South Korea

Hallyu and Cultural Commodities: South Korea’s growth of pop-cultural exports In the years following the collapse of Asia’s economy in 1998, South Korea turned to alternative exports to assist in both the restructuring of the nation’s financial strength and its reputation in international markets. As a result, pop-cultural exports such as films, television dramas, pop music and celebrities associated with these forms of media discourses have found growing popularity in China, Hong Kong, Taiwan; as

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. In North Korea, their economy depreciated because of their military methods, which did not work. Their economy struggled a lot especially after the Cold War, as they had no stable system. They militarized the economy, which caused lots of demonetization. Compared to South Korea, North Korea’s

KIA in South Korea, A Porter’s Diamond Perspective Timothy J. Rausch Mount Vernon Nazarene University MSM002MV MAN6093 Global Business October 11, 2008 Introduction KIA, which means “arise from Asia” in Korean, started out making bicycles prior to World War II (Kia Motors Corporation, 2008). The company developed the manufacturing of steel bicycle tubing into a multi-national corporation producing cars and trucks. Prior to merging with Hyundai in 1998, Kia was the second largest producer

South Korea and Japan currently do not have any trade agreements in place and many observers attribute this to the political and ideological disputes between the two countries over territories, historical events, and security concerns. However, there have been attempts to foster economic cooperation such as the South Korea-Japan Free Trade Agreement “Joint Study Group Project” in October 2003, and the South Korea-Japan Economic Partnership Agreement in April 2008 (Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Japan)

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

South Korea is a leading example of the world that has shown the world that how fast can they grow? One of the poorest countries in 1960s has become one of the most prosperous countries in the world. The development started in 1960s with the high government spending on the development of infrastructures such as national highways. The development was financed largely by the remittances send from the Korean workers working in Middle East and in the West Germany. The GDP of Korea in 1960 is equal to

(1924), North Korea and South Korea have never competed as a country. As a historical background, Korea competed under Japanese rule during the Summer Olympics from 1912-1936. After the end of World War II, South Korea was founded in August 1945 and North Korea was founded September 1948. In 1948, South Korea began competing in the Summer and Winter Olympics even though North and South Korea were still at war because technically a peace treaty was never signed. In 1964, North Korea began competing

sinking of a South Korean ship reached to a serious conflict between South Korean and North Korea. South Korean is accusing North Korean for firing the torpedo on purpose which resulted in 46 sailors deaths. According to Yonhap news, North Korean military official accused the South of intruding into North Korean waters in the Yellow Sea. North Korea sends a warning message to South Korea by firing torpedo to warn South Korea to not intrude in to their waters in Yellow Sea. North Korea doesn’t want

South Korean had lots of pain in the beginning and the middle of the 20th century, colonial period and 6.25 Korean War. Japan tried to change Korea in order to defeat them, but they failed. And when Japan changed Korea and left, Korean used Japanese rules. Their rules’ purpose wasn’t really helpful to Korea, but because Japan lost, some of them become helpful, and some of them made serious issues. By times flow, it changed, but still in Korean culture and society, but the change of the Japanese colonial

struggling to find peace but sometimes this peace is much more than just agreeing. North and South Korea have had a feud for decades more than expected. Now the demilitarized zone, watchtowers, razor wire, land mines divides North and South Korea, tank traps, and extremely heavy weaponry secure the DMZ. North Korea is faced with a tough challenge as being ranked 178th rated country in the world, where as the south is ranked 31st and is more self- sufficient. With the cold war in the hand of the country’s