Korean War

has come a long way from basically starting from scratch after the Korean War. South Korea have continued to grow rapidly and are technologically advanced, a distinguished economy and have a modernized military defense. South Korea is a well diverse geographical place to travel to with all the different terrain and mountains it has. Seoul, the capital of South Korea, is one of the largest cities in the world. The South Korean population is over 25,600,000 people, just two years ago…

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…

democratization of Korea. The crisis has shaken the Korean society, leaving many with a deep sense of malaise and insecurity. It all started from the intimate relationship between Park Geun-hye, the Korean president, and Choi Soon-sil. Park Geun-hye met Choi Soon-sil through Choi 's father, Choi Tae-min. The elder Choi, born in 1912, was a pseudo-Christian cult leader. Park Geun-hye had just lost her mother, who was assassinated by a North Korean spy. Shortly after the assassination, the elder…

The Aquariums of Pyongyang written by Kang Rigoulot and Kang Chol-Hwan is the account of Kang’s early life spent inside of a North Korean prison camp with his family for ten years; Kang also describes the developments that take place after his release such as departure from North Korea, his voyage into China, and finding the means to finally arrive at South Korea. Kang will depart from both North Korea’s authoritarian state and the ideology he was forced to embrace from as early on in life as a…

North Korean Prison Camps Trace J. Maddux Campus High School Concentration camp or strict prison? The thing about these prison camps, not many people are aware of the bad things that happen inside them. Someone says “prison” and people think, “place where they put bad people.” Generally speaking, yes, a prison is where most countries put the murderers, rapists, robbers. North Korea always likes to do things a bit different from the rest of the world. North Korea is a country that not many…

ways past their melancholy present. Ron Rash’s “3AM and the Stars Were Out” is a story about coping with the sufferings in life and moving on no matter what they are, which is represented through the stressful events of the calf being born, the Korean war the characters were in, and their…

full of secrets, intent on doing what is their ruler’s best interest. North Korea happens to have a very interesting history, one that is full of violence and power. Korea used to be ruled by a dynasty; Japan colonized Korea which left the Koreans remembering the colonial rule as brutal. Korea was split between the Soviet Union and the United States…

WWII. From this breakdown two countries emerged, North Korea and South Korea. A leftist communist regime materialized in the North under its leader Kim Il-Sung, and a democratic ideology was pursued in the South with the election of the first South Korean President Lee Sung-Man. For the purpose of the paper I will look at the country that emerged in the South. To do so I read, South Korea Since 1980. South Korea Since 1980 was written by Dr. Uk Heo with help and input from Terence Roehrig. It…

“He had a way of touching your elbow or shoulder, upping his chin with a slight jerk and crowding into his eye such a warmth of blessing… he made you feel you’d contributed a boon to the whole human race” (“Douglas MacArthur” 1). MacArthur came from a background of a strict military upbringing. His father and grandfather were both generals and being raised on a military base MacArthur was destined to be a part of the United States military. His life was shaped and structured, but he had a…

Following the liberation of Seoul, South Korea in 1950, Americans were ecstatic about General Macarthur’s long fought and outstanding victory. American and South Korean forces continued to push well beyond the 38th Parallel—the delineation between North and South Korea—towards the Yalu River, the border between North Korea and Chinese Manchuria. In spite of the increasing likelihood of Chinese intervention, American and UN intelligence specialists ignored the possibility. Little did they know,…