Hannah+Suh+Landmark+Research

Due Date: Monday, February 14, 2011

Landmark name: DMZ ~ South Korea/North Korea

Directions:
 * Ask your parent(s) to help you use the internet for research.
 * Try one of the following websites and type in your Landmark name in the search box.
 * [|World Reviewer]
 * [|Nations Online]
 * [|Blackstump]
 * [|Great Buildlings]
 * [|CIA World Factbook]
 * [|Google Siteseeing]
 * [|Or, Google keywords "famous landmarks + asia"]
 * Cut and paste your information in the table below. We will quote and paraphrase it later.
 * Use at least 2 different Website Sources. If you use more than 4, email me and I'll make you a Website Source #5 box...
 * If you have a question, write your question in the answer box and highlight it in red . I will be checking this website and I will answer you in blue. You can also email me at rachel.retzler@yisseoul.org

** Bibliography List **
 * Website Source Example || Cut and paste information here ||
 * Website author’s LAST name || Matthews ||
 * __ Title of webpage __ || __Roman Colosseum___ ||
 * Date of posting/revision: || 2011 ||
 * Name of corporation/organization: || Artifice, Inc. ||
 * Date of access (today): || February 10, 2011 ||
 * Complete web address (URL): || [] ||


 * Website Source #1 || Cut and paste information here ||
 * Website author’s LAST name || Karp ||
 * Title of webpage || DMZ-Korea-1964 ||
 * Date of posting/revision: || 2010 ||
 * Name of corporation/organization: || Techno-Impressionist Journal ||
 * Date of access (today): || February 12, 2011 ||
 * Complete web address (URL): || http://www.ti-journal.com/ti-journal-0350.htm ||


 * Website Source #2 || Cut and paste information here ||
 * Website author’s LAST name || Pike ||
 * Title of webpage || Korean Demilitarized Zone (DMZ) ||
 * Date of posting/revision: || 2011 ||
 * Name of corporation/organization: || GlobalSecurity.org ||
 * Date of access (today): || February 12, 2011 ||
 * Complete web address (URL): || http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/facility/dmz.htm ||


 * Website Source #3 || Cut and paste information here ||
 * Website author’s LAST name || Havely ||
 * Title of webpage || =Korea's DMZ: 'Scariest place on Earth'= ||
 * Date of posting/revision: || August 27, 2003 ||
 * Name of corporation/organization: || CNN ||
 * Date of access (today): || February 12, 2011 ||
 * Complete web address (URL): || [] ||


 * Website Source #4 || Cut and paste information here ||
 * Website author’s LAST name || East ||
 * Title of webpage __ || =Visiting the Korean DMZ= ||
 * Date of posting/revision: || 2011 ||
 * Name of corporation/organization: || Hubpages Inc. ||
 * Date of access (today): || February 12 2011 ||
 * Complete web address (URL): || [] ||


 * Website Source #5 || Cut and paste information here ||
 * Website author’s LAST name || Ham ||
 * __ Title of webpage __ || Unexpected Heritage, DMZ ||
 * Date of posting/revision: || 2001 ||
 * Name of corporation/organization: || Gangwon Cyber DMZ ||
 * Date of access (today): || February 12, 2011 ||
 * Complete web address (URL): || http://www.korea-dmz.com/en/s/scm_main_en.asp ||

(From Bibliography  list) || Citation (Matthews, 2010, Roman Colosseum) || DMZ-Korea-1964) || (This is only for man made landmarks) || DMZ wasn't built ... || #? || ? || (only if man made) || DMZ wasn't built by man... || #? || ? || Unexpected Heritage, DMZ) ||  ||   ||   ||   ||   ||
 * Questions || ** Answer **
 * (Cut and paste) ** || Website #
 * 1. What country is your landmark in? || Between South Korea and North Korea || From the title #1 || (Karp,2010,
 * 1. What country is your landmark in? || Between South Korea and North Korea || From the title #1 || (Karp,2010,
 * 2. When was your landmark built?
 * 3. Who built it?
 * 4. Describe what your landmark looks like. || Though people feared there mines laid, Nature fearlessly occupied there. There seemed to solely grow up foxtail millet, a red-bean, oat, cotton plant, corn, potato and so on. In addition to this, there visit crane Grus japonensis, crane and white-naped crane Grus vipio from Siberia, and eagles in flocks from the Mongolian highlands, and there live a flock of goral Nemorhaedus goral raddeanus which have been known to be exterminated. The place is the only war natural ecological park existing on earth || #5 || (Ham,2001,
 * 5. What is its size? || Between North and South is a strip of rugged no man's land -- the DMZ proper -- averaging two and a half miles (4km) wide || #3 || (Havely, 2003, CNN) ||
 * 6. What is your landmark's history? Why was it built? || A DMZ stands for demilitarized zone.The DMZ story goes like this:

