...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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...North Korea in Japanese is written as 朝鮮民主主義人民共和国. Japanese people generally use this name all the time we call North Korea, but this name is really controversial because of the meaning of the Chinese characteristics “民主主義 (min-shu-shu-gi)”. “民主主義” means democracy in Japanese. Is North Korea a democratic country like North Korea is described with democracy in Japanese? To begin with, what does North Korea go in for? It is suspicious that North Korea applies to just one thing from many options such as socialism, democracy, capitalism, communism, or liberalism. Everyday Life in The North Korean Revolution, 1945-1950 by Suzy Kim, North Korea Markets and Military Rule by Hazel Smith, and other articles demonstrate if it is true or not. By looking...
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...period, Japan was forced to sign on the unequal treaty, the Treaty of Amity and Commerce, by the United States forces that demanded the opening of five ports for the foreign trade while securing the U.S. diplomatic privilege of extraterritoriality (Tipton, 2002, p.26). This agreement curtailed the Japanese sovereignty for the first time in history, and alerted Japanese politicians to the dangers of further foreign encroachment. After the fierce debates among Japanese intellectuals, they realized ‘Gunboat diplomacy’ is the essence of the international political game. Thus, some of enlightened leaders such as Sakamoto Ryōma (1867) emphasized the necessity of modernize Japan as Western states by strengthening the military and economic power in his writing Eight-Point Program in order to survive in the arena of power politics. This idea was adopted as a center pillar of Meiji Restoration and enabled Japan to build up military power comparable to Western states within a short period of time. However, Japan needed to show its advanced military strength to be recognized as a growing power and to join ranks of powers in international politics (Ebrey, 2009, p.371). Therefore, the Meiji government planned the way to be a ‘regional hegemon’ through military expansion in Asia. It first defeated Qing Dynasty in Sino-Japanese War in 1895 and representatives of both states signed at the Treaty of Simonoseki that included the Article to cede full sovereignty of Taiwan to Empire of Japan in perpetuity...
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...Article Review Prerequisites for Effective Implementation of Telemedicine: Focusing on Current Situations in Korea INFS 430 – 10 – Global Issues in Information Systems February 15, 2016 SUMMARY Telemedicine is the use telecommunications and information technology to provide healthcare to patients located in the remote or distant locations. For example: people staying in the mountainous areas or islands can get medical services right at their home with the help of smart devices or patients who cannot go to the hospital for some reason. This article discusses the prerequisites for implementation and use of telemedicine in Korea. There is a study that was performed comparing the utilization of telemedicine in various countries versus Korea. Where other countries are benefiting from the practice, Korea struggles with setting these up as the healthcare structure of Korea has a low proportion of public healthcare and most patients are taken care of by few large tertiary hospitals. Korea had to use telemedicine when in May 2015, the Middle East respiratory syndrome corona virus (MERS-CoV) was spread in the hospitals in Seoul and hence, the patients were placed in isolation in their homes or other medical facilities. Since it requires all the involved parties to be on-board, a comparison study and other analysis based on the pilot program were conducted to figure out the prerequisites for the effective implementation of telemedicine...
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...commodities such as cell phones, computers, home appliances, etc. South Korea has been a bigger player in all the trade between Asia and North America. These products are sold all around the world and they need the demand to grow if they want their country to survive. The dependency is obvious due to the imports of natural resources as they have minimal amounts in their country. In the past decade South Korea has been able to see large growth in their cargo that move in and out of the country. Their biggest airline is Korean Air and they handle a large portion of the freight. Even with all the positive signs for their cargo fleet, they are facing obstacles like every other airline such as the rising cost of fuel. They need to compete with airlines such as Cathay Pacific, China, Japan and others which are all trying to find ways to make Air cargo profitable. The problem is that almost all the crude oil used in countries such as Japan and Korea are imported via ships. This automatically makes it even more expensive for the oil refineries than countries such as China and America, where oil can be produced. The 4 dollar average Americans pay per gallon seems a little better when you compare it to about 2 dollars per liter. This means that you would pay about 7.80 for a gallon of gas. You take that number and see how many times more it cuts into the airlines revenues and profits. One of the major exports from Korea is the electronics. This is anything from the cell phones, tablets to...
