South Korea

Overview of South Korea

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  • South Korea is one of the most ethnically homogeneous countries in the world with an absolute majority of Korean ethnicity who account for approximately 96% of the total population.[28] However, with its emergence as an economic powerhouse, demand for foreign immigrants increased and in 2007 the number of foreign citizen residents in South Korea passed the one million mark for the first time in history,[29] and the number reached 2 million in 2016.
  • South Korea has confirmed that it’s considering developing a nuclear-powered submarine after Kim Jong Un declared at the recent Workers’ Party Congress in North Korea that he would “advance national reunification through a strong military power” — and boasted of deploying hypersonic missiles, spy satellites, multi-warhead intercontinental ballistic missiles and the North’s own nuclear-powered submarine.  
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  • South Korea currently commits, in its NDC, to achieving 539 MtCO2e/year excluding LULUCF To reach this target, South Korea will have to significantly strengthen its climate policies, even more so if the government is serious about achieving carbon neutrality by 2050, including revising and improving its 2030 NDC to be consistent with the Paris Agreement.
  • South Koreans refer to themselves as Hanguk-in (Korean: 한국인, Hanja: 韓國人) or Hanguk-saram (Korean: 한국 사람), both of which mean “Korean country people.” When including members of the Korean diaspora, Koreans often use the term Han-in (Korean: 한인; Hanja: 韓人, lit.
  • South Korea’s only female President, Park Geun-hye, was impeached in 2017, and is now in prison, serving twenty-five years for bribery, extortion, and abuse of power, which a few maintain is harsher treatment than accorded men who committed comparable offenses.
  • South Korean citizens may enter for a maximum total stay of 60 days within a 180-day period, Ecuadorian citizens may enter for up to 30 days within 180 day period, and Argentine and Brazilian citizens may enter for up to 30 days within a one year period.
  • South Korea’s Hyundai Motor Co plans to temporarily suspend production at its Ulsan No.1 plant in South Korea due to chip shortage between April 5 and April 13, Korea Economic Daily reported on Monday, citing the auto industry.
  • South Korea has two volcanic islands—Cheju (Jeju), off the peninsula’s southern tip, and Ullŭng, about 85 miles (140 km) east of the mainland in the East Sea—and a small-scale lava plateau in Kangwŏn province.
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    Anyone bringing an electronic device is advised to bring some adapter should their charger’s plug be something other than the dual round type.However, some hotels may provide an adapter for you to use which you can query from reception.However, they may ask you for a deposit should you want to borrow.South Korean households and hotels use the same dual round sockets for their electrical outlets as are found in most of Continental Europe.

    Population

    In June 2012, South Korea’s population reached 50 million,[1] and by the end of 2016, South Korea’s population had surpassed 51 million people.[2] In recent years the Total Fertility Rate of South Korea has plummeted, leading some researchers to suggest that if current trends continue, the country’s population will shrink to approximately 28 million people by the end of the 21st century.[3] In 2018 fertility in South Korea became a topic of international debate after only 26,500 babies were born in October and an estimated 325,000 babies for the year, causing the country to achieve the lowest birth rate in the world.[4][5][6]

    Size

    Earthquakes are a very rare occurrence and are mostly observable in the southwest of the country.On average, one typhoon hits Korea each year.That said, typhoon risk is not as high as Japan’s eastern coast.The principle disaster risks are typhoons (hurricanes).While South Korea experiences fewer natural disasters than its neighbours, you should note that its much smaller size makes that a little misleading, and the geology and geography give it a similar risk profile to its neighbours.You should also note that Typhoons are seasonal, so the risk is largely limited to the summer months.

    How Does North Korean Leadership Make Decisions?

    With talks between the United States and North Korea at a standstill, U.S.policymakers must consider what the regime might do next and know what signs or decisions to look for.

    Is North Korea Prepared to End the Korean War?

    The end of the Korean War and peace on the peninsula are no more likely to occur as the result of a peace agreement than has North Korean denuclearization occurred as the result of multiple denuclearization agreements.Ultimately, North Korean objectives matter, and real peace does not appear to be part of those objectives.

