South Korea
About South Korea
The division of Korea happened After the Korean war between North Korea and South Korea. So, South Korea officially begins with established of South Korea Republic on August 15, 1948 with Syngman Rhee as the first president but now they have a different president that consider the first female president in South Korea is Park Geun-Hye. South Korea ”한국" called Hanguk in Korean. South Korea is a small country on the peninsula the peninsula sticks out from northeastern China and South Korea makes up the southern half.
Location and Geography
South Korea occupies the southern half of the Korean peninsula, which protrudes about 620 miles (1,000 kilometers) southward from the Eurasian
landmass between Soviet Siberia in the northeast and Chinese Manchuria to the north. About three thousand islands belong to Korea, among which the Province of Cheju Island is the largest.
Korea is mountainous, and only about 20 percent of the land in the south is flat enough for farming. Seoul, the capital, is in the northwestern part of the country on the Han River, which flows toward the Yellow Sea. Seoul was first established as the walled capital of the Choson Dynasty in 1394. Before Japan colonized Korea in 1910, Seoul was the first city in east Asia to have electricity, trolley cars, a water system, telephones, and telegraphs.
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