South Korea - History, Culture, Economy: The following is a treatment of South Korea since the Korean War. For a discussion of the earlier history of the peninsula, see Korea. The First Republic, established in August 1948, adopted a presidential s
Educational History:The Korean educational tradition has been shaped by two main cultural characteristics. First is the extreme class consciousness of the Korean people. Birth into a good family was regarded as a heavenly mandate or at least a reward for merit in a previous life. In pre-modern ...
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Art Forms: Painting Ryu Shi-won Ryu Si-won (Korean: 류시원; Hanja: 柳時元; born 6 October 1972) is a South Korean actor and singer. After he made his debut in the KBS drama Feeling in 1994, Ryu pursued a singing career. Birthplace: Andong, South Korea Nationality: South Korea...
Seeing nature as a concept that has been constantly reformulated in its fraught relationship with (neo-)colonial history, this paper situates Yatoo within South Korean art's historical occupation of nature: namely, the histories of the late 1960s and 70s experimental art in outdoor spaces, the...
presence and to begin rebuilding the nation. Large Korean conglomerates and global brands such as LG, Samsung, and Hyundai began to dominate the economy. These companies are now helping to reshape Korea’s cultural history by backing institutions such as the Leeum, Samsung Museum of Art in ...
Korean Modern Art History began to be produced in the 1970s, when Western Modernist Art History, based on Formalism, was introduced as a matrix to map the 'evolution' of 20th century Korean Art. Korean modern art history is based in the same paradigm as the West, beginning with ...
Japanese HistoryKorean History Single Korean Women are Being Scammed into Paying More to Feel Safe in Their Homes. You Don’t Have to be a ‘Feminist’ to Acknowledge That. But if you do, there’s a real danger you might start thinking and acting like one… ...
Japanese HistoryKorean History Single Korean Women are Being Scammed into Paying More to Feel Safe in Their Homes. You Don’t Have to be a ‘Feminist’ to Acknowledge That. But if you do, there’s a real danger you might start thinking and acting like one… ...