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In assessing the role of Park Chung Hee as President of South Korea in the 1960's and 1970's, it is evident that despite his seizure of power in a military coup in 1961 and his undemocratic form of rule, he transformed South Korea's backward agricultural economy into a modern industrialized economy and is considered by many South Koreans to be their country's greatest president. Other South Koreans are very critical of his rule, and despite acknowledging that his economic policies were successful, they condemn him as a dictator who relied upon repression and electoral subversion to maintain his power.

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Park Chung Hee: An Analysis of His Presidency Introduction In assessing the role of Park Chung Hee as President of South Korea in the 1960's and 1970's, it is evident that despite his seizure of power in a military coup in 1961 and his undemocratic form of rule, he transformed South Korea's backward agricultural economy into a modern industrialized economy and is considered by many South Koreans to be their country's greatest

Tags:park, chung, hee

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This paper explains that, with her recognizable Asian face, intense interviewing tactics and controversial techniques, Connie Chung has been a staple in broadcast news reporting for almost four decades. The author points out that, in the early 1990s, Chung became one of the most recognizable faces on television when she went back to CBS to be the anchor and correspondent of "Saturday Night with Connie Chung" and the Sunday edition of the "CBS Evening News". The paper relates that, in 1995, the reason for Chung's dismissal ranged from her poor work relationship with Dan Rather, to her controversial interviewing techniques, to charges of sexism by Chung.

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"Living in Washington, D.C., the Chung family was like any other family - celebrating holidays, enjoying picnics, and attending school. Like many Chinese families, education was very important to the family. One of the best educators for Chung was the television. As a child, she would pretend the vacuum hose was a microphone and would make up interviews with people. Chung attended Montgomery Blair High School in Silver Spring, MD, and then went on to pursue at first Biology and then Journalism at the University of Maryland. Since their family had no sons, Connie wanted to be the successful daughter to carry the family name."

Tags:rather, awards, povich, techniques, sexism

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The paper looks at how the process of what Chan calls "decolonization" is described in the article due to the changes that have occurred after the 1997 take over of Hong Kong from the British. The paper discusses how with the British now gone from the ruling governing body of the city, the new role of the Chinese has made the situation on the island much more crude and economically polarized with the rich getting richer and the poor getting poorer.

Tags:chan, china, history

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"The Chinese classic Three Kingdoms (San Kuo) was written by Lo Kuan-chung in the late fourteenth century. The novel deals with the historic period centering around the fall of the Han dynasty. The Han dynasty existed for approximately four hundred years (202 B.C. to 222 A.D.), and the Chinese people have traditionally regarded it as "the stable imperial model against which the great dynasties of later ages were measured" (Hucker 133). The novel Three Kingdoms opens in approximately 169 A.D., a time of great disunity in China. Prior to that time, several court eunuchs had taken control of the government and established a reign of terror against the Chinese people. In 169, the Yellow Scarves rebellion broke out. Although this rebellion sought to remove the eunuchs from power, it also represented a threat to the traditional society of the Han emperors. Therefore, the..."

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This paper briefly examines how South Korea's economic success began with a bold shift in its government's approach to economic issues under Park Chung Hee. It looks at how massive infrastructure investments and a dramatic increase in the savings rate allowed for a rapid pace of growth. The paper also discusses how the country successfully weathered some growing pains and has now become one of the world's strongest economies, with the fastest GDP growth rate in the Western world.

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"Park recognized that one of his country's major economic problems was that it did not have any oil resources. This led him not only to his policy of shifting dependency from imports to exports, but also to a policy of increasing savings rates. The Solow model tells us that the capital accumulation - necessary to import critical raw materials - accelerates if savings rates increase at a rate faster than population growth. One of Park's earliest economic policies was to encourage savings. As a result savings increased from 3.3% of GNP in 1962 to 35.8% in 1989. This growth in savings mirrored growth in the economy. Per capita income grew from $87 in 1962 to $4830 in 1989; the GNP grew from $2.3 billion to $204 billion over the same period ."

Tags:chaebols, investment, japan

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This paper explains that the case of Karen Leary, manager for a Merrill Lynch investment company office and Ted Chung, one of her financial consultants, raises issues of management style, the ability to recognize the value of subordinate, and the need to accommodate cultural differences. The author stresses that, given that one of the reasons for hiring Mr. Chung in the first place was to nurture business in Taiwan, the issue of cultural differences becomes especially important and must be addressed early to prevent creating hard feelings and a bad reputation in the target market. The paper analyzes the case in terms of specific elements in the behavior of both Karen Leary and Ted Chung and in light of a consideration of management principles and observed cultural differences between American business and business in Taiwan.

