EXPLAIN WHY IS THERE A CULTURAL DIFFERENCE BETWEEN NORTH KOREA & SOUTH KOREA ?

After the World War II North Korea took a communistic form of government from the USSR, while South Korea became a democracy. That is why North Korea has live contracted and away from the rest of the world meanwhile South korea is prosperous and has succeed in many competitiveness around the world.

Japan occupied the korean peninsula but when Japan's surrendered, United States accepted the surrender of all troops of the south while the Soviet Union all those surrendering in the north. United States set elections in 1947 to reunite Korea in one local government but the north refused and the nation split into the democratic people's republic of korea with its capital in Pyongyang and the Republic of Korea with its capital in Seoul.

In 1950 North Korea invaded South Korea, but a lot of countries sent assistance to South Korea, one of those countries were Colombia, because of that Koreans greatly appreciate us. In 1953 the war ended.

South Korea came out of the war as a free nation and among the years has implemented governmental programs to developed prosperity and become a high level industrial country.South koreans practices a form of Buddhism but in recent years there have been an important increase of christians.

North Korea developed differently. North Koreans have a lot of barriers to go out of the country and a socialist economy was assumed, that means that the state control most of the nation's industry and the rest is in the hands of organized cooperatives. It is known for all the world, that in North Korea is been developing nuclear experiments but they denied access to an inspection from the international atomic energy agency, which complicated the relations with the west.The North Korean government implemented the "war economy" that means that every day a North Korean just eat a portion of rice. It was estimated that thousands of people had died due to the cold,hunger and no medical attention. Also there is prohibit in North Korea to be Christian,they have been brainwashed and believe that KIM II SUNG is god in earth.

For all these reasons South Korea has experienced economic success and christianity while North Korea has been starving.

BIBLIOGRAPHY:

1.http://newton.uor.edu/Departments&Programs/AsianStudiesDept/korea.html

2.http://www.hyperhistory.net/apwh/essays/cot/t3w30korea.htm