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38 Th Parallel Republic Of Korea
1,712 wordsBegun as a war between South Korea (Republic of Korea) and North Korea (Democratic People's Republic of Korea), after the North's invasion of the South, the conflict swiftly developed into a limited international war involving the U. S. and 19 other nations. From a general viewpoint, the Korean War was one of the by-products of the cold war, the global political and diplomatic struggle between the Communist and non-Communist systems following World War II. The motives behind North Korea's decisi...
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Seok Choon Lew Paul S Crane One
1,027 wordsThere are many things to consider when characterizing a country. Its geographic region, population, political status and foreign relations are all distinguishing marks that make up a country. Those features however, are not what make a country unique. The people of a country give that place its identity and its spirit, they are the physical representation of the place. The people exhibit their country everyday without even meaning to through their customs, values, traditions, and attitudes. Reli...
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Wedding Ceremony Publishing House
1,042 words... e most important to their ancestors. Historically, family members often shared the same living quarters, but as a result of modernization that has also been transforming. In the book, The Handbook of Korea (1987), we discover that, there has been an increase in the number of nuclear families because newlyweds are now more likely to branch out on their own to their own apartments or flats. Along with Koreas recent industrialization, women have ascended in status. Traditionally, women were res...
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Kim Il Sung Second And Third
1,288 wordsDiscuss critically the double identities of the 2 nd and 3 rd generations of the North Many of the North Koreans in Japan associate themselves with Chongryun. Chongryun is a North Korean organization-the General Association of Korean Residents in Japan. Chongryun was founded in 1955 and identifies its members and potential members as overseas nationals of North Korea, with a strict non-involvement policy with Japans internal affairs. For Chongryun Koreans, their Korean identity means a primarily...
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Elaine H Kim Home Is Where The Han Koreans
899 wordsCon fact (konflikt) n. 1. Prolonged fighting 2. Psychology: A struggle, often unconscious between mutually exclusive impulses or desires. v. -- Microsoft Encarta Encyclopedia Dictionary 99 There is an uncanny similarity between the struggles that minorities have had to deal with since setting foot on the land of the free. They share the common dynamics that accompany the experience of reaching for the American dream: internalizing the face of freedom taught in Western education, the struggle to ...
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China And Japan Korean Peninsula
1,291 wordsKorea is known as the Land of the Morning Calm. This expression comes from the beginning of the modern history of Korea. Korea means high and clear. This word symbolizes the clear blue sky of Korea. The beautiful nature of Korea is expressed through this ancient name. The beginning of Korean history started from 2333 B. C. The Korean peninsular adjoins China and Japan. Korea was conquered by Japan and divided into South and North Korea at the end of World War II. The Korean War caused devastatin...
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North Koreans South Koreans
445 wordsThe first battle of the Korean War was on Sunday June 25, 1950. The North Korean forces decided it was time to attack the South Koreans and take over their democratic government. When the South Korean armies found out that North Korea was attacking them; soldiers would try to resist the invasion by fastening bombs to their bodies and throwing themselves into enemy tanks, but the large number of North Korean tanks and soldiers just overwhelmed the South Koreans. In Seoul an American ambassador in...
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Kim Dae Jung Kim Il Sung
1,019 wordsDeath, destruction, loved ones lost, and separation are all phrases commonly heard in North and South Korea for over the last fifty years. The division of this Asian peninsula into the independent nations of North Korea and South Korea brought terror and torment to the people living there. But now in a new era, words like hope, peace, and reunification can be heard from these same people. Reunification seems to be the most logical course of action to heal the rift at the 38 th parallel. The heal...
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World War Ii U S Army
1,388 wordsCauses of the Korean War Andrew Glass Global Studies Period Seven The Korean War, 1950 - 1953 After the USSR installed a Communist government in North Korea in September 1948, that government promoted and supported an insurgency in South Korea in an attempt to bring down the recognized government and gain jurisdiction over the entire Korean peninsula. Not quite two years later, after the insurgency showed signs of failing, the northern government undertook a direct attack, sending the North Kore...
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Filial Piety Vast Majority
1,264 wordsThe book Changes and Conflicts by Phone Gap Min gives us an analysis on how and why Korean migration to the United States has altered their traditional family system. Allyn and Bacon published the book in 1998. The book focuses on changes in gender roles and marital relations. Also Korean child socialization, adjustments of the elderly, and the nature of transnational families and kin ties are topics Min discusses in the book. Min uses results of several surveys as well as his own ethnographic r...