Table of Contents
Introduction
Summary
Karen Leary (A)
Conclusion

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"Karen Leary has to determine what to do about his request. Her own background is important to the degree that it informs this case and suggests why she reacts as show does and what decision she is likely to make. Her superiors see her as sales-oriented and as having developed an innovative sales and training program. As manager, she also oversees brokers' trades and has been praised for the way she achieves that task. Her superiors are happy that she has increased business by 30 percent, but some of her underlings are less pleased because she is a hard task master and keeps after them more than they believe she should or needs to do."

Tags:superiors, perquisites, style, discipline, older

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This paper addresses four discussion questions, specifically, how important is the role of an entrepreneur like Chung? Would the company develop without his drive or would market forces develop the same result? Do countries like Korea need firms like Hyundai, with or without their imperfections, to develop industries, or is it better to allow foreign firms to help modernize such countries? What are the strengths and weaknesses of the Hyundai Group? What recommendations would you make? Finally, the paper addresses how Hyundai develops Korean managers to compete globally.

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"How important is the role of an entrepreneur like Chung? Would the company develop without his drive or would market forces develop the same result? For the Hyundai Corporation, the role of an entrepreneur like Chung was very important. Obviously, Hyundai was Chung's vision from the ground up. He not only saw the opportunity to develop a conglomerate with the guidance of state-guided capitalism, but also was able to take action to benefit from the opportunities that were presented thanks to globalization and economic expansion within his home country. It was through Chung's..."

Tags:hyundai, case, study

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This paper analyzes the social comparison theory in four sections, first by exploring a journal article that explored the theory in the United States and China. The paper also analyzes a mass media example in the context of social comparison. A personal example is then provided within an academic setting to see how the real life-scenario works. Finally, the theory was examined in an ethical context.

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Abstract
Social Comparison, Individualism-Collectivism, and Self-Esteem in China and the United States by Chung and Mallery
Mass Media Example of the Social Comparison Theory
Personal Example of Social Comparison Theory
Social Comparison Theory and Ethics

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"Chung and Mallery (1999) "examined the possible differences in social comparison between individualistic and collectivistic cultures" using the United States and China for the sample (para. 1). Chung and Mallery predicted that based on past research, collectivistic cultures, where individuals focused on achievements that would be beneficial to a collective group rather than themselves, would be positively correlated with upward social comparison, while the contrary would be true for individualistic cultures. In essence the a priori expectation is that "upward comparisons were positively correlated with individual self-esteem, and downward comparisons were negatively correlated with collective self-esteem" (Chung & Mallery, 1999, para 14)."

Tags:perceptions, self-esteem, self-worth, social-norms, competition, collectivism

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This paper examines Kim's strategy of trying to bring North Korea and South Korea closer and of trying to make the North more open. In addition the strategy's chances for success are also discussed.

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"Kim seems to have a good as chance as anyone is likely to to thaw the relationships between the two countries that were sundered at the end of the Korean War and in many ways still remain trapped by the kind of tensions that once enveloped much of the globe during the Cold War. His history of trying to move his country gently but firmly into the future dates from his rise to being a prominent opposition leader during the tenure of President Park Chung Hee. In 1997 he became the South Korean first opposition leader to win election to his country's presidency.?"

Tags:beginnings, communists, Western, democracies, Syngman, Rhee, National, Assembly.

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The purpose of this paper is to compare the economic development of South Korea with that of the Philippines from 1960 to the present. In 1960, both of these Far Eastern countries were equally underdeveloped economically, but today South Korea's per capita income is several times that of the Philippines. Why, in the last 35 years, has South Korea experienced such dramatic growth, while the Philippines has stagnated? This paper looks at how each country's culture, political leaders, economic policies and foreign trade policies have affected their growth rates.

Paper Outline:

I. Pre-1960
A. South Korea
1. Confucian Culture
2. Education
B. Philippines
1. Wealth and Poverty
2. Education
II. Economic Policies
A. South Korea
1. Five-year Plans
2. Growth under Authoritarian Rule
B. Philippines
1. Labor Laws
2. Trade Barriers
III. Foreign Trade
A. Exports
B. Import Substitution
IV. Leadership
A. South Korea
1. Authoritarian
2. Committed to Economic Development
B. Marcos
1. Martial Law
2. Corruption
3. Economic Collapse

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"The first five-year plan caused rapid growth, largely by devaluing the won and restructuring the system of taxation and tariffs in such a way as to promote an increase in industrial exports (Han 166). It also caused rapid inflation due to government deficits and a 60 percent increase in the money supply (Brown 51). The second plan (1967-71) sought to correct the problems of the first by reducing government spending (Brown 52-3) while continuing to give tax deductions to industries that were expanding their exports (60)."

Tags:Park, Chung, Hee, Park, top-down, process, Chun, Doo, Hwan