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    Dissimilarities between North Korea and South Korea “We risked our lives for a South Korean dream, but If a war breaks out, should I fight South Koreans or should I shoot at my relatives in the North?” asks Ri Kyong” The Republic of Korea was small a country which was located in the far eastern edge of Asia. It was separated when the Korea War started in 1950 and lasted until 1953. At that time it turned into two different countries, which are known today as North Korea and South Korea .Thereafter these two

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    division of North and South Korea stems from right after the Second World War, where brothers were pitted against each other because of the Communist North, or the Western South. South Korea was the gate to prevent the beast of Communism from spreading across the Pacific. With the fallout of the Korean War, it is still evident today that North Korea is still a country where the people are living in fear that each and every single American wants to kill them, while the South Koreans welcome us with

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    “North and South Korea, which have technically been at war for the last 65 years, are again acting like it.” (npr.org) They’ve always been fighting each other, and this is another one of their battles. It all started when there was an explosive from landmines “in the DMZ, which is the sort of de facto border that separates North and South Korea, which injured two South Korean soldiers that the South has blamed on North Korea but, of course, North Korea has not apologized for.” (npr.org) That angered

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    North Korea and South Korea remain split over their political ideology. Both nations run on completely different political ideologies. One party governs North Korea which establishes a common form of dictatorship. South Korea displays a democratic government with multiple political parties as well as government institutions serving as check and balances on other parts of the South Korean government. Through years of international involvement in the Korean Peninsula, North Korea and South Korea built

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    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

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    Rios Korea is one of the few countries that are split and are currently still at war. Many people do not know about the Korean War since it was not a popular war, it did not get as much media attention as other wars. Numerous people do not have much knowledge of the history of Korea and how South and North Korea split. Korea was not always just North and South Korea the country went through many rulers to get to where they are now. Before The Korean War and before World War 2 Korea was under

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    Korean War : South Korea

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    KOREAN WAR Korea is a state in northeast Asia. It was divided into two parts in 1945, North Korea and South Korea. Geographically, Korea is located on the Korean Peninsula, under north China and eastern Russia and separated with Japan by East sea。 Korea was under the control of Japan since 1910 until the end of World War 2. In August of 1945, the surrender of Japanese declared the surrender of the force in Korea. Soviet Union and US were the main force against Japan and they helped the independence

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    Surgery in Seoul Teenage Plastic Surgery in South Korea The city of Seoul, South Korea is known as the plastic surgery capital of the world at the moment. In the city, wearing makeup starts for most as young as 3rd grade (year 4) and knowing that makes what I am about to tell you a little bit less shocking. The average age to get double eyelid surgery in South Korea is between 17 and 19 years old. Parents even often gift it to their children as high school graduation gifts. Even though it sounds

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    There are many things that the south Korea and north Korea have grown apart in. The South Korea have become very literate in the new technological advance this leads to a very rich economy. However, the North Korea has long been dependent upon outside help to sustain themselves which leads the two countries in the opposite directions. The second reason was the war on 1950, between north and south Korea. “The North attacked and took over much of South Korea. But the United States jumped in and

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    Secondly, in Republic of Korea, the concept of civil rights has not been defined relatively very well and Korean people got individual freedoms at a later time than American people did. At the same time, the concept of civil rights has been established relatively more clearly in the United States. There are some kinds of civil right movements that almost do not happen in South Korea such as racial discrimination problem. In the case of South Korea, it has not been a long time relatively since democracy

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