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Korean is the official language of South Korea and is classified by most linguists as a language isolate. It incorporates a significant number of loan words from Chinese. Korean uses an indigenous writing system called Hangul , created in 1446 by King Sejong , to provide a convenient alternative to the Classical Chinese Hanja characters that ...
Culture of Korea. The Lower Paleolithic era on the Korean Peninsula and in Manchuria began roughly half a million years ago. [1][2][3] The earliest known Korean pottery dates to around 8000 BC and the Neolithic period began thereafter, followed by the Bronze Age by 2000 BC, [4][5][6] and the Iron Age around 700 BC.
The population of South Korea showed robust growth since the republic's establishment in 1948, and then dramatically slowed down with the effects of its economic growth. In the first official census, taken in 1949, the total population of South Korea was calculated at 20,188,641 people. The 1985 census total was 40,466,577.
Seoul, [b] officially Seoul Special City, [c] is the capital and largest city of South Korea.The broader Seoul Capital Area, encompassing Gyeonggi province and Incheon Metropolitan City, emerged as the world's sixth largest metropolitan economy in 2022, trailing behind Paris, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Tokyo, and New York, and hosts more than half of South Korea's population.
SoftBank Ventures Asia (SBVA) was founded in 2000 as SoftBank Ventures Korea [190] and began its focus on South Korean market [190] and its early-stage ventures. [189] SBVA’s one of the early investments in South Korea included Nexon Co, now a Korean-Japanese gaming publisher that was the largest IPO in Japan for 2011. [189]
Hangul is the official writing system throughout Korea, both North and South. It is a co-official writing system in the Yanbian Korean Autonomous Prefecture and Changbai Korean Autonomous County in Jilin Province, China. Hangul has also seen limited use by speakers of the Cia-Cia language in Indonesia.
Aerial view of Incheon International Airport Terminal 1. Terminal 1 (measuring 496,000 square metres (5,338,900 sq ft)) is the largest airport terminal by area in South Korea. Terminal 1 was designed by Curtis W. Fentress, FAIA, RIBA of Fentress Architects. It is 1,060 metres (3,480 ft) long, 149 metres (489 ft) wide, and 33 metres (108 ft) high.
Jeon Somi. Ennik Somi Douma (born March 9, 2001), known professionally by her Korean name Jeon Somi (Korean: 전소미), is a South Korean, Dutch and Canadian [4] singer signed under The Black Label. [5] She quickly achieved domestic fame as the first-place winner of the survival reality show Produce 101 and a member of the show's eleven-piece ...