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( Korea)
Korea (Korean ?? or ??) is a civilization and formerly unified nation currently divided into two states. Located on the Korean Peninsula, it borders China to the northwest, Russia to the northeast, and is separated from Japan to the east by the Korea Strait. Korea was united until 1948; at that time it was split into South Korea and North Korea. South Korea, officially the Republic of Korea, is a capitalist, democratic and developed country, with memberships in the United Nations, WTO, OECD and G-20 major economies. North Korea, officially the Democratic People's Republic of Korea, is a single-party communist country founded by Kim Il-sung and currently led by his son Kim Jong-il. Archaeological and linguistic evidence suggest the origins of the Korean people were in Altaic language-speaking migrants from south-central Siberia,[2] who populated ancient Korea in successive waves from the Neolithic age to the Bronze Age.[3] The adoption of the Chinese writing system ("Hanja" in Korean) in the 2nd century BC, and Buddhism in the 4th century AD, had profound effects on the Three Kingdoms of Korea. Korea later passed on a modified version of these cultural advances to Japan.[4][5][6][7] Since the Goryeo Dynasty, Korea was ruled by a single government and maintained political and cultural independence until the 20th century, despite the Mongol invasions of the Goryeo Dynasty in the 13th century and Japanese invasions of the Joseon Dynasty in the 16th century. In 1377, Korea produced the Jikji, the world's oldest existing document printed with movable metal type.[8] In the 16th century, the turtle ships were deployed, and King Sejong the Great promulgated the Korean alphabet, Hangul.
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Trent Consultants News New Brain Findings On Dyslexic Children by Mary Kay
Trent Consultants News New Brain Findings On Dyslexic Children: Good Readers Learn From Repeating Auditory Signals, Poor Readers Do Not
Trent Consultants News The vast majority of school-aged children can focus on the voice of a teacher am...
Carter Sinclair Seminar on the Importance of Skin Care by Cathy Rogers
Many people with diabetes will have a skin disorder caused or affected by diabetes. Problems with skin are sometimes the first sign that a person has diabetes. An online seminar will be ready for download sometime in August. It aims to educ...
Scientists Develop Anti-Aging Compound Using MAGIC by Carson Danfield by Carson Danfield
South Korea, who's previous sterling reputation for biotech was recently besmirched, is returning to the scientific lime light. Researchers at the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology are challenging the most deadly of all diseases... A...
Subliminal Messaging - Historical Perspective by Sanjay Agrawal
The Korean War
Circa 1957. The United States had just returned after a bloody war around the 38th parallel, after successfully resisting the invasion by Kim Il-Sung's North Korea over the southern Korean peninsula. (As I write this piece,...
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