The Past of South Korea

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South Korea is famous of fastest-developed nation in the world; actually South Korea was a really poor country in past era. Many Koreans struggled with starvation because of the Korean War. As a Korean, I would like to introduce the history of my motherland. To write my country, I found many sources from my high school textbook. Yunhun Kim is a professor in Seoul University; he wrote Korean history textbook, South Korea Past to Present, for high school. This book explains well about fact of South Korea in the past era; I will use this book to explain South Korea in the 1960s. Also, Sunghwan Ban writes a book, Growth Rates of Korean Agriculture, 1918-1971, to states that how Korea develops well from agriculture. I used this book as same as my textbook. Moreover, Knowledge Management and Management Learning; by Walter Beats is found in Google Website. This book accounts the meaning of infrastructure and social structure. That will be on my essay. South Korea: A Country Study by Matels Savada and Williams Shaw gives an explanation of South Korea as the viewpoint of foreign. Lastly, Okyu Kwon is also graduate student in KAIST in South Korea; he made a power point, which is called “Korea’s Infrastructure Development Experiences”. I searched in Google and found these sources. I will use those sources to support and explain South Korean in the 1960s. How South Korea formulates their base ground in the 1960s to be a powerful nation. How infrastructure, social structure and ideology were made South Korea in the 1960s.
Primarily, when people think about Asia, many people immediately think Japan, China and Korea. Have you ever noticed that South Korea was one of the poorest country in the past unlike others? Once, South Korea had been gett...

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...ng their hair makes the body that parents give hurt; thus, this is one of undutiful actions. Koreans were followed those ideas well in the past. Therefore, they kept agriculture instead of industrialization. By agriculture, they also kept a family form as a large family. Moreover, they kept patriarchal system. By the system, only men could touch political issues. And, women spend their time under quality life. They could not take pass examination and they do not have any change to learn study. Even if a woman is wiser than their little brother, only brother could take the examination. This is kind of waste talented person; however, this is the rule in the South Korea. In some ways, this idea makes Korea development late. South Korea is one of the fastest developing country in the world; and, they will develop more than now as through see the history of South Korea.

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