...KOREAN LITERATURE Korean literature is the body of literature produced by Koreans, mostly in the Korean language and sometimes in Classical Chinese. For much of Korea's 1,500 years of literary history, it was written in Hanja. It is commonly divided into classical and modern periods, although this distinction is sometimes unclear. Korea is home to the world's first metal and copper type, world's earliest known printed document and the world's first featural script. ------------------------------------------------- General overview In general, the written arts have a tradition in epigraphic inscriptions on stones, in early tombs, and on rarely found bamboo pieces that formed early books. Repeated invasions and sacking of the east and west capitals, as well as the difficulty in preserving written texts on bamboo, make works before 1000 rare. Those works were entirely written in Chinese characters, the language of scholars, but of course incorporated Korean words and mindset. Medieval scholars in Korea learned and employed written Chinese as western schoolmen learned Latin: as a lingua franca for the region. It helped cultural exchanges extensively. Notable examples of historical records are very well documented from early times, and as well Korean books with movable type, often imperial encyclopedias or historical records, were circulated as early as the 7th century during the Three Kingdoms era from printing wood-blocks; and in the Goryeo era the world's first metal type...
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...The Korean War The Korean war, to many americans known as “The forgotten war” because the United States made no significant territorial or political gains during the war. Despite the fact that tens of thousands of Americans died, the war both began and ended with the Korean Peninsula divided at the 38th parallel. Nevertheless, the Korean War helped define the Cold War, established a precedent for keeping peripheral wars limited, and boosted defense spending that contributed to the postwar economic boom in the United States. Despite the loss of life, the Korean War faded from national memory, perhaps because the three-year conflict ended without any territorial or political gains. Although General Douglas MacArthur captured nearly the entire Korean Peninsula after his brilliant Inchon landing, his tactical miscalculation at the Yalu River brought China into the war and forced United Nations troops back down to the 38th parallel, where they had started. Both sides became entrenched there, each preventing the other from making any headway. As a result, neither side could claim victory when cease-fire negotiations began in 1953. The 38th parallel remained one of the “hottest” Cold War borders in the world, almost as if the war had never really ended. The Korean War was an important conflict, however, because it set the tone for the entire Cold War. In expanding the draft and sending more than 3 million U.S. troops to Korea, Truman demonstrated to the USSR his...
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...1 Korean Conflict (1950-1953) Stephanie Nash U.S. History Individual Project 2 Abstract The Korean War made many differences in the world. Korea wanted to be unified instead of being separated into North and South Korea. After doing research on the Korean War I believe that the war was more beneficial for the United States of America. The United States aided with South Korea by providing them soldiers to repel the invasion with North Korea. The Korean War did not have a winner, because there was a signing of the armistice in July of 1953. 3 There were many different consequences of the Korean War on the United States society. The defense budget was raised to fifty-billion dollars. The army and air groups doubled there size. United States deployed soldiers outside American territory in Europe, the Middle East, and elsewhere in Asia. After the Korean War was over the United States became aware of the “falling domino” effect of communism. The United States rearmed and they became a world power. The Korean War affected American sensibility in many ways. The war confirmed that the United States would do any and everything possible to prevent the expansion of communism. The war also created more contention between the United States of America and the Soviet Union. The United States gained knowledge and awareness from the Korean War. Did the Korean War change America’s role in the world? Yes, the war did change...
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...Was the Korea War a civil war or an international conflict? Name University Course Tutor Date Was the Korea War a civil war or an international conflict? Background of the Korea War The Korean War which took place between 1950 and 1953 involved the most powerful countries in the world at the time who engaged in one of most important wars on the Korean Peninsula. In the Korean War almost led to eruption of a third world war. This is the only war that brought together the military forces of the United States, the Soviet Union, the People’s Republic of China and the Korean forces in a combat (Malkasian, 2009). The Korean War involved two major issues; that is, political control of Korea and power struggle between the East Asia versus the rest of the world. The war changed affected and consequently changed how the East and the west interacted with one another (Malkasian, 2009). After Korea was liberated from Japanese colonial rule following the end of the Second World War, it got divided and occupied by the Soviet Union and the United States of America. The two countries were the major superpowers at the time. They occupied the north and the south respectively (Jang, 2010). The two great nations had conspicuously differing ideologies and this factor led to formation of two different governments in Korea in the year 1948. The south formed the government of the Republic of Korea (ROK), with the support of the United States under the leadership of Syngman Rhee. The northern...
