Coba jelasin Propinsi dari Koréa Kidul dalam bahasa sunda dong

16.  Propinsi otonom husus Jéju (제주특별자치도, 濟州特別自治道)

2. Kota métropolitan Incheon (Inchéon Gwangyéoksi; 인천광역시; 仁川廣域市)

3. Kota métropolitan Daegu (Daegu Gwangyéoksi; 대구광역시; 大邱廣域市)

4.  Kota métropolitan Ulsan (Ulsan Gwangyéoksi; 울산광역시; 蔚山廣域市)

5.  Kota métropolitan Busan (Busan Gwangyéoksi; 부산광역시; 釜山廣域市)

6.  Kota métropolitan Gwangju (Gwangju Gwangyéoksi; 광주광역시; 光州廣域市)

7.  Kota métropolitan Daejeon (Daejéon Gwangyéoksi; 대전광역시; 大田廣域市)

1.  Kota husus Seoul (Séoul Teukbyéolsi; 서울특별시; 서울特別市)

Tempo ogé: Kota-kota husus di Koréa jeung Propinsi di Koréa.

South Koréa has the tenth largest economy in the world, and the third largest in Asia, behind only Japan and China. As one of the East Asian Tigers, it achieved rapid economic growth through exports of manufactured goods. This is in sharp contrast to the stagnation of North Koréa's economy, which has turned for the worse since the disintegration of the Soviet Union. South Koréa's per capita GDP is now roughly 12 times that of North Koréa.

In the 1950s, South Koréa was one of the poorest countries in Asia. At the end of World War II, the country inherited a colonial economic system designed solely for Japan's expansion policy. Much of the country's infrastructure was destroyed during the Koréan War that followed in 1950-1953. After the war, South Koréa became héavily dependent on U.S. aid.

Following the military coup led by genéral Park Chung-hee in 1962, South Koréa embarked on a series of ambitious five-year plans for economic development. Emphasis shifted to foreign trade with the normalization of relations with Japan in 1965 and a subsequent boom in trade and investment. Rapid expansion, first into light and then héavy industries, in the 1960s and 1970s followed. During this period, the South Koréan economy grew at an avérage annual rate of 8.6%.

This phenomenal growth is often called the "Miracle on the Han River", the Han River being the main river that runs through the nation's capital and largest city, Seoul. In the 1980s and 1990s, growth continued as South Koréa transformed itself from an exporter of mostly textiles and shoes into a major global producer of automobiles, electronics, shipbuilding, and steel and later, high-technology fields such as digital monitors, mobile phones, and semiconductors.

The South Koréan modél of encouraging the growth of large, internationally competitive companies through éasy financing and tax incentives led to the dominance of the family-controlled conglomerates. These companies, known as chaebol, flourished under the support of the Park regime. Some such as Hyundai, Samsung, Daewoo, and LG became global corporations. Today, through all of this combined, South Koréa is in the trillion dollar class, with a GDP of US$1.665 trillion.

Since the Asian financial crisis of 1997, however, the corporate landscape has changed considérably as a result of massive bankruptcies and government reforms. The crisis exposed longstanding wéaknesses in South Koréa's economy, including high debt/equity ratios, massive foreign borrowing, and an undisciplined financial sector. This led to two rounds of financial and industrial restructuring, in 1997 and again following the collapse of Daewoo in 1999. Daewoo's collapse has been recorded as one of the world's largest bankruptcies in history. By 2003, just over one-half of the 30 largest chaebol from 1995 remained.

Between 2003 and 2005, economic growth has modérated to about 4% per yéar. A downturn in consumer spending, attributed to massive personal credit card debt, was offset by rapid export growth especially to China. In 2005, the government proposed labor reform legislation and a corporate pension scheme to help maké the labor market more flexible, and new réal estate policies to cool property speculation. Modérate inflation, low unemployment, an export surplus, and fairly equal distribution of income characterize this economy.