I woke up as the birds chirped and the sun shined straight into my face in the suburbs of Palos Verdes, California. Waking up in a house on top of an actual hill instead of an apartment on the 27th floor of a manmade building I used to live in, in Seoul, South Korea. Moving back to America after my freshman year of high school was a complete switch for me in environment both culturally and socially. It made me notice the many differences between American and Korean cultures as well as between…
their face. It was first performed in India, developed in America, and most booming in South Korea(cite). The Korean cosmetic surgery boom is proportional to the growth of the GDP per capita. When the South Korean economy was boosted by the 1988 Seoul Olympics,…
Confucianism states that the individual must put the country ahead of himself or herself, but the most violent fight in South Korea right now is the clash between the labor unions and the Chaebol. The workers are subjugated to poor working conditions along with smaller wages. “Workers must work for a better life”[1], this statement seems correct at its inception but it lends a view into the average Korean blue collar worker. It paints the picture that by giving up their self-happiness and…
My Life Journey Everybody has their own journey in their own life. In that journey, happiness and sadness are two main things that can not be avoided. However, we can choose our path whether we want to be happy or to be sad. My own journey started in a city called Jakarta in 18th December 1996. Jakarta is a capital city and the biggest city in Indonesia. I remembered I used to go to this mal called Summarecon Mal Serpong with my family every weekend because it has a live band music in Saturday…
Its competitors, Lisbon and Budapest, which place above Athens, and Prague and Seoul, which are below, geographically range from Spain to the Republic of Korea. Comparing the sub-indexes of these cities reveals that Athens excels in quality of life and infrastructure while lacking in environment, production, and equity. Equity is Athens’…
In examining a nation, culture, or ethnic group, it is important to establish why the study is occurring before deciding how the study unfolds. There are two important reasons to become more aware of a culture. First, as a military leader, it is critical to examine the operational environment in which one operates. Second, being able to cross cultural barriers and grasp the inner workings of another region allows one to remain adaptive, culturally sensitive, and relevant. What is culture?…
Although some changes have occurred in Korean culture and gender relations Korean Women still suffer from detrimental gender based stereotypes and expectations which are the result of traditional Confucian beliefs. The patriarchal South Korean society and its negative effects on Korean women are shown in the 2010 film “The Housemaid” in which two South Korean women are mistreated and used as tools for the benefit of their shared lover. The societal expectations are even more damaging for South…
Besides, the influence of cultural and social environment on both narratives’ disparate manners of identity construction can be illustrated on how both narratives distinguish themselves from others in terms of being a foreigner. Roberts summarizes Hyun’s ambiguous position in both Korean and German societies, “ In Korea, he is a foreigner legally, In Germany, he is a foreigner emotionally.” (Roberts, 29) And Roberts also adds another fact to explain why the second generation of Korean-Germans…
from a well-known university is a strong competitiveness in Korean society. Me as Korean student I came to America to graduate university in here because I could not be admitted to a university in Seoul, South Korea. In my country, it is hard to get a job if people did not graduate famed university in Seoul, so parents pushing hard children to get a good grade to school or get a certificate from the famous university. This kind of culture causing cheating on exams in school, a national…
and English. When I talked with a girl who works in The Face Shop, she said she comes from Dalian, China and is a student of Seoul National University. She explains that South Korean Company needs a large number of international employees to sale more products and offer the most directly communication to foreigners. In addition, the study abroad university students in Seoul are usually can speak more than two languages, which can fill the needs of the lack workers in local markets. Lots of…