Korea | Wikipedia audio article
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Date: 2019-03-26

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00:04:17 1 Etymology
00:08:24 2 History
00:08:33 2.1 Prehistory and Gojoseon
00:09:53 2.2 Proto–Three Kingdoms
00:11:04 2.3 Three Kingdoms
00:16:57 2.4 North-South States Period
00:19:52 2.5 Goryeo dynasty
00:24:41 2.6 Joseon dynasty
00:29:05 2.7 Korean Empire
00:30:40 2.8 Japanese occupation and Japan-Korea Annexation
00:33:57 2.9 Division
00:37:03 2.10 Korean War
00:38:12 3 List of heads of state (since 1897)
00:38:30 4 Demographics
00:39:47 4.1 Language
00:41:49 5 Culture and arts
00:43:07 5.1 Literature
00:44:45 5.2 Music
00:45:31 5.3 Religion
00:47:10 5.4 Cuisine
00:50:27 6 Education
00:54:08 7 Science and technology
00:55:58 8 Sport
00:56:36 8.1 Taekwondo
00:57:29 8.2 Hapkido
00:58:07 8.3 Ssireum
00:59:13 9 Comparison of the two countries of Korea
00:59:24 10 Notable public holidays in South Korea
00:59:36 10.1 Independence Movement Day, March 1st
01:00:50 10.2 Memorial day, June 6th
01:01:57 10.3 National Liberation Day, August 15th
01:02:51 10.4 Hangul Day, October 9th
01:04:32 11 See also



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SUMMARY
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Korea is a region in East Asia. Since 1948, it has been divided between two distinct sovereign states: North Korea and South Korea. Korea consists of the Korean Peninsula, Jeju Island, and several minor islands near the peninsula. Korea is bordered by China to the northwest, Russia to the northeast, and neighbours Japan to the east by the Korea Strait and the Sea of Japan (East Sea).
During the first half of the 1st millennium, Korea was divided between the three competing states of Baekje, Goguryeo, and Silla, together known as the "Three Kingdoms of Korea". In the second half of the 1st millennium, Baekje and Goguryeo were conquered by Silla, leading to the "Unified Silla" period. Meanwhile, Balhae formed in the north following the collapse of Goguryeo. Unified Silla eventually collapsed into three separate states due to civil war, ushering in the Later Three Kingdoms. Toward the end of the 1st millennium Goryeo, which was a revival of Goguryeo, defeated the two other states and unified the Korean Peninsula as one single state. Around the same time, Balhae collapsed and its last crown prince fled south to Goryeo. Goryeo (also spelled as Koryŏ), whose name developed into the modern exonym "Korea", was a highly cultured state that created the world's first metal movable type in 1234. However, multiple invasions by the Mongol Empire during the 13th century greatly weakened the nation, which eventually agreed to become a vassal state after decades of fighting. Following military resistance under King Gongmin which ended Mongol political influence in Goryeo, severe political strife followed, and Goryeo eventually fell to a coup led by General Yi Seong-gye, who established Joseon in 1392.
The first 200 years of Joseon were marked by relative peace. During this period, the Korean alphabet was created by Sejong the Great in the 15th century and there was increasing influence of Confucianism. During the later part of the dynasty, Korea's isolationist policy earned it the Western nickname of the "Hermit Kingdom". By the late 19th century, the country became the object of imperial design by the Empire of Japan. After the First Sino-Japanese War, despite the Korean Empire's effort to modernize, it was annexed by Japan in 1910 and ruled by Imperial Japan until the end of World War II in August 1945.
In 1945, the Soviet Union and the United States agreed on the surrender of Japanese forces in Korea in the aftermath of World War II, leaving Korea partitioned along the 38th parallel. The North was under Soviet occupation and the South under U.S. occupation. These circumstances soon became the basis for the division of Korea by the two superpowers, exacerbated by their inability to agree on the terms ...