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...The Korean War The 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 would be best if we entered the war. At the time Dulles was a special advisor to the Secretary of State Acheson. Dulles was in Tokyo when the Koreans staged war. Dulles sent a message to Acheson that if the South Koreans start losing and cannot hold back the North Koreans, they should send in United States forces. He said to do so, "even though this risks Russian counter moves. To sit by while Korea is overrun by unprovoked armed attack would start a disaster chain even leading most probably to World War III." When Dulles got back to Washington he specified that he meant sending in United States Air and Naval forces only, not troops. Almost immediately after getting word of the invasion, Acheson decided that the United States should put the matter before the United Nations. He then called President Truman and got his approval. Almost fourteen hours after Washington got word of the war there was a conference set up among certain members of the United Nations. The final decision...
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...In this research paper I will take you through the Korean War. This war was a war that showed how two sides of an issue or country could fight so fiercely and for so long and never see a clear or determined winner between the two of them. Before you move onto the next portion of this paper, let me warn you that some of the scenes that will be described, may be disturbing to you or any other readers. [i]The one and only cause of this gruesome and everlasting war was the invasion of South Korea by the United Nations. The North had been pushed out of the South with the help of the United Nations. This help that was given by The United Nations resulted in an occurrence or happening. This was the attempts by The United Nations to invade the North so that they would cease all forces going into the South and also so that the situation seemed to be somewhat under control. This invasion failed, simply due to the fact of the North’s great command under [ii]Kim Sung lll and his very well trained troops. Now onto the actual fighting that took place. Under the impression that no attack was to be launched because no word had come from Washington, none were aware that one of the biggest blind side attacks ever was about to occur and that they were going to be on the bad end of the deal. It was a foggy and dark morning on [iii]June 25th, 1950 and the conditions were merely perfect for the type of attack that was about to take place.. President Truman...
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...Korean Grammar Guide Welcome Korean Alphabets Sentence Order Particles - 는, 가 Particles - 도, 를, 에 Pronouns- This, It, That Nouns - Present, Past Nouns - Nominalizing Verbs Nouns - Numbers and Counting Adjectives - Present, Past Adjectives - Polite [Present, Past] Adjectives - Descriptive Adjectives - Connective Verbs - Present, Past Verbs - Polite [Present, Past] Verbs - Future [Will] Verbs - Continuous Verbs - Connective Verbs - Can Verbs - Have Verbs - Want Verbs - Descriptive I Verbs - Descriptive II Verbs - Speech Adverbs - 부사 Particles - 께/에게/한테 Particles - 으로/로 Particles - 에서, 까지 Particles - 만 [only] Possessive - 의 Conjunctions - And Conjunctions - But Conjunctions - But [는데/은데] Conjunctions - Because, So Conjunctions - Because [때문에] Conjunctions - If Conjunctions - When Conjunctions - While 5W1H Advanced Grammar Comparatives & Superlatives Imperatives - 해, 하지마 Have to - 해야 한다 Allowed to - 해도 된다 I like doing - 하는게 좋다, 하는걸 좋아한다 I think - ~고 생각해 (Opinion) I think - 하는 거 같애 (General) Special Expressions Are you doing? - ~는 거야? [Informal] Are you doing? - ~시는 거예요? [Polite] Are we doing? - 하는 거야 / 거예요? To do something - ~기 위해 Try doing - 해 보다 Of course, I've done it before - 해봤죠 Give the favour of doing - 해 주다 Would you like to go? - 갈래요? Shall we do something? - 우리 뭐 할까? It's cold, isn't it? - 춥지요? Let's do it - 하자 Easy to do / Difficult to do - ~기 쉽다 / ~기 어렵다 I know how - 어떻게 하는지 알아 I'm in the habit of - ~되면 ~게 돼요 Miscellaneous Addressing people Welcome: The...
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...The Korean War Though America's Military had suffered from several years' of punishing fiscal constraints, the end of World War II just five years before the Korean War had left a vast potential for recovery. U.S. materiel reserves held large quantities of relatively modern ships, aircraft, military equipment and production capacity that could be reactivated in a fraction of the time necessary to build them anew. More importantly, the organized Reserve forces included tens of thousands of trained people, whose World War II experiences remained reasonably fresh and relevant. The Korean War lasted from 1950-1953. What happened in Korea pushed the boundaries of the Cold War towards 'Warm War'. Though America and Russia did not officially clash, client states did in that Communist China fought and was armed and encouraged by Russia. The peninsula was divided after World War Two into a Russian-backed north and the American-backed south .Each claimed the right to the other half in an effort to unify both. The division was the result of the occupation of Korea by the communists after the end of the war with the country eventually being divided at the 38th parallel. In June 1950, the North Koreans launched a surprise attack against the south and the capital Seoul fell in just three days. The United Nations Security Council) asked for UN states to send troops to the region under a UN flag. The huge bulk of the troops sent were American and command of them was given to Gen. Douglas...
