...Writ 1301 The Tears of Korean Comfort Women After Chosun (the former name of Korea) was invaded by Japan in 1910, Korean women were forcibly sent to Japan as comfort women: sex slaves of the Japanese military. ‘Comfort woman’ is a euphemism for a female sexual slave to the Japanese Imperial Army before and during World War II. The Japanese military recruited young and unmarried Asian women to join the military, then sent them to brothels in China and other Asian and Pacific countries in order to “comfort” Japanese soldiers. One of the few surviving Korean comfort women, Soon-duk Kim, gave the following testimony to Sangmie Choi Schellstede, the editor of the book, Comfort Women Speak: Testimony by Sex Slaves of the Japanese Military: “I was promised a job as a military nurse…[however, the Japan military took us to] a ruined village of Shanghai. Rooms were divided into tiny cubicles. Each of our fifty girls was divided to one of these cubicles. Now this house became a brothel, and we were sex slaves in it” (38). Kim was wounded due to numerous rape. She explained about the horrible remedy she received: “One day our manager gave me packets of black powder to take once a day…[But] after I used it several times, he then told me the powder was made from a leg of a Chinese soldier’s corpse” (38). This experience is not limited to Kim. Approximately 200,000 Korean women suffered as sex slaves of Japan’s military system before and during the World War II. Today, however, not many...
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...e-commerce business. To face the competitions from the companies in the same type, I agree with that they are going to make a virtual world to further reduce the competition. Moreover, while fighting to stay at the front line in Chinese e-commerce, Alibaba has ambitions of going international. Its initial strategy to bring Taobao abroad is clear: target Chinese users outside mainland China. As the mere description in Part 1, expanding to Korea with wholly owned model is the best way for a company like Alibaba. I think Alibaba’s main goal is maintaining their status in Asian by entering Korea. Alibaba’s intermediary model has replicability, which provides samples for other competitors to enter the industry, also increased their own competitors. It’s easy to enter the service industries with low barriers. Entering Korea could increase the popularity of Alibaba and bring more foreign capitals for them. With the international brand and huge capital’s help, Alibaba can beat new competitors easily. Moreover, with the China-South Korea Free Trade...
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...specific given country (South Korea), economic, socio-cultural and legal and political environment. Economic environment Past four decade South Korea showed an impressive growth as well as global integration to become a high tech industrialized economy. In past in 1960s, the Gross Domestic Product (GDP) per capita was compared to the poor countries (Africa and some parts of Asia), by 2004, it joined the trillion dollar club of world’s economies and currently in the top twenty largest economies (Globserver Asia, 2013). They achieved this by placing the system of close government and business ties, also including directed credit and import restrictions (Central Intelligence Agency, 2013). In 2012 due to the market slowdowns in United States, Eurozone and China, the economy has experienced slow growth. Though it is the 8th largest exporter in the world ($548.2 billion) which decreased 0.21% from prior year. The export goods are semiconductors, wireless communications equipment, motor vehicles, computers, steels, ships and petrochemicals (Central Intelligence Agency, 2013). In 2012 the country’s GDP was $1.622 trillion which ranks 13 on the world scale which increased 2.7% from previous year, and a GDP capita in US dollars was $32,400. The real GDP growth rate was 2.7%. The unemployment rate was 3.8% and the inflation rate was 2.2% (Central Intelligence Agency, 2013). Socio-cultural environment Main language spoken and written in South Korea is Korean. The religious belief...
