The Republic of Korea, as South Korea is officially known, occupies the southern part of the Korean Peninsula.
The story of South Korea after the civil war in the 1950s was a very different one from that of the North, thugh the South was hardly a Far Eastern oasis of liberalism. For more information on the Korean War, click here...
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