South Korea

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South Korea

• My classmate Sooks country
• By Huang Hsin Cheng

Hello
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South Korea Flag
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Interesting(1)

• Korean wave
• Korean pop culture has become popular in Asia and
  beyond, earning the name Hallyu or "Korean wave".
  In Japan and other Asian countries, Korean
  boyband TVXQ and television drama like Winter
  Sonata have found success., while Rain is widely
  acknowledged in Asia and begins to set his foot
  on American market. Recent Korean films such as
  Oldboy and Oasis have also received international
  acclaim.

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Interesting(2)

• Taekwondo
• Taekwondo is a Korean martial art and the
  national sport of South Korea. In Korean, tae
  means "foot" kwon means "fist" and do means
  "way" so taekwondo is loosely translated as "the
  way of the foot and fist".
• Taekwondo's popularity has resulted in the varied
  evolution of the martial art into several
  domains.
• Traditional taekwondo is typically not
  competition-oriented but stems from military
  roots with great emphasis on offense. Modern
  Taekwondo, on the other hand, tends to emphasize
  control and self-defense. Formally, there are two
  main styles of taekwondo. One comes from the
  Kukkiwon, the source of the sparring system
  shihap kyeorugi which is now an event at the
  summer Olympic Games and which is governed by the
  World Taekwondo Federation (WTF), the other comes
  from the International Taekwondo Federation
  (ITF).

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Language

• Korean is the official language of North Korea
  and South Korea. It is also one of the two
  official languages in the Yanbian Korean
  Autonomous Prefecture in China. There are about
  80 million Korean speakers, with large groups in
  Australia, Brazil, Canada, China, Japan, the
  United States, CIS (post-Soviet states), and more
  recently the Philippines. Much vocabulary has
  been borrowed from Chinese, especially words that
  denote abstract ideas, in the same way European
  languages borrow from Latin and Greek. It was
  formerly written using hanja, borrowed Chinese
  characters pronounced in the Korean way. In the
  15th century a national writing system was
  developed, nowadays called hangul.

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Religion

• Religion in South Korea is dominated by the
  traditional Buddhist faith and a large and
  growing Christian population.
• According to 2005 statistics compiled by the
  South Korean government, approximately 46.5 of
  the South Korean population express no religious
  preference.Of the religious people, 29.3 are
  Christian (of which 18.3 (on total) profess to
  be Protestants and 10.9 to be Catholics), 22.8
  are Buddhist, and the rest adheres to various new
  religious movements including Jeungism,
  Daesunism, Cheondoism, Taoism, Confucianism and
  Wonbuddhism.

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History(1)

• Ancient history of Korea
• As the Chinese pressed for expansion, the tribe
  of central and northern Asia found their way into
  the Korean peninsula. It was then that the
  Goguryeo kingdom was formed in the 1st century
  AD. For the next four centuries the kingdom of
  Goguryeo, Baekje and Silla ruled the peninsula.
  Indigenous art, architecture and literature
  developed during this period. The Koreans
  suffered under the Mongols and after their
  collapse the Choson Dynasty took over. The
  Japanese invasion at the end of the 16th century
  was a turning point in the Korean history as she
  shut herself off from any kind of outside
  influence completely.
• In spite of an uneasy relationship with North
  Korea and two threateningly powerful neighbors in
  both the flanks in the form of Japan and China,
  South Korea has managed to hold its own in the
  face of separated odds. With its own unique
  culture that originates from its history, South
  Korea has something exotic about it and continues
  to impress millions of tourists who visit the
  land.

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History(2)

• Modern history
• The division of the Korean peninsula roughly
  along the 38th parallel and the creation of South
  Korea in the process under the protection of
  U.S.A. mark the beginning of modern history of
  the country. Neither the end of the war nor the
  creation of a demilitarized zone could solve
  South Korea.s escalating problems. In the
  political turmoil that followed, South Korea
  experienced years of autocratic rule followed by
  military dictatorship. Notwithstanding the
  military rule South Korea made stunning economic
  progress. The protest among civil society and
  student movement ultimately resulted in the first
  election in 1987. South Korea is also recovering
  from sever financial scare that it suffered in
  1997.

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Government

• The government of South Korea is divided into
  three branches executive, judicial, and
  legislative. The executive and legislative
  branches operate primarily at the national level,
  although various ministries in the executive
  branch also carry out local functions. Local
  governments are semi-autonomous, and contain
  executive and legislative bodies of their own.
  The judicial branch operates at both the national
  and local levels. South Korea is a constitutional
  democracy.

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Food

• A typical Korean meal called "pekpan" consists of
  rice, the staple of every Korean meal, soup and a
  great many side dishes, one of which is
  "kimch'i". The sweet sticky rice accompanies
  every meal and may be plain or seasoned. Soup is
  also served a lot. Other dishes include seafood,
  meat or poultry,vegetables, herbs and roots.
• KIMCH'I

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The End
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