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Longest river in South Korea, and passes through major cities such as Daegu and Busan.

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South Korea

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Country in East Asia, constituting the southern part of the Korean Peninsula and sharing a land border with North Korea.

Country in East Asia, constituting the southern part of the Korean Peninsula and sharing a land border with North Korea.

The name Korea is derived from Goguryeo, also known as Koryŏ, one of the Three Kingdoms of Korea.
Changdeok Palace, one of the Five Grand Palaces built during the Joseon Dynasty and another UNESCO World Heritage Site
The War Memorial of Korea, built in remembrance of the Korean War (1950–1953)
Between 1962 and 1994, the South Korean economy grew at an average of 10% annually, fueled by annual export growth of 20%, in a period called the Miracle on the Han River.
President Park Chung-hee played a pivotal role in rapidly developing South Korea's economy through export-oriented industrialization.
President Kim Dae-jung, the 2000 Nobel Peace Prize recipient for advancing democracy and human rights in South Korea and East Asia and for reconciliation with North Korea, was sometimes called the "Nelson Mandela of Asia."
South Korea became the first non-G7 chair of the G-20 when it hosted the 2010 Seoul summit.
Topography of South Korea
Jeju Island is a UNESCO World Heritage Site.
Cheonggyecheon river is a modern public recreation space in downtown Seoul.
Separation of powers and the election system of South Korea
The National Assembly of South Korea
Population pyramid of South Korea in 2021
Koreans in traditional dress
Seoul National University is considered to be the most prestigious university in South Korea.
KAIST main campus in Daejeon
Dialects of the Korean language
Buddha's Birthday celebration in Seoul
Development of life expectancy in North Korea and South Korea
Former Secretary-General of the United Nations (2007–2016), Ban Ki-moon
The Joint Security Area
North Korean leader Kim Jong-un and South Korean President Moon Jae-in shake hands inside the Peace House
South Korean president Moon Jae-in meets with Russian president Vladimir Putin
Liancourt Rocks have become an issue known as the Liancourt Rocks dispute.
President Moon Jae-in and U.S. President Joe Biden having lunch on 21 May 2021, on the Oval Office Patio of the White House
ROKN Sejong the Great, a King Sejong the Great -class guided-missile destroyer built by Hyundai Heavy Industries
The South Korean-developed K2 Black Panther, built by Hyundai Rotem
ROKAF FA-50, a supersonic combat aircraft developed by Korea Aerospace Industries
ROKS Dokdo, the lead ship of the, built by Hanjin Heavy Industries
Haeundae Beach in Busan
A 3D OLED TV made by Korean LG Display, the world's largest LCD and OLED maker
Naro-1 at the launch pad
Albert HUBO, developed by KAIST, can make expressive gestures with its five separate fingers.
A musician playing a gayageum
A blue and white porcelain peach-shaped water dropper from the Joseon Dynasty in the 18th century
Namdaemun
Bulguksa, a UNESCO World Heritage Site
Bibimbap
BTS, one of the most successful K-pop groups
Psy became an international sensation with "Gangnam Style" in 2012.
Seoul Sports Complex, Korea's largest integrated sports center
Sajik Baseball Stadium in Busan. Baseball is one of the most popular sports in South Korea.
Taekwondo, a Korean martial art and Olympic sport

South Korea can be divided into four general regions: an eastern region of high mountain ranges and narrow coastal plains; a western region of broad coastal plains, river basins, and rolling hills; a southwestern region of mountains and valleys; and a southeastern region dominated by the broad basin of the Nakdong River.

Busan

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South Korea's second-most populous city after Seoul, with a population of over 3.4 million inhabitants.

South Korea's second-most populous city after Seoul, with a population of over 3.4 million inhabitants.

View from Geumjeong Mountain
Gwangan Bridge
Administrative divisions
Hanjin Heavy Industries
Busan New Port
Seomyeon
Jagalchi Market
A panoramic view of Pusan National University.
Korea Maritime and Ocean University.
Dadaepo Beach
Nurimaru APEC House
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Beomeosa Temple
Haedong Yonggungsa Temple
Busan Exhibition and Convention Center
Museum of Contemporary Art Busan
Dongnae pajeon
Sajik Baseball Stadium
Busan Asiad Main Stadium.
Busan Port Pier 1 with the International Ferry Terminal (3 docked ferries shown)
Busan Metro Line 2

The most densely built-up areas of the city are situated in a number of narrow valleys between the Nakdong and the Suyeong Rivers, with mountains separating most of the districts.

