Drinking culture in Korea
Koreans, like their neighbours across the water in Japan, like a drink and a good time. The Japanese consume 70 litres of beer per person compared with 40 litres per capita in South Korea. Drinking has always enabled Koreans to cut loose from the rather stiff constraints of their hierarchical Confucian culture and a few drinks and a singalong are a big part of modern Ko
IV. Administrative Systems in North Korea
At first, North Korea established a ‘people’s republic constitution’ in 1948. In December 1972, they adopted a ‘socialist constitution’ at the first session of the fifth Supreme People's Assembly. In April 1992, they reformed it(old socialist constitution) at the third session of the ninth Supreme People's Assembly. In 1998, they drastically a
NorthKorean Heir Attends Massive Military Parade
The son of NorthKorean leader Kim Jong Il, the anointed successor to lead the country, has made a high profile public debut in the state's largest military parade in years.
Twenty-seven year-old Kim Jong Un appeared with his father Kim Jong Il Sunday presiding over the parade to celebrate the 65th anniversary of the country's ruling communist
Expressing the regret to Chinese government
Accepting all NorthKorean defectors
to comply with international human rights and
refugees law
Granting refugee status is the rights of one nations
UNHRC is in the process of granting refugee status
to NorthKorean defectors
Considering public opinions
Feeling sorry about NorthKorean
defectors but national security
from that of post-1986 Vietnam. For example, Vietnamese and NorthKorean foreign policies have had little in common in the last two decades, and this difference may have been interrelated with the dramatic contrast between Vietnam's economic boom and North Korea's recurrent setbacks. This subject is certainly worth investigating, since many of North Korea's current problems - inflation, high mi
I. Introduction
In the year 612 AD an Imperial Chinese army of more than a million soldiers marched on the northeast Asian kingdom of Goguryeo. Though vastly outnumbered, the soldiers of Goguryeo whom many modern-day Koreans see as their ancestors.
Now, almost 1,400 years later, Chinese scholars are claiming that the ancient kingdom of Goguryeo was a part of China’s "regional government fo
동북아 & 유럽 철도운송의 실정
철도운송이 해상운송에 비해서 약 10,000km 정도 짧지만, 운송비는 해상운송이
가장 저렴하고 운송시간에도 큰 차이가 없음.
해상운송은 법제적으로 이미 체계화되어 있어 철도운송에 비해서 이적· 환적이
적어 화물의 손상이나 분실의 위험이 적으며 컨테이
Korean market in 1970s and 80s. Also other brands such as North Face and Columbia Sports Wear were imported in the department stores (See Exhibit 1). The oldest outdoor brand is ‘한고’ company which enlarged into Edelweiss selling various climbing equipments in 1996. Till the first 1990s, many Korean outdoor brands were launched but as the global brands come in to the Korean market, the ope
Brinkmanship can be an effective choice in chicken game. That is, if you rush toward the other in drunken, or pull out the handle, you can show you do not have any intention to avoid to the other. In this situation, the other person may think that he is the only person who can decide ‘to avoid’ or ‘to crush’. Thus, the other person will choose to avoid (because it is at least better than