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Social Media Sites account

The South Korean country is considered as the fastest internet connection speeds in the world and there are many new technologies that used by Koreans people every day. Also, social media has become more variety and there are many different platforms such Facebook, Twitter and Kakao talk

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The first account for KBS world TV on Facebook and it is representing the celebrities’ news, TV drama and films which are owns by KBS Company. The second account for Korean travel on Twitter which is official account about Korea tourism companies and it is providing travel news and guides owns by Korean tourism organization.

Moreover, the Korean travel is the official account that representing the tourism side of Korean country by providing information about the events, travel news, traditional foods, traditional culture, and guides information. Also, this account helps people from other nationality to know more about Korean culture before they are visiting South Korean.                 Currently, social media is contributing to sharing ideas and developing business. Also, it impacts on culture and society. However, South Korean trends are to expanding use social media not just in tourism and communicate, but also in business and spreading the Korean culture to the world. South Korean is a success in producing electronically in order to meet people needs in Korean and in the world and there are many famous that produced electronically such as Samsung and LG.

Globalization is impacting significantly in the media Korean development where it becomes interact with world changes. South Korean is an emerging arena of globalization and dynamic change. Moreover, Korean culture is an influence in foreigners people though TV drama, K-pop music and films. Addition, the media is advertising for Korean goods such as electronic, automakers, clothes and foods.

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The South Korean are representing to world through entertainment media such as Korean pop music, TV drama and films. These three things are contributed to spread and representing Korean cultures like habits, language and traditional foods. For example in UAE there are many colleges opened Korean clubs to teach students about South Korean culture and language like HCT College because there many students interested to know more about the Korean culture. Also, there was some K- pop bands visit UAE to see the Arabs fans and they have a large popularity in other countries.

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This series think is representing fact because is portrayed about South Korean life in the past. Also, sad love story drama was portrayed different society sector such as poor people like Joon-young who work for earn money to completed his study at college, Gun-woo from a rich family, Hye-In from the middle class and there were representing a different family. Addition, in this series there were three main actors one woman and two men each one of them an active role in the story and there were other sub-actors from Koreans and foreigners. The stereotype of the series was about the culture hard work of Korean people.  For example, Joon-young did not lose the hope after a move away from his lover and his mother left him. Joon-young worked hard to complete the college and to become a guitarist.

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The Sad love story is drama and romance Korean story about a woman who born blind and two men. The woman Hye-In and Joon-young were friend childhood and they loved each other when grown up. But Hye-In was forced to travel to the USA because her aunt loves a USA sailor and to make the operation so she can see again. As for the Joon-young was raised by his mother that worked in night clubs. Joon-young was work in construction sites so he can earn money to completed his study at college. In the USA, Hye-In met Gun-woo who were a son of the rich family and he was Joon-young best friend. Hye-In with time she loved Gun-woo because he helped her to do the operation and abled to see again and also she received a letter telling her that Joon-young died. After that Hye-In and Gun-woo were back to South Korean and Hye-In she was shocked.

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In recent decades, the South Korean movies and TV series have become more available to the world not only for the Korean people. There are many types of the story such drama, comedy, action, horror, suspense and romantic story. The first Korean TV series was “Sad Love Story” that broadcast in 2005 by MBC and I watched when I as in high school on the Dubai channel. The series provided with Arabic translated and I loved the story of the series that is encouraged me to watch other serials like Boys over flowers and Coffee prince.

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There are positive effects of globalization in South Korean in all dimensions except the environment. In the economic side, the globalization was improved international trade by 79% and creating domestic jobs for Korean people. However, they believe that globalization is effected in a negative way in an environment and causes the global warming and climate change. The South Korean people believe that environment problems should be the foreign policy goals of their country. Also, South Korean is considered as high-speed communication network infrastructure. Addition, globalization is increased domestic films market, there were 8.48 million watch South Korean films more than foreign films according to Korean Film Council.

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Factors affecting Media Development

There are many factors affected the media development in the South Korean such as geographic, cultural traits, economic, governmental influences, media qualities and technological competencies. In this report, I choose one factor cultural traits factor.

Cultural traits

The South Korean people was divided into different classes because different of education level. For example, the people who have the college education are belonging to middle class. Also, there was a big gap between industrialist income and working income. Moreover, the most things are effected in Korean people cultural was education, family and occupation. These things are enhanced and developed Korean media.

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The social network users rose dramatically from 23% in 2012 to 39.9% in 2014. From above graph, we can saw the division of different age group users using social media from 10s to 40s for 2012 and 2014. The highest percentage of social media users it was in the age 20s and least percentage in the age 40s from 2012 to 2014. Moreover, the most popular platforms of social media using in South Korean are Kakao talk, Facebook, Kakao story, Facebook messenger and Twitter in 2015.

