Flores, Jovey Ann

BA Political Science R-1

An Reaction paper in Korean History

Korea was divided into 3 kingdoms which every century they have learned new things to
develop for them to help their everday lives. The 3 kingdoms also fought for sumpremacy, to
explain how their country has been exploited by larger country, more powerful neighbors until
the recent times, China being the East Asia’s largest, had the most external effect on Korea.
Korea become the center of competitor interests in the twentienth century. Attracting rivals from
China, Japan, And Russia, as well as the United States. However, until Japan colonized the
Korean peninsula in early twentienth century, successive kingdoms on the peninsula were able to
preserve a society with political independence and cultural distinctness from the neighboring
nations for well over a thousands years.

Korea after the war divided into 2 countries, one was the Communist which is the North
Korea and the other on was democratic, the South Korea. North and South Korea have
progressed from a shared cultural and historical foundation to two extremely deffirent countries
with vastly divergent economic and political system. The division North and South Korea was
made by the foreign forces, but Koreans believe that the two Koreas should be reunited in the
future even though they tried to attempt reaproachment and resettlement but it failed, the two
leaders of the countries still trying to improve their relations for the betterment of the two
countries.