    Will the Real Kim Yo Jong Stand Up?

    It’s difficult to get reliable information about North Korea’s leadership.This is especially true of Kim Jong Un’s younger sister, Kim Yo Jong.Nonetheless, Washington should strive to learn as much as possible about someone who could become the leader of a nuclear-armed North Korea.

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    What’s Behind South Korea’s COVID-19 Exceptionalism?

    Seven weeks ago, South Korea and the U.S.had the same number of virus deaths.Today, South Korea has fewer than 300, and the U.S.has more than 70,000.

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    History of South Korea

  • In 2005, France was awarded the right to host the International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor (ITER), an attempt to demonstrate the feasibility of producing commercial energy from fusion.
  • In 1910, Imperial Japan annexed Korea, thus beginning a 35-year occupation of the country.
  • In 1940, the Afghan Hound Club of America was admitted to AKC membership and held its first specialty show.
  • In 1945, public water fluoridation was implemented for the first time in the US, and was recommended by the World Health Organization (WHO) as the main delivery method of fluoride to improve oral health (16).
  • In 1948 two separate regimes were formally established—the Republic of Korea in the South, and the Democratic People’s Republic under Communist rule in the North.
  • In 1948, North Korea adopted Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (Korean: 조선민주주의인민공화국, Chosŏn Minjujuŭi Inmin Konghwaguk; listen) as its new legal name.
  • In 1948, North Korea attempted to make the script perfectly morphophonemic through the addition of new letters, and in 1953, Syngman Rhee in South Korea attempted to simplify the orthography by returning to the colonial orthography of 1921, but both reforms were abandoned after only a few years.[27]
  • In 1948, the division was made permanent with the establishment of the separate regimes of North and South Korea.
  • In 1958 the Atomic Energy Law was passed and in 1959 the Office of Atomic Energy was established by the government.
  • In 1959, relations with Japan had improved somewhat, and North Korea began allowing the repatriation of Japanese citizens in the country.
  • In 1968, North Korea seized the U.S.
  • In 1971 negotiations between North and South Korea provided the first hope for peaceful reunification of the peninsula; in Nov., 1972, an agreement was reached for the establishment of joint machinery to work toward unification.
  • In 1971, secret, high-level contacts began to be conducted culminating in the 1972 July 4th North–South Joint Statement that established principles of working toward peaceful reunification.
  • In 1972, the two Koreas agreed in principle to achieve reunification through peaceful means and without foreign interference.[179] On 10 October 1980, then North Korean president Kim Il-sung proposed a federation between North and South Korea named the Democratic Federal Republic of Korea in which the respective political systems would initially remain.[180] However, relations remained cool well until the early 1990s, with a brief period in the early 1980s when North Korea offered to provide flood relief to its southern neighbor.[181] Although the offer was initially welcomed, talks over how to deliver the relief goods broke down and none of the promised aid ever crossed the border.[182] The two countries also organized a reunion of 92 separated families.[183]
  • In 1974, a Korean resident of Japan unsuccessfully attempted to assassinate Park in Seoul, fatally wounding Park’s wife.
  • In 1975, non-mineral exports made up just over 30% of total exports, whereas now they account for about 60%.
  • In 1979, the U.S.
  • In 1983, 18 members of then-South Korean President Chun Doo-hwan’s entourage were killed during a visit to Burma.
  • In 1984, North Korea donates 7,200 tons of rice, 550,000 yards of cloth and 759 cases of medicine to South Korea following a flood, coinciding with a peak in North Korean grain production at 10 million tons.
  • In 1988 the Economic Planning Board estimated that the urban portion of the population will reach 78.3% by the end of the twentieth century.
  • In 1988, South Korea gained the world's attention when Seoul hosted the Summer Olympic Games.
