Kim Dae-jung

result of impeachment or resigning for criminal actions. It is believed that the altering of the constitution in 1987 limiting presidential terms to a single five-year term is linked to the numerous scandals which took place. First up is president Kim Dae-Jung the first president elected during the 20th century who

Asians have been invisible in Hollywood lead roles. There have been many situations where another race has played an Asian role. When Asians do land a lead role it is very common to see pay difference between other ethnicity lead roles. Asian’s are very fimilar with service roles and not lead roles in films. Asian actors are still only a one percent of Hollywood’s leading roles. “According to a study that University of California, Los Angeles did out of the top 100 films in 2015, 49 of those films

Reunification between North and South Korea "In our hearts, I think we have already achieved reunification." Kim Bok Young, a clothing retailer in Seoul.1 As a new generation is born and raised that has forgotten the Korean War, the vast majority of Koreans want reunification of the Korean peninsula. The collective group called “Koreans” is a people that were dramatically

distrust of Kim Jong-un’s sincerity in the idea of peace that was proposed in his New Year’s Day address. In his article, Eberstadt reports that in the address, “Mr. Kim declared that now – as in, right now – was the time for the two sides to meet to ‘improve relations.’” Eberstadt’s use of the dashes and italics in the phrase “as in, right now” create a sense of skepticism toward Kim Jong-un’s wish for peace. The italics in this phrase emphasize the urgency of the situation – Kim Jong-un wants

directed by Hyun-Seok Kim, is a South Korean film that portrays the history of baseball in Korea. The film engages with the topic of domination and defiance in twentieth century Korea through delineating the true purpose of establishing the YMCA Baseball team. The purpose of the YMCA Baseball team is to promote and disseminate Korean nationalism among Koreans who are suffering from Japanese colonial occupation by uniting them together regardless of their social standing and gender. Jung-rim, a strong nationalist

which is one of the world’s fastest growing economies and to its north lies the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK), better known as North Korea, a country of continued repression and seclusion from the outside world. The succession Communist Kim-regime has an iron fist reign over the DPRK since the country’s formation in 1948, stands as the

Containment in the Korean War With the help of militaristic and economic aid from Soviet Russia, North Korea had South Korea cornered in the Pusan Perimeter by September of 1950 and a communist victory looked inevitable. However, the United States ditched their policy of isolationism and joined the war effort alongside other United Nations forces and supported South Korea. Since the North Koreans now had to send their supplies all the way down to their soldiers in Pusan, General Douglas MacArthur

Half a century ago, war erupted in Korea on June 25,1950, along the thirty-eight parallel that separated North and South Korea, The Korean War set all the rules for East/West superpower conflict in the nuclear age. And in so doing brought the world closer to an all out atomic race that is still proliferating today. The international community today is witnessing an increasing spread in weapons of mass destruction and ballistic missiles. Especially, the nuclear threat of the ambiguous North Koreans

(Seth). The main character Oh Dae-su also stands in for the “average” Korean citizen while his adversary, Lee Woo-jin, represents upper class citizens, or chaebols, in Korea. After analyzing these points, this paper argues that Oldboy does in fact serve as a socio-political allegory for problems faced in contemporary Korea. Problems that are addressed include democratization, class structure and privilege, capitalism, and the importance of power and money in Korea (Kim). Socio-Political

President, Bill Clinton, mentioned “The scariest place on Earth” during his visit in 1993. These shows that the relationship between North and South isn’t very good. Until 1990s, South Korea had hostile attitude towards North. However, in 1998, Kim Dae-jung was elected as a president of South Korea, South Korean government became very generous towards north, and aided North Korea financially. From these, the relationship between North and South was very good until 2006, when the government changed