The Importance Of Authoritarian Government In South Korea

Following the Korean War and the rebuilding of their societies, both North Korea and South Korea’s economies have depreciated and fluctuated. With their different economic systems, one using the military and the other using trade, they both have received different results.

This paper will delve into the little known aspects of North Korea. Hopefully, a better understanding of the country’s characteristics can benefit both the neighboring

Following the fall of the U.S.S.R., North Korea has almost directly become the empire of repression that George Orwell illustrated in Nineteen Eighty Four. Although North Korea is lacking in a technological sense compared to “The Party”, they have some very similar tactics such as the invasion of privacy, the creation of class systems and the use of propaganda to hold their oppressive power in place.

In chapter 4, Hazel Smith illustrate how wartime influenced on the state and party building in North Korea. As South Korea estimated that North Korea lost a half of its population, the damage by Korean War was extensive (Smith, 97). Through the war, however, North Korea seemed to give Party authority so that they could function as decision maker. In addition, Kim Il Sung’s authority was also uniquely strong. His leader authority, mass mobilization, and policy of self-reliance were important elements of the North Korean post-war state. As she says in chapter 5, children were supposed to learn about Kim Il Sung (Smith, 123). Moreover, North Korean people were not allowed to have international publication (Smith, 126). These Smith’s explanations

Since their independence from Japan in 1945, there has been great strife between the communist Koreans and the democratic Koreans. After the two sides went to war, aided by Russia and the U.S.A respectively, they split the nation along the 38th parallel. Since the 1950’s the southern, democratic, state has flourished into one of the most highly developed nations in Asia. The communist, northern, Koreans have been under the microscope of the American people. Kim Il-Sung, the people’s popular leader of the communist party, allied himself with powerful communist nations: The USSR and China, primarily. The northern state has diminished into a militarized dictatorship. This militant nation has subjected

North Korea is an extreme isolated country and is known for continuously violating human rights. Defectors, North Koreans who escaped the isolated country, “continue to report that North Korea maintains a record of consistent, severe human rights violations, stemming from the government’s total control over all activity”(North Korea: Government). The similarities between North Korean society and the society in the dystopian novel 1984 by George Orwell are very much alike. A government constructed by sole trust in a supreme leader, complete control over the media, and sectioned ministries with individual roles that restrict the people from various free will behaviors and thoughts are the factors that have facilitated the control over the

In the 20th century, Korea had to go through many troubles, or challenges, due to various factors such as lose of independence by Japanese colonialism and Korean War. These factors have caused even more subordinate issue, which some of them are still on a debate, such as “comfort women”. It is common for conventional South Korean narratives to tend to blame Japanese colonialism and North Korea for most of these troubles; however, while it is hard to deny that Japan and North Korea were the main elements that caused many serious problems, there are something being missed by the narrative. Although Japanese were using Korean people as resources to expand their colonialism, there were many Korean who decided to side with Japanese government in

What changes our lives? What determines what we achieve in our daily lives? Human geography changes the way we act, what we spend most of our days, and what we know, physical geography only changes what we wear and where we go.

Since the World War II, when Korea got its independence from Japan, and the Korean War in 1953, Korea has worked hard to earn its reputation as the “impossible country.” According to Daniel Tudor, author of Korea the Impossible Country, Korea got its nickname as the “impossible country” because only 50 years ago, the country was impoverished from the recent wars and went through couple of unstable regimes changes and yet, Korea’s economic growth since the 1960s has led the country out of poverty and has a stable democratic leadership . Korea has been able to grow its GDP and its GNP since the 1950s, but not without a negative consequence. Thanks to General Park, Korea adopted an export-led economic system ran by the Chaebols, business conglomerates, but it also shaped a hard working style culture that still reflects today’s work life in the 21st century.

North Korea appears on the international stage as a country existing beyond the world we all know. It isolates its citizens from the rest of international community and does not obey any rules determined by international law, but requires respect and recognition. Moreover, North Korea is one of the countries that remains aggressive towards its neighbors and applies various terrorist techniques, i.e. illegal contraband, political terror and mass abductions of other countries’ citizens in its foreign policy. The reasons for which the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK) behaves so unpredictably and irrationally are diversified. First of all, the DPRK as a country is managed very irrationally – regimes of Kim Il-sung and

In this paper, I will attempt to explain why authoritarianism regimes such as the one in North Korea, still continues to govern even though the government is one of the more corrupted types of government still in existence today.

Long before the hustle and bustle of the big city, ages afore the creation of one of the world’s largest standing militaries, the Republic of South Korea was one of the farthest governments from a democracy. Following the Japanese occupation of World War Two, the South Korean government went through many different forms of authority. According to Jung Hae Gu, professor of Social Sciences at the University of Sung Kong Hoe in Korea, and Kim Ho Ki, professor of Sociology at Yonsie University in Korea, the Republic of Korea has so far went through a total of 6 different regime changes since the liberation from Japanese occupation (Hae Gu, Ho Ki). The shifts in government occurred under various regimes, Rhee Syng Man, Park Chung Hee, Chun Doo Hwan, and the June Uprising of 1987 (Hae Gu, Ho Ki). But the lead up to the democratization of South Korea has a more fluid past though, one of hardship and struggle, fluctuation between authoritarian regimes and military run governments. The pressures that caused the governments to change play a very vital role though too, they are the forces that shape the government and the ruling nature. The current ruling democracy was forged by the previous governments and deserves to be examined and discussed because they are obliviously the ones in charge right now. And lastly, the current military state of South Korea is to be reviewed.

Another factor that may affect the economic security of South Korea is the infamous transnational organised crime i.e the terrorist attack. The September 11, 2001 shocked the whole world when the World Trade Center building in the United States of America was brought down. The terror caused the world to rethink of the new dimension brought about by the terrorist activities. Even

In this paper, I will discuss the measures that the Republic of Korea’s (addressed as South Korea from here on out) government took in trying accomplishing economic development despite its several economic and political upheavals. I will, specifically, review the economic growth and institutions established in South Korea beginning in the 1950s, the process of democratization in South Korea, and the effects that the Asian Financial Crisis of 1997 had on South Korea. With the background information of these factors, I will then delve into the importance of South Korea becoming an economic power and the impact it has had on the United States of

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