Distribution Strategy : South Korea

Most the highways, and roads within the nation are unpaved and quickly deteriorating. Privately owned vehicles are scarce due to the inability to afford them by the citizens and trucks are far and few due to the limited resources of fuel. There are twelve ports throughout the nation and only a few can accommodate the commuting of large ships, consequently reducing the ability to conduct business by sea. Of the forty-nine airports in North Korea, roughly twenty of them have paved runways, ultimately making the mere twenty scheduled flights a week difficult. Communication is another aspect in North Korea that is strictly enforced and often neglected. As of 1990, there were roughly 290,000 televisions and four point two million radios in use in the entire country. Household Telephones are strictly limited to the noble class of higher Social rank. Cell phones are available, but combined with the high cost, poor reception ad very few towers, most are not fortunate enough to own one. There was only one line of communication to the United States but has since been severed and contact with the United States is now impossible, not to mention forbidden and incurs a severe

The United States needs a top class infrastructure system. We need a transportation system by land, water, and air that will move people and goods in an organized way and at an affordable cost. However, our infrastructure

Rich and developed countries always have many beautiful streets, roads, many big highways. Those are the main role of developing countries' economy. A lot of policies about building new streets, enlarging roads is always an important and necessary thing, because without them, trading things and products, doing business cannot be worked. Therefore, governments have to give right policies like fixing streets and roads every year, building more overpasses, applying some new laws for traveling in order to decrease congestion traffic.

This task I am going explain the process of distributing goods through different channels from the manufacturer to the customers. The term distribution means the process of delivering, storing and selling goods, so that they can be used by customers. (Source- Intermediate Retail and Distribution, Delivering is about what types of transport which are used to carrying and delivering goods, the types of transport is going to be Rail, Road, Air, Water for example rivers, ocean cargo and canals and People. Storing is about where the goods are going to come from and where they are going to be stored. Selling is going to be where you are going to sell the goods

With the majority of the population living in metropolitan areas, highways are extremely congested , more investment is needed for the future development. Currently, the Federal Highway Administration estimates that $170 billion in capital investment would be needed on an annual basis to significantly improve conditions and performance. Increase bridge infrastructure investments by $8 billion annually is mandatory to address the identified $76 billion in needs for deficient bridges across the United States. To be economically successful, this investment is

Due to nearly constant internal and external conflict, Afghanistan’s infrastructure is in a constant state of disrepair and rebuilding. The country has limited network of paved roads, with the main artery Highway 1, circling the country. Nearly two thirds of the country’s population lives within 30 miles of the road (Sieff). Recently, the government of Afghanistan has shown an inability to maintain the roads, due mostly to inexperience and lack of funds. While some of the deterioration happens because of

Many people in the world want their countries to be developed, and they want to have a good quality of life. Also, they want their countries to have strong potential economy to compete with other nations. As a result, it is necessary for the government to work on improving facilities which are the basic foundation of life. In my opinion, governments should spend more money on improving public transportation, such as buses, subways, and trains instead of working on the construction of new roads and highways for several reasons.

Majority of America’s roads and bridges were built for an earlier time and are now in poor condition (Petroski, 2016, pg. 9). Infrastructure is created with a design life that usually tends to be around fifty years (St. Martin, 2017). That timeframe though includes regular routine maintenance and while some components may last longer, each one will eventually reach a breaking point. Fifty years for many of America’s structures has come and gone, and within those fifty years no maintenance was completed. This is the one of the leading causes of the aging infrastructure that America is plagued with; structures reach their design life and become outdated before we can replace them. As an ever increasing nation, we are ever expanding but this

Fortunately, the region was able to reestablish its economy from the building blocks that it had in place. Noland (2014) claims that “Soon after the division of the Korean Peninsula, in 1945, South Korea already had in place the building blocks for growth: an educated population, property rights, land reform that boosted productivity, and the institutions of modern capitalism. These pillars laid the foundation for prosperous economic development and after a few setbacks, South Korea was able to emerge as a respectable economic developed country. South Korea have a population of over 50 million, an unemployment rate of 3.5%, and an inflation rate of 1.3%, South Korea Gross Domestic product reached over $1.2 trillion in 2006, or about $24,500 per capita. South Korea’s economy thrives from its robust agricultural market, forestry and fishing, mining and manufacturing, plus multiple other resources. According to (Nolan 2014), “The country is a rich, technologically advanced, mature democracy with an impressive record of innovation, economic reform, and sound leadership,” (Noland 2014). One of the many reasons why South Korea has been able to become so successful in such a short period of time is because of the value that the country places on

