South Korea Questions!

1. Republic of Korea.
2. President Lee Myung-bak. He was elected on February 25, 2008. He was the CEO of a big engineering company and used to be the mayor of Seoul, South Korea. He followed 32 years of military rule.
3. The Republic of Korea was formed in the southern half of the Korean Peninsula after World War II was over. Ever since the country split into two individual ones, the growth of tension between the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (also known as North Korea) and South Korea eventually sparked the Korean War in 1950. US troops and UN forces came to help South Korea defend themselves from North Korea’s attacks, which were supported by China and the Soviet Union. The Korean War was temporally ceased when an armistice was signed in 1953, which caused the Korean peninsula to be split along a demilitarized zone at the 38th parallel.
(www.cia.gov)
4.http://wikitravel.org/upload/shared//thumb/f/f9/South_Korea_regions_map.png/450px-South_Korea_regions_map.png
5. The Sea of Japan and the Yellow Sea. North Korea borders South Korea.
6. The 38th parallel was first suggested as a dividing line for Korea in 1896. The 38th parallel north has been especially important in the recent history of Korea. (en.wikipedia.org)  It’s one of the most armed, dangerous, and most militarized places in the world! (North Latitude)
7. The relations between North and South Korea are the political, diplomatic, and military interactions.
8. South Korea lies in a temperate climate region with a predominantly mountainous terrain. Its territory covers a total area of 99,392 square kilometers and has a population in 50 million people.
9. UN’s opinions towards South Korea is positive since they are also allies with them, just like the US. Though they only verbally speak their opinions about both South and North Korea. UN is mostly making suggestions that South Korea shouldn’t fight back but just wait till North Korea
10. Seoul. People: 10,421,782
11. South Korea does have an army, but it is not as good as North Korea’s. There are some American soldiers/armies posted there in South Korea. Along the DMZ there are also soldiers standing guard to make sure that no one from North Korea or South Korea will try to cross over the DMZ.
12. South Korea does not strongly rely on nuclear weapons like the North Koreans do.
13. Untied States.
14. Yes, people can leave South Korea freely because it is a democratic country. South Korea attracts a lot of tourists.
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17.http://www.pressreference.com/Sa-Sw/South-Korea.html
18. During the Korean War, the United States aided South Korea and have become close allies. So South Korea has positive feelings towards Untied States.
19. Compared to North Korea, South Korea’s economy is way better. Overall South Korea is in a decent condition, and even though it is a small country, it’s wealthy! Also, South Korea’s industrial growth’s strength is almost equal to Japan’s. (*Remember to mention about South Korea’s electronic and automobile companies)
20. The main religions in South Korea is Christians at 26.3% and Buddhist at 23.2%, and yes, you are aloud to believe what you would like in  South Korea.
21. On the 23 of November South and North Korea exchanged artillery fire and they began to shoot at each other. The North shot missiles at an island and killed two South Korean marines and set at least a dozen building to flames and making everyone flee to shelter.
22. In March 2009 Laura and her colleague Euna Lee were detained by North Korea for illegal entry into the country. They had been attempting to film refugees along the border with China. In June, they were sentenced to 12 years in a labor prison for illegal entry into North Korea, and unspecified hostile acts. North Korea released Laura and Euna on August 4, 2009 after a visit from former U.S. President Bill Clinton.[20] Laura and Lisa went on to collaborate on the first book either has had published, Somewhere Inside: One Sister's Captivity in North Korea and the Other's Fight to Bring Her Home, published in May 2010. (en.wikipedia.org)