Alua
yewangmkz.bsky.social
Alua
@yewangmkz.bsky.social
Today at the class, we watched the video about censorship system in China and how strict are these regulations. Social media inside China is heavily monitored, and posts about sensitive political topics or even smocking in video streaming are quickly deleted.
June 10, 2025 at 2:11 AM
Today we made a presentation about lookism in Korea and our topic name is “Beyond beauty: pale skin, lookism, and orientalism in Korean culture.”
May 29, 2025 at 1:11 AM
Today in class, we discussed how China’s suppression of minority languages is part of a larger plan to make everyone follow one culture. The government refuses to recognise that groups like the Tibetans, Uyghurs, and Mongols have their own original languages.
May 28, 2025 at 12:24 AM
Today our group had discussed the environmental issues in South Korea and we believe the most significant environmental problems these days include floods, climate change, air pollution and wildfires.
May 22, 2025 at 1:20 AM
I read the article where the author explores parts of Japanese society, including topics of sex, loneliness, and relationships. But instead of giving a balanced view, it often shows Japan as strange, lonely, and overly sexual.

www.bbc.co.uk/mediacentre/...
Stacey Dooley Investigates: Young Sex For Sale In Japan
www.bbc.co.uk
April 24, 2025 at 2:13 AM
Today at the class we had a guest lecture about youth issues in contemporary Korea from @nayoungbishoff.bsky.social

The final question raised was how we can begin to tackle and ultimately reduce the increasing rates of youth suicide in South Korea.
April 22, 2025 at 6:38 AM
www.scmp.com/news/china/p...

The South China Morning Post article, “China’s Inner Mongolia emerges as model for Xi Jinping’s ethnic affairs policy, but analysts warn of cultural ‘erosion’”, uses framing to shape how readers understand China’s policies in Inner Mongolia.
How Inner Mongolia is emerging as a model for China’s ethnic affairs policy
Inner Mongolia trumpets its success in assimilating minority groups to promote national identity through language, censorship and local laws, and analysts say the measures are likely to be rolled out ...
www.scmp.com
April 17, 2025 at 1:29 AM
I read the article titled “Chinese Seafood Made With North Korean Forced Labor Still Enters Korea” and I noticed how authors framed China and North Korea as violators of human rights assigning all blame to them.
April 10, 2025 at 1:16 AM
I read and analyzed the article - www.morganstanley.com/ideas/south-...

I believe that they used blaming theory here by emphasizing that government’s guilty for this problem happening.
www.morganstanley.com
April 1, 2025 at 1:28 AM
Today I read this article - mainichi.jp/english/arti...

By using Framing theory, I noticed that in this article media places a strong emphasis on the increase in international tourist arrivals, particularly from China, the US, South Korea, and Taiwan (as described in the article).
January foreign visitors to Japan surge 40% to monthly record 3.78 million - The Mainichi
TOKYO (Kyodo) -- The number of foreign visitors to Japan in January surged 40.6 percent from a year earlier to a record 3.78 million, as travelers fro
mainichi.jp
March 25, 2025 at 4:40 AM
I read an article titled “Nursing Care Worker Numbers Fall to 2.13 Million: Demand Is Growing Higher, but Pay Remains Low”, which highlights how health ministers assigned blame to the system for the ongoing nursing care shortage.

japannews.yomiuri.co.jp/society/gene...
Nursing Care Worker Numbers Fall to 2.13 Million; Demand is Growing Higher, but Pay Remains Low
<p>The number of nursing care workers nationwide fell to 2.126 million in fiscal 2023, down by 28,000 from the previous year to mark the first decline since the long-term care insurance system started...
japannews.yomiuri.co.jp
March 20, 2025 at 1:15 AM
I read this article and I think it used social representation theory - www.npr.org/2025/03/08/n...

In this article readers can see how Thai government’s actions repeating itself back from 2016 to current time by deporting Uyghurs and not allowing them to receive asylum.
Opinion: Thailand's deportation of Uyghurs to China has echoes of 10 years ago
Thailand's recent deportations of Uyghurs to China have eerie parallels with a large deportation in 2015, in which the country bowed to Beijing, writes historian Jeffrey Wasserstrom.
www.npr.org
March 18, 2025 at 1:28 AM
It is clear that HKFP used a framing method to shape a negative perception of China in this article, portraying it as a nation that neglects its own citizens - hongkongfp.com/2025/03/08/m...
Chongqing subway farmers highlight inequality in China
The image of farmers hauling their wares on foot past Chongqing's skyscrapers is a reminder that for many making a living is still a struggle in China.
hongkongfp.com
March 11, 2025 at 1:45 AM