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...ssignGroup Project Oral Presentation 10% of the Total Mark (5% Oral Presentation Skills, 5% Content) Your company, headquartered in South Korea, is considering making a major FDI in Ghana. This planned acquisition will be your company’s first investment in Ghana. Despite the exciting potential investment, there are some concerns in the company regarding differing financial systems, potential agency problems, and political risks present in Ghana. Your group is tasked with answering the following questions in a 15-18 minute (3 minutes per group member) presentation in your week 11 or week 12 tutorials (each group member must present 3 minutes): 1. What are the primary mechanisms of corporate governance in South Korea? Are they required by legal mandate or adopted at the discretion of the company? 2. What are the primary mechanisms of corporate governance in Ghana? Are they required by legal mandate or adopted at the discretion of the company? 3. How would you compare the effectiveness of these mechanisms? Would it be possible to use some of the mechanisms of South Korea in Ghana? 4. Given the exchange rate systems of both countries, what type of exchange risk would this investment face? How would you recommend hedging this risk? 5. How would you compare the financial development of both countries? What issues may these differences cause? Written Assignment 10% of the Total Mark (5% Written Communication Skills, 5% Content) As part...
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...Comfort women are defined as young women and girls who were forced to work at comfort stations during World War II. These young ladies are mostly kidnapped from their homes, forced to be in sexual slavery in Japan, and have to serve Japan. Japanese army at that time established those prostitution for preventing the rape crimes and give their soldiers easily opportunities to solve their sexual needs. Most of comfort women come from neighbor countries, such as Korea or China, they are the majority of the number. Besides, other women come from the further countries as well, for example Malaysia, Taiwan, Philippines, Indonesia and Taiwan; and more than that, they can be Japanese too. After the war has ended, those comfort women can finally find...
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...Group Analysis 14 SWOT 15 Strengths and Weaknesses 15 Opportunities 16 Threats 16 Objectives and Market Entry Strategy 16 Objective 1(Short term: 12 months) 17 Objective 2 (Medium Term: 1-3 years) 17 Objective 3 (Long Term: 3-5 years): 18 Internationalisation objectives 18 Marketing Mix 19 Product 19 Price 21 Table 6 21 Table 7 21 Promotion 22 Place 23 People, processes and physical evidence 24 Implementation 25 Table 8 26 Figure 3 26 Figure 4 27 Control 27 Figure 5 28 Bibliography 28 Executive Summary This report has been produced to provide Iceland Foods Group with a strategy to further internationalise. After investigation of potential countries it was decided that South Korea was the best market to enter. Analysis has been undertaken into both the external and internal environments with regards to South Korea and Iceland. Research into the frozen food sector in South Korea has shown the market is growing .The success...
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...was filmed in South Korea; I will compare the movie with my culture as an Americanized-Hispanic. Introduction Ethnocentrism can be defined as our point of view of another culture; basing our opinion by comparing it to our own culture. Depending on how one uses this categorization we can easily come to a conclusion which becomes more of a stereotype or racist judgment. The effects of ethnocentrism can be negative and affect others in their life in great multitudes. We can use the example from 9/11. Since then many Muslims have been judged and put into a category simply because of their religion; not everybody who is Muslim is also tied into al-Qaeda. Just because woman/man wear head gear also make them an extremist who is out to bomb something. But because of this tragedy, we have done just that, accused and damned their religion and beliefs; because they are not like us and well because of 9/11. “The Chaser” The movie I chose was “The Chaser”; a movie filmed in South Korea about an ex-detective turned pimp who finds himself in financial trouble because two of his girls disappeared. After sending his last girl, he finds out that the customer is also the last customer of the other two girls who just went missing; in his quest of finding the where about of those two other girls he unfolds the truth. This customer is a serial killer! The reason I chose this movie was first because it was filmed in South Korea, second because I...
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...Throughout the 19th century into the 20th century, the west started to have an increasingly great influence on the other parts of the world. Asia, in particular, was faced with the decision of whether to adopt and conform to the western ways or to reject and stick with their traditional ways of life. In the end, Asia adapted to ways of the western “devils”, but most of their efforts seemed unsuccessful while others were quite successful. The main countries that experienced the western influence were China, Korea and Japan. Although all three countries experienced their share of internal and external strife, China and Korea’s modernization efforts were, in comparison to Japan, unsuccessful. The reason for this was because Japan was able to fully utilize their resources and take advantage of the opportunities that they were presented with in Asia, whereas China and Korea were occupied with internal and external conflicts. Although China and Korea weren’t total failures, the Land of the Rising sun overshadowed them. China’s first experience with western imperialism is seen in the 1830’s when they had conflict with the spread of opium and the dwindling of silver within the country. China wished to stop both these events so when they confiscated supplies of opium from British traders, the British government used its newly developed military power to make their dissatisfaction known to the Chinese. This, along with other factors, led to the First Opium War (1839-1842). The result...
