Korea was separated after WWII when Allied Forced namely the USSR occupied the North and The USA occupied the South. They divided the peninsula on the 38th parallel. In 1950 North Korea invaded South Korea in an effort to reunify the country but was eventually pushed back by US forces. It remains divided to this day.
At the end of WW2 Russia, which had invaded Japanese held Korea from the north, wished to have an ally in control of Korea, the other victors of WW2 wanted the same, so the country was partitioned into North and South Korea.
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North Korea and South Korea are divided into a ceasefire line.
This line made after Korean War.
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Taiwan, then called Formosa, was the escape destination of the defeated Nationalist government of General Chang Kai-Shek, who lost control of Mainland China to the Communist revolutionaries in 1949.
Japan was already seperated from China from the start, and Korea became seperated from mainland China by Japanese influence expanding in Korea after Sino-Japanese war in 1895.
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What's Zou Han? Zhou & Han are two separate dynasties in Chinese history. How can it have an influence FROM China? You mean Modern China, like Mainland China? or Taiwan, ROC? It's impossible to have an influence FROM the future.
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Mainland China has two definitions. One is the Chinese mainland or simly the mainland, a geographic and political term to describe the geopolitical area under the jurisdiction of the People's Republic od China. The secon is the area South from Great Wall and North from the Yellow River, which is called the "HeavenLand".
No, they are two separate countries. China is a part of mainland Asia and the Philippines are a group of islands in the Pacific.
Taiwan, then called Formosa, was the escape destination of the defeated Nationalist government of General Chang Kai-Shek, who lost control of Mainland China to the Communist revolutionaries in 1949.
The Taiwan Strait (Pacific Ocean). Taiwan Strait
Japan was already seperated from China from the start, and Korea became seperated from mainland China by Japanese influence expanding in Korea after Sino-Japanese war in 1895.
Answer this question… the communist People's Republic of China taking control of mainland China.
Isolation has contributed to a distinctive Japanese culture, although the Japanese have been influenced by nearby Korea and China
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It is because Korea was settled and founded by Chinese from start. As a part of China, Korean history are closely linked to mainland China over centuries and it can sometimes be hard to truly separate the two.
What's Zou Han? Zhou & Han are two separate dynasties in Chinese history. How can it have an influence FROM China? You mean Modern China, like Mainland China? or Taiwan, ROC? It's impossible to have an influence FROM the future.