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...paper reviews the pattern and trends of the development in East and Southeast Asia to recognize the similarities and differences in the region. It offers an extensive view of the Southeast Asian economic miracles in comparative East Asian perspective by comparing and contrasting the Southeast Asian experiences with those of the other high performing East Asian economies, as the World Bank (1993) chose to describe them. The following discussion will focus on the development experiences of Southeast Asia that have been considered high-growth economies, as well as East Asia countries. The Southeast Asia economies have been rather successful in applying public policies to realize their chosen developmental objectives, from the viewpoint of better advancing the course of human development, will be identified. II. East and Southeast Asia (ESA) economies • Human Development (HD): As well as being substantially different in the starting level of human development achieved, and although all have made substantial progress over the two decades, these economies show marked differences in the pace of this progress. Being already high-achieving, Japan recorded a modest rate growth of 0.26%, Singapore 0.61% and South Korea 0.92%. This pattern appears to exactly mirror the pattern of difference in their initial. Improvements in other less developed ESA economies are mixed. While China was behind Indonesia and the Philippines in 1990, it overtook them in 2007. Vietnam was behind...
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...Prakash. He asked whether we know story of Kim-Suro to explain how we deeply connected to each other. Following the story of Samguk Yusa, Indian princess Suriratna came to Korea in 48 AD, married King Kim-Suro and became queen Huh Hwang-ok. So that 5 million Koreans trace their ancestry to the royal couple. This story represents that there is deep historical links between Korea and India from long time ago. In the another story, Korea Buddhist monk Hye-cho visited India from 723 to 239 AD and wrote the travelogue, “Pilgrimage to the five kingdoms of India” which shows a vivid explanation of Indian culture, politics and society. Thus, even though two countries are far from each other but there are various connections between the two. The ambassador explained about characteristics of India. First of all, India has many races among its population like the picture of people he showed us. India also is rounded by many countries such as Indonesia, Pakistan and Nepal etc., These facts have affected to India’s cultures and policies. In the last two decades, Asia has been under huge transition in politic, economic as well as social ways. Now, people are predicting that in next 20 years the global centre of economic gravity might shift to Asia, especially East Asia. In this context, combined national wealth of China, Japan, Korea and India as well as ASEAN countries would exceed that of the US and EU. It means that Indian’s destiny in the future is related to East Asia. India has a potential...
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...Chapter 1 What is Macroeconomics? ( Chapter Outline 1. How Macroeconomics Affects Our Everyday Lives (a) The “Big Three” Concepts of Macroeconomics 2. Defining Macroeconomics (a) How Macroeconomics Differs from Microeconomics (b) Economic Theory: A Process of Simplification 3. Actual and Natural Real GDP (a) Unemployment: Actual and Natural (b) Real GDP and the Three Macro Concepts 4. Macroeconomics in the Short Run and Long Run (a) The Short Run: Business Cycles (b) Business Cycle Concepts (c) The Long Run: Economic Growth 5. Case Study: A Century of Business Cycles (a) Real GDP (b) Unemployment 6. Macroeconomics at the Extremes (a) Unemployment in the Great Depression, 1929–40 (b) The German Hyperinflation of 1922–23 (c) Fast and Slow Growth in Asia 7. Taming Business Cycles: Stabilization Policy (a) The Role of Stabilization Policy 8. The “Internationalization” of Macroeconomics IP* Box: How Does U.S. Economic Performance Rank? ( Chapter Overview Chapter 1 begins by introducing a set of three central macroeconomic concepts, called the “Big Three Concepts of Macroeconomics. They are the unemployment rate, the inflation rate, and productivity growth. Introducing the field of macroeconomics to students in this way has an important advantage. It facilitates the early introduction and definition of basic macroeconomic terminology, which gives students a chance to get used to thinking of macroeconomic issues in...
