South Korea

For decades North Korea has been viewed by the world as the most oppressive regime of the modern day. Today, thanks to the investigative journalism from Japan’s, Jiro Ishimaru, and others, the world is able to see the inside of North Korea, exposing the country for what it truly is. In Ishimaru’s documentary, the film begins with Ishimaru demonstrating to the viewer how he conducts his job of smuggling video footage out of the country. He talks about the danger of his work and uses examples…

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 people know much about. It’s because they are so controlled by their leader, Kim Jong-un. Not many things get in to North Korea, nor get out. Thus is why people are clueless about these prison camps. The things that happen in North Korean Prison camps are…

envy that must have been felt in that particular situation toward another type of person, lays the ground work for my comparison between “Nothing to Envy” “In The South” and “See The Other Side”. In all three stories I was able to point out and examine instances were one-person envy’s another or their way of life. In the Book “In The South” and “See The Other Side” envy is exemplified by bring to light the ways people can many times misperceive or totally disregard the blessings given to them…

The South Korean film industry since Korean War (1950-1953) often portrays the Korean experience in the Cold War struggle and its lingering impact in inter-Korean relations as a backdrop for many of its popular films. While the Cold War is nominally a thing of the past, the consequences of the Cold War rhetoric are ubiquitous in the Korean peninsula, leading to an assessment and reassessment of the lingering feelings that South Koreans have of their Northern counterparts. The film industry’s…

force those under you to serve your greed by keeping them in line with words like duty and loyalty. North Korea has been an independent country since 1945, and has since then feed it’s greed for power by forcing the loyalty of its people through lies and deceit. Layers of lies that fool it’s countrymen into feeling that their duty to country is more important than basic needs such as food. North Korea has ultimate control of its people and has effectively convinced them that their leaders are…

In this interview I have found out about an individual’s point of view about family, ethnic experiences and education in South Korea. Seung Joo Lee, 17 years old, a very close friend of mine. She is from South Korea and have been living in the United States since April, 2010. She has two siblings, one older sister who is in college and one younger brother who is in middle school. Seung Joo and her family are like the traditional Koreans you basically know. They are the ones who bow their head…

findings, C. Richardson provided some precious insight in “Hagiography of the Kims & the Childhood of Saints: Kim Il-sung”,published on Sino NK on January 31, 2015.For instance he reported the testimony of Kim Myung Hun, who defected in 2013: "In North Korea, there are the Ten Principles for the Establishment of a Monolithic Ideological System. The fourth of which stipulates that we must make the Great Leader comrade Kim Il Sung's revolutionary ideology our faith and make his instructions our…

Nationalists retreated to Taiwan. Only four years prior, the Allied victory over Japan saw a dual American-Soviet occupation of the Korean Peninsula, leading to the North-South divide along the 38th parallel and the establishment of two separate Korean states. The character of the respective states reflected the influence…

Improvement of Korea-Japan relationship: three negotiable fields Japan is geographically one of the closest countries to South Korea, at the same time, historically the most uncomfortable country because of Japanese colonization in the early 1900s. In a point of the South Korean government, although Japan’s distortion of history made the relationship worse, it is necessary to maintain a close relationship between two countries in the rapidly changing situation of East Asian region. To make an…

Explain your reason(s) for applying as a ____________________ (desired position) to participate in HanVoice at Queen’s University. I was born in South Korea, so I was aware of North Korea since I was very little. However, I became very interested in the causes of North Korea when I wrote an essay in grade 10. I remember researching about North Korea from many sites, because I could not believe the awful occurrences that was happening – manipulation and lack of freedom. The president is always…