  • In 1991 both Koreas joined the United Nations after the North dropped its opposition to such a move.
  • In 1991, Washington withdrew all its remaining nuclear weapons from South Korea.
  • In 1992, Kim Young Sam, a former opposition leader who had merged his party with Roh’s, was elected president, becoming the first civilian to hold the office since the Korean War.
  • In 1992, the IAEA detected that North Korea had secretly attempted to reprocess plutonium.
  • In 1994, manager Thawatchai Sartjakul assembled a team that has been denounced as the “dream team” with players like Kiatisuk Senamuang, Tawan Sripan and Dusit Chalermsan.
  • In 1995, a Korean living in the US contacted us in the hopes of meeting his mother and younger siblings in North Korea.
  • In 1995, there were 141 Japanese companies on Fortune magazine’s Global 500 list; by 2010, there were only 71.
  • In 1996 former presidents Chun and Roh were put on trial on corruption charges and also tried, with 14 former generals, on charges in connection with the 1979 coup following Park’s death and the 1980 massacre of prodemocracy demonstrators in Gwangju (Kwangju).
  • In 1996, North Korea said it would cease to recognize the demilitarized zone between the two Koreas, and North Korean troops made incursions into the zone.
  • In 1996, South Korea joined the OECD or “the rich nations club”.
  • In 1996, South Korea joined the OECD.
  • In 1996, there were 814 legal Cubans, mostly working as musicians.
  • In 1997 Oregon became the first state in the United States to decriminalize physician-assisted suicide; opponents of the controversial law, however, attempted to have it overturned.
  • In 1998, South Korean president Kim Dae Jung further tried to ease tensions with the North, for which he was awarded the 2000 Nobel Peace Prize.
  • In 1999 a North Korean torpedo boat was sunk by a South Korean vessel in South Korean waters following a gun battle, and another deadly naval confrontation following a North Korean incursion in 2002.
  • In 1999, Oman exported 95.8 million barrels of oil to Japan, 65.6 million barrels to Thailand, 55.9 million barrels to South Korea, and 39.4 million barrels to China.
  • In 1999, Oman
    exported 95.8 million barrels of oil to Japan, 65.6 million barrels to
    Thailand, 55.9 million barrels to South Korea, and 39.4 million barrels
    to China.
  • In 1999, Oman’s imports totaled US$4.67 billion.
  • In 1999, the CFTZ received US$4.9 billion in imports of which US$4 billion were re-exported.
  • In 1999, the CFTZ received US$4.9 billion in imports
    of which US$4 billion were re-exported.
  • In 1999, the South Korean Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade estimated revenues from all illegal activities (not including arms sales) at $100 million.
  • In 2000, the government raised the price of Ecuadorian petrol by 60% in order to forge an economic recovery.
  • In 2002 Foreign Exchange Certificates (FEC) were abolished and along with them went all the different coloured currencies.
  • In 2002, Mexico City had a Human Development Index score of 0.915,[112] identical to that of South Korea.
  • In 2002, the SARS outbreak killed several hundred people in East Asia.
  • In 2002, the World Cup tournament, co-hosted by South Korea and Japan, afforded an opportunity for the South Koreans to show their country to the world.
  • In 2002-2003, severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) infected 238 people — killing 33 of which.
  • In 2003, oil production averaged an estimated 784,000 barrels per day, with crude oil accounting for 781,000 barrels per day.
  • In 2004, exports accounted for about 34% of GDP.
  • In 2004, the bulk of exports went to the United States (14%), Japan (11.4%), China (9.9%), South Korea (5.5%), the Netherlands (5.1%), Brazil (4.3%), Italy (4.1%), Mexico (4%).
  • In 2005, exports reached $19 billion (FOB—Free on Board), while imports grew to $9 billion (FOB).
  • In 2005, exports reached $38 billion (FOB—Free on Board), while imports grew to $30 billion (FOB).
  • In 2005, North Korea’s total range with its Nodong missiles was estimated as 900 km with a 1,000 kg payload.[181] That is enough to reach South Korea, and parts of Japan, Russia, and China.
  • In 2005, South Korea’s Hyundai Motor Company announced it signed a $1.24 billion deal to form a joint venture with China’s Guangzhou Automobile Group.
