Centro Universitario Tecnológico

NonFiction

Claudia Julissa Motiño Mejía 61841177

World Literature

Section 378

Teacher:
Mrs. Thania Henriquez

San Pedro Sula, Cortes. September 2nd, 2022.

 North and South Korea
What do I know? What do I want to find
out?
1. Korea was divided 1. The main reason
in North and South why Korea was
Korea by the Soviets and divided.
the United Stated. 2. The leader in South
2. People from North Korea because I
Korea can’t attempt to don’t know
enter South Korea and anything about it.
vice versa. 3. How this conflict
3. If someone from affects their
North Korea attempts to population?
enter South, then they 4. Is there a
might get arrested and possibility of North
same goes the other way. and South Korea
4. South Korea has becoming one solid
better economy that nation again?
North Korea. 5. - Why are U.S and
5. - Kim Jong-un has Russia still
been North Korea’s influencing in this
Supreme Leader for a conflict?
more than a decade.
What did I learn?
- Is illegal for people in
North Korea to hear
American pop music, they
can get executed.
- One-third of all phones
and TVs are made in
South Korea.
- They have been at war
since 1950.
- North Korea entered a
long period of famine that
lasted through the 90s.
Food was hard to come by
and some estimate that
millions of people starved
to death.
- North Korea promote an
idea of self-reliance that
they call Juche, they do
little to no trading with
other nations.
1. What made the Korean War particularly tragic? Support your argument with a quote
from the text. Explain what your quote shows and thoughtfully conclude your
argument.
‘Millions of people were dead, and the living returned to their original boundaries. The
war never officially ended, though combat has ceased for the most part.’ I think this
part of the text emphasize what made the war so tragic, a lot of innocent people died
during this conflict and it unfortune for these countries, same goes to the way that it
affects their economies.

2. What is one thing that readers can learn from this text? Cite several pieces of text to
support your point. Be sure to explain what the text is showing.
‘Selling these products to people in other nations made South Korea rich. They now
have one of the largest and most thriving economies in the world.’
‘North Korea is one of the poorest nations in the world and it is armed with nuclear
weapons.’
‘One country is among the wealthiest, the other amongst the poorest’
I cited these pieces of the text because it’s the information that caught my attention
because how two countries that come from one same nation, have grown far apart in
different economies and societies.

3. In what ways have the two Koreas grown apart? Discuss two ways in which they
have grown apart and support each of your points with text. Be sure to explain your
quotes. Make your argument clear.
Just as I answered in the previous question, North Korea it’s one of the poorest nations
in the world but it is armed with nuclear weapons, but they opted to do little to no
trading with other nations. This means that most of their population does internal
commerce, affecting their options to send their products internationally.
In the other hand, South Korea has one of the richest economies in the world
and the highest salaries in Asia.
United States raised South Korea in their own image and as we know, the U.S.
is a capitalist country. Meanwhile, North Korea was raised by the Soviet Union
which was supposed to follow a communist system.
Both countries share a border, but they are completely different in economy,
education, technology, and job securities.