South Korea

Stalin’s violent ruling, and the similar phonemes appeared today in North Korea too. According to the website Human Rights Watch, “Kim Jong-Un’s power is built on the continued abuses inflicted on the North Korean people because he sits at the helm of a central government apparatus that uses public executions, extensive political prison camps, and brutal forced labor to maintain control,”. Kim Jong-Un, the dictator of North Korea, public arrest and kill anyone who threatens his power. Napoleon…

resembling this same problem. I believe that an event like the Holocaust can recur again, and it will not be ignored like before. For example, North Korea, ISIS, Darfur are Holocaust-like events that are happening in the world today. Beginning with North Korea, it shows many problems that revolve around the Holocaust. In North Korea, First, North Korea limits their citizens internet usage and connection to the outside world. “People in North . . . confined,…

that “. . . Defectors have to rediscover who they are in a world that offers endless possibilities.” Since life is so different outside of North Korea, they have to find out who they really are as a person with all of the freedom they now have. They have to learn about new things that they had never known about or experienced while living in North Korea. These freedoms include, new technology, religion, the truth about their Government, new fashions, and Social…

The people were infuriated over the state of Korea and the royal family understood that they would have to take immediate action in order to please the people and remain in power. Surprisingly, the government and ruling class “sincerely repented of their pre-war misdeeds” and were able to sustained…

government provides. They have a very limited view of things outside of their “great” country due to the fact that they’re isolated from the rest of the world and only get to see outsiders while wearing predetermined faces only showing the beauty of North Korea. Where Leandro was impressed on how easy it is to find solutions to problems and find access to a plethora of information, the North Korean students have to jump through hoops to accomplish much of…

Korean Peninsula had been united under several states; and the last government of a united Korea, the People’s Republic of Korea, was under fire. Due to treaty agreements between the United States, and the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, the peninsula would be partitioned into two zones of occupation; the Soviets controlling the region north of 38th parallel, while the Americans would receive the region south of the 38th parallel. This division, although intended to be temporary, would…

government and South Korean government did not make obligated efforts to the repatriation of Sakhalin Korean to South Korea while Soviet government presented indifferent attitude towards this issue after the war between Imperial Japan and Soviet government. And he also described in his article how Sakhalin Korean activists made contribution to influence the international position of Sakhalin Koreans and it ultimately turned…

In Japan’s Comfort Women, subtitled the Sexual slavery and prostitution during World War II and the US occupation, the author Yuki Tanaka unearths a topic largely undiscussed throughout history. Published by Routledge in 2002, Tanaka goes into depth about the history of the exploitation of thousands of women used as comfort women, a euphemism for sexual slavery, for Japanese soldiers. The book is broken up into six chapters, including an epilogue, which focus on the different areas regarding…

Citizens in North Korea are living in horrific conditions in political prison camps are abused and tortured on a daily basis. As I am sure you are aware, political prison camps are a serious issue in North Korea at this moment in time. People accused of political crimes and their families are sent to live in brutal and abusive conditions. Punishing the sons and grandsons of a rebel is known as 3 generations of punishment. The idea of the 3 generations of punishment is to get rid of rebel lineage…

As mentioned in some previous studies, tourism agencies in Korea claiming that the popularity of the Hallyu phenomenon has led to dramatic increase in international tourist arrival.(S. Kim, 2012). Essentially to location and site associated with Korean TV dramas. Hallyu phenomenon, or the K-wave or also called Korean Wave, refers to Korean generated popular cultural products that includes, manga, music, games, movie TV dramas, food and fashion, that made a strong penetration in the Asian Market…