What is globalization?
1. Summary
The term 'Globalization' is told differently to every scholars. The latest term that I know so far is spoken by Robertson and White. They said the term 'Globalization' consists primarily of two major directional tendencies, increasing global connectivity and increasing global consciousness.
Globalization is generally recognized three dimensions, which are cultural, political, and economic. The most significant characteristic of cultural dimension is the transmission of and values spread all around world because of the development of internet. Therefore, even we are living in Korea we are affected by some foreign concepts such as westernization and americanization. In the political dimension, we can give some political infrastructure of global governance. The global NGOs like UN, OECD, and IMF are the examples of this concept. In the economic dimension, nowadays, we can easily see that most of corporations are competing with other corporations from other nations. Those are the main concept of globalization.
2. Interesting or unusual items that I learned
It was interesting that globalization also affects some part of politics. I thought that politics is applied to only domestic issues or issues between two countries. However, what I learned is it is also international. As the role of global NGOs are getting important, politics issues becoming global issues. I have never thought about this political side. So it was very interesting to know
3. Discuss point
The world is getting smaller and being together nowadays. However, there is a part of an earth which is called 'North Korea' still deny the globalization. (North Korea is not even a country as the constitution of South Korea say.) Someday when Korea peninsula get united, North Korea will face the new world. I am curious when the day comes, North Korea can be accustomed to globalization? Or they cannot follow the trend of globalization?
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