The Impact Of Globalization In Korea

Introduction

Globalization in a literal sense is international integration. It can be described as a process by which the world is getting smaller, it has become a global village and people unified and functioning together. Globalization is a phenomenon of the 21st century and this more stimulated by development of information technology, transformation and innovation of telecommunication. However, Korea is becoming globalized nation more and more every day. With globalization spreading rapidly, of course globalization has many upsides and yes, globalization has more good than bad. This essay will discuss the impact of globalization on people and Korea, how it has affected a Korea’s economic condition, their attitude and behavior, and evidences

Particularly Korea has encouraged growth and development by China and US. There are several advantageous factors in foreign countries in terms of economy’s growth. The most outstanding factor is a huge amount of population. When it comes to Korea. Domestic market place is too small to increase the total sales, whereas China has billions of citizens. In addition, it is so beneficial to trade with China because of short distance and good relationship between the two countries. Moreover, China still has a huge number if potential customers living countryside. Nobody can deny that the most important factor to stimulate the economy is absolutely the huge scale of market place. Those who live in undeveloped regions obviously will be majority if consumption, as rural areas get developed gradually. Maybe advantageous resources like cheap labor and massive land in China, by which it makes Korean manufactures to make more competitive products. But, this phenomenon will not last long. As time goes by, although China has provided fascinating market place and cheap resources to Korea thus far, China could threaten Korea developing technologies rapidly throughout any industrial fields in the

Thus, foreign cultures have to be accepted by Korean as their part of culture, when they are interested in and try to learn them. But the first step is people understand, respect and accept opposing views and cultures. Through a lot of systems and policies in Korean society have changed to meet the demand of the globalization, Koreans still have exclusive thoughts and attitude toward foreigners who have a different appearance or idea. This becomes a biggest challenge to adopt the global world. However, this exclusionism toward foreign cultures is maybe related to Korean history. In the past, due to the fact that Korea is located at a key point in East Asia, it has been represented an important geographical point in terms of world commerce. The powerful nations wanted to occupy Korea region. Thus, that they could take advantage of continent trades. They have constantly fought to possess it or to make affinitive relationship with Korea. Under this miserable historical background, it has been natural that Korea has firm internal solidarity. When we learn national history at the school, it is emphasized that Korea, is a racially homogenous nation. Whether it is true or not, Most Korean do not like much to be mixed with unusual, unfamiliar and uncommon things. Moreover, people are afraid when they face something different, which makes an invisible wall between ‘the common’ and ‘the