Did Eisenhower’s nuclear threat end the Korean war? American Secretary of State John Foster Dulles often bragged about how nuclear brinkmanship by the United States finally brought the other side to agree to a negotiated settlement of the Korean War in July 1953. According to him it proved that the threat of massive retaliation or a "a bigger bang for a buck" could work. It is true that America let it slip that atomic weapons being placed in Okinawa‚ that Chiang Kai-shek was being permitted to
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Korean Wave Hanryu‚ the Korean wave refers to the significant increase in the popularity of South Korean entertainment‚ trends and culture beginning in the 1990s‚ especially in countries of Asia‚ and more recently in other parts of the world. It presents a prodigious surge in the international visibility of Korean culture. The terminology was coined in mid-1999 by Beijing journalists‚ appalled by the fast growing popularity of Korean wave in China. The wave is more than a mere cultural phenomenon;
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article “ Korean Manchuria – The Racial Politics of Territorial Osmosis”‚ the author‚ Park Hyun Ok‚ asserts that Japanese empire treated Korean migrants as a colonial agent and intended to expand its colonial power to China. She terms this as transnational territorial
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WHAT HAPPENED? The day of August 6‚ 1997 was a time that changed the Korean Airlines Flight 801. Korean Airlines was operating a Boeing 737-300 when it crashed into a high terrain towards the Won Guam International Airport in Agana‚ Guam which was about three miles southwest. Operating under Instrument Flight Rules (IFR)‚ Flight 801 was in route from the Seoul‚ Korea Kimpo International Airport. On board there were two pilots‚ one flight engineer‚ 14 flight attendants and 237 passengers when
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Confucianism on Korean Corporate Culture Tan Soo Kee Introduction Korean corporate culture is one of the most dynamic and distinct corporate cultures in the world. With its high quality of labor and positive organizational behavior‚ it has contributed to the rapid development of the Korean economy. Big Korean conglomerates such as Samsung‚ Hyundai and LG have emerged as well-known brands in the global consumer market within a short period. Besides the strong leadership of the Korean government
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“South Korean cinema both borrows from and rejects Hollywood.” How far is this true in Save the Green Planet? In order to discuss the extent to which Jang Joon-Hwan’s ‘Save The Green Planet!’ (2003) borrows from and Rejects Hollywood‚ it is important to identify exactly what type of film it is and what it is trying to do. Save the Green Planet (STGP) is a very typical South Korean New Wave film. ‘New Waves’ in cinema are basically film movements which involve a series of experimental (and often
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Introduction to Sijo Korean literature is becoming popular in foreign lands. The globalization of Korean literature is good news to Korean poets and writers. Literature certainly has an important role to play in its portrayal of the relations between society and individual people‚ and it has a particularly vital social function in developing or underdeveloped countries. Korea has a proud and long-established literary tradition‚ but while it has produced many fine classical and contemporary works
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Title: The history of pentecostal & Charismatic Pnuematologies in the Korean Church CHapter i INTRODUCTION Today‚ many Korean churches have Pentecostal and Charismatic (P/C) characteristics – experiential spirituality: the openness to the gifts of the Holy Spirit‚ emphasis on prayer‚ on exuberant worship‚ on evangelism‚ and on religious experience – even before foreign Pentecostal denominations initiated the Pentecostal movement in Korea. Yong-gi Hong‚ a minister of the Yoido Full Gospel Church
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wear and sing about what she wanted. By then Yeonmi’s mother planned to go South Korea because she desperately wanted her family to live in a country ruled by freedom. Her father died in China after they escaped‚ and she had to bury him without crying because she was afraid of going back to her country. Then she said‚ “There are so many North Korean women and teenage girls refugees are victimised and even sold for money.” This made me wonder what can we do to help North Korean refugees. First of
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Pugh 1 James Pugh Business Communications 254.C June 22‚ 2006 Korean Business Communication The world of international business is becoming smaller and smaller daily due to "Amazing new transportation and information technologies which are major contributors to the development of our global interconnectivity" (Guffey 95). This advancement has allowed more and more foreign markets to open up to do trade. The Republic of Korea is one such market. In order to successfully
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