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Ben Werner,
Student Newspaper Editor
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Now postwar citizenship policies became the principal institutional device for severing Koreans from the Japanese body politic and quarantining them from potentially contaminating Japanese society and culture.
1987 enabled Koreans to further develop their culture by promoting social movements in all areas of Korean society, ie.
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Chogyam Trungpa Gyatso,
Tibetan Monk
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Ironically, it was these departures from the philosophy of the Buddha that had such powerful appeal for the Chinese, Koreans, Japanese and Tibetans who, in adapting that philosophy to their own cultures, changed it even more radically from its original course.
Under the cultural influence of the Tang Dynasty of China, Koreans fulfilled their historical task of assimilating the influx of foreign culture with indigenous and innate aspirations.
While Japanese scholars were pursuing colonialist aims in research on Korea culture, Korean scholars on the other hand began their own research in order to discover in the traditional culture the spiritual basis for the independence movement against Japan.
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Zhang Xian Qian,
Ex-Olympic Swimmer
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Korean painting culture was likewise suppressed by the Japanese in favor of Western or Chinese styles - both of which had been adopted by the Japanese.
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Sveta Romanova,
Intelligence Officer
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He filled government and party posts with any who supported him in combating his political rivals by manipulating the Soviet-Koreans, who were alien to Korea and her culture.
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Bori Gonbutoren,
Reindeer Herder
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Although physical similarities are obvious between these countries, Koreans are a homogeneous ethnic group with its own language, culture, and customs.
Not only has the geographical boundaries which separate it from its neighbours impacted on the food culture of the nation, but the four dis tinct seasons have also influenced what South Koreans eat.
Koreans feel a solemn duty to pass on such beliefs and the pride of a people with a long history and ancient culture to succeeding generations.
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Jack Crawford,
WWII Veteran
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When the Japanese occupation ended in 1945 the few Koreans who were experienced in their traditional martial arts by studying in secret, began the long and arduous task of re-establishing the arts in the Korean culture.
There is considerable opposition to Japanese culture in South Korea, especially among academics and bureaucrats, who claim that Japanese popular influences will corrupt Korean children and do harm to impressionable teenagers.
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