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...KOREAN WAR Before the Koran war Japan ruled until 1945. Then the country was divided into 2 different parts the top half was ruled by Soviet troops and the bottom half was ruled by Americans. The soviet side put a communist leader in which was trained by the USSR. The American side was very anti communist and was democratic and complete opposite to the top half. There was already a rivalry between the 2 halves of Korea, Kim Il Sung controlled the communists half and Syngman Rhee controlled the democratic state and they already hated each other and the joining of Korea was very doubtful because of this. In 1950 the tension got to high and North Korean troops attacked the Southern side. A few months later North Korea nearly controlled all of Korea accept for a small section in the southeast. This triggered the Americans to get involved in the action as they felt this was a threat from the communist rule. Truman the American president sent advisers, aid and ships to Korea as well as this he put lots of pressure on the UN Security Council to take action against this violent attack on the democratic side of Korea. This matter got taken to the council and normally nothing would happen due to the USSR would just veto the action and nothing could happen by the UN but at the time the USSR were ignoring the UN and was not at the meeting. China could not veto in the meeting because they were stopped entering the UN because American did not like them being communist. In the meeting...
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...THE KOREAN MANAGEMENT SYSTEM Cultural, Political, Economic Foundations Chan Sup Chang and Nahn Joo Chang Q Quorum Books Westport, Connecticut London Preface We approached the Korean management system from a cultural context. Although they share a common Oriental culture with other neighboring nations, Koreans maintain a unique culture. This culture, combined with the impact of the geopolitical environment of the Korean peninsula, results in a unique behavioral pattern. Thus, managers and workers in the Korean management system behave differently from their counterparts in other countries. The Koreans have accomplished remarkable economic success since the 1960s, and their management system has played a major role in contributing to this phenomenal economic achievement. Entrepreneurs, top executives, managers, and workers in the management system are all integral parts of the system, and they have performed their assigned jobs effectively. Therefore, to comprehend the unique nature of this Korean management system, we performed an in-depth analysis on its performance. The external environment of the Korean management system is a crucial factor in understanding it. In this kind of environment, the role of government is prominent because without active support from the government, no enterprise can survive and prosper. The government, in return, demands some favors from these enterprises, making this a quid pro quo, a unique feature of the Korean management system. We will...
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...Korean War Korean War began in June 1950, when North Korean army invaded South Korea in an attempt to reunite the county. As the Cold war began to develop, the American and Russian zones of occupation began to practice as two separate states. The USSR wanted Kim Ill Sung, the North Korean leader, to unify Korea and withdrew troops in 1948. The US wanted unification under the South Korean Leader Syngman Rhee and withdrew in 1949. The US and USSR withdrawal caused both local regimes to be more aggressive. The US and USSR weren’t too concerned about the immediate fate of Korea. Stalin was confident because Kim Ill Sung was in charge of the North, which bordered Russia. In January 1950, Acheson made his “Defensive Perimeter” speech which included all the countries the US would defend against communist aggression. South Korea wasn’t included. Kim told Stalin and Mao about his intention to invade. Mao refused to make any guarantees of military support to Korea because he was focused on the threat posed by Jiang Jieshi’s. Stalin refused at first, but then after Acheson’s speech, the Soviet leader approved. Stalin made it clear to Kim that, if the US became involved, the USSR wouldn’t intervene directly to help him. Stalin thought that since the US hadn’t intervened to prevent Mao’s victory in China, it was unlikely to aid South Korea. Questions 1) Korea lost its independence in 1910 when it was taken over by Japan and remained as a Japanese colony until August 1945...