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...About Japan International Cooperation Center (JICE） About Japan International Cooperation Center (JICE） Japan International Cooperation Center (JICE) has been involved in various international cooperation activities mainly for developing countries since its establishment in 1977. JICE contributes to the development of not only developing countries but international community through the implementation of the activities for strengthening mutually beneficial partnership between foreign countries and Japan. Our main activities are the management of international training courses entrusted by ministries and agencies including Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA), universities, local governments, public and private organizations, international organizations and foreign governments; youth exchange programmes; assistance for students from overseas; dispatching interpreters; Japanese language lessons; supporting conventions, seminars and projects, operation of supporting development education. Besides the staff of 194, JICE has 1080 specialists who are specialized in 31 languages and engage in formulation, investigation, research, implementation and evaluation of projects by using their accumulated experiences and knowledge. JICE, with our motto “Share knowledge and experience. For our world. For the future”, links “Japan’s technology, knowledge and experience” to the world and works on developing future leaders of each country through...
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...KOREAN LITERATURE Korean literature is the body of literature produced by Koreans, mostly in the Korean language and sometimes in Classical Chinese. For much of Korea's 1,500 years of literary history, it was written in Hanja. It is commonly divided into classical and modern periods, although this distinction is sometimes unclear. Korea is home to the world's first metal and copper type, world's earliest known printed document and the world's first featural script. ------------------------------------------------- General overview In general, the written arts have a tradition in epigraphic inscriptions on stones, in early tombs, and on rarely found bamboo pieces that formed early books. Repeated invasions and sacking of the east and west capitals, as well as the difficulty in preserving written texts on bamboo, make works before 1000 rare. Those works were entirely written in Chinese characters, the language of scholars, but of course incorporated Korean words and mindset. Medieval scholars in Korea learned and employed written Chinese as western schoolmen learned Latin: as a lingua franca for the region. It helped cultural exchanges extensively. Notable examples of historical records are very well documented from early times, and as well Korean books with movable type, often imperial encyclopedias or historical records, were circulated as early as the 7th century during the Three Kingdoms era from printing wood-blocks; and in the Goryeo era the world's first metal type...
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...Business Comm. Business in other Countries When working in the global commercial environment, you need to consider the cultural mandates of each country in which you do business, and you will also need to ensure you obey both local and international laws. Knowledge of the impact of cultural differences is one of the keys to international business success. Improving levels of cultural awareness can help companies build international competencies and enable individuals to become more globally sensitive to the social norms of different countries. Cultures vary widely from country to country, and what might seem polite in the United States can be rude and unprofessional in another location. In some countries, for example, in China you'll be expected to dress very formally and be highly direct. In others, however, small talk, getting to know your client and frequent informal business meetings are the norm. Doing business always involves meeting and greeting people. In China, meetings start with the shaking of hands and a slight nod of the head. Usually clients aren’t overly vigorous when shaking hands, the Chinese may interpret this as aggressive. The Chinese are not keen on physical contact, the only circumstance in which it may take place is when a host is guiding a guest. Even then contact will only be made by holding a cuff or sleeve. Also, it is not wise to slap, pat, or put your arm around someone's shoulders. The giving of gifts does not carry any negative connotations...
