Technically they are the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea, and although they may only control the north of the Korean Peninsula, they are all Korean. According to them, the people in the south are also citizens of the DPRK and thus also Koreans, but in this case, these Koreans are...
People who visit Seoul can travel to Pyeongchang via the Korean bullet train. Korean high-speed trains South Korea Facts | Korean People Most Koreans (81%) live in urban areas of the country. The lowlands around the capital city Seoul and Incheon are home to the majority the South Koreans...
Kim Il-sung, who was the first leader of North Korea, was named the Eternal Leader of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea four years after his death. Therefore, the current North Korean leader, Kim Jon-un, does not have the title of president. He does, however, have the followin...
Truman of the United States sent military assistance to South Korea when almost 90% of the country was already occupied by the Korean People’s Army (north). PEOPLE AND CULTURE As of 2016, there are over 51 million Koreans. It terms of ethnicity, about 99% of its population are ...
South Korea has been getting an increasing amount of publicity around the world. In East Asia, there is a lot about K-pop, cosmetics, andKorean dramas. In the West, people often hear news about their neighbors up North (although that’s changing too, thanks to theKorean wave). ...
students about North Korea, officially the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea, which is a country in East Asia which occupies 55% of the Korean Peninsula land area. It is bordered by the Republic of Korea, commonly known as South Korea, to the south, and China and Russia to the ...
HIV/AIDS - people living with HIV/AIDS: 8,300 (2003 est.) HIV/AIDS - deaths: less than 200 (2003 est.) Nationality: noun:Korean(s) adjective:Korean Ethnic groups: homogeneous (except for about 20,000 Chinese) Religions: Christian 26%, Buddhist 26%, Confucianist 1%, no affiliation 46%...
Most of you probably know South Korea because of the pop culture phenomenon Gangnam Style and some of you might even be into K-Pop and Korean TV Shows. However, what you didn’t know is that the country is one of the fastest developing economies and its people are, in a sense, weirde...
Panmunjeom: Facts About the Korean DMZ By Wayne A. Kirkbride Panmunjeom: Facts About the Korean DMZ Details: Though not well-known to many outside Korea, Panmunjeom should be one of the most talked about places in the world, as it is the most heavily armed and potentially dangerous ...
For thousands of years the entire Koreanpeninsula(piece of land surrounded by water on three sides) was one body of people that shared one culture. After World War II, the country divided into North Korea and South Korea. The division of land is known as the Military Demarcation Line and ...