South Korea

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…

South Korea is known as one of the few countries in which domestic films able to surpass Hollywood films, thus dominating the domestic film market. This unprecedented achievement has grabbed other countries’ attention who are wondering about the catalysts that underpinned South Korea’s success. Therefore in this essay, I will explain why and how the phenomenon, whereby the Hollywood films do not dominate the South Korea’s domestic film market. I will disintegrate this essay into three sections.…

concerned about the national security problem when if the United States intervene in helping the South Korea and crossed the Yalu rivers that would threaten Chinese-Korean border. According to Cuming, Secretary of State Dean Acheson was supported by the president to commit American air and grand troops to the war on 25 June 1950. It also proved by the primary source, Truman’s statement on the invasion of South Korea, said…

significant role as a United Nation Peacekeeping Operation member. By the foreign aid, Japan has sent numbers of its assistance to Indonesia and Philippines with aims to support the two developing countries and having a good relationship to the two of the South East Asian nations. Furthermore by keep sending its foreign aid Japan can maintain and enjoying their stable relationship with Indonesia and the Philippines, despite of the brutality and the cruelty of the historical background that…

Illustrative cases ----Drivers for divestment Tesco Tesco is the third largest retailers all over the world. It was founded in 1919 by Jack Cohen from a market stall in London’s East End. Now it operates in 12 countries around the world with over 530,000 employers and serve tens of millions of customers every week (http://www.tescoplc.com/index.asp?pageid=11). The revenue was £70.9bn and profit before tax was £2.3bn in 2013 (http://www.tescoplc.com/index.asp?pageid=71). Tesco enter China in…

relates to many celebrities and also to multiple affairs that happened in specific years. For example, the first verse involves topics related to the year 1949, or very close to 1949. Billy Joel mentions Harry Truman, Doris Day, Red China, johnnie Ray, South Pacific, Walter Winchell, and Joe DiMaggio in the first two lines of “We Didn’t Start the Fire.” First, Harry Truman became the U.S President in 1945 after President Roosevelt died that year. Truman was responsible for dropping the…

really know anything about the Cold War and the tension between the capitalists and the Communists. My grandmother described that “the war started from nowhere.” She lived in the countryside of Korea so she was not really aware of the war until the North, with its support from the U.S.S.R. advanced towards the South. Although the war did not get her in the beginning, she started to notice differences in people’s lives and the difference started from her school and…

After the end of the Cold War, many counties in Asia have become independent from its colonization. Until now, there has no major war occurred in this region. During this period of peacetime, Asian countries have enjoyed the growing of economic and global influence. Russia, China, and India these newly advanced economy countries started undermining the U.S. influence in Asia. In order to remain its economic interests and political power in Asia, the U.S. has adjusted its global strategy. The…

Disability of any form is usually viewed as a weakness and a restriction. From the 1960s through the 1990s, many Korean film directors use different forms of disabilities to represent the state of the people. The traumas and social problems faced by many South Koreans are linked to disability in Korean films. Although these issues are brought to light, a period of censorship is enforced through the Motion Picture Laws in 1962 under President Park Chung Hee’s rule. Years after these movies are…

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,…