The article “Park in Limbo” elaborates a scandal of the engulfing South Korean President Park Hye and her relationship with an associate‚ a private citizen‚ meddling in the state affairs and influencing the decisions in the government. This is a story of a sitting President with the lowest approval rating 17% nationwide‚ erupting protests throughout the nation. Nation in Turmoil The author begins with the bad news for Korea. Samsung Electronics a renowned global innovator and the nation’s biggest
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well as the foreign relations between China and the United States. The Korean War was the first proxy war to be fought in the Cold War and marked the Cold War’s global expansion. Although the name suggests it to be a civil war between North and South Korea‚ in actual fact it was the start of a global confrontation that caused huge numbers of casualties and injuries for both the People’s Republic of China (PRC) and the United States. On the American front‚ the Korean War brought about changes in
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IMPACT OF K-POP CULTURE IN NORTH EAST INDIA By: Vanlalfeli There is a foreign invasion taking place in India’s Northeast region. But the invasion is not from neighboring countries like China or Bangladesh. This time round‚ it is a cultural invasion. The North eastern states have been experiencing a shift in cultural assimilation from western Americanize ethos(people‚ system) to Korean and Japanese culture. The wave of globalization and information and communication technology revolution has also
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Selfless Hero When we come to that point in life where we have to choose a career‚ many of us will never expect that this decision may one day lead to saving the world. However‚ an individual’s talent and ability may point a person in that direction. Gerry is the protagonist in the film World War Z‚ who plays the role of an U.N. officer in process of becoming a hero. Outlining some of Joseph Campbell’s stages of the mythic hero’s journey in his book Hero with a thousand faces‚ clearly defines
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place” and compared that to where she use to live in South Korea (Kim‚ Page 92). When she entered seventh grade her father’s company went bankrupt overnight and he was a millionaire shipping company‚ mining business and hotels. However‚ when the bankruptcy happen jail time was required because that was the punishment for her father. So without any money at all they flew to America into the state of New York. Sense Suki Kim came from South Korea‚ she couldn’t speak any English at all. In fact the
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Macroeconomic Stability of HPAE Countries In the past forty years‚ specific countries in East Asia have presented a sustained economic growth in comparison to others globally. These eight countries are Japan‚ Singapore‚ Hong Kong‚ South Korea‚ Taiwan‚ Indonesia‚ Malaysia‚ and Thailand. They are referred to as the high performing Asian economies (HPAEs) because of their miraculous growth in the past several decades (World Bank‚ 1993). Macroeconomic stability is one of the factors that contribute
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Korean human rights discourse’s perspectives. Particularly‚ the author attempted to shine a light on the discriminatory use of the statistical indicators that UN humanitarian and development agencies have been issuing since the mid-1990s on North Korea. According to Smith‚ inconsistency and misinterpretation are mostly due to a securitization perspective through which knowledge about DPRK is filtered‚ rather than to a mere conscious bias (Smith‚ 2014‚ 127). Introducing the main features that label
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To what extent does globalization narrow the development gap? The development gap was first identified in 1981 by the West German Chancellor Willy Brandt. He explained that there was a clear North-South divide where the North holds 80% of the earth’s wealth and the south 20%. The development gap was explained in this case as the difference between the wealth of the countries. This can be measured via GDP per capita. However the general development gap is explained as not only the differences in
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willing to engage in dangerous behavior‚ in this case-murdering Simon. Not to mention‚ the ongoing “Reports of attacks on people from immigrant backgrounds [had] surfaced in [Sweden]” (Gigova). Additionally‚ in Korea‚ a “broadcast video of protestors throwing eggs and water bottles at [South Korea prime minister” attack occurred (Kwon). People usually believe that they cannot be held responsible for violent behavior if they are part of a mob because they perceive the violent actions as a group’s. For
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Superstition – Fan Death *A common Korean superstition that has been present in South Korean culture for quite some was after the invention of the electric fan. *A really random idea from a random person thought that having an electric fan running overnight in a closed room (doors and windows shut) could kill you by either suffocation or hypothermia. This phenomenon is known as‚ “Fan Death.” * You might notice that the weather in Korea in the summer time is very hot and humid. So what’s a good way to cool
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