1. Korean Wave Phenomenon
The Korean Wave is a phenomenon sweeping through Southeast Asia and China. Intensified by the sudden surge in Korea's national image brought on by the 2002 FIFA World Cup, the Korean Wave started with the rising popularity of Korean pop stars such as Ahn Jae-wook. More recently it extended to a boom in Korean-made TV dramas such as Winter Sonata and Autumn in My Heart,
1. Introduction
These days, we can see easily some gathered people on TV who demonstrate against KOREA-U.S. FTA (KORUS FTA) on the street around Seoul City Hall and hold candles on their hands, which is a kind of demonstration parade in the Republic of Korea. Even though a lot of people in Korea raised objection to FTA, KORUS FTA which made a lot of issues was ratified in the National Assembly
Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva born 27 October 1945, known popularly as Lula, served as the 35th President of Brazil from 2003 to 2011.
A founding member of the Workers' Party (PT – Partido dos Trabalhadores), he ran for President three times unsuccessfully, first in the 1989 election. Lula achieved victory in the 2002 election, and was inaugurated as President on 1 January 2003. In the
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1. Korean Business Culture
Korean are famous for having hasty characteristics. They have strong collectivism.
Confucian ethics emphasise the value of collective group harmony, re
economic crisis has recovered (refer figure 3-a-1), we expect more people will visit Seoul in 2010. And many westerners have more leisure time due to decrease of working-time and they are curious in the orient culture. Yet, Korea has low country brand(figure 3-a-2) and new type Influenza A virus was spread in 2009(figure 3-a-3) is another social threat.
b. Micro Environment
1) Market analysis