Term Paper: India and the East India Company (History) Possible sources: http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/176643/East-India-Company http://www.infoplease.com/encyclopedia/history/east-india-company-british.html https://www.sscnet.ucla.edu/southasia/History/British/EAco.html http://www.victorianweb.org/history/empire/india/eic.html http://history.howstuffworks.com/historical-events/east-india-company-influence1.htm Outline: I. Introduction A. What is the East India Company? II. Establishment A. Reason for establishing 1. To pursue trade in the East Indies 2. Break Dutch monopoly of spice trade B. Influential Figures 1. Queen Elizabeth I 2. Sir James Lancaster 3. King James I C. The first Joint-Stock Corporation III. Foothold in India A. Hostilities between British, Dutch, and Portuguese B. Sir James Roe and the Mughal Emperor Nuruddin Salim Jahangir 1. Commercial Treaty IV. Expansion and Development of a Monopoly A. The New World, etc. V. Conclusion [Type text] [Type text] [Type text] Running Head: The Impact of Korean Dramas on Distributing Korean Culture The Impact of Korean Dramas on Distributing Korean Culture Introduction Television programs always have huge connection with different cultural backgrounds. Therefore, people’s opinion on understanding a culture can be influenced by those TV programs. Especially for Korean dramas, which refers to the televised dramas made in Korean and use Korean language. These years, Korean dramas are being popular worldwide as there is a lot of people are watching Korean dramas from all over the world. By watching Korean dramas, people start understanding Korean custom, the popular places in Korea, Korean food and Korean language. Moreover, people get interested in Korean culture from receiving the information of those Korean dramas. Therefore, some of them they begin to learn Korean language, travel to Korean and even introduce Korean culture to the people around them. As a result, Korean culture has been distributed by Korean dramas. Drama has the aspect of both culture and economy and thus Korean drama is intended to promote exchange of culture globally and to make it an export industry. The Korean drama on TV has led to a lot of reactions from different diverse communities. And since the TV dramas in Korea show a detailed reflection on their industry, thoughts and lifestyles, Korean culture has been distributed by Korean dramas to all over the world. Literature Review Korean Wave To discuss the impact of drama in distributing Korean culture, the generation of Korean Wave was powered by the Korean drama. As Korean culture start getting more and more popular across Southeast Asia and all around the world, this spread of Korean popular culture is referred as Korean wave. In addition, “hallyu” is another term of Korean wave, which means “flow of Korean” (Shim, 2006). Korean wave includes the popularities of Korean pop music, products, films and drama ...

1. Term Paper: India and the East India Company (History)
Possible sources:
http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/176643/East-India-
Company
http://www.infoplease.com/encyclopedia/history/east-india-
company-british.html
https://www.sscnet.ucla.edu/southasia/History/British/EAco.htm
l
http://www.victorianweb.org/history/empire/india/eic.html
http://history.howstuffworks.com/historical-events/east-india-
company-influence1.htm
Outline:
I. Introduction
A. What is the East India Company?
II. Establishment
A. Reason for establishing
1. To pursue trade in the East Indies
2. Break Dutch monopoly of spice trade
B. Influential Figures
1. Queen Elizabeth I
2. Sir James Lancaster
3. King James I
C. The first Joint-Stock Corporation
III. Foothold in India
A. Hostilities between British, Dutch, and Portuguese
B. Sir James Roe and the Mughal Emperor Nuruddin Salim
Jahangir
1. Commercial Treaty
IV. Expansion and Development of a Monopoly
A. The New World, etc.
V. Conclusion

2. [Type text] [Type text] [Type text]
Running Head: The Impact of Korean Dramas
on Distributing Korean Culture
The Impact of Korean Dramas on Distributing Korean Culture

3. Introduction
Television programs always have huge connection with
different cultural backgrounds. Therefore, people’s opinion on
understanding a culture can be influenced by those TV
programs. Especially for Korean dramas, which refers to the
televised dramas made in Korean and use Korean language.
These years, Korean dramas are being popular worldwide as
there is a lot of people are watching Korean dramas from all
over the world. By watching Korean dramas, people start
understanding Korean custom, the popular places in Korea,
Korean food and Korean language. Moreover, people get
interested in Korean culture from receiving the information of
those Korean dramas. Therefore, some of them they begin to
learn Korean language, travel to Korean and even introduce
Korean culture to the people around them. As a result, Korean
culture has been distributed by Korean dramas. Drama has the
aspect of both culture and economy and thus Korean drama is
intended to promote exchange of culture globally and to make it
an export industry. The Korean drama on TV has led to a lot of
reactions from different diverse communities. And since the TV
dramas in Korea show a detailed reflection on their industry,
thoughts and lifestyles, Korean culture has been distributed by
Korean dramas to all over the world.
Literature Review
Korean Wave
To discuss the impact of drama in distributing Korean culture,
the generation of Korean Wave was powered by the Korean
drama. As Korean culture start getting more and more popular
across Southeast Asia and all around the world, this spread of
Korean popular culture is referred as Korean wave. In addition,
“hallyu” is another term of Korean wave, which means “flow of
Korean” (Shim, 2006). Korean wave includes the popularities of

