source interpretation

Sources Interpretation

by Ellen Lee

I bought a Costco membership card in Korea and I moved to Canada, U.S., Mexico, Japan etc, have Costco. I can use a Costco membership card in any country’s Costco. Where is Costco Wholesale Corporation from? It is located in Washington in U.S. it’s not a Korean company and not a Canadian company either but I can use Costco in Korea and Canada too. It is an example of globalization. What is globalization? I think it is like assimilation of people all over the world. Before world became globalization, people almost use their resources, goods, media and labours. But After world became globalization as they usually trade goods, service and media and become a member of same company with other countries’ people, their cultures has similarity each other.



To quote source 1, “Globalization can affect us individually and also collectively.” There are four different types of globalization in the world. People can be affected by economics, social, environmental, and political globalization. An example of Economic and political globalization can be FTA in South Korea. In 2007, South Korea officially started FTA(Free Trade Agreement) with South America. In Free Trade, two countries can trade with each other without any limits. For example, Tariffs, quotas, taxes and other stuff to trade are lifted. Through this, South Korea got lots of positive effects like decrease in tariffs and could get legal services from law firm company in U.S. The negative impact could be lead to the farmers who harvest crops. At that time, South Korea had to import rice from the U.S but, they no longer have to import it from U.S and it gave lots of problems to farmers who harvest rice because importing rice from the U.S was cheaper than rice made in South Korea. Multiculturalism can an example of social globalization because as people who have different identities, cultures, race live together, they get to share them and get to know about different cultures and become their identities the same. Negative effects of social globalization could be lead the loss of individual rights to their own lifestyle and their culture. Globalization is everywhere and everyone is affected by it either in negative and positive ways, and everyone if part of it.




It was broadcasted in twenty countries and it has over 120 million viewers. It is not popular in Korea, but Koreans know what is it and who are characters like Elmo and Cookie monster in ‘Sesame Street’. But it is a true that ‘Sesame Street’ is international broadcast and an example of media convergence. Media convergence, it is a business owns multiple media companies and has them work together and it affects media identity. When people buy some goods through movies, dramas, TV shows or see magazines, these media do role advertisement and the situation affects media identity.
So, When someone watch ‘Sesame Street’ and get feelings about want to buy clothes, bags or etc designed by characters of ‘Sesame Street’, also other people get same feelings to buy something which designed by characters of ‘Sesame Street’. It is an example of how does media affect identity and media convergence.



Chiquita is the biggest banana firm in the world so people see bananas which has Chiquita’s logo anywhere. How to produce Chiquita banana? What is a process about Chiquita banana to come to consumers? Chiquita brand company uses plantation system and majority plantations are Latin America like Guatemala.Bananas are produced in Latin America and then to quote source 3 “it have been rigorously inspected before they ever leave the tropics 6 times.” After finished evaluate about quality of bananas, it ships all over the world using transportation when they use to ship transportation, it is an example of containerization. Containerization, It is a way to ship goods using containers after trade routes change more conveniently. And people who live all over the world buy Chiquita banana in grocery store more cheaper than other fruits. Why banana is more cheaper than other fruits? When Chiquita brand sell their banana at cheap price they can get advantage from banana? When banana pickers cultivate bananas, they’re members of Chiquita brand company even Chiquita’s logo maker and banana carrier too. Chiquita has over 10.000 employees in all over the world. They have lots of employee, they sell their banana very cheap price and first of all they’ll get advantages about their bananas. It means they save money at employees’ wages and work surroundings to sell more cheaper and get advantage themselves. Chiquita brand is an example of transnational corporation and has problems about human rights. Transnational corporation it is company has more than one registered company in other countries to give better services or goods to consumers. But its problem are to use child labour, unfair wages and unsafe working conditions. As world became globalization, transnational corporations were formed and contribute lots of people get jobs and world economies are developed. But If they have not responsible about conducting their business and human rights, globalization will become worse.




As world became globalization trade became more liberalization. As trade liberalization is developed more and more people all over the world have chances to share their cultures, media, labours and etc each other and affects our identity. So they can watch some of identical movies like ‘Harry potter’ and ‘Pirates of the Caribbean’ and broadcasts like ‘Sesame Street’ in their country. They can eat Chiquita bananas in any countries. They can hire workers who have different races to transnational corporations. Globalization is caused these examples. Although it sometimes has negative effects, it makes people unite each other like one world.