Daegu

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City in South Korea.

City in South Korea.

Reliquary from eighth-century Silla, Daegu National Museum
Daegu in the 18th century
Daegu City Hall
Administrative divisions
View of both the city of Daegu, with Jisan-dong and Beommul-dong
View of both the city of Daegu Suseong District, with Gosan Area
Daegu Metro Line 3.
Daegu International Future Auto EXPO 2017
Korean ICT Convergence Expo
Korean Brain Research Center - Advanced Equipment Center
2017 Green Energy Expo
Daegu skyline as seen from KNU's Technopark
Scenery of Donghwasa
Dalgubeol-daejong, a city bell at the Gukchae Bosang Park
Daegu Botanical Garden bridge
The sign of the Seomun Market
Daegu Art Museum
A home stadium of the Samsung Lions, one of the most popular sports teams in the city
DGB Daegu Bank Park
Kyungpook National University, School of Medicine
Keimyung University, main building
Dongdaegu Station
Map of the rapid transit of Daegu. The red line is line 1, and the green is line 2.
Daegu International Airport
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Daegu is located in south-eastern Korea about 80 km from the seacoast, near the Geumho River and its mainstream, Nakdong River in Gyeongsang-do.

Map showing the approximate location of selected Gaya polities relative to Silla and Baekje

Gaya confederacy

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Map showing the approximate location of selected Gaya polities relative to Silla and Baekje
An exhibition of royal tomb of Daegaya. Goryeong, Gyeongsangbuk-do.
Gold crown and accessories.
Horn-shaped cup from Gaya that may illustrate connection of Persian culture through the Silk Road to Korea.
Gaya pottery at the National Museum of Korea.
Earthenwares display in Museum of Daegaya.
Shield ornaments excavated from the Daeseong-dong cemetery site in Gimhae.
This iron helmet illustrates the skill of iron-working and importance of iron from the Nakdong River valley.
Refinery model of Gaya people.
Gaya Crown
Earrings of Gaya.
A Gaya soldier (After AD 412, armor style influenced by Goguryeo.)

Gaya was a Korean confederacy of territorial polities in the Nakdong River basin of southern Korea, growing out of the Byeonhan confederacy of the Samhan period.

Pre-Later Silla at its height in 576

Silla

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Korean kingdom located on the southern and central parts of the Korean Peninsula.

Korean kingdom located on the southern and central parts of the Korean Peninsula.

Pre-Later Silla at its height in 576
Earthenware Funerary Objects in the Shape of a Shilla Warrior on Horseback
The Temple of the Golden Dragon, also known as Hwangryongsa, would later be destroyed during the Mongol Invasions.
(left to right) A Baekje, Goguryeo, and Shilla envoy depicted in a 6th-century painting.

In 209, when the eight small nations(浦上八國) in the Nakdong River basin attacked the Silla-friendly Alla-guk, the prince of Alla-guk asked Silla for a rescue army, and the king ordered Crown Prince Seok Uro to gather his troops and attack the eight kingdoms.

UN soldiers from the 27th US Infantry await North Korean attacks across the Naktong River from positions on the Pusan Perimeter, September 1950.

Battle of Pusan Perimeter

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Large-scale battle between United Nations Command (UN) and North Korean forces lasting from August 4 to September 18, 1950.

Large-scale battle between United Nations Command (UN) and North Korean forces lasting from August 4 to September 18, 1950.