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...Education, Citizenship, and War : What’s At Stake? - Comparing controversies over textbook depiction of recent wars in Japan, Germany and the U.S. - We learn “ideas of citizenship”, past, and future of the nation from schools and textbooks; therefore, it is necessary to compare controversies over textbook depiction clearly. - Textbooks are always “unfinished projects” which means that always need to be revised and reinterpreted with true facts. - Two interrelated themes of nationalism: A) relationship between citizens and state. B) foreign relations. - Brutality vs. goals of war- As being teachers, how do we need to instruct students? - Should we defend the aspects of brutality? - “Lack of depiction of textbooks vs. keeping it honest”. - There are ongoing debates over Japanese brutal act during World War 2 ( ex. Comfort womens). - The incident of the Holocaust by Germany and intervention of U.S during Vietnam War need to be debated. - There are very little controversies over U.S textbook depictions of the Vietnam War among Americans. Why? Vietnam relied on U.S economic and political supports after the war; therefore, even majority of Vietnamese did not debate on this issue. - Textbooks in Japan directly supervised by political leaders since late 19th century. - Germany, on the other hand, provided the textbooks under the control of local states but no controls by governments. - Textbooks in the U.S are provided with no close association with...
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...Strategy to go into partnership with Actel Overview Lajolla Software Incorporation specialized enterprise software, customized application development in South Korea and then have grown from $8million to a $150 million for five years. Moreover, we decided to go into partnership with Actel Corporation of the United States. So, Actel’s executives, bankers, and shareholders will bring proposals on the deal but most of them don’t have a idea about Korea, so we have to plan to reduce their fears from joint with us throughout programs. However, during talking about entering into partnership between two incorporations, it makes some problems related on cultural gap and intercultural communication. Executive Summary * Purpose This report provides factors why our company developed dramatically in Korea technology industry to raise mutual trust with Actel. It also tells about strengths throughout integration workforce with Lajolla. Additionally, Comparing two cultural differences in work, we will negotiate how to organize our process and basic elements of work place behaviors- attitude to deadlines, perception of reward schemes and so on. * Methods According to methods of analysis, it is included what kinds of strengths Korea technology industry have, compared to the United States and other Asian countries such as Japan and China. Showing different aspects advantages compared to competitive by qualities. In addition, it showed rate of return forecasts from integration showed...
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...comprehend the unique nature of this Korean management system, we performed an in-depth analysis on its performance. The external environment of the Korean management system is a crucial factor in understanding it. In this kind of environment, the role of government is prominent because without active support from the government, no enterprise can survive and prosper. The government, in return, demands some favors from these enterprises, making this a quid pro quo, a unique feature of the Korean management system. We will discuss extensively the relationship between government and business to understand the Korean management system. Because South Korea is a rapidly changing society, variable sources of information like newspapers and weekly and monthly magazines were integrated into this book. Of course, we also used books published in South Korea and elsewhere for developing a conceptual framework of the...
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...What factors might be considered in assessing Tesco’s performance in Thailand and South Korea and in comparing/contrasting their performance to that in Taiwan? Tesco chairman in south korea accused Seoul’s policymaker of being against expansion of supermarkets to protect the small family business. Korea is the second largest market for tesco after U.K, generated 5 bn pounds revenue for tesco and 300mpounds in trading profit last financial year. Started with two stores 14 years ago, now has 350 stores, operates under the brand “home plus” and is the second largest chain after “e-mart” Succeeded in a tough economy as south korea where most fid is still low and brands such as carefour and wallmart were forced to quit. Many analysts attribute Tesco’s success to its decision to entrust Mr Lee seung-han(Chairman-South Korea) with running a Korean-style retail operation without drafting in cohorts of foreign executives. According to him Tesco in Korea is run through an ideology of “synbaration” – a philosophy that is supposed to fuse the best of western and eastern business practice. New innovative ideas in south korea: Virtual shopping hag got their sales increased 130 per cent in three months, and their number of registered users went up by 76 per cent. They are now number one for online groceries and the gap between them and E-Mart has narrowed offline. Whether you see their virtual stores as a display advertising campaign or a new way of building supermarkets in spaces...
