National Treasures of South Korea

their personal project, I immediately knew that my presentation would be about South Korean Cosmetic Surgery. Cosmetic surgery has fascinated me since I was young. The idea of being able to alter an individual’s facial features and mold it into his or her own creation simply intrigues me into an abyss of admiration. I plan on becoming a cosmetic surgeon after college, so what better way to explore the expanses of South Korean cosmetic surgery than make it the main topic for my personal project?…

North Korea and its leader Kim Jung Un are a society of very overwhelming power. The citizens bow down to their leader and give him the power over themselves and their lives. North Korea also has prison camps that they send people who disobeyed them off to. At these camps there are distortions of thoughts that the government forces onto the people. They do this because they think that everyone should only believe in what they tell them. In George Orwell’s 1984 he predicts of what he believes the…

countries, is “The Land of the Morning Calm,” South Korea. In order for a country to reach the replacement level and stabilize its population, the average fertility rate must be at least two births per woman (Chamie, Humanity’s para. 3). However, South Korea’s birthrate has…

East Asian countries such as Korea, Japan, and Taiwan. However, the puzzle we have to solve is whether the developmental state model delivers development without limitation, or if the model is doomed to failure once the industrial catch up has been achieved. This essay will briefly elucidate the features of the developmental state model for their success in the developing phase of an economy and compare the differences with the current model drawing close…

funny. “To see Kim portrayed as an object of ridicule -- rather than the infallible, all-powerful leader depicted in state propaganda -- would be nothing short of a revelation for most North Koreans”, Park Sang-hak, a North Korean who defected to the South said (Kim). It turns out, the North Koreans did not find any humor in the movie because they were not…

Research Paper 1- Will North and South Korea ever Reunite When most people think about North and South Korea, they think of two nations that will never be able to reconcile and be able to reunite, two nations that have been at each other’s throats for a long time. I am one of those people. In my opinion there are many reasons why they will not be able to reunite as one nation again. The first reason why I believe that these two very different nations will not be able reunite with each other…

The Hands on History Trip will instill more about these wonderful historical sites, learning more about the event, and experiencing hands on activities by walking through the Holocaust Museum, having a once in a lifetime experience at the Korean War Veterans Memorial, and by visiting the Island of Alcatraz to better educate students. “The world is a book, and those who do not travel only read one page” (St. Augustine 1). The quote is saying by not going out and experiencing something, then most…

From the Rome to North Korea patterns for success and failure are readily available to the historian. Two major countries are subject to massive change in the not the too distant future. A few economists believe that the year 2016 will see the fall of the Peoples Republic of China. Gordon G. Chang writes for The National Interest that “the country’s extraordinary economic difficulties will result in a collapse long-term…

North Korea has put the world in a very precarious situation, with the risk of nuclear war breaking out being front and center. They have constantly appeared in the news for various hostile activities, but their nuclear weapons program is the most prominent. It appears that North Korea acts with hostility towards all western countries, most notably by threatening the United States with nuclear weapons. What is even more terrifying, however, is North Korea’s hostility towards its greatest ally,…

The Japanese occupation of Korea remains controversial; for most Koreans it was a time of national subjugation shame and betrayal, political authoritarianism and violence, and profound human suffering (Schoppa 269). Japanese colonizers in Korea operate different technique to make Koreans more like Japanese by forcing them speak Japanese, take away their identity, and help them in the war against western powers. Japanese want to unify all East Asian countries under their empire. But all this…