UN soldiers from the 27th US Infantry await North Korean attacks across the Naktong River from positions on the Pusan Perimeter, September 1950.
A map showing successive North Korean advance. The Pusan Perimeter is the border of the green portion of the peninsula.
UN troops unload in Korea
An M4 Sherman tank being loaded onto a barge at the port of Oakland, California, prior to shipment to Pusan, 1950.
US aircraft attack a North Korean train with rockets and napalm, 1950.
The main Seoul-Pusan railway and road was integral in bringing supplies to the front
Map of the Pusan Perimeter, August 1950.
Saddle Ridge near Taegu, one of the positions along Pusan Perimeter defended by the UN.
Troops of the 24th Infantry move to the Masan battleground
US Armor advances west of Masan
US Marines sit on a newly captured position overlooking the Naktong River, August 19
US Navy Corpsman treats US Marine casualty from the front line of the battle, August 17.
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US artillery near Waegwan fires at North Korean troops attempting to cross the Naktong River
US Air Force post-strike picture of a 3.5 by area near Waegwan, in which 99 bombers dropped 3500, 500lb bombs
Map of the Naktong Defensive line, September 1950.
The Pusan Perimeter on September 15. The blue arrow indicated the Battle of Inchon, which had ended the attack on the perimeter
Bodies of Hill 303 massacre victims gathered near Waegwan, South Korea, many with their hands still bound.
North Korean T-34 tanks destroyed by US Air Force bombs near Waegwan

The UN troops, consisting mostly of forces from the Republic of Korea Army (ROKA), United States, and United Kingdom, mounted a last stand around the perimeter, fighting off repeated KPA attacks for six weeks as they were engaged around the cities of Taegu, Masan, and Pohang and the Naktong River.

Satellite image of Korea

Korea

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Peninsular region in East Asia.

Peninsular region in East Asia.

Satellite image of Korea
A neighbourhood in North Gyeongsang Province
A view of Mount Seorak
Daedongyeojido – this 1861 map of Korea represents the peak of pre-modern mapmaking in the region.
Jeju Island seashore
7th century Tang dynasty painting of envoys from the Three Kingdoms of Korea: Baekje, Goguryeo, and Silla
Seokguram Grotto from the Silla era, a UNESCO World Heritage Site
The Three Kingdoms of Korea, at the end of the 5th century
Unified Silla and Balhae in the 8th century CE
Goryeo in 1374
Gyeongbokgung Palace
Donggwoldo
The earliest surviving depiction of the Korean flag was printed in a US Navy book Flags of Maritime Nations in July 1889.
The memorial tablet for the March 1st Movement in Pagoda Park, Seoul
Satellite image of the Korean peninsula taken at night showing the extent of the division between the Koreas today; note the difference in light emitted between the two countries
Moon and Kim shaking hands over the demarcation line on 27 April 2018
Hunminjeongeum, afterwards called Hangul.
Korean Buddhist architecture
Traditional Korean dance (Jinju geommu)
Amitabha and Eight Great Bodhisattvas, Goryeo scroll from the 1300s
Tteokbokki, rice cakes with spicy gochujang sauce.
Bulgogi and side dishes
Jikji, Selected Teachings of Buddhist Sages and Seon Masters, the earliest known book printed with movable metal type, 1377. Bibliothèque Nationale de Paris.

Two exceptions are the southward-flowing Nakdong River and Seomjin River.

South Gyeongsang Province

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Province in the southeast of South Korea.

Province in the southeast of South Korea.

Yeongnamnu in Miryang, South Gyeongsang Province. A pavilion from the Joseon.
Gimhae
Tongyeong
Yangsan
Changnyeong Temple at the base of Mount Hwawang

Most of the province is drained by the Nakdong River and its tributaries.

Clockwise from top:A column of the U.S. 1st Marine Division's infantry and armor moves through Chinese lines during their breakout from the Chosin Reservoir UN landing at Incheon harbor, starting point of the Battle of Incheon Korean refugees in front of a U.S. M46 Patton tank U.S. Marines, led by First Lieutenant Baldomero Lopez, landing at Incheon F-86 Sabre fighter aircraft

Korean War

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Fought between North Korea and South Korea from 1950 to 1953.

Fought between North Korea and South Korea from 1950 to 1953.