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...Korean War •The departure of American and Soviet troops from Korea in 1949. In response to the proclamation of the Republic of Korea in the south, a Democratic People’s Republic was established in the south. In 1948 Soviet troops left North Korea and in 1949 American troops left the South. •North Korea attacks: June 24, 1950. On Sunday, June 24, 1950, North Korean troops invaded South Korea with little warning. At the time, the U.S. Army had fewer than 600,000 soldiers and half of those were based in the states. •Truman’s response to the Korean invasion: June 25-30, 1950. On June 27, 1950, President Harry S. Truman announces that he is ordering U.S. air and naval forces to South Korea to aid the democratic nation in repulsing an invasion by communist North Korea. The United States was undertaking the major military operation, he explained, to enforce a United Nations resolution calling for an end to hostilities, and to stem the spread of communism in Asia. •China joining the Korean War. Because General MacArthur, against the orders of President Truman, pushed the North Korean forces to the Yalu River, which separates China and North Korea. Communist China felt threatened by the act and sent the PLA across the Yalu and routed the UN forces, forcing them to retreat far south. •Truman’s refusal to allow direct conflict with China. Bombing China would likely have resulted in a full-scale war and Russia might have intervened on China's side. In short, it might have started a third...
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...Trending Worldwide: Korean Wave Rosanna Danica B. Maguad University of the Philippines Visayas TRENDING WORLDWIDE: KOREAN WAVE Unlike in the past, Philippine Media is now a combination of various Asian entertainments. It imports TV series and movies from neighboring Asian countries. Imported movies are then dubbed in Filipino and streamed in our country. ABS-CBN, one of the top TV stations in the country, started to explore foreign TV series last 2003. This was “Meteor Garden,” a Taiwanese drama series. Because of the boom of the said series, GMA 7, a rival of ABS-CBN, made the same move. They also brought in various teleseryes from other Asian countries. They were the first one to air Korean dramas. Although, both stations tried Japanese, Thailand, and Taiwanese series, Korean dramas are most preferred by audiences. Because of the consecutive success of Korean dramas, until now both stations air the latter. Because of this phenomenon, media analysts concluded that Philippines is captivated with the so-called “Korean Wave.” Korean Wave is also known as Hallyu. It refers to the spread of the South Korean culture. This was coined by a Beijing journalist during the mid-1999 when he was surprised by growth of popularity of the South Korean Entertainment (“Korean Wave,” n.d.). It is said to be a phenomenon strategized by the culture industry of the South Korean state. As observed by the culture industry of the country, exported Korean entertainment affects not only the...
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... Critical Risk Factors | 17-18 | | | 1.0 Product, Service & Industry Background Korean Restaurant Running a first Korean restaurant in Kampar will be the business that we choose. Joh-Eun will be our Korean restaurant shop name. Joh-Eun means good to all such as good to customers and stakeholders. The Joh-Eun Korean restaurant is to sell Korean food in Kampar, and the ventured of the restaurant might not suit the taste for Malaysian. This will be the risky of running this business. The restaurant will be selling the food with Korea cultural. The Joh-Eun will be selling the cuisine in set such as one meal, one dish, and one beverage. The meal included the grain, legumes, condiments and seasoning, meat beef, chicken, seafood, vegetables and medical foods. Grain is one of the most important staples in Korean diet. Legumes are significant crops in Korean history and cuisine according to earliest preserved legumes, it made from tofu. Condiments and seasoning are including red pepper, black pepper, chinese pepper, cordifolia, mustard, chinensis, garlic, onion, ginger, leek, and scallion. Medicinal foods are a wide variety of specialty foods prepared and eaten for medicinal purposes, especially during the hottest 30-day period in the lunar calendar, called sambok. The dishes are the soups and stews, kimchi, noodles, banchan, and anju. Soups are a common part of any Korean meal, it not same with other cultures by serving at the beginning or the end of the meal, it accompany...
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...KOREA by Tahnee Robinson Introduction In Korea, growing, harvesting, preparing, and eating food is a social event for the Korean people. The people are a large population of people that live in close proximity to each other. This fact has resulted in Koreans that live in clustered village communities outside their major cities. This type of communal lifestyle, historically, made eating one of the most important times of day in a farm home or the royal court. Although the variety and quality food differed between farmer and the royal court, the importance of Korean cuisine and meal time remained the same. Korea descended from Mongolians, and was governed by imperial dynasties since before the Common Era. Korean cooking has a distinct national identity that, in its contemporary, form combines dishes and techniques from both peasant diets and royal palace foods. Korean food is very spicy. Korean cooks in the 16th century were delighted by the chili, introduced by the Portuguese. The information used to create this paper are sources located by internet searches and one book. Please see the attached reference page. Royal Cuisine Korean royal cuisine, at one time was only enjoyed by the royal court. This type of cuisine takes from a few hours to several days to prepare. The chef harmonizes warm and cold, hot and mild, rough and soft, solid and liquid, and balances colors. The meal is served on hand-forged bronzeware. The specific arrangement of dishes alternates...
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