National Treasures of South Korea

Ms. Park Geun-Hye, president of South Korea, recently announced that secondary school students will be taught with state-authored history books starting in 2017, causing a huge controversy. Currently, schools are free to choose from textbooks that are closely examined and approved by the Ministry of Education. However, this legislation would institute a single, unified history textbook authored directly by the government. Through three levels of analysis, I seek to understand why Ms. Park plans…

However, the theory of North Korean connection to the Sony hacking as a consequence of North Korea outraged of Sony film, The Interview, where two American aspiring journalists are recruited by the Unites States government to murder their leader Kim Jong-Un. The FBI has confirmed North Korea’s involvement; however, the hacktivist’s have not been captured. North Korea may have not have been behind the assault, affirming its administration 's refusal of any association to Sony’s…

issues facing that country. The country that will be the focus of this analysis is South Korea. Physical Geography South Korea, a country 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…

When thinking of South Korea it is difficult to change the overall image that the media has painted of the southern half of the peninsula. What first comes to mind, is there ferocious neighbor and enemy just north of the 38th parallel. However, what some fail to realize about South Korea is their monumental break throughs in real estate development and technology. Just south of one of the most populated cities in the world, lies a new and upcoming development with the name Songdo International…

My interest in Korea was always something that considered interesting and different by others. Several people are curious as to why I choose to not only study Korean but also to spend six months studying abroad in Seoul. Before studying Korean, Korea has always peaked my interest as it was a country that not many people in my life knew about in great detail, making it quite exotic. My goals for my exchange was not only about studying abroad in one of Seoul’s top universities, Yonsei University,…

of a product (Eroglu and Machleit, 1989). The country image is created by such variables as representative products, political and cultural environments, socio-economic development (Wang and Lamb, 1983), history, economic and political background, national characteristics, and traditions (Nagashima, 1970). Most past research has either illustrated or assumed image of country to be multidimensional, but the number of dimensions for country image is yet agreed (Lala et al., 2009). For instance,…

Culture and Concerns South Korea is a country with a very rich culture and is very different from our own culture here in the United States. One of the aspects of South Korean culture that stand out the most is its hierarchical structure. This section will explain how the different cultural frameworks and concepts apply to South Korean culture. The first is the sociology framework. Kluckhohn and Strodtbeck described culture as having 6 different dimensions: time, space, activity,…

20 March 2015 The Reality of North Korea Economy On November 24th 2014, Sony Picture Entertainment experienced a severe cyber attack conducted by a group of hackers called “The Guardians of Peace”. The hackers demanded the cancellation of the planned release of the movie “The interview”, which depicted the assassination of North Korean supreme leader Kim Jong-un. Aside from the political and comical meanings of “The interview”, the movie also depicted North Korea a country that is in deep…

The wars in Vietnam and Korea, during the Cold War, were both attempts made by the United States to stop/slow the spread of communism in East Asia. During these two wars, the US was unwilling to partake in total warfare, yet was not prepared to lose in battle. Due to this, limited options were available for the US to remain in their position of dominant world power, achieved in their victory during the Second World War. How did the United States position as dominant power in the World coming out…

South Korea has established itself as a rapidly modernizing and growing global force, since their rapid expansion beginning in the 1960’s. Korea has unique business and communication styles compared to the Western World, affecting their transactions as a whole (Figure 1). Concerning business interactions, Koreans prefer to have copious amounts of context and details about the individuals they will be contacting. In accordance with this style of communication, Koreans tend to take an indirect…