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...China and Japan shared many differences in their late years. The differences between late China and Japan I will discuss are their gardens, ceramics, and painting: Gardens: China utilized the practice of cultivating man made and designed gardens that took on the appearance of a naturally occurring garden/landscape. Meanwhile the Japanese utilized Zen Gardens which were often big yards that contained sand a few large rocks instead of the usual grass and trees. The Chinese gardens were to obtain the fully natural beauty of nature in an unnatural place, while the Japanese Zen gardens were to aid in the Japanese practice of Zen Buddhism through repetitive meditative work. Ceramics: The Chinese and Japanese also had differences in their sculpting....
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...Japan went through a period of national isolation from the outside world (the “sakoku” period) during the late 1600s. The Tokugawa rulers wanted cultural particularism and they could achieve this by having no contacts abroad, so that Japan could engage in introspection. During the Tokugawa period, knowledge of other countries was rather restricted, but toward the end of this period there were few Japanese who speculated where Japan stood in relation to the West. The general population, however, was ignorant to the significance of other better nations existing and expressed little interest concerning the West. Hirata Atsutane, for example, thought he was certain of Japan’s superiority because of the fact that the sun first shines on Japan each morning. Another example of comparing Japan to the rest of the world in the nineteenth century is in the writings of Aizawa Seishisai, an influential thinker of the Mito school: “The earth in the firmament appears to be perfectly round, without edges or corners…As for the land amidst the seas which the Western barbarians call America, it occupies the hindmost region of the earth; thus, its people are stupid and simple, and are incapable of doing things” (596). It goes without saying that the Japanese viewed the US in a very arrogant manner. They considered the US as inferior compared to them, and for this reason the Japanese wanted nothing to do with them. There was a fear that with the merging of two nations as allies, the West would send...
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...Microsoft Dynamics™ GP Human Resources Sample Reports Copyright Copyright © 2007 Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved. Complying with all applicable copyright laws is the responsibility of the user. Without limiting the rights under copyright, no part of this document may be reproduced, stored in or introduced into a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means (electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or otherwise), or for any purpose, without the express written permission of Microsoft Corporation. Notwithstanding the foregoing, the licensee of the software with which this document was provided may make a reasonable number of copies of this document solely for internal use. Trademarks Microsoft and Microsoft Dynamics are either registered trademarks or trademarks of Microsoft Corporation or its affiliates in the United States and/or other countries. FairCom and c-tree Plus are trademarks of FairCom Corporation and are registered in the United States and other countries. The names of actual companies and products mentioned herein may be trademarks or registered marks - in the United States and/or other countries - of their respective owners. The example companies, organizations, products, domain names, e-mail addresses, logos, people, places, and events depicted herein are fictitious. No association with any real company, organization, product, domain name, e-mail address, logo, person, place, or event is intended or should be inferred...
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...Web Intelligence • Performing on report analysis with Web Intelligence • Filtering Queries using conditions, prompts etc., • Using Combined Queries and merging dimensions • Displaying data in various formats (Ex: Tables, Charts etc.,) Advanced Reporting: • Calculations, Formulas and variables • Ranking Data, using Alerters to highlight data, Formatting numbers and Dates • Understanding Calculation Contexts • Web Intelligence Functions, Operators and Keywords • Calculating values with Smart Measures Universe Designer: • Designer and Universe Fundamentals • Creating a schema with Tables and Joins • Resolving Join problems in a schema • Defining Classes, Objects, hierarchies, using cascading list of values for hierarchies • Testing the universe • Working with OLAP universes Xcelsius 2008: • Application Overview • Creating and Updating Xcelsius visualizations • Using Xcelsius components ( Chart, Containers, Selectors etc.,) • Exporting Xcelsius visualizations to various applications (Power point, PDF, Flash • Creating templates, Alerts and Dynamic visibility • Using Data Manager ( Creating and configuring connections) • Live Office Connections, Query As A Web Service (QWAAS), XML data Connections Crystal Reports: • Report Design Concepts • Designing Optimized Web Reports • Building queries, Filters and prompts • Sorting, Grouping and Totaling of data • Accessing data sources,Creating and updating OLAP reports Business Objects Enterprise Repository: ...
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