...Bringing Western Culture to South Korea via Nursing Home, Plastic Surgery, Clothing and Makeup Jacob Schwarz Executive Summary My reason for writing this study is to determine the feasibility of building a nursing/retirement home, a plastic surgery outpatient center, and a cosmetic and clothing store in Seoul, South Korea. In my opinion, South Korea is welcoming to this venture; this can be seen in the upcoming research. In this report, I explore the geography of Seoul, South Korea. I learn of the growing, large, population and the population density of 45,000 people per square mile (“Population Statistics,” 2013). Next, I review the demographics and find out that minority groups consist of 2.2% of the population (Population Statistics, 2013). While reviewing the demographics I found that the education system is extremely strict; though it is more lenient now, it is still success driven (Chakrabarti, 2013). I also found that religion is not going to be an issue with this venture, in my opinion. There are two major religions; the major Christian religion will be implemented in the venture (Koo, n.d.). Education and demographics are important to a global business venture, though I believe the economy is most important. I present information about South Korea’s economy, and how it has transformed from an aid recipient to a donor country (Globalization, n.d.). Here is where I mention the chaebol’s success, which accounted for 55.7% of South Koreas GDP in 2010 (Globalization, n...
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...Republic of Korea with comparison to the United States HSM310 Introduction to Health Services Management Course Project Date submitted: 2/27/2015 Table of Contents Executive Summary……………………………………………3 Demographics………………………………………………….5 Mortality, Infant mortality data………………………………..7 Causes of death………………………………………………..8 Other…………………………………………………………..9 Quality of Life………………………………………………..10 Analysis of trends…………………………………………….13 Conclusion……………………………………………………14 References: ………………………………………………….16 Executive Summary This report will provide an overview of the policies and the practices that supports the quality of care in the Korean healthcare. As of 2014, Republic of Korea has a population of 49.3 million, which is a slight decrease of an estimate of 50 million in 2013. With the rapid economic development and less than thirty years, the Korean Healthcare system has gone from inadequate medical infrastructure and a fragmented health financing system to an established health care system characterized by universal coverage and substantial acute medical facilities. The Korean health system has not slowed down after it had achieved universal coverage in 1989. In 2000, the national government has continued to adjust the health care system structure and delivery mechanism in response to the social and political changes, culminating a single-payer system. The priority for improving the quality care in Korea is to...
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...PESTEE Analysis Korea Political Analysis Political factors refer to political situation of the country and the extent to which it may affect and interfere with the project. Political system of South Korea has undergone a huge transformation to become a democratic country in 1987. South Korea became a stable democracy with strong political and economic support from the US The political landscape of the country include centralization of power which the implementation of economic reforms became faster and effective so that the country was fully focused on economic development and friendly to foreign investments, especially strengthening foreign relationships with emphasis on EU. According to economic forecast, South Korea is to become the seventh largest economy in the world within next ten years. Though the fact the relationship with North Korea remain tense and uneasy, the government aims to solve this situation in better way. Since crisis in 1997, the government opened the South Korean market to foreign investors by identifying Foreign direct investment (FDI) and abolished the harmful regulations on foreigner shareholdings in domestic companies. The taxation system and particularly corporate tax in South Korea was simplified encouraged foreign investments. |Current strengths: |Current challenge |Future prospects | |Centralized power of attorney |Military violence still...
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...YuFong Fan (ID No. 0655330) & Jitin Kochhar (ID No. 0654351) ITM151: Global Trade Research Assignment #2 Research Outline 1 Oct. 14, 2012 Professor Floyd Simpkins St. Clair College COUNTRY A: JAPAN 1. Political Environment Political Stability: Political stability of the country indicates towards the positive or negative affect on the Trade of a particular product. Our product is Canadian chocolate which can have a great potential to perform business in Japanese market because of its strong Political Stability. The Political Stability is based on a given country's record of peaceful transitions of power, ability of a government to stay in office and carry out its policies vis a vis risk credible risks of government collapse. Japan’s Political Stability index is 9 on a scale of 10. This shows a high Political stability. (Watch, 2011-2012) Barrier: Import Tariff Rate: 10% (Tariff, 2011) Risks: • Strict Trade policy for chocolate trading. • Diplomatic events in surrounding countries, results in less trade. Opportunities: Japan is the world’s fifth largest agri-food importer and one of the most significant export destinations for Canadian agri-food products. More and more Japanese consumers are willing to pay a premium price for quality food with healthy ingredients, as these consumers are increasingly interested in their health. This makes Japan a potentially attractive market for Canadian exporters of high-quality chocolate...