Clockwise from top:A column of the U.S. 1st Marine Division's infantry and armor moves through Chinese lines during their breakout from the Chosin Reservoir UN landing at Incheon harbor, starting point of the Battle of Incheon Korean refugees in front of a U.S. M46 Patton tank U.S. Marines, led by First Lieutenant Baldomero Lopez, landing at Incheon F-86 Sabre fighter aircraft
Territory often changed hands early in the war, until the front stabilized.
Hundreds of thousands of South Koreans fled south in mid-1950 after the North Korean army invaded.
A U.S. howitzer position near the Kum River, 15 July
Man of the Year, the American soldier on Time magazine cover, 1951
G.I. comforting a grieving infantryman
M24 Chaffee light tanks of the US Army's 25th Infantry Division wait for an assault of North Korean T-34-85 tanks at Masan
Crew of an M-24 tank along the Nakdong River front, August 1950
Pershing and Sherman tanks of the 73rd Heavy Tank Battalion at the Pusan Docks, Korea.
General Douglas MacArthur, UN Command CiC (seated), observes the naval shelling of Incheon from USS Mount McKinley (AGC-7), 15 September 1950
Combat in the streets of Seoul
Pershing tanks in downtown Seoul during the Second Battle of Seoul in September 1950. In the foreground, United Nations troops round up North Korean prisoners-of-war.
US Air Force attacking railroads south of Wonsan on the eastern coast of North Korea
Chinese forces cross the frozen Yalu River.
Three commanders of PVA during the Korean War. From left to right: Chen Geng (1952), Peng Dehuai (1950–1952) and Deng Hua (1952–1953)
Soldiers from the US 2nd Infantry Division in action near the Ch'ongch'on River, 20 November 1950
A column of the US 1st Marine Division move through Chinese lines during their breakout from the Chosin Reservoir.
Map of the UN retreat in the wake of Chinese intervention
B-26 Invaders bomb logistics depots in Wonsan, North Korea, 1951
US Marines move out over rugged mountain terrain while closing with North Korean forces.
British UN troops advance alongside a Centurion tank, March 1951
US M46 Patton tanks, painted with tiger heads thought to demoralize Chinese forces
New Zealand artillery crew in action, 1952
Men from the Royal Australian Regiment, June 1953
Delegates sign the Korean Armistice Agreement in P'anmunjŏm.
A U.S. Army officer confers with South Korean soldiers at Observation Post (OP) Ouellette, viewing northward, in April 2008
The DMZ as seen from the north, 2005
Korean War memorials are found in every UN Command Korean War participant country; this one is in Pretoria, South Africa.
A soldier of the Dutch detachment of the UN forces in North Korea prepares to return sniper fire, 1952
To disrupt North Korean communications, USS Missouri (BB-63) fires a salvo from its 16-inch guns at shore targets near Chongjin, North Korea, 21 October 1950
A B-29 Superfortress bomber dropping its bombs
A US Navy Sikorsky HO4S flying near USS Sicily (CVE-118)
Pyongyang in May 1951
A USAF Douglas B-26B Invader of the 452nd Bombardment Wing bombing a target in North Korea, 29 May 1951
Mark 4 bomb, seen on display, transferred to the 9th Bombardment Wing, Heavy
South Korean soldiers walk among the bodies of political prisoners executed near Daejon, July 1950
Civilians killed during a night battle near Yongsan, August 1950
A US Marine guards North Korean prisoners of war aboard an American warship in 1951.
Two Hill 303 survivors after being rescued by US units, 17 August 1950
Bob Hope entertained X Corps in Korea on 26 October 1950.
The Korean Peninsula at night, shown in a 2012 composite photograph from NASA
North Koreans touring the Museum of American War Atrocities in 2009

This 140 mi perimeter enclosed about 10% of Korea, in a line partially defined by the Nakdong River.

Andong

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City in South Korea, and the capital of North Gyeongsang Province.

City in South Korea, and the capital of North Gyeongsang Province.

Dosan Seowon
Map of Andong's eup, myeon and dong. Note that the map is in Hangeul and Hanja.
Map of Andong city core.
Heotjesabap
Sisadan
Buyeongdae
Andong soju and hahoe mask
Bridge near Andong dam.
Andong Gu Market, food market in downtown Andong
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The Nakdong River flows through the city.