History of Korea

Since South Korea joined the wave of globalization, it has benefited from the global market while being challenged by the impacts from outside, both socially and economically. During the late 20th century, Korea could hardly keep its “Miracle on Han”; in order to survive the competition with foreign goods that came with the economic globalization, Korean companies chose to exploit their workers more than ever. Yet what brought by the socio-cultural globalization was the awareness of democracy…

Introduction The company that I am choosing to analyze throughout this report is Samsung Electronics, a large company that is located within the consumer electronics industry as well as the semiconductors home appliances industry. For the purpose of this report, I will be discussing in detail about the consumer electronic industry because it is much more relevant in today’s economy, especially being a week before Christmas where sales increase. Currently, I am in the process of looking for a…

own value. Moreover, I myself was able to serve my country and fight for my fellow Americans. Everyone has courage; the hard part is ascertaining it. Undoubtedly, times were changing at the end of the Second World War. Shortly after World War Two Korea had split into two. The United States government oversaw the north portion and the USSR controlled the southern portion. Since the war had ended, the tension between the USSR and the United States was rapidly increasing. The two countries came…

The Asian Big Brother In the small and isolated country of East Asia, North Korea is a terrible place to live. The Supreme Leader, Kim Jong Un, is the dictator of the small communist country. Kim Jong Un Uses various methods to keep his people under his control. He dictates his country very similar to the way Big Brother dictates in George Orwell’s dystopian science fiction novel, 1984. In the book 1984, the main character, Winston, is a normal outer party member, which is someone controlled by…

Surely an epic poem that has lasted for over 1,000 years has to mean something. A poem over 3,000 lines long, which was told orally until someone wrote it down, has to mean that it’s something special. Beowulf is a tale of a mighty hero protecting a neighboring nation from monsters spawned from hell. It’s a good story. When all else has failed, who comes to save the day? Beowulf. However the longevity of this poem does not simply just come from the fact that it’s a well written and classic…

similarities in them. We’ll be talking about all the difference and similarities. We will talk about each war in detail and how each started and ended and everything in between them. The Korean War began on June 25, 1950 when North Korea, led by Kim Il Sung, invaded South Korea along the 38th parallel. “At an emergency meeting of the UN Security Council, the members demanded the immediate withdrawal of the North…

standing. In Libya the Prime Minister has removed any negative independent broadcasting of information or print media, which is similar in Turkmenistan, where "cross censorship" has been introduced therefore creating an atmosphere of fear and in North Korea there is no independent journalists or broadcasting information available. Muammar Gaddafi ruled Libya from 1942-2011 this reign was carried out in a cruel and strange manner. Gaddafi’s reign began with the removal…

Am I Worth It? This visual piece comes from the gallery of “Label Me Label You.” The author is Jiseon Lee Isbara who is a naturalized American citizen, originally from South Korea. This piece emerged as one of many as a response to Donald Trump and what he is doing with administration of anti-immigration policies. Isbara felt trapped between two cultures, not have a distinct home, or ever feeling assimilated into what was her new home because of the way she looked. Her purpose of this…

1.0 Introduction – Nature of Business & Market Context Hitachi Data Systems (HDS) is a joint venture company formed in 1989 between Hitachi Ltd, Japan and Electronic Data Systems Corporation (EDS). HDS became a fully owned subsidiary of Hitachi Ltd in 1999. (Hitachi Data Systems 2014) In 1962 EDS was established as a facility management company in the Information Technology industry. While, Hitachi Ltd was focusing more on manufacturing and trading of electronics, power, consumer products and…

This chapter will explore the development and the popular culture and industry rise, especially in terms of music. As Mark James Russell wrote in his book Pop Goes Korea: “Koreans have long been known as singers and lovers of music, as visiting envoys from China pointed out over 1500 years ago. There were several music traditions in the Joseon dynasty [of 1392 to 1897]. The most famous, the long song-story pansori, grew from the shaman culture of Korea’s southwest. In addition, farmers’ music,…