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The Split of Korea

In 1950, South Korea developed its economy and was greatly influenced by the United States of America. While North Korea followed the path of communism, South Korea discovered a better path of developing their nation and becoming more unified as a family. The surrender of Japan to the allies at the end of World War II was the catalyst in the split of Korea. North Korea then attempted to conquer the Korean peninsula by force (Armstrong). South Korea focused on intensifying their nationalism such as developing their own culture and the unity of factions. Additionally, South Korea focused on improving the efficiency of its government system as it selected a new designated leader and received support and funding from their …show more content…

The Japanese set up the government with generals and admirals that were appointed by the Japanese emperor(Lee Lew). They used their own school system as a tool for assimilating Korea to Japan. The Japanese focused on teaching Korea the Japanese language and excluding the Korean language and Korean history(Lee Lew). The Japanese also promoted their commerce in Korea keeping Korea from freedom of assembly, association, the press, and speech. In 1926, there was a major anti-Japanese mass rally held in Seoul because they were not free and wanted their liberty(Lee Lew). While Japan was distracted with their own people, there were two nations that declared war on them which were the Sino-Japanese War and World War II. Korea demand an end of Japanese discrimination(Lee Lew). Japan forced Koreans worship at Japanese shrines and adopt Japanese-style names, and academic societies were banned (Lee Lew). After Japan lost control of Korea, it triggered the split of …show more content…

They targeted specific industries for development and the first were textiles and light manufacturing then to iron, steel, and chemicals(Yu, Lew). By joining the “Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development”(Yu, Lew) to advance to the next level of economic growth(Yu, Lew). South Korea obtained all parameters; political, military, and economic from the U.S and recovered from the Asian financial crisis in 1997. On the other hand, North Korea developed a government having a highly centralized political system. North Korea developed into the most isolated and controlled state showing no sign of both political and economic

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