Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- A country of eastern Asia at the southern end of the Korean peninsula. A united kingdom since the seventh century A.D., Korea was occupied by Japan (1910-1945) and divided into a northern Soviet zone and a southern American zone after World War II. Soviet resistance to reunification led to the establishment in 1948 of two separate countries, with the Korean War (1950-1953) leaving the peninsula divided along much the same line as before. Ruled by a series of authoritarian military leaders, South Korea developed a prosperous economy on the strength of trade ties with Japan and the United States. Seoul is the capital and the largest city. Population: 49,000,000.
Wiktionary
- n. A country in East Asia, comprising the southern half of the Korean Peninsula. Official name: Republic of Korea.
WordNet 3.0
- n. a republic in the southern half of the Korean Peninsula; established in 1948
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“Their concerns are borne out by the math and science test scores of 15-year-old students in the U.S., which continue to lag behind China, Japan, South Korea and Germany, for example.”
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“Working as JUSKCANZ South Korea having joined our group, we refined the list, and then started on the more hesitant EU.”
“A new intrauterine device, the “Copper-T,” was introduced in South Korea some years ago without careful consideration of an appropriate Korean name.”
“Seung-Hui Cho, the twenty-three-old student from South Korea who killed thirty-two other students and teachers and wounded another twenty-five before committing suicide, made a video before the massacre that was filled with anger about being rejected, ignored, humiliated, and isolated by his peers and faculty.”
“Yong-Hak Jo/Reuters In South Korea Sunday, near the demilitarized zone separating it from the North, a mass for victims of the Korean War, the sinking of the Cheonan and the Yeonpyeong island artillery attack by North Korea included the hanging of ribbons on a barbed-wire fence.”
“Destitute North Korea has lost out on tens of millions of dollars a year it used to earn through tourism with South Korea due to political wrangling with its rival over the North's military threats to the region and nuclear weapons program.”
“In the meantime, Rice had a conference call with Ban, Li, Aso, and Lavrov, in which Ban told her that South Korea was cutting off humanitarian assistance to the North, an important first step, indicating that even the Roh Moo-Hyun administration understood that North Korea was way over the red lines this time.”
“The Australian Government held inaugural political-military talks with South Korea in July last year and, earlier in 1996, we held inaugural pol-mil talks with Japan.”
“I worked closely with him during Bush 41 when South Korea achieved its highest foreign policy priority, admission to the UN, jointly with North Korea, following the 1973 model of the two Germanies, ending yet another Cold War anomaly.”
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