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In answering all three of the following questions, please make use of all relevant lectures, assigned readings, and discussions. Your answer does not need an introduction or a conclusion, but still needs to be written in an organized manner. Each answer should be no more than 3 pages (double-spaced, 11 or 12 point font). You are expected to make your own arguments and support them, rather than merely reiterating facts/arguments given by the readings. Please provide the author names and specific page numbers of the work when you are citing.

1. "Events both on and surrounding the Korean peninsula in the last few years of the nineteenth century neatly fit the classical Confucian definition of crisis as captured in the phrase naeu oehwan, "internal disorder, external calamities... Most contemporary analysts, as well as historians today, agreed with the basic premise of naeu oehwan: that the crisis of the waning years of the Choson dynasty resulted from the confluence of internal and external trends."

Discuss this statement by providing specific historical examples for

(A) "internal disorder"

(B) "external calamities."

(C) Also, identify three different groups in Korea who responded differently to these crises at the time, and discuss how they responded differently.

2. "The Korean War was civil and revolutionary in character, like Vietnam War, and it originated with the collapse of Japanese imperialism and the national division in 1945. The conflict was fought by political means and with rebellions in 1945-47, through unconventional guerrilla war from 1948 through 1950, and by conventional military assaults along the parallel from May 1949 onward to June 25."

Evaluate the above statement based on lectures, assigned readings, and discussions. Your discussion should include

(A) the colonial origins of the war before 1945,

(B) the immediate aftermath of 1945.

(C) the emergence of two regimes in the Korean peninsula in 1948.

(D) the role of the United States and the former Soviet Union.

3. "No state in the post-Cold War world cast its lot with globalization as decisively or as publicly as Korea did under the Kim Young Sam administration, which viewed it as the most expedient way for Korea to become a world-class, advanced country. Segyehwa has been touted as no longer a matter of choice but one of necessity-globalization or perish... Indeed, segyehwa was meant to describe Korea's unique concept, encompassing political, economic, social, and cultural enhancement to reach the level of advanced nations in the world."

Discuss this statement in the context of the interplay between Korea and globalization from the 1990s onward.

(A) Explain the political and economic contexts in which South Korea's segyehwa policy emerged around the 1990s.

(B) discuss the specific government policies that have been implemented under South Korea's drive for globalization, and how these policies have rapidly changed contemporary South Korean society.

(C) discuss any unique aspects of Korean globalization in contrast to globalization in general. In your answer.

(D) be sure to include how Korea's historical experiences in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries influenced the formation of South Korea's unique segyehwa policy.