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introduce Korean food to the world, just like the goal of this campaign, which is ‘Korean Cuisine to the World.’ Through the gastrodiplomacy, ROK government practicing the global of hansik or Korean food itself by tempering traditional forms of spicy and sour flavors to appeal for foreign palates. This campaign is also one of the practices of gastrodiplomacy that tries to be introducing by the ROK government to the world. With this campaign, ROK has spent over USD 77 million for its ‘Korean…

“‘I was drafted during the Korean War. None of us wanted to go... It was only a couple of years after World War II had ended. We said, 'Wait a second? Didn't we just get through with that?’”said Clint Eastwood, during an interview reminiscing over his time he served. The Korean War started because North Korea invaded South Korea in an attempt to bring communism to the south. The Americans sided with the south to try to stop the spread of communism. The United States (U.S.) and the United Nation…

Korean shamanism is a religion which includes many communal and private magic rituals. The rituals rely on the shaman’s individual experience as well as her abilities to contact the spirit world where the shamanistic gods live. By communicating and placating the gods, the shaman can predict and change the future. For over 40,000 years, people have believed that there is another world where all the spirits live. It is this idea that Shamanism is based on. The roots of this religion in Korea…

The history of Korean martial arts originated in the prehistoric era. Primitive weapons made of wood and stone were used for hunting and fighting. Various forms of unique martial arts has since been d by Koreans in order to protect themselves and their territory from foreign invasions. The three main groups of martial arts are: Tribal martial arts (SahDoh MuSool), which was popular among ancient tribes, city states, and smaller kingdoms that formed the Korean Peninsula and part of what is now…

Early Korean Immigration History During the 1800s, Korea was largely isolated from the rest of the world, and so as a result, they were often referred to as the Hermit Kingdom. While Korea's first record of immigration was during the 1800s, their immigration was only in small amounts, and only really started during the early 1900s. By 1900, 23 thousand Koreans were living in maritime provinces, this was largely due to the Chinese Exclusion act of 1882, which created a need for labourers in…

Multilingual speakers can communicate with others in different languages. "Burning Each of the Candle: Negotiating Dual Identities in Second Language Writing" by Soo Hyon Kim and "Negotiation of Identities in Multilingual Setting: Korean 1.5 Generation in Email Writing" by Kang express multilingual speakers’ identities. Kim feels confused because she can use two kinds of languages, and different languages makes her has many identities. Conflicts of different identities cause her complications.…

1. How is Korean skincare revolutionizing the beauty industry as a whole?When talking about Korea’s cosmetics market, it is known that the average Korean woman uses up to ten skin care products a day. You can tell the sophistication and effort of the Korean consumers when it comes to skin care, as well as color cosmetics, and this trend is affecting other countries in many ways. Korean beauty brands have seen strong growth in sales volume, as well as a growing influence in the global beauty…

Extraordinary things veterans have done and you and I know is Neil Armstrong. You probably know him as the first man to walk on the moon. Neil Armstrong was a veteran in the Korean War. The veteran the I will be telling you about is Ted Williams. You may know him as a player on the Boston Red Sox. Ted Williams fought in the Korean War. In the Korean War, he was a pilot. On February 16, 1953, he was flying his midnight-blue F9F “Panther”. When people saw his airplane they could…

When the Hawaii sugar industry obtained Korean workers into the American labor market, it only concerned about how these cheap labor forces from Korea effectively maximized its profits, but it ignored that some of these people were suffered from health problems in both physical and psychological aspects after they migrated from Korea to Hawaii. In order to seek solace and comfort, most bachelors started to gamble and visit prostitute houses. This massively distracted them from working in the…

David Joo, a Korean American gun store owner relayed, “I want to make it clear that we didn't open fire first. At that time, four police cars were there. Somebody started to shoot at us. The LAPD ran away in half a second. I never saw such a fast escape. I was pretty…