The Night of Seoul. Digital Image. 2006. Lam, Charles. Retrieved from <flickr.com>
The Republic of Korea (South Korea) forms the southern part of the Korean peninsula, in eastern Asia. To the north, separated by a frontier that roughly follows the 38th parallel, is the country’s only neighbour, the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (North Korea). To the west is the Yellow Sea, to the south the East China Sea, and to the east the Sea of Japan. The climate is marked by cold, dry winters, with an average temperature of −6°C (21°F), and hot, humid summers, with an average temperature of 25°C (77°F). The official language is Korean. Confucianism, Mahayana Buddhism, and Chundo Kyo are the principal traditional religions. Chundo Kyo is peculiar to Korea, and combines elements of Shaman, Buddhist and Christian doctrines. There were an estimated 13.7m. Christians in South Korea in 2008, of whom about 8.6m. were Protestants and 5.1m. Roman Catholics. The national flag (proportions 2 by 3) comprises, in the centre of a white field, a disc divided horizontally by an S-shaped line, red above and blue below, surrounded by four configurations of parallel, broken and unbroken black bars. The capital is Seoul. By December 2014, as part of an administrative decentralization process, all government ministries and institutions had been relocated 120 km south of Seoul to Sejong City, which now constitutes the de facto administrative capital of the country.
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General Map of South Korea. Digital Image. Public Domain. Retrieved on 21 February 2018 from <commons.wikimedia.org>.
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