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...Eastern Asian Enterprise Structures and tlie Comparative Analysis of Forms of Business Organization Richard D. Whitley Abstract Richard D. Whitley Manchester Business School, Manchester, U.K. The economic success of different forms of business organization in East Asian countries emphasizes the variety of viable enterprise structures and suggests the need for a comparative analysis of how they develop and operate in different societal contexts. Major differences between East Asian business 'recipes' include the range of activities that are authoritatively coordinated, their pattems of development, the ways in which they are organized and controlled and the organization of inter enterprise relations. These differences suggest eight major dimensions on which dominant enterprise structures in different societies can be compared and how their development can be linked to major social institutions. Introduction Organization Studies 1990,11/1:047-074 © 1990 EGOS 0170-8406/90 0011-0003 $1.00 The economic success of Japanese firms over the past 40 years has emphasized the viability of alternatives to United States management structures and practices, as well as highlighting the limited generality of the business strategy-structure relationships identified by Chandler (Alford 1976; Kagono et al. 1985: 99-110; Maurice et al. 1986). Whereas it may have seemed reasonable in the 1960s and 1970s to regard Japanese organizational practices and forms as temporary stepping stones...
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...company’s development. In addition, based on the analysis of FDI activities, Giordano’s FDI activities have many impacts on host economies, like job creation in Indonesia. This report draws on sales data of main Asian markets and subordinate brands to analyse the trend of investment of Giordano. Korea is the most important and second market except Mainland China；The Middle East grows quickly during last decades; Singapore is a stable and profitable market. Malaysia and Indonesia are potential markets, and from a long term perspective Giordano will focus on the development of these countries. Asia is the basic market of Giordano, which conducts over 95% foreign investment there. This report applies SWOT analysis to illustrate the strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats, and also uses PEST analysis to explain the external factors-political, economic, social and technological, which influence the investment direction in the future. Country screening process identifies company-specific criteria, which enable them to rank countries. Giordano mainly selects countries in Asia and compares their political and economic environment, etc, Finally, Singapore, South Korea, the Middle East, Malaysia, and Indonesia are selected to be the primary markets. BCG box analyses the subordinate brand of Giordano. Finally, this report analyses the post financial crisis era of Giordano. Part A...
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..."modernity”. The Hyundai cars are simple, resilient and known for their low cost. Created in the middle of the country’s recovery after the Korean War, Hyundai received help from Ford, which through its subsidiaries in the UK, helped to set up its manufacturing plant. The brand was born in 1947 by Chung Ju-yung, Son of North Korean peasant farmers; dominant figure in the Korean economy from 1960 until his death in 2001. Hyundai built its first car in 1968, the “Cortina”, a compact sedan under Ford license. In 1975, Hyundai made its first own model, the Pony, in collaboration with Mitsubishi and the firm “Italdesign” of Turin. Currently, Hyundai has one of the most respected research and development centers of the industry. In 1997, South Korea suffered of a serious financial crisis which also affected the automotive industry involving the Daewoo’s bankrupt (now part of General Motors). Hyundai overcame the crisis, but it was forced to divide its many operations (construction, banking, petrochemicals, logistics, shipbuilding, etc...) into 5 separate companies. One of these, the most internationally known, is the Hyundai Motor Group which now includes the brand Kia. The company has been one of the most influential industrial conglomerates in South Korea's economy. And currently, it’s the second-largest chaebol behind Samsung. The 6 major group companies are: • Group Hyundai: Hyundai's original company, founded in 1947 as a company infrastructure construction. It is dedicated...
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