The infrastructure area in this great nation is deprecating when compared to the rest of the developed countries. America went from having the best modernized roadways and highways in the mid-1900s to an obsolete infrastructure at present. The U.S globally ranks 16th in quality of infrastructures moving 3 up spots over the past couple of years. This is not as a result of improved infrastructure but other countries worsening their infrastructural repairs.

It is no secret that the nation’s infrastructure is aging and weathering quickly. Our highways, bridges and main roads, predominantly in older regions or areas are in dire need of restoration. These issues can abruptly lead to potential safety and traffic concerns and results in barriers for our individual means of transportation and logistically, our means of transporting goods. Reasons that are preventing us from accomplishing the goal of reconstructing the nation’s infrastructure comes down to determining financial liability. Currently, Infrastructure comprises of the structures and systems that we rely on and cannot afford to live without. It is vital, yet easy to overlook or take for granted. We, Americans have not been taking good

Within the last few decades, the internal affairs in South Korea have been anything but smooth. The public demand for a democratic future is prevalent, but it is unquestionable that the authoritarian leaders and government have had a larger impact that any democratic ones. The strong hand of leaders like Syngman Rhee and Park Chung-hee allowed South Korea to persevere through difficult times and explode onto the international market. The measures leaders in the 60s, 70s, and 80s took to get Korea to the position of wealth it reached have had some dire consequences that are still felt today. There is no sign of stopping either, as the country has been preoccupied with many other issues and has had democracy thrust upon them, leaving many flaws in the system. The power vacuums, unbalanced social structure, and violent riots have been constant effects brought on by the rise and fall of South Korea’s authoritarian past. This instability and volatile nature of modern South Korean government and society is the most well defined and over-arching theme caused by authoritarian policies and decisions

Sarah Yun, the author of Kaesong Industrial Complex: Is it Changing The DPRK?, describes the important infrastructure required, “the restoration of road and rail links and economic assistance projected included aid… ventures in mining, agriculture, and tourism and textile production” (Yun). As Yun expresses, all those components were agreed by both countries. Schattle, one of the authors of Pacific focus articles explicates that the KIC was a concept in which “warming ties between the Koreas, was considered a test case for reunification. It join South Korean knowhow and technology with inexpensive North Korean labor” (Schattle). However, infrastructure is an essential component so that those industries can transport effectively their goods. The complex requires different manufacturing facilities to use heavy machinery and constant passage of carrying vehicles. The type of infrastructure in KIC delays transportation of goods and commodities between both countries. The complex’s logistics lack proper maneuvering of goods from one place to another. The delays decrease production and South Korean companies begin to lose lucrative opportunities of profit. This at the long run discourages new South Korean businessmen to come to the complex and invest.

At the end of World War II, Korea was a poor former agricultural colony of Japan. But the rapid growth of Korea’s industrial economy has been remarkable. The economy of South Korea is now the third-largest in Asia and the 13th largest in the world by GDP as of 2007. To trace back the economic development of South Korea, the former president Park Chung-Hee played a pivotal role, and was credited for shifting its focus to export-oriented favoring a few large conglomerates. Unlike his predecessors, Park showed a strong commitment to economic development, believing good economic performance as a primary means for enhancing his political legitimacy. Under the President Park Chung-Hee’s era, the government played a dominating role in a

South Korea’s history, strategic location, and political relations in the past and today, have created an economy which is one of the strongest in Southeast Asia. “According to the World Bank, in the last 30 years, South Korea’s economy is one of the most outstanding success stories in international development.” (Globaled, p.1). Dating from the Japanese occupation of South Korea , from 1910 thru 1946, then the division of the peninsula enforced by the United States of America and the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics after Japan’s unconditional surrender during WWII; the Republic of Korea (ROK) had gone throughout drastic changes in its social, economic, and political structure, but in the 1960s, under the regime