History of Korea

The Korean War officially ended in 1953 with the signing of an armistice agreement. After three years of conflict North and South Korea agreed to a ceasefire and established the Korean Demilitarized Zone (DMZ) a 2.5 mile wide strip of land separating the two countries. Since then there has been no formal end to the war and both countries remain in a state of armistice. Despite the technical state of war diplomatic relations between the two states have improved since the 1990s leading to a series of reconciliatory agreements.

• 1953: Armistice agreement signed establishing the Korean DMZ.
• 1990s: Improved diplomatic relations between North and South Korea.
• 2000-2018: Multiple reconciliatory agreements and summits.

For many reasons the North invaded the southern part of Korea, first being that the North wanted to unify the whole peninsula under communism.

At the end of WWII (it being held by Japan during the war) it was split by the Allied forces. The north held by the Soviets troops and the south by the United States troops. This made it a "hot spot" in the Cold War, and both sides wanted a chance to fight the other so Korea was a likely place for it to happen.

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'What happened in Korea after *Japan left the country?'

They all started playing video games and now they're one of the most advanced professional gaming races on the planet.

Yes

It didn't. North and South Korea both declared independence in 1948. Neither country seceded from the other, but the country was divided into two distinct occupation zones by the US and Soviets in 1945.

There have been various warring civilizations living on the Korean peninsula since the Neolithic period. There was no unified civilization until the Shilla dominated all competing tribes and unified the peninsular region in 676 AD. This is the era where typified Korean architecture and customs originate.

Approximately 5,000 years.

It's similar to Americas.

The governing styles in South Korea are drastically different than those in North Korea.

South Korea is considered a first class, safe and efficient country. Living in places such as The US, the only things that could be found odd are mostly mandatory military service for men under 30 years, and that abortion is illegal. Food is, for the most part, not a hardship in South Korea. Seoul is a huge, high class city and a lot of the country is farmland.

In both countries, the climate is mild, but on the cold side.

The North Korean government is strict, and although technically a republic, remains a dictatorship. A modern day feudalism can be noticed, with around %90 of the population living outside the capital, P'yongyang, and food situation is scarce.

For the other %10 percent, life is fairly good - P'yongyang has a great university, specializing in language, but the city is mostly made of government officials and their families.

Laws are strict and bad things that are said about the government are federally punishable. For most of the country, leaving is not allowed.

Products made in South Korea include: cars, cell-phones and televisions.

Currently, no. South Korea has not had strongmen presidents since the 1980s. Curiously, the current President of South Korea (Park Geun-hye) is the daughter of one of these strongmen presidents (Park Chung-hee).

China and Russia

because north Korea has a nuclear weapon and south doesn't have it.

and there is no good to war against each other.

WAR= using nuclear weapon = destroying whole Korean peninsula and some part of japan, china and Russia

That means killing a lot of lives

KIM IL-SUNG was the President of North Korea during the Korean War.

North Korea supreme leader is Kim Jong-Un.

South Korea did not initiate an invasion of North Korea. The Korean War was initially started by the invasion of an ill-prepared South Korea by the (North) Korean People's Army on June 25th, 1950. This was because North Korean leader Kim Il Sung wanted to unite the two factions of Korea that had been developed under the division of responsibility for postwar occupation forces between the US and Soviet Union.

It is true that after UN intervention saved the South Koreans from a full-out defeat, UN-led forces entered North Korea and reached as far north as the border with China in some locations prior to the Chinese intervention. This part of the war could be classified as a counter-invasion.

No, Vetnam is also communist. And North Korea is not communist country. They dont follow any of communist country. Economy, systems are not connected with communism. The leader is like god in north korea. And the leader is doing horrible things. They say they are communist country but absoluty not. China, economy is demoncracy but only the governmental system is communist.

The Pop scene in Korea is really famous

In fact, it is well known all over the world.

They also have hiphop groups, rap groups and bands like

FT ISLAND, and CN BLUE.

But KPOP is most famous, or so it seems.

military products; machine building, electric power, chemicals; mining (coal, iron ore, limestone, magnesite, graphite, copper, zinc, lead, and precious metals), metallurgy; textiles, food processing; tourism

1) South Korea population (2008): 49,232,844. 2) North Korea population (2008): 24,479,089. Korean Peninsula Population (2008): 73,711,933. Korean Overseas Population (2008): 7,044,716. Korean Total Population (2008): 80,756,649. Korean ( Mixed/Half, Adopted, Political Refugee): China, Japan, USA, Russia, Latin America, Africa, Europe, South East Asia. 10,301,725. (2008). A) Total Korean Population (2008): 91,058,374 Million.

When Japan was defeated by the USA and the USSR (who had very recently recently decided to declare war on Japan after the fall of the Nazis and at the request of President Truman), Korea, a territory of Japan since 1910, was split in half much like Nazi Germany was divided between the victorious Allies. The Northern half of Korea belonged to the USSR, and the Southern Half to the USA-- this is also the root of North Korean Communism, the reason why the Korean War erupted (when Comunist North Korea tried to take over South Korea), and why there are two Koreas today.

of course they are same people. It is like when the germany was divided into 2. Smae languages and same culture