influence while America itself is on the decline. As evidence of this gradual, but inevitable decline in American power, one writer claims that the US military has experienced nothing but stalemate, frustration and loss since its victory in World War II in 1945. Nevertheless, the author fails to distinguish between failures in war and failures in…

Disability of any form is usually viewed as a weakness and a restriction. From the 1960s through the 1990s, many Korean film directors use different forms of disabilities to represent the state of the people. The traumas and social problems faced by many South Koreans are linked to disability in Korean films. Although these issues are brought to light, a period of censorship is enforced through the Motion Picture Laws in 1962 under President Park Chung Hee’s rule. Years after these movies are…

pilot to shoot down a Korean plane during the Korean war. Omer Levesque and other Canadian forces contribution to the war lead to Canada causing a significant impact. During the Korean war, Canada was the second biggest factor that prevented North Korea from invading Seoul again because they offered the third largest force, gave significant support to the United States, and the Royal Canadian Air Force was a major…