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The Korean-American War The Korean American War was one of the well known wars from the past. It was a war that was trying to be prevented, but when war is coming you can 't prevent it you can just get ready for it. It was a nice little invasion until America jumped in to help defend what we now call South Korea. This small battle between the North and the South of Korea started little, but when an additional country jumps in you can 't do much but call this war. The Korean War started when…

Since the late 1990's, South Korean popular culture entered the global market via its television series better known as K-drama. The export of Korean dramas sparked off a palpable craze for Korean cultural commodities in early 2000. This popular cultural phenomenon known as the Korean Wave or Hallyu has seen a surge in interest in Korean culture especially through the study of the Korean language and understanding of the culture through travel. In this essay I would like to shed light on how…

Stueck argues in his book, Rethinking the Korean War, that had only intensified and militarized the Cold War. This paper thus answers the question, how have historians explained the origins of the Korean war? There are two arguments made by historians about the origins of the Korean war. The first argument posits that it was the close relations between the Soviet Union, North Korea and China,…

corrupt and incompetent bureaucrats, and even believed Koreans could not govern themselves. The U.S. hoped that Japan would remove corruption and guarantee order in Korea. (p. 15) Also, the U.S. wanted to pursue its security interest in East Asia and Korea was one of the means of…

surrounds whether the intervention of the U.S. in the Korean War was justified or not. One side believes that Truman was inconsistent with American strategic policy which is based on a statement made by Secretary of State Dean Acheson. Korea was excluded in U.S. defense perimeter of strategic containment policy. Although it is arguable that the intervention was unnecessary and unjustified, the war played an important role in modern history. The Korean War was a crucial event during the Cold War…

because of the restrictions Kim Jong-Un has enforced among all of the North Korean citizens; North Korea’s leader has put on the country. The discrimination against North Korean’s by their leader is highly unfair and should be stopped immediately. North Korea has been a communist country and controls their people since 1918, democracy is a better way of life and not all are lucky for example like the American citizens. North Koreans are a communist economy, they also live in a very cruel and…

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…

Both of Vietnam War and Korean War took place during the Cold War. The Korean War was happened in 1950-1953 right after the Cold War while the intention still higher from the World War 2. The Vietnam War was occurred in 1960s - 1970s when United States and Soviet Union contended for hegemony. These two wars was internal fight, the country divided into two sides, the southern democracy versus northern communism. The war was determining the country should be communism or democracy. Superpower…

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…

The Korean War was “fought mutually for unknown and incommensurable(if not incomprehensible) goals “(Cummings.205) by the 2 most important sides, North Korea and the US together with the UN. Kim Il Sung decided to attack the south for several reasons and even though he risked the possibilities of the intervention of the U.S (which occurred), he downplayed its importance because he thought that his allies both Stalin (USSR) and Mao (Communist China) could and would take care of the U.S…