CI Research: 1. http://geert-hofstede.com/south-korea.html 2. http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10551-009-0095-z#page-1 What about South Korea? If we explore South Korean culture through the lens of the 5-D Model‚ we can get a good overview of the deep drivers of South Korean culture relative to other world cultures. Power distance This dimension deals with the fact that all individuals in societies are not equal – it expresses the attitude of the culture towards these inequalities
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Yunhwa Sung 1155061299 2015-03-01 GLBS 3402 Korea and the World: Politics‚ Economy and Culture 2. What is ‘economic democratization’ in South Korean society? Do you think is it a possible way to resolve the current problems on economic structure‚ business culture and employment crisis in South Korea? Please elaborate your answer with examples. Economic democratization stands for the argument that unequal distribution of wealth which is confined to big corporations should be relieved by legislative
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CULTURAL ANALYSIS OF SOUTH KOREA Koryo (918–1392) and Choson (1392–1910) were the last two Korean dynasties. Korean immigrants and their descendants in Russia‚ China‚ and Japan use the names of those dynasties as a reference for their ethnicity. Despite the continued use of Choson as a self-name in North Korea‚ the Japanese convention of referring to the Korean nation by that name (pronounced Chosen in Japanese) can be offensive to South Koreans because of its evocation of Japanese colonization
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Welcome to Vietnam! If someday you decided to go to visit other countries‚ you should go to visit the very beautiful country‚ Vietnam! It is located in Southeastern Asia‚ nearby Thailand‚ Laos‚ South China Sea‚ alongside China‚ and Cambodia. It is very interesting that Vietnam has the geographic shape looks like the letter S. The weather is hot‚ rainy and humid from May to September and it is dry from October to March. There are a lot of big cities in Vietnam‚ for example‚ Ho Chi Minh City‚ Ha Noi
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Names for the war Further information: Terminology of the Vietnam War Various names have been applied to the conflict. Vietnam War is the most commonly used name in English. It has also been called the Second Indochina War and the Vietnam Conflict. As there have been several conflicts in Indochina‚ this particular conflict is known by the names of its primary protagonists to distinguish it from others.[56] In Vietnamese‚ the war is generally known as Kháng chiến chống Mỹ (Resistance War Against America)
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Factsheet briefing on gender issues in migration and urbanisation as they relate to poverty Produced by UN Women as a supplementary briefing for the Consultative Group meeting 6 December 2011 Hanoi GENDER AND MIGRATION International context and standards: Michelle Bachelet‚ Executive Director of UN Women: “The absence of legal and social protections in many countries – and failure to implement and monitor gender-sensitive labour and migration laws where they exist – makes care workers vulnerable
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What is a civilization? This is a big question that some experts still debate it to find the best definition‚ especially between archeologists who have a definition of civilization for earlier civilization and anthropologist whose definition concern about recent civilization. However‚ both early and late civilization has many evidences that proof many steps of process in formating a civilization. Surprisedly‚ some research has found the remarkable evolving process from earlier civilization to the more
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Spread of Buddhism Across the World “This is why I am continuing my travels—not to seek other‚ better teachings‚ for I know there are none‚ but to depart from all teachings and all teachers and to reach my goal by myself or to die” - Hermann Hesse. The teachings of Buddhism have been continuingly traveling all across the world and spreading. Buddhism originated from India during the 5th century BCE‚ and the spread began. By the 1st century Buddhism began to split within the religion‚ the new evolving
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Early History of Korea Korea’s early history can be traced from the Paleolithic period about 500‚000 years ago. It is believed that its history began in 2333 B.C.E. King Tangun‚ a legendary figure born of the son of heaven and a woman from a bear-totem tribe established the first kingdom named Choson which means “Land of the Morning Calm”. Characterized by clan communities that formed prefectures or provinces like in Japan‚ the country rose and fell so that by the first century B.C.E.‚ 3 kingdoms
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Chinese noodles are very old food‚ which originated in China and it has a long history. Eastern Han Dynasty in China saved records that noodle’s history has more than nineteen hundred years. And then the earliest kind of noodles are found on October 14‚ 2002 in the upper reaches of the Yellow River. When scientists do Geological Survey‚ they found a bowl in a floodplain which is 3 meters under the ground floor‚ the bowl is upside down and it fitted with yellow noodles‚ the longest is 50 cm. Researchers
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