4. Korean pop music, products, films and dramas. The Korean
Wave was started back in 1997 at a time when the Korean
drama, What Love is All About, was the program being aired on
China Television Station. The program got a high ranking
during that time by being mentioned the second best in terms of
views in the whole of Asia. What is Love All About had a
setting of an extended family setup living under one roof. By
that time, China had a strong belief on nuclear family setup
coupled with individualism that was deeply rooted as a culture,
and thus the story on extended family left the people nostalgic.
The story resulted to deeper understanding of the Korean
culture about the family life to the people of China. Later in
1999, a Youth Daily in Beijing mentioned the term “Hallyu” to
mean the Korean Wave describing the success achieved by a
Korean pop group’s concert performed in Beijing. Since then,
Korean Wave has been used in describing the celebrity of
Korean culture worldwide.
Korean Dramas in China
After Korean wave has been used in describing the celebrity of
Korean culture worldwide, the number of dramas imported by
China from Korea dramatically increased. China is being a
major consumer of the Korean drama has contributed to the
economic growth of Korea through importation of such cultural
drama. However, around the start of the year 2006, the Korean
drama began to experience many challenges. The Chinese
government started limiting number of soap operas from South
Korea in their country reducing drastically the export revenue
collection from about $101. 6 million to $85.9million. However,
the number of watching the Korean drama by the people of
China was still continuing to rise.
With most of them depicting the daily family lives of the
Koreans both in the rural in urban setups. The diverse themes
incorporated in the Korean dramas attracted people of different
generations’ world over leading to expansion of market for the
Korean drama. The two major types of soap operas from Korea
are contemporary and historical, with the latter based on

5. historical events and figures. China television majorly aired Dae
Jang Geum as their favorite soap opera from Korea (Chua,
2008). The reality portrayed in the drama on traditional Korean
royal cuisine and medicine in particular made an appeal to the
famous Chinese audience. This Korean drama had a remarkably
large audience rating in not less than thirteen notable cities in
China. The publicity of this particular soap opera in the whole
Chinese state was done by president remark showing a great
love to Dae Jang Geum during a public function.
Another type of Korean drama welcomed in the major parts of
the world is the contemporary type of drama. It a fictional
drama portraying the current structure setting of a society in
South Korea, majorly the urban lifestyle. The cotemporary
drama has a variation of the theme from the common family and
love to the less expected, politics. A Korean dramas like the
very recent, Secret Garden (2011) explained numerous Korean
modern cultures such as career building, workplace challenges,
love triangles, as well as exposing very attractive scenes made
by the Korean film industries. Additionally, the younger
generation internationally has also been included in the benefits
of Korean dramas. Celebrities from Korea have become the
experts in different parts of the world offering such services
like fashion and design, hair dressing and international makeup
guides. Since What Love is All About made grand entry into the
international market, the likes of Geum-Soon (2005), See and
See again (1998) and Miss Mermaid (2002) got into the market
and got their popularity in existence. They all preach the same
theme and have their stories rooted on the ordinary Korean
middle families. They also portray the three different classes of
families and lifestyle as it is in Korea.
Globalization of the Korean industry
As Korean dramas are being extremely popular in China, they
are also really influential across other countries. The most
significant reason for the success of Korean dramas into the
international market was that every nation, that is, the major
consumers like China had alternatives to different cultures to

6. Korea and they are regarding as a threat to their indigenous
beliefs. Many countries placed their priorities in expanding
their economy allowing infiltration of different firms, industrial
products and cultures. Korean film industries invested heavily
on the productions of such programs like the Korean dramas for
export and by the invention and expansion if internet, their
products reached a wider world market. Social media on the
other hand is an international forum for interaction and
exchange of information. The links to the Korean drama are
shared through the social media platforms and downloaded
instantly in different parts of the world. The Korean drama is
indeed confirmed a filter for western beliefs and exhibit
traditional beliefs and values that are familiar with some
cultures from other communities. The storyline in these Korean
drama have a direct speak to audience with Asian economic
touch. Korean Wave an engine behind the prosperity and
distribution of Korean culture has realized success since the
South Korean young generation, with no connection to the
nationwide poverty forms the major driving force in the drama.
They also provide fresh dimension to the Korean cultural
products, creating a modern lifestyle very desirable very many
young people internationally. The people of China can easily
trace their traditional culture from soap operas from Korea and
gets back their cultural identity from such drama (Iwabuchi, et
al 2004). Korean Wave has greatly impacted economic
development to the Korean government. At a time Asia was
hardly hit by economic crisis, private media sought cheap and
high quality products such as Korean drama and left the
Japanese and American products. The famous electronic firms
like LG and Samsung took the initiative to distribute the free
copies of the Korean drama to televisions showing the diverse
cultures of Korea.
Korean Culture Among Korean Dramas
Korean dramas not only brought huge economic benefits to
Korea, but also showed Korean culture to their audiences. Since
Korea stands to be the most Confucian nation world over, their

7. drama fundamental role has been to prove this point to the
whole world. The drama reflects on the Korean Confucian
values, like family- centered characters, respecting the elders
and being loyal to the hierarchy. The impact of Korean Wave in
other parts of the world and its political and cultural
implications, just by having a look at the Korean drama that
appeared televisions on different televisions world over. The
Korean drama depicted in the recorded in form of the soap
operas have made great achievement in such countries like
China and many other counties. This success is attributed to the
ability of the Korean drama to blend with the Confucian and
western cultures (Iwabuchi, 2004). They provided soft
alternatives that preferable over other western cultures like
Japanese and American cultural products that were violent and
explicit. Therefore, Korean culture is lively and strong since
internet makes live streaming of Korean cultures.

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