History of Korea

Korean Culture and Information Service (2009), Korean also has 3,200 islands including the mainland. Since South and North Korea are in a state of armistice, the Korean Peninsula is divided into two sections. Out of total land area of 223,170km2, the Republic of Korea took approximately 100,032km2, about 45 percent of the overall area (KCIS, 2009). Under those circumstances, South Korea is generally divided into four big regions: an eastern region, a western region, a southwestern region, and a…

NAME PROFESSOR DATE North Korea Economic Development. Introduction The Democratic People's Republic of Korea (North Korea) located in East Asia in the Norther half of Korea Peninsula. After the end of the Korean War, The Democratic People's Republic of Korea was able to reconstruct and industrialize its economy. The country gave priority to the construction and development of heavy industries. The economic development of The Democratic People's Republic of Korea was based on planned basis…

Cultural Exploration of North Korea Little known about North Korea due to the strict government and life style that they live. In this paper, informative information will be revealed on some of the challenges North Koreans face and living condition that they are exposed to that differ from the American way of life. In a publication by Sonya Yang on The Democratic Republic of Korea, “The Soviets endorsed a group of former guerrilla fighters as national leaders. This included a…

Introduction Japan and South Korea are "close but distant neighbors." This is how their relations have been described for long time. Japan and South Korea are geographically close but it is difficult to say that their relations is good. Japan and South Korea share many common elements such as similar culture, customs, and language, moreover, both nations have same political and economic system. In fact, Japan’s official view of South Korea is “our most important neighboring country”. Meanwhile,…

the two nations. After reading a few lines however, readers are reminded of the glorification of the North Korean leader, Kim Jong Un, from his citizens; “Kim Jong Un, chairman of the Workers' Party of Korea and chairman of the State Affairs Commission of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea...The respected Supreme Leader Kim Jong Un left the Phanmun Pavilion at…” (KCNA,…

Yonsei University is a private research university, located in Seoul, South Korea. Established in 1885, it is one of the oldest universities in South Korea and is known as being the one of the top comprehensive international university in Korea. Yonsei University has a spacious and well-wooded campus located minutes away from the economic, political, and cultural center of Seoul 's metropolitan area. The reason I chose South Korea is because I have been fascinated by the culture for a year and…

of Kim Myung Hun, who defected in 2013: "In North Korea, there are the Ten Principles for the Establishment of a Monolithic Ideological System. The fourth of which stipulates that we must make the Great Leader comrade Kim Il Sung's revolutionary ideology our faith and make his instructions our…

Improvement of Korea-Japan relationship: three negotiable fields Japan is geographically one of the closest countries to South Korea, at the same time, historically the most uncomfortable country because of Japanese colonization in the early 1900s. In a point of the South Korean government, although Japan’s distortion of history made the relationship worse, it is necessary to maintain a close relationship between two countries in the rapidly changing situation of East Asian region. To make an…

Korea was influenced by the Confucian culture. Korea was a male-dominated society. There was huge gender discrimination and had patriarchal property which is a social system that males hold primary power and role of leadership of whole family. Therefore, the men tend to go to work and many women stay home and take care for their children. Due to Confucian’s idea, we have to respect elder people so that we have to use different words for elder in order to represent the respect. Furthermore, we…

) that may contribute to an overall image of a product (Eroglu and Machleit, 1989). The country image is created by such variables as representative products, political and cultural environments, socio-economic development (Wang and Lamb, 1983), history, economic and political background, national characteristics, and traditions (Nagashima, 1970). Most past research has either illustrated or assumed image of country to be multidimensional, but the number of dimensions for country image is yet…