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...including forcible abortions and sterilizations. Since the policy went into effect, China has had a significant gender imbalance, an abnormal sex ratio. China’s rapidly aging population—combined with lower fertility rates—is expected to present significant social and economic challenges. It also brings other problems, for example, the "four-two-one" problem and unequal enforcement. Argument 0: One-child policy benefits exaggerated The government states that 400 million births were prevented by the one-child policy until 2011; this claim is disputed as official propaganda by Wang Feng, director of the Brookings-Tsinghua Center for Public Policy, and Cai Yong from the Carolina Population Center at University of North Carolina Chapel Hill, who put the number of prevented births from 1979 to 2009 at around 100 or 200 million. Argument 1: Low fertility rate can’t maintain the sustainable development of society. According to the sixth census population, currently one couple only has 1.2 children on average. In cities, the number is less than 0.9. Even for people from countryside, it is 1.5. Under ideal mathematic model, the fertility rate should be 2.1. The 1.2 fertility rate means the number of population decrease 40% every generation. The low fertility rate can’t maintain the sustainable development of society. According to the experience in other developed countries, it is almost impossible that the fertility rate will increase after the transition from high to low. Argument...
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...and Inequality in Japan Compared to other countries, Japan was an equal community until the beginning of the 1990s. Almost every single person was feeling that they belonged to the middle class. Yet, income inequality has been increasing drastically since around 1990, as a result of rapid changes of Japanese society such as “population aging and declines of birthrate” as well as Japanese experience of the bubble economy from 1986 to 1989 (Japan’s Declining Birthrate). In addition, some might think that the most significant cause of the rising income inequality is the technological development. According to Keiko Takanami, a professor in San Diego State University, “there is a shift in demand from unskilled workers to skilled workers largely due to the technical changes and globalization.” This actually ended up with an increase of income inequality, because the wages would go up for workers who have well trained or high skills, while the wages would go down for unskilled workers. Recently, there is no doubt to say that Japan has been struggling with poverty and income inequality. This is also true for many other industrialized countries such as the U.S.A. and South Korea. Reasons why poverty was not a big social problem in Japan until the early 1990s is that the rate of poverty, majored by poverty survey of OECD, was not as high as other countries, and the rate of unemployment and income inequality were low (Poverty). In addition to this fact, even if there were a number of...
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...Asia Spending Too Little on Poor Introduction Asia, predominantly consisted of developing nations are experiencing rapid economic growth in the past decades. However, for the majority of the population, quality of life have not improved accordingly. In most countries, social security policies are under-budgeted which could be used help the lower-income, unemployed, elderly, or those stricken by natural disaster. As one of the most developed nation in the region, Singapore still fell behind on social protection spending. Combined with rapidly aging population, Singaporeans have the highest savings rate in the world. Fearing that the government will not be able to help them in the future (Quasem 2013). From the extract of the article above, this paper will underlie the definition and academic analysis of Singapore’s underspending on its social protection policy. Which will include a discussion on its current GDP, Economic inequality, fiscal policy, and subsidy. Even though the article discusses on the problem as a continent, with the given world count limitation, the essay will only look on Singapore alone. A concluding statement will follow with an appropriate argument of the consequence of the policy currently at hand. Discussion With $65,048 per capita GDP, Singapore is known for having the fifth highest per capita GDP in the world (Singstat.gov.sg 2005). GDP, or gross domestic product, is a measure of the total value production of goods in services within a nation...
