Korean Culture Case Study

The country exported nearly $3 billion in entertainment, more than double 2002 exports, according to MK Daily, a Korean news portal. South Korea’s success starts with tv series’ in the nineties. Then comes the pop songs and boy bands where it really begins to influence the east. Finally, they become fans of everything, from Korean food to the Korean language. Some people are even so infatuated that they change their names to one from Korean descent.

This evidence shatters the notion that Asian “culture” is the determining factor in their success, making them the model or more desirable minority The workplace can be tricky to navigate for East Asians because of the vicious stereotypes that faithfully follow them wherever Asians go. A study by Jennifer L. Berdahl and MIn JI-A reveals that most workers prefer non dominant East Asian or a dominant or a nondominant White coworker over a dominant EAst Asian coworker. Out of East Asians, those who are more dominant or warm are racially harassed more and all types of coworkers( Berdahl, Ji-A). The most common workplace discrimination includes , lack of communication, being left out of networking and collaboration, rejection of opportunities for professional development, and a

Jasmine Vohra Mr. Stevens APUSH March 2018 Anti-Asian Racism To be a new group introduced to the Euro-American inhabitants of the United States means to experience animosities and hostilities that keep in pattern with a primarily racist past, as Asian-Americans have come to know. From early trade relations with China to the Vietnam War era, xenophobic sentiment from the part of the United States had remained consistent. However, in more recent times, Anti-Asian racism has evolved to take shape in an unprecedented way through the myth of the “model minority”. This idea essentially praises Asians for achieving more socioeconomic success than their other minority counterparts. The myth of the “model minority”

The Japanese administration vastly enhanced the infrastructures (mainly setting up railroads and communications) to assist an intense industrialization and the accaparement of resources to the benefit of the metropole. Core society was equally profoundly modified, as the interference of Japan created new social classes, introduced new cultural concepts and ideas, and induced large population movements from rural areas to industrialized cities. The idea of minjok is especially interesting as it is the first conceptualization of the Korean people as a unified ethnic race and is still used today is nationalist discourse. Now, as Bruce Cummings' The legacy of Japanese Colonialism in Korea states, beyond the obvious materialistic developments, this period had a great influence on the workings of the state apparatus in itself, and this well after liberation. Starting with the obvious, all the politicians, from the North or the South, that shaped the country from the liberation onwards are tied in one way or another to the Japanese era – Kim Il Sung comes from the resistance movements in Manchuria, Syngmann Rhee was an anti-Japanese exile, Park Chung-Hee was an officer in the Japanese Kwantung army,

JACL and Min Reflection In the article Korean’s Immigration History and Contemporary Trends, by Pyong Gap Min, she analyzes the Korean Immigration trends and explain the reason behind the trends. She also mainly focuses on the Contemporary period of Korean immigration to the US. More Koreans immigrated to the US because the Immigration Act of 1965 allowed immigrants from every country to enter instead of preferring immigrants from one country over another, due to economic prosperity. Furthermore, Korean immigration to the United states increased because of the restricted political freedom due to military dictatorships and political tensions within South Korea. The media also increased Korean immigration.

This amount of pressure many feel can come from the immense amount of advertisements they see everyday, which, unfortunately, promotes an unachievable image. These advertisements, including makeup ads, cause one to hide who they are because they feel as though it is not good enough. Social norms are very difficult to deal with due to the unreachable expectations set for both males and females, causing them to believe they must change who they are and what they look like in order to find

In the 1960’s revisionist historians who were critical of imperialism had started to realised that, “McKinley as a cunning and manipulative leader bent on expanding American influence in the world”. McKinley was one of the biggest contributors to spreading influence on the world, especially in the Philippines. Spreading our countries influence around the world and educating people from foreign countries would create more power in the United States and would increase

During this period, particularly after the Tokyo Olympics Games, the emphasis changed to projecting an image of a "Pacific Japan" to an economically advanced Japan. In light of Japan 's economic development, the Japan government 's efforts in promotion focused especially on the study of the Japanese economy. Between the initiatives in this field, it was the establishment of the Tanaka Fund to support 10 major universities in the United States on the promotion of their Japanese studies. The decade of 1970 brought another change in the cultural diplomacy of Japan, this time in response to the rise an anti-Japanese feeling in Asia. The critiques stimulated Japan to strengthen his cultural activities in Asia.

Japan entangled itself in the affairs of foreign states, as evidenced by its involvement in Korea that prompted the Sino-Japanese War, which resulted in Japanese victory (Borthwick 145). Following the war, Japan benefited from territorial gains along with economic opportunities that gave it access to more treaty ports. However, these rewards proved to not be enough for Japan, as it pressed for a higher military buildup. This led to another war called the Russo-Japanese War, where Japan succeeded in having a strong economic stake in Manchuria, the region between China and Russia. (Borthwick 149).

For starters, more than 50% of revenues come from the Japanese market, while the numbers are extremely significant, it’s important for the company not to depend on the Japanese market and build sales elsewhere. The company focused on other large consumers in order expands their brand awareness. External factors challenged the success of the brand in the Japanese market. First, the terrorist attacks from September 11th caused a decrease in sales in luxury goods, which caused the brand to redefine its strategic approach. The second would be the 2008-2009 global economic crisis.