Globalization and the Korean Peninsula: effects of globalization on identities and the relationship between North and South Korea

In this thesis, the author explores and analyzes how globalization negatively contributes to the relationship between North and South Korea since the Korean War. She explores and analyzes cultural and national identity change in South Korea resulted in globalization since the Korean War. Combining both qualitative and quantitative method, the author attempts to demonstrate a social dilemma, resulted in multiculturalism in South Korea, and the othering process through linguistic exclusion. Particularly, she scrutinizes the structure of linguistic system in South Korea, and observes news and TV shows in three Korean main broad cast systems. The author finds that South Korean news and social media have been influenced by globalization and modernization, and they have used certain forms of discourses and languages in order to emphasize South Korean national and cultural identity, but the othering North Korea.