Similarities Between South Korea And The United States

Because the Korean pension system is still relatively young and underdeveloped, its elderly poverty rate is higher than in other OECD nations. In most OECD nations, poverty among the elderly dropped sharply as pension systems matured. The rate in Korea is currently much higher than the rates for other population groups. Korea’s elderly poverty rate stands at 45.1% compared to a 13.5%, average for the 30 countries of the OECD. For those countries, poverty among the elderly dropped sharply from the 1980s onward, with the rate for those aged 66-75 falling below that of children and young adults. Social issues such as the high suicide rate among the elderly have led to a widespread perception of the need for a community-level response to poverty among the elderly.

There are many similarities and differences in area size, population, and weather between Texas and South Korea. Texas population, weather, housing, and South Korean population, weather, housing is similar as they both have a large population, has all 4 seasons, and housing for its population. However, Texas has a smaller population, larger land mass, different weather from east to west and more spread out housing for its population. Whereas, South Korea has a larger population, smaller land mass, distinct weather and smaller, closer together housing for its

Ever wondered why there’s North Korea and South Korea? The nation of Korea was once unified for centuries under the Joseon Dynasty (1392-1910). The Japanese invaded Korea and ruled over the nation for 35 years—thus, during the World War II as well. Consequently, the World War II ended after Japan surrendered to the United States, which also led Japan to give up Korea. The United Nations ordered Korea to be temporarily demarcated into two parts through the 38th parallel—the Soviet Union controlled the northern part and the United States controlled the southern part. The United Nations scheduled elections and stated that both parties were to be fair and democratic. The Soviet Union refused the idea of having democratic elections and anointed Kim Il-Sung as North Korea’s communist ruler in contrary with South Korea which democratically elected Syngman Rhee as its leader. That explains why there’s North Korea and South Korea. The nation’s split made a bombarding impact in the development of its environment, economy, people, and culture.

South Korea and America are two pressing and influential countries in the world, both with an expressible different history back grounds and present day cultural life style. While most of South Korea is notably similar to America in architect and popular culture, there are some huge divergences in our education system such as classroom atmosphere and student conduct, what a prototypical school day looks like and how many hours we study, and our college placement assessments.

There are many cultural differences, however, in my opinion those that have the most importance attached while doing business, are the way they determine authority, the fact that negotiations are something they believe should be a hard fought battle, trust being something very important because reputation sells your products not how good a product you produce, and personal relationships are of major importance. When deciding who to put someone in charge you need to know

Australia is a Democratic Country, which means that people are in power and have control over the government. In this type of government people’s views and opinions are highly considered by the government and an equal and stable administration can be achieved. ( Asia-Pacific Economics Blog, 2014). The people can choose and can voice in their opinion regarding Medicare and any other complaints they have against the system, which helps the government, improve the system. Comparing the political characteristics to North Korea, the Australian citizens have more

Parents are also much more strict on the children's education than then U.S parents. As stated by Eric, “Most Korean parents saw themselves as coaches, while American parents tended to act more like cheerleaders.” (pg.110) Parents in South Korea are more involved their children's education, while parents in the U.S are more involved in sports and clubs. Students in South Korea only focus on their education, they don't get involved with sports or any other activity that won't help their

The controversial act of firing MacArthur advances the argument that American values are reflected in the speech. The value of protecting peace is clearly put on display.

Bora and I become friends since we took the same class together. She is originally from South Korea and started to study at Old Dominion University before three years ago. One year ago, she married her husband who originally from South Korea too but immigrated to the United States fifteen years ago. After they got married, Bora and her husband started to work on those immigration procedures, but they just put the formalities done last month. I came from China and I speak Mandarin Chinese, so we have a lot of cultural differences with each other. In order to get a better understanding of South Korea’s culture and gain multi-cultural competence as a human service professional in the future, I decided to conduct my interview with Bora.

In August 1945, two young aides at the State Department divided the Korean peninsula in half along the 38th parallel. The Russians occupied the area north of the line and the United States occupied the area to its south.

The adjective beautiful continues to exist as a standard of women all over the globe. However, are these beauty standards the exact same? The definition of beauty varies with different countries and cultures. The United States and South Korea are two countries that differ in their definitions of beauty. While American women undergo plastic surgery to achieve one look, South Korean women reach for the opposing look.

Thank you for taking the time to study and analyses the countries of Canada, United Kingdom and South Korea. As mentioned, culture is a phenomenon that differ from one nation to the other, depending on personal values and preferences. You mentioned the fact that Canada and the United Kingdom have a hierarchical culture. These nations can be found in the highest level of power distance in the Hofstede’s Analysis. Satterlee (2014) describes that these nations understand that not everyone can have an opinion and there are clear channels of communication. It was interesting how you contracted South Korea with the fact that they are a Communitarian community that understand that every

When I was five years old my parents decided to move to the United States from South Korea. My parents wanted my sister Sunny and me to learn English because they knew how important it is today to know the global universal language. When I first arrived in America, I had no problem in communicating with others because I was able to communicate through my parents in Korean instead of speaking for myself to English speakers. But that soon changed when I first entered the discourse community of my kindergarten class. I needed to adapt to the community by learning English in order for me to communicate with my peers and teachers. Syntax learning this new language was difficult for me because the teachers could only teach me and communicate

South Koreans cultural dimensions differ largely from the US. According to Hofstede’s models South Koreans cultural dimensions are uncertainty avoidance, collectivist, and long term orientation. The US dimensions include individualism, masculinity, and they have low rankings in uncertainty avoidance, long term orientation and power distance (Hofstede 2009). These differences mean that negotiation factors, communication, leadership techniques and issues such as time must be dealt with differently in these cultures. It shows that greater planning and understanding needs to take place in order to successfully penetrate different regions as they have vastly different values, needs and

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