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Internet users, ISPs and social media users

South Korean is considered as one of the most wired countries of using the internet it was increasing from 77% in 2008 to 83% in 2014. However, in 2002 infrastructure of the network was connecting to be international internet and submarine cables to two countries China and Japan. The national intelligence service and police have authority on internet access points for national reasons. In 2008, 4731 websites were blocked and deleted 6442 pages. Moreover, in 2015 the telecommunication sector was diverse and it opened the way for competitors and today there are more than 109 internet service providers (ISPs).  Between 2010 and 2013 South Korean was suffering from a violation of electronic data. For example in 2013 South Korean major banks were attacks and North Korean was authorities behind that. Nowadays, South Korean become as globalization country and has high-speed access to internet and connectivity.

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However, in the mid-1980s, the newspapers were increased moderately and found supported from the government. Also, the press media is development every day and there is a lot of news online such as Korea Times in English language pages.

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The press media

The news media of South Korean was starting in last 19th century after Japanese leave their country, but they were faced many difficulties in press media in 20th  because political control. Moreover, in 1945 to 1948 the Korea was under U.S. military power, this period helped in the burgeoning of the media press. The Syngman government was stop and arrested newspapers publishers in the period between 1948 and 1960. Addition, during the reign of President Park the government was surveillance all newspapers media since the Korean War. After that South Korean country was control two broadcasting companies like KBS so, no one can criticize anyone from the government.

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Radio and TV stations

The first broadcaster radio established in 1927 by the group of people called Korean broadcasting system (KBS). This broadcaster radio is public service network and it’s appointed by Korean president and currently, there is an online web page radio in English language and operate six networks. Then in 1961 there was another public broadcaster radio call Munhwa Broadcasting Corporation that operates MBC radio and music based MBC FM. Nowadays, MBC is expanded to have three radio channels, one TV channel and there are many programs providing like drama, news, entertainment, international awards, and sport. Also, there is KBS world radio which is external Broadcaster.

The first TV station was established in 1956 by KORCAD and there is two type of TV such as private and public TV channels. The private TV like Seoul broadcasting system (SBS) it is a commercial broadcaster and launched 1991. The public TV like KBS, MBC and EBS, all TV and radio channels are helped to distribution Korean culture to the world through drama, K-POP music and news. Also, it becomes easier to watch Korean drama in any country because all drama is providing with sublanguage like the Arabic language.

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Economy

In the past Korea was dominated under Japanese from the 1890s to 1945. However, Japanese was responsible for the initial economic modernization of the South Korean country. Moreover, the South Korean was comparing with other poor countries levels in the 1960s. In 1961s Park Chung-hee, the South Korean president was trying to transform the country from an agricultural backwater into a modern industrial through economic development program and become an independent country.  But The South Korean economic become the high-tech industrialized economy and increased incredibly in the last four decades. In 2004 South Korean become the member of the trillion dollar club of world economies. Moreover, industries were diversity such as an automobile, electronics, chemicals, telecommunications and shipbuilding. Also, they have diverse media sectors such as the internet, satellite television stations, newspapers and radio.

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According to World Facebook in 2015, the number of South Korean population is 49,155,196 million. There are some main factors are affected in the number of population such as mortality, international migration and fertility. Moreover, The Korean community is divided to five age groups for both female and male to 0-14, 15-24, 25-54, and 55-64 and above 65 years. From above graph we can see that average number of male is higher than the average number of female in the first three groups. But the average number of female more for people age from 55 to 64 years and above 65 years.

The Korean language is considered as ethnic family language and is written using Chinese characters which is called Hangul in 1446. Also, they use English and Korean languages to teach in universities and high schools. Addition, government policy is work to improve the level of English in their country. The English language was used as subtitles in some TV channels and there were some newspapers versions provide in English and Chinese languages.

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This report will be about media trends in South
Korean and globalization. Through the above map, we can see where South Korean
is located in southern of Korean Peninsula and East Asia. The South Korean
capital city is Seoul which considered as a huge city. Addition, it has common
bordered with North Korean from the north, Japan from southeast and china from
the west. Moreover, the total area of South Korean is 99,720sq. Km and total
land are 96,920 sq. km. Also, South Korean is bounded by the sea from three
sides like Yellow sea from west, Sea of Japan from east and East China Sea from
the south. The terrain of this country is mostly wide coastal plain sin west
and mountains like Halla-san which is 6,398 feet. The climate is temperate and
it has heavy rains in summer and it is cold in winter.    

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This report will be about media trends in South
Korean and globalization. Through the above map, we can see where South Korean
is located in southern of Korean Peninsula and East Asia. The South Korean
capital city is Seoul which considered as a huge city. Addition, it has common
bordered with North Korean from the north, Japan from southeast and china from
the west. Moreover, the total area of South Korean is 99,720sq. Km and total
land are 96,920 sq. km. Also, South Korean is bounded by the sea from three
sides like Yellow sea from west, Sea of Japan from east and East China Sea from
the south. The terrain of this country is mostly wide coastal plain sin west
and mountains like Halla-san which is 6,398 feet. The climate is temperate and
it has heavy rains in summer and it is cold in winter.    

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Overview of the Media System