Chin China And Beijing

South Korea and the United States have different ideas on a lot of things. Looking into South Korea’s way of life puts a different perspective on how someone across the world lives their life a little differently than me, even though they could be in the same financial state. My research will look at the comparison of their family and social life, Government, Religion, education, economy and health care,and how it differs from the U.S. The U.S. Population is 318.9 million and South Korea’s 50.22 million. The life expectancy in South Korea is 81.37 years old, and The US doesn’t differ much with it being 78.74 years old. There is a lot less free time in South Korea with people working an average of 2071 hours and here an average of 1788 hours. The unemployment rate there is also a lot smaller than here with there being all kinds of jobs for any level of work experience. South Korea has gone through a great economic rise in the last 50 years going from one of the poorest countries to the fifteenth largest economies.

TravelChinaGuide.com (n.d.) states that Chinese years are represented by twelve zodiacal animal signs. The demographic religious breakdown is as follows: Folk religion, 21.9%, Buddhist, 18.2%, Christian, 5.1%, Muslim, 1.8%, Jewish and Hindu are both less than 0.1% (CIA World Factbook, 2015). Demographically, there are more males than females. Recently, the Chinese government lifted their ban of one child maximum per family (Burkitt, 2015).

Korea covers a land area of 99,392km (squared) and has a population of approximately 50 million people. Korea’s economy is listed as Asia’s fourth largest and the world’s 15th largest. It is the planet’s most densely populated country with 400 people per square km mainly due to the nearly 70% of uninhabitable mountainous regions. The largest cities are Busan (5.5 million inhabitants), Seoul (11.6 million), Daegu (4.0 million), Gwangju (2.9 million), Incheon (5.4 million) and Daejeon (2.9 million). Rapid urban growth has resulted in various problems for South Korea including housing. High-rise apartments were constructed in order to help alleviate housing shortages.

There are a lot of religions in China. About 85% of chinese people have religious beliefs or had some religious practices and only 15% of them do not have faith in any religions not had any activities related to religions or folk customs. 185 million people believe in Buddhism and 33 million have faith in Christianity and believes in the existence of God. Only 12 million people are Taoists, although more than one hundred million have taken part in Taoism activities before. There is also Islam and Confucianism.

The end of Sun- Yat sen’s life in 1925 was the beginning of Beiping. Following Sun- Yat sen’s death, Chiang Kai- shek (Jiang Jieshi) became the party leader of the Nationalist Party (Guomindang). By 1926, Chiang Kai- shek had already reunified the majority of south China and defeated many northern warlords in his Northern Expedition. This led the Nationalist Party to build their capital in Nanjing rather than staying in Beijing. Beijing at the time correlated with “political conservatism, warlord corruption, and imperial decadence” (Beijing, Pg. 135). Therefore, from 1928 to 1949, Beijing lost its privileged to hold the nation’s capital and was renamed Beiping. Today, we are able to learn and imagine for ourselves what those times were like through readings such as Rickshaw Boy, Midnight In Peking, and Beijing: From Imperial Capital to Olympic City that provide

China has been known to be the world’s third largest nation, and one of the most populous countries amongst the world. “China has become one of the globe’s fastest - growing post - industrial economies since reforms were put into place in 1978 by Deng Xiaoping, and his supporters, and it’s rapid industry growth since then has led to competition with the United States, and Europe. “(“China”). China was a feudal state until the lord of Qin managed to unite the various lords and became the first emperor in 221 B.C.E. (“China”). During Qin ShiHuang’s reign he standardized the script, currencies, weights, and measures, and established the system of prefectures and counties, and began the world- renowned Great Wall. At the end of the Qin Dynasty, Liu Bang, a peasant leader, overthrew the Qin regime in cooperation with Xiang Yu, an aristocratic general. (“Wu”).

The most predominant religion in China is Buddhism. Buddhism started in China just after the first century. It was widely spread and became the biggest religion in China. Now there are more than 13 thousand Budda temples that are open to the public. There are almost 1 billion people who are Buddhist in the world. Buddhism is China’s oldest religion. 80% of Chinese people are Buddhist. Buddhism has changed and adapted to most cultures, it encountered after it began in the north of India. Mayhona Buddhism is a type of Buddhism in China. Many Buddhists are vegetarian, but the Budda did not prohibit eating meat. Buddhists believers enjoy going meditation. When they meditate you become relaxed.

Religion plays a huge role to their strict teaching principles. The most common religion in China are Confucianism, Taoism, and Buddhism. It was considered as a harmonious collection. Confucianism is a school of thought, revolving around the principles of the Chinese philosopher Kong Zi. Confucianism is illustrated through the five main relationships and is the core of society.

For South Korea, since it is developed country, the only data that are available is after 1991. The 1991 population

Taoism is a very broad movement, it isnt a doctrine as such, nor a belief system, but is more like a personal experience. It is a way of living and understanding the world, away from the systematization and dogmas, which caused numerous trends. It was the historian Sima Tan (or Sima Qian) in the -I century who brought together all these trends under the name of "Taoist school" in his "Historical Memoirs".

Modern China seems to us as a monolithic state. We simplify the different peoples and languages to one. The reality is more complicated though several provinces have semi-autonomous status and cities like Hong Kong and Macao have freedoms the rest of China does not. Recently Taiwan elected a pro independence party. Even though Taiwan is not part of the people 's republic of China it has always maintained that it intended to be part of a democracy China. That is now put in doubt add to this some provinces wish to leave China and form their own countries. China is hardly breaking apart but it might help us to look at a different China than today 's. After the fall of the mighty Han dynasty China entered an era of disunification. This time

The theme of duality appears again in the Court of Final Appeal in Central. Opened in 1912 as the site of the Supreme Court, the two-story granite neoclassical-styled building is supported by ionic columns and features a statue of Themis, the Greek Goddess of Justice, who is blindfolded and holds a scale. According to Simon Ng, an assistant professor at the University of Hong Kong, “the blindfolded Themis standing right above the royal coat of arms is a visual reiteration of the centuries-old ideal of rule of law that even the sovereign must be subject to the law and reason.” Because of newly instituted western education, Hong Kong became susceptible to the ideas of fairness and impartiality in the justice system, which along with its capitalist economy, further differentiated itself from China. This concept of “one country, two systems” is an important element of Hong Kong governance, and by extension, its people. This represents a time when Hong Kong is slowly pulling its influence away from China.

South Korea is one of the most homogeneous countries in the world, in which it has its own culture, language, and customs that are different from other Asian countries. In South Korea, the citizens greatly value hard work, filial piety, and humility in their daily lives. South Koreans are very proud people in which they pride themselves in their traditional culture and their financial success.

In South Korea, the Korean language is the most frequently used language and the Koreans use Hangul as the main writing system. Quoted from kwintessential.co.uk, “The Korean language is spoken by more than 65 million people living on the peninsula and its outlying islands as well as 5.5 million Koreans living in other parts of the world.  The fact that all Koreans speak and write the same language has been a crucial factor in their strong national identity.” In the present time, Korea boasts many dialects, including the standard dialect used in Seoul and central areas. Even

Due to all the transformations in South Korea, 57.5 percent of females are attending college and 61.7 percent of males are attending college. Men still have a slightly bigger percentage than women, but this is a great amount of change compared to long time ago. In South Korea, it has also become a trend for upper-class men and women to receive their education abroad. A recent research showed that 60.7 percent of Koreans went abroad to pursue degrees, which is the reason why more and more South Koreans are becoming Westernized.