  • In 2005, the government began using a $2 billion line of credit from China to help rebuild the country’s infrastructure.
  • In 2006, Chile has begun FTA negotiations with Japan and India.
  • In 2006, Chile plans to begin FTA negotiations with Japan and India.
  • In 2006, there were eight sites identified as potential test explosion sites for current (and future) tests according to a statement by the South Korean Parliament.
  • In 2007 a rail crossing through the DMZ was symbolically reopened when two trains made test runs on the rebuilt track.
  • In 2007 there was an agreement between the US Department of Energy's (DoE's) National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) and Vietnam's Ministry of Science and Technology (MOST) for cooperation and information exchange on the peaceful uses of nuclear energy.
  • In 2007, Chile held trade negotiations with Australia, Thailand, Malaysia, and China.
  • In 2007, Chile plans to begin negotiations with Thailand, Malaysia, and Australia.
  • In 2008 a South Korean tourist who strayed into a restricted military area was shot dead.
  • In 2008 South Korea's Kepco signed agreements to purchase 2600 tU over six years to 2015, for about US$ 400 million. In May 2014 China’s CGN agreed to buy $800 million of uranium through to 2021, and China customs was reported as saying that Uzbekistan was second only to Kazakhstan as a uranium supplier to the country.
  • In 2008, Chile hopes to conclude an FTA with Australia, and finalize an expanded agreement (covering trade in services and investment) with China.
  • In 2009 the Supreme Court of South Korea recognized a “right to die with dignity” in its decision to approve a request by the family of a brain-dead woman that she be removed from life-support systems.
  • In 2009, North Korea responded by ending all of its previous agreements with the South.[187] It deployed additional ballistic missiles[188] and placed its military on full combat alert after South Korea, Japan and the United States threatened to intercept a Unha-2 space launch vehicle.[189] The next few years witnessed a string of hostilities, including the alleged North Korean involvement in the sinking of South Korean warship Cheonan,[88] mutual ending of diplomatic ties,[190] a North Korean artillery attack on Yeonpyeong Island,[191] and growing international concern over North Korea’s nuclear program.[192]
  • In 2009, the H1N1 influenza, which likely originated in Mexico, spread to more than 1 million people globally and killed several hundred South Koreans.
  • In 2010 the largest exporters were Australia with 328 million tonnes (27.1% of world coal export) and Indonesia with 316 million tonnes (26.1%), while the largest importers were Japan with 207 million tonnes (17.5% of world coal import), China with 195 million tonnes (16.6%) and South Korea with 126 million tonnes (10.7%).
  • In 2010, an agreement was signed to refurbish the Embalse plant and increase its power by up to 7%.
  • In 2010, KEPCO signed an agreement with France's Areva under which the South Korean company took a 10% stake in the Imouraren uranium mine in Niger.
  • In 2010, the EU and South Korea upgraded their broader relationship to a Strategic Partnership.
  • In 2010, the South Korean corvette Cheonan was sunk by a torpedo and the South Korean island of Yeonpyeong came under North Korean artillery fire.
  • In 2011 China produced 3,520 million tonnes of coal – 49.5% of 7,695 million tonnes world coal production.
  • In 2011 other large producers were United States (993 million tonnes), India (589), European Union (576) and Australia (416).
  • In 2011, before the rise of Kim Jong Un, 2,706 North Koreans arrived in South Korea; only 1,137 arrived in 2018 and only 771 between January and September 2019.  
  • In 2012 Psy’s Korean language song “Gangnam Style” topped the charts in many Western countries.
  • In 2012 the country elected its first female president, Park Geun-hye, although she was dramatically ejected from power in 2017 after widespread demonstrations over alleged corruption that involved personal connections and Korea’s largest corporations.
  • In 2012 the South Korean government assessed that North Korea could have between 2,500 and 5,000 tons of chemical weapons, potentially one of the largest stockpiles on Earth.