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North Koreans South Korea
1,341 wordsOn July 1, part of the U. S. Army 24 th Infantry Division flew from Japan to Pusan, a city located at the southern tip of Korea. They were the first American troops to reach Korea and other troops from other UN nations began arriving in Korea shortly after the Americans. On July 8, with the approval of the UN Security Council, Truman named General MacArthur commander in chief of the United Nations Command. The command had authority over all the Allies- South Koreans, Americans and the troops fro...
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Long Time Ago Dog Meat Korea
584 wordsDoes Korean plan to serve Boshintang soup for the visitors to Seoul during the World Cup tournament? This is one question from an American to Korean English newspaper last month, condemning Koreans for eating dog as cruel abuse to animal. Some of the Western media treat Koreans as savages for eating dog meat and put it on the air as a most intriguing piece of news. As well, many international people who know something of Korea or visit to Korea always ask about this dog-eating. And then, how sho...
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Chinese Exclusion Act Sugar Plantations
250 wordsThe first immigration of Koreans to the North Americas happened in the early 1900? ? s near the year 1902. They came to America to work on the sugar plantations in Hawaii. Later, the government restricted the limit of immigrants from Korea. During the Korean War many Korean orphans and war brides immigrated to America, approximately around 20, 000 people. Later when the Immigration and Nationality Act was created and signed by President Lyndon Johnson in 1965 many Koreans entered the United Stat...
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2,973 wordsThough sparked by the Rodney King verdict, there were many other causes of the riots that erupted on the streets of Los Angeles on April 29, 1992. The Los Angeles riots in 1992 were devastating. The obvious issue portrayed through the media was black versus white. If you did not live in Los Angeles or California chances are you did not hear full coverage of the story, you heard a simple cut and dry portrayal of the events in South Central. If you heard one thing about the riots, it was that ther...
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38 Th Parallel Korean Peninsula
1,776 wordsMany events make up the entirety of a conflict between opposing forces. More specifically, there can be many different parts to a war. There is not necessarily only one struggle in a war. In the Korean Conflict, the war can be separated into three distinct and equally important stages, each with their own purpose: the North s offensive, the South s offensive, and the stalemate. Examining these three stages will clearly define the objectives of the war. The offensive attack that the North Koreans...
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Province Has Its Own Special Chungchongnam Do Province Drinking
1,482 wordsKorean traditional liquor is usually made of various kinds of flowers, herbs, grains and fruits. The recipe differs from one region and family to another. Handed down from one generation to the next, Korean liquor has many uses, from meals to memorial services and is also used in receiving important quests. Some traditional liquors have outstanding cultural significance and have been officially designed as cultural properties by the Korean government. Koreas traditional liquor and cakes exhibit ...
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Central Los Angeles South Central Los
1,312 wordsBelieve it or not, Los Angeles was just waiting for an event like the Rodney King verdict to explode. All that was needed was that one spark to ignite the anger in the citizens of South Central and cause the area to explode. One of the recent and most significant riots took place on the streets of Los Angeles on April 29, 1992. The case was controversial because Rodney King was a black male beaten with excessive force by four white Los Angeles police officers. The not guilty verdict of the four ...
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Second Class Citizens Institutional Racism
1,080 wordsLooking into Institutional Racism In the World today, there are many cases of racism and prejudice. There are stories all over the news about cases where misunderstanding and violence. Its hard to think of what kind of people are behind these incidents, it may be unnerving to find out that governments are responsible for some of the racism now and in the past. The people who are suppose to look after the best interests of the whole population are passing laws that discriminated against part of t...
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World War Ii 38 Th Parallel
972 wordsThe Korean War took place between the years of 1950 and 1953. The cause of the war was that Korea was under Japanese rule ever since the end of the Chinese-Japanese war in 1895. After World War II, in 1945, Korea was freed from Japan. The United States troops occupied the southern part of the country and Russian forces took the north. The very first and main reason we entered the war in Korea was because John Foster Dulles, the future Secretary of State under Dwight Eisenhower, said that it woul...
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Korean Culture South Korea
682 wordsSouth Korea is a one-race country, and they speak one language. That language is Korean. In South Korea they have little to none diversity. In Korea people s habits vary depending on where they live. If a person lives in the country they tend to be farmers of some kind, mainly rice farmers. Rice was grown on more then one half of the agriculture land. If a person lived in the city they tend to be a businessman of some type. Koreans often use extreme modesty when speaking about themselves. They r...
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