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...throughout. AIS offers its clients tailored solutions that provide full spectrum security that proactively predicts, prevents, prepares for, and manages events, ensuring the safety and security of the nation. Global trends will be a major consideration when forming our strategic HRM policies for the next 10-15 years. The NIC’s treatment of demography identifies four trends that its authors argue will substantially influence the future of international relations – to 2030 and beyond: * Aging, which they call “a tectonic shift” for developed countries but also increasingly many developing; * Youthful Societies and States, which they note is a shrinking but still-significant number; * Migration, which is expected to be more cross-border and increasingly common; and * Urbanization, which is a continued trend that will accelerate and take center stage as its side-effects impact Africa and parts of Asia. * Changing Age Structures By 2030, nearly all of Europe, South Korea, Japan, and Taiwan will have a median age of 45 or older, compared to just Japan and Germany today. This “pensioner bulge” will create labor and health system challenges and has also been cause for concern for some national security watchers. But the NIC points out that these predictions are “speculative,” since the trend is unprecedented and advances in healthcare may play a mitigating role. On the flip...
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...Caring for the Baby Boomer Population Thomas Watrucki Thomas Edison State College Mentor Tish Dorman December 7th, 2014 The “baby boomer” generation (those born from 1946-1964) are now our retirement-age elderly that we healthcare providers are challenged with caring for. The Population Reference Bureau estimates that there are 76.4 million baby boomers (as of April 2014). About 3 million baby boomers will hit retirement age every year for the next 20 years (Barr, 2014). Healthypeople.gov estimates that 60 percent of this population will be managing more than one chronic condition by 2030. The American Hospital Association notes that the over 65 population will nearly triple as a result of the aging Boomers. What this means for us healthcare providers is that our healthcare system will be challenged with caring for a significantly increased amount of elderly with chronic ailments that we are seeing now. This will increase healthcare costs as chronic disease management increases and transitions are made from private insurance carriers to Medicare. I interviewed a baccalaureate nurse who works on the geriatric medical surgical unit in my hospital and asked her to identify the special needs of the Baby Boomer Generation. She has been a nurse for 25 years and has worked on that unit for the past 12 years. Looking back on her experience and the current trends of problems she encounters with this generation, specifically with the lower income minority population that we work...
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...a dramatic change to political, social, and economic institutions. The new leaders studied the economy and social powers of the Western countries and adopted those for their own purpose of growth. In 1889, a constitution was established to create a parliamentary government to administer power. The merchant classes were equal. The Samurai lost their privileges, while the merchants began to be respected. New Western technologies caused an explosion of industrial productivity and diversification. A national military established. Public education was introduced to teach the skills needed and to incorporate values of citizenship. 1890-1945: Imperial Japan; constitutional policy for industrialization, urbanization, and an increase in mobile society; International status and world power, including imperialism in Asia and war with the United States. This period was a time of social and economic change. Various branches of the government began competing for power. Japanese industry expanded in textiles, steel and shipbuilding. Cities grew, as Japanese moved from farming into factory and office jobs. Japan was hit hard by the Great Depression of 1929. Farmers who had grown silk that was exported to the...
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...1 Running Head: THE FUTURE OF HOME HEALTH The Future of Home Health Mary C. Reed The University of Texas at Arlington College of Nursing In partial fulfillment of the requirements of N5311 Nursing Management in Health Care Stephanee Thurman, MSN, RN August 1, 2012 2 THE FUTURE OF HOME HEALTH The Future of Home Health Home health has been the topic of several news discussions lately. Doctors and nurses are afraid that since Medicare fraud has taken place in so many home health agencies, that Medicare is going to start shutting down a lot of home health agencies so that they have less fraud to watch out for. The studies I have chosen discuss positive outcomes that are related to providing care in the patient’s home. I have worked in home health for four years. In those four years, home health services have been through many changes. After obtaining my Masters of Science in Nursing I plan on continuing to work in home health. I would like to move up to a management position after graduation. Home health is interesting to me and I enjoy working with patients in their home environment. Patients seem to be more motivated in their home setting instead of being in a rehabilitation center or hospital. “In home nursing care, patient care activities focus on enabling patients to assume responsibility for self-monitoring and self-management through teaching, supporting, goal setting, and modeling decision-making” (Or, Valdez, Casper...