  • In 2012, China gave 240,074 tons of rice, more than 80 times what Europe gave North Korea that same year.
  • In 2012, Moscow cancelled 90 per­cent of Pyongyang’s $10 billion debt.
  • In 2013, 1663 tU was supplied to China.
  • In 2013, Pyongyang declared a “state of war” with South Korea and abruptly abrogated the 1953 armistice that ended the Korean War.
  • In 2015, a larger outbreak of 1000 dogs occurred at a Chicago dog shelter.
  • In 2015, a South Korean businessman came down with Middle East respiratory syndrome (MERS) after returning from a visit to three Middle Eastern countries.
  • In 2015, crude oil, natural gas, and refined petroleum products together accounted for over 20% of the value (about $86 billion) of South Korea's annual importsb. 
  • In 2015, South Korea had the largest Middle East Respiratory Syndrome (MERS) outbreak outside of the Middle East.
  • In 2015, the government’s most public failure was its refusal to share any information about the hospitals where sick patients might have visited.
  • In 2016, 82.59 percent of South Korea’s total population lived in urban areas and cities.[19]
  • In 2017, for instance, China’s pri­mary concern was preventing war, after Trump stated that “all options are on the table” to the resolve the North Korean conflict, including military action.
  • In 2017, South Korea’s logistics company Hyundai Merchant Marine (HMM) held trial runs using a blockchain system developed with Samsung SDS which utilized IoT devices for real-time monitoring.
  • In 2018, Presidents Moon Jae-in of South Korea and Donald Trump of the United States held a series of summits with Kim Jong-un which led to declarations in favor of the denuclearization of the Korean peninsula.
  • In 2018, the company invested 27,000 square meters of factory area in Longyou County, Quzhou City, and established Zhejiang Guanghe New Material Co.
  • In 2018, the Financial Services Commission (FSC) imposed tighter reporting obligations on banks with accounts held by crypto exchanges.
  • In 2019 alone, after a year of silence brought on by the promise of post-Singapore concessions, North Korea launched 19 short-range ballistic missiles into South Korean and Japanese waters.
  • In 2019 that figure stood at 1,047.
  • In 2019, Kim Jong Un continued the diplomatic engagement efforts he started in 2018, and met with Chinese President Xi Jinping, South Korean President Moon Jae-in, US President Donald Trump, Vietnamese President Nguyen Phu Trong, and Russian President Vladimir Putin.
  • In 2019, that figure stood at 1,047.
  • In 2019, U.S.
  • In 2020, South Koreans seem mindful of the trade-offs between privacy and public health, and the sources I spoke with welcomed tracing technology.
  • In 2020, the South Korean government passed an amendment to the existing legislation, extending mandatory AML/CFT obligations to all South Korean exchanges, and introducing a requirement that firms obtain an operating license from the Financial Services Commission’s Financial Intelligence Unit by the end of September 2021.
  • In the 1960s until the 1980s, North Korea tried to incite revolution in the South and undertook numerous terrorist attacks.
  • In the 1980s, phosphate exports briefly gave Nauruans one of the highest per capita incomes in the World.
  • In the 1990s there was a proposal to build two South Korean KSNP reactors at Kumho in North Korea, paid for by international subscription.
  • In the 1990s, over 3 thousand Koreans legally registered as immigrants.
  • In the 1990s, the biggest trade increases occurred with South Korea, Bulgaria, Egypt, Japan, and China.
  • In the 1990s, the United States negotiated the Agreed Framework to freeze North Korea’s nuclear weapons program while pursuing the denuclearization of the Korean peninsula.
  • On 1 January 2017, Litecoin had a price of $4.36 and a market capitalisation of around $214.15 million.
  • On 4 July 2009, a botnet with around 20,000 bots paralysed the websites of government institutions in the US and South Korea.
  • On 9 March, 2021 Swedish Prime Minister, Löfven, and Spanish Prime Minister, Sanchez, hosted a meeting with the Heads of State and Governments of Costa Rica, Ethiopia, New Zealand, South Africa, representative from Bangladesh, Canada, Jordan, South Korea and Tunisia together with United Nations Secretary-General, António Guterres.