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opening its 318th boutique on 5th Ave in New York, which brought the number of U.S. outlets to 85. LVMH then reported a net income of $2.9 billion, in 2007. Leading into 2011, the brand expanded, bringing stores into international airports, one being Incheon International Airport in South Korea. Later in the year, a design museum in Milan called, La Triennale, debuted its exhibit titled “Louis Vuitton: The Art of…

This was my first international flight and it took 16 hours. I landed at Incheon International Airport in Seoul, from there I had a 2 hour bus ride to Osan Air Base where I checked in my dorm room and got settled without incident. In the days after my arrival I met coworkers and got processed into my new unit. I didn’t feel like…

Sewol: Tragedy at Sea On the morning of April 16th, 2014, the Sewol a South Korea Ferry took off from Incheon traveling to Jeju island. On board, over 476 people 325 of whom were students from a school in the capital city of Seoul. As the ship would begin to sink the captain would fail to give on order to evacuate. The captain and several crew members would instead disembark the ship saving themselves as hundreds of people were left to die. Many factors would contribute to the loss of life…

The Sewol ferry tragedy as according to The New York Times in “Ferry Disaster in South Korea: A Year Later”, refers to the incident regarding the Sewol ferry which left Incheon for Jeju Island with a total of 476 passengers and crew, 325 of which were high school students on a school trip. The incident occurred the next morning on April 16 near Jindo as the ship began to tilt at dangerous angles and multiple distress calls were made. However, coast guards only began to arrive forty minutes…

comforts of my hometown of Denver to begin the journey to South Korea. In this journey I was fortunate to learn and study about the Korean criminal justice system and the strong culture they value. After a long 16 hour flight I had finally arrived in Incheon Korea. After waiting for the bus, and the check in at the hotel I was ready to explore Korea until my classmate arrived. When the whole class arrived the following day, I was eager to get out and learn something. That night two other…

I will always remember moving from the Philippines to Canada. I remember the time when my parents broke the news to me. We were out watching a movie and they were asking me all these questions about the kind of place I want to live in if ever we moved somewhere else. They asked me if I wanted to see and play with snow. I’ve always dreamt of being able to play in the snow, like the kids in the movies, so I told them why not? Winter in the movies look really cool and it would be fun to experience…

At the end of World War II and finally liberated from nearly four decades of brutal occupation after Japanese defeat in 1945, the Korean peninsula found itself torn between two foreign ideologies. To the North of the 18th parallel was the Soviet Union leading the communist wing of the Korean resistance, while the United States fought for democracy from the South. On June 25th, 1950, the Soviet-backed communist North Korea pushed through the makeshift border and within weeks had invaded all but…

Accidents happen, yes. But it keeps re-occuring over the last decades or so. Also the cause of accidents are very similar to each other, mainly due to systematic failures, human errors and such. How come we still fail to learn from the causes to prevent it form happenening again? There are a lot of reasearch that shows how human errors and systematic failures cause accidents. Over the last 40 years or so, the shipping industry has focused on improving ship structures, reliability and safety of…

population density. The distribution of population is very uneven, with most of the population living in the cities. In 2015, there were about 25.14 million people, which is 49.7% of the total population, living in the capital region including Seoul, Incheon and Gyeonggi-do (“The World Factbook”). Fertility and Mortality…

1.1Discuss the range of decisions to be taken. The first type of decisions that need to be taken are structured decisions, for Air Asia is a low-cost airline based in Malaysia. The slogan of Air Asia is “Now everyone can fly”. It is an example of structured decision due to the plainly characterized and no space for elucidation and is essential to settle on organized choice so that organization misfortune or negative association advancement can be averted. The strategic level will take…