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...Running Head: Developing cross cultural capability Developing cross cultural capability [Name of the student] [Name of the institute] Developing cross cultural capability Introduction In the field of research, the challenge of international cooperation increasingly intense led in 1993 to further reflection on the concepts of intercultural management. With the work of Hofstede (1980) and Ouchi (1981), comparative research on management has been very stimulating. Then this research have specialized on topics such as intercultural management or Eurocentric. The axis emerges clearly in the Europe of the Common Market; it is learning to cope with unique challenges issued to management. Once the recognized need, the way chosen to advance in this area, is the course of this study: we sought to describe the practices, including their advantages and disadvantages, using existing typologies willingly. In this case the eye is focused on large tourism companies, but is not always clearly stated. In these large tourism companies, one can discern various articulations of intercultural management. Schreyögg, for example, distinguishes between corporate cultures and global polycentric (1991). Polycentric, are those which, in different countries, come in different forms, thus focusing on "indigenous constructs", those that are global, over national borders, are a unique brand image with a single form articulation, thus settling on "indigenous constructs"...
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...Crime statistics and victimization reports show that the majority of crime is committed by the younger generation (Rothman, Dunlop, Burton D & Entzel, 2004), with the peak ages for crime sentencing being 21-27 (Blowers & Doerner, 2015). Older people classified from ages 50 onwards are reported to have committed the least amount of crimes compared to all other age categories, accounting for less than 5% of crimes committed (Criminal justice statistics, 2015). While statistic wise older people fill a very small proportion of committed crimes, there is in fact significant importance in studying older offenders. In this day and age it is mandatory in the majority of countries that older prisoners are provided the same medical care as free world citizens. This ranges from everyday healthcare needs to the treatment of complex medical conditions and illnesses (Smyer & Burbank, 2009). The costs involved to care for an older offender can be up to three times more than that of a younger, which is a worrying factor when the population is constantly on the increase (Smyer & Burbank, 2009). As accommodating for older offenders is not cheap, if there were a way through research and theoretical developments to gain an understanding into the reasoning behind why older people do in fact commit crime, it could potentially reduce further increases to the criminal population. This report will predominantly discuss this. It will discuss that, the importance in gaining research insights into older...
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...two equally qualified individuals on account of their age, gender and so on. In order to protect the rights of employees, governments establish laws and regulations to restrain employers’ behaviors. At the same time, moral standards can be a looser and more elastic limitation and judgments on people’s actions. To simplify, laws are clear rules written on paper, but moral standards are not clear and depend on different people. So, what is the boundary of employment? My answer is that law is the basic standard, and moral is the justice, and whether there are discriminations or not should be measured both sides—the employees’ and employers’. 2. Kinds of Discriminations Age discrimination One of the global issues is the rapidly aging population. There will be 77.3 million people with a life expectancy of 83 years, which is an estimate by the U.S. Disease Control Center 2010, for the first wave of baby-boomer generation from 1946 to 1964. At the same time, people are working longer than before, because people are living a healthier and better life. 40 is no longer a large number for age. However, companies are more willing to hire young people for more energetic employees and the probability of working longer. So, age discrimination becomes a hot topic in these days. Actually, in China, you can see lots of employment advertisements announcing their requirement, which is about age, approximately 18 to 40, or above 22. Not only in...
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...we make visible these pictures so that we can come to understand, if you will, that the door might open inwards. (Heyes, 2007: 20) The physical body we live in-‘we’ being our innate selves, our souls- denies society the view beneath the skin. The only indication of our identity, as Heyes implies, is through the visual self. This is supported by Thesander’s (1997) assertion that “the most characteristic aspect of fashion is its ability to transform objects into symbols. Clothes are transformed into fashion garments and the body becomes the fashion body.” (67) In this essay, I will discuss, using various readings, about how women’s bodies are moulded by society and how it shifts with the current ideals of beauty. I will also elaborate on how the body is used as a shell to depict what the inside holds, in other words, the identity of the being residing in it. I will use Michel Foucault’s theories to explain how the body is affected by the subjection of discipline and examination. Then, I will use the concept of cosmetic surgery to show how the body is an ongoing project to be worked on, and how its participants employ it as a tool to improve their image, thus their perception of self-identity. The first part of this essay discusses how bodies existing within societies are obliged to conform to social expectations. While being a surface upon which the text of one’s identity is read, it is also obliged to live up to the archetype of beauty, therefore, it is a...
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