Essays on Korean

               The following is a post on South Korean conglomeration, the business conglomerates is the main focus of these posts; they are credited with spearheading south Korea’s capital Industrialization in the past few decades. They encourage gender inequalities in the offices.               The post looks at the social and cultural construction of gender in the…

Introduction Both the Korean Hanja and the Japanese Kanji were derived from the Chinese Hanzi, hence they are still alike in many areas to its predecessor (Kim, 1997). However, some alterations and differences were made to suit both countries’ grammar and phonetics. Hanja is not pronounced the way the Chinese pronounce them.  Presently, Hanja is…

The Korean War was fought between North and South Korea. It began in June of 1950, at the end of World War 2. The United States and the Soviet Union were two of the biggest super powers during this time, each one with a very different perspective of what a society would look like. The…

From a bottom-up perspective, Armstrong states his claim by providing statistical observations and quoting from letters, internal reports, and interviews, showing how the North Korean reacted and behaved in the regime-building process under the occupation of Soviet Union. Initially, unlike many scholars, Armstrong claims that Kim II-sung, the first leader of North Korea, is the…

The Korean War which broke out in 1950 and ended in 1953 resulted in many impacts in many areas. The impacts that I will be discussing upon will be- 1. Loss of many lives, 2. Formation of Allies, 3. Implementation of NSC68, 4. Rise of China and 5. Rise of Japan. The scope of this…

In Depth: Comparing Feudalisms 1. Do you think the characteristics of feudalism help explain the later success of Western & Japanese societies? Yes, the militaristic characteristics of the Western and Japanese societies help explain how much land they conquered and how powerful they were. 2. Have the political accomplishments of both Japan & Western Europe…