In Monday morning of July 27, 1953, the armistice agreement was signed in Panmunjeom. The high lands of battle line became calm. From the sea, the battleships sailed back and the combat aircrafts calmly landed on their airfield. The war was over. That's the armistice. Retreating immediately two kilometers, both South and North respectively made the area between them the buffer zone called the Demilitarized Zone.

And, outside 5~20km behind DMZ, the South set up the another line called the Civilian Control Line. DMZ is the area promised to prohibit from stationing of the army, deployment of arms, and from installing the military facilities. And, effectively keeping the promise in Civilian Control Line, the South, according to its necessity, prevented civilian from settling there and from making the industrial activity. Needless to say, the North might have set up such a line to its purpose. Then the Korean Peninsula wore the thick belt, meanderingly enclosing its waist.

After that, fifty years passed and another century came. 'What about the belt?' In the mind of people, it became to be reminded as the scar of Cold War between the West and the East that the twentieth century left to the earth. Many people imagined that grass and trees grow up to the full, so do the bird and the fish and that all kinds of wild animals go about but there will no obstacle of them. Such a imagination might be the beginning.

Before half century, the South and the North lost a part of each other, but they found gaining the reflecting benefit, 'a treasure of natural ecology'. Tardily, when visited there, Nature is keeping the new order, and its ecology was very uniquely unfolded. Ragweed visited the battle field is pushing out the native plants and making the fierce territorial struggle, and the empty village people had left was seized by the woods of acacia, willow, and reeds. **DMZ**: **North Korea** is a 3rd person shooter and features real-life military hardware and ten open maps. || #5 || (Ham,2001, Unexpected Heritage, DMZ) || Panmunjeom, a village that lies directly on the line between the two Koreas, is one of the best places to visit the DMZ. Because things remain a bit sensitive in the area, tourists are expected to join a tour group if they want to visit the village. The USO offers tours, though they must be scheduled well in advance. Other companies also provide tour services. One of the most interesting, though markedly more expensive, tours is one lead by former North Korean residents who defected to the South. A translator accompanies these guides. The tension increases as you approach the border on a modern super highway. The closer to the border the tour bus gets, the fewer vehicles. The last stretch is virtually empty. Travel within the DMZ is possible only in official UN vehicles. Camp Bonifas is the front line for South Korean and US joint forces. Access to most areas is rather limited, but you’ll be able to see lots, at least in passing. The most interesting place you will visit is the three conference rooms that sit directly over the border. Soldiers from both sides stand guard around d these rooms, but visitors are welcome to enter. Visitors can also see the tunnels that North Korea troops dug under the DMZ. UN forces discovered these tunnels. Many people are suspicious that there are more tunnels that have yet to be located. There is no need to book a tour to see the tunnels. Without a tour, it is possible to get within a few miles of the DMZ at Imjingak. There is a lookout at the site’s museum that allows visitors to view the DMZ and North Korea without going through the hassle of booking a tour. The Demilitarized zone between North and South Korea makes for a rather intense tourist activity. The amount of security and hassle to get into the DMZ and the unmistakable air of tension make this a unique experience. Perhaps it is not for everyone, but it certainly will be worth a few travel stories when you return safely home.
 * 7. Why is it special, interesting, or famous? Are there any "juicy" details? || Korea’s Demilitarized zone is one of the most fortified places on earth. Visiting can be a bit intimidating, especially when the tensions between North Korea and South Korea are high. The area is heavy with a tension that is virtually tangible, especially to those who are aware of the history and continued political conflict between North and South.

This is an old picture, but the rooms are still present and can be visited 's tallest flagpole soaring some 160 meters (525ft) into the air || #4 || (East,2011,Visiting the Korean DMZ) ||
 * 8. What do people do there? || Others take in visits to one of a number of tunnels dug secretly under the DMZ by the North for use in a possible invasion.Many come to gawp at the rigid North Korean soldiers stationed along the frontline || #3 || (Havely, 2003, CNN) ||
 * Interesting facts (extra, not required) ||  ||   ||   ||