Korean War

status is low, Korean should represent respect if he or she is older than you. Confucian believes that elder people have various experience with the society and world because they lived longer. As a women, it was hard to get a good occupation in South Korea. This is because Korean society more likely to think that women who has a child, need to take care her baby instead of working outside. There are still many males dominant the society, and gender discrimination is exist today. Korean had a…

controlled the Korean peninsula and used it to invade Manchuria. After Japan attacked the U.S at Pearl Harbor in 1941 America entered World War II. After World War II, Japan no longer controlled Korea. The Soviet Union controlled the area north of the 38th parallel and the U.S. administered the area to the south. By 1948 they became two separate nations, the Communist North Korea and the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea to the south. In June of 1950 the Korean War began when the North…

relationship with the North and attempts at inter-Korean cooperation (including joint-cooperation economic zones where South Korean companies would employ North Koreans to boost North Korea’s crippled economy) would begin to reflect in these sources. At this point, scholars such as Kyung Hyun Kim argue that there is less ambiguity toward the North, stating that South Koreans have become increasingly more sympathetic to the plight of North Korean people. Youngmin Choe exemplifies this…

In the northern portion of the Korean Peninsula, bordering the Korean Bay and Sea of Japan, North Korea makes up for more than half of the entire area. Twenty percent larger than South Korea, at 46,540 square miles, it is comparable to the size of Mississippi. The vast majority of the land consists of mountains and narrow valleys, making it so only about one-fourth of the country to has inhabitants. Due to the deforestation of the land for agricultural purposes, it is becoming more and more…

in East Asia, amounts to 45% of the Korean peninsula containing rivers, mountain ranges, natural resources, and volcanic islands. The country is surrounded by three main bodies of water, the East China Sea to the east, the Yellow Sea to the west, and the Korea Strait…

United States, and baseball are two of the most popular sports in South Korea. But, golf is also well on its way to becoming the new favorite sport of South Korea. The country also enjoys a variety of music. Much like the rest of the world, the South Korean population enjoys the typical hip-hop vocal and dance groups, which could be compared to the boy band craze seen in America since the mid 1990 's. South Korea is ranked number 7 out of 126 countries…

communists North Korea. All of these men, to my surprise had entered into North Korea willingly and were not captured or necessarily prisoners of war. They had all abandoned there posts and went to North Korea for a variety of reasons, even they can’t explain the exacts reasons for crossing the deadly boarder into communism. After Dresnok was captured by the North Korean army for crossing the border, they interrogated him, only to learn he was just a simple soldier who didn 't have any useful…

because the U.S. has been a major ally throughout all of their democratization. The United States played a major role in the structure of the modern South Korean government. Since 1945, the South Korean government has been quickly modified and modernized and are now seen as an entirely independent state. Under the Rhee Syng Man Regime, Koreans began to study the ideology of democracy. The United States was sympathetic to the post-liberation troubles that the country was facing and worked to…

My perspective of South Korea changed since I was able to realize how developed of a country it was, as I was not knowledgeable about the country and the extent of its economy before coming into the class. After being poor from the Korean War and Asian Financial Crisis, Korea was able to industrialize in such a short time compared to other developed countries. During our trip, I experienced first-hand how rich and high-tech South Korea is and how it is more so compared to America, which can be…

north korean veterans gathered before the start of the Kim Jong Un parade. The picture is simple but yet effective, all that is seen is the gray cylindrical service caps of the corrupt North Korean military. The photo is taken from behind while the veterans are facing the opposite direction. The most powerful piece about this image is one North Korean veteran looking back with the look of bitter sadness on his face. The view of the image gives off a sense being trapped, the North Korean…