Ceramics—Korea
Korea has a long history of pottery making, dating back to the prehistoric era, and for the last two millennia it has been a leader in ceramic arts. A sizable portion of the cera...
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Clothing, Traditional—Korea
Hanbok, the Korean traditional costume, is characterized by a keen appreciation and consciousness of the seasons, a sensitivity to color, symbolic motifs from myth a...
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Religions, New—Korea
The first indigenous organized religion in Korea originated on 5 April 1860, when Ch'oe Che-u (1824–1864) began having visions in which the Lord of Heaven tol...
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Seshi Customs
The most important of Korea's annual (seshi) customs have origins that date back millennia and are observed according to the oriental lunar calendar. They have traditionally combi...
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Korea, Democratic People's Republic of (Dprk)
Democratic People's Republic of Korea
Choson Minjujuui Inmin Konghwa-guk
CAPITAL: P'yongyang
FLAG: A wide horizontal red stripe is bo...
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Korea, Democratic People's Republic of - Kim Jong Il
Kim Jong IlNational Defense Commission Chairman
(pronounced "kim zhong EEL")
"Ideology, technology, and culture&#x...
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In Korean peninsula, Soldiers have been pointing barrels at each other with hatred for many years. Thousands of families cried and grieved, because they cannot meet, or hear about their families...
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Korea and US
All of the countries in the world are unique. They are different from one another in location, size, culture, government, climate, and lifestyles. However there are two countries in th...
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Bring the world a little closer with these multicultural books. An excellent way for students to appreciate and learn cultural diversity in an exciting hands-on format. Each book explores the hist...
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Bring the world a little closer with these multicultural books. An excellent way for students to appreciate and learn cultural diversity in an exciting hands-on format. Each book explores the histo...
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Area: 99,646 sq km (38,474 sq mi)Population (2006 est.): 47,983,000Capital:
Seoul
Head of state and government:
President
Roh
Moo Hyun
, assisted by
Prime Ministers
Lee
Hai Chan, Han
Duck Soo (...
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North and South Korea adopted a military agreement Friday enabling the first train crossing of their heavily armed border in more than half a century, the South's Defense Ministry said.The rail tes...
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Envoys to international talks on ending North Korea's nuclear weapons program struggled Friday to find a compromise as differences emerged over a Chinese proposal on how to begin the disarmament pr...
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An obscure banking inquiry has hijacked a landmark nuclear disarmament deal with North Korea, to the surprise and dismay of U.S. and some foreign officials who have tried for months to resolve the ...
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South Korean Prime Minister Han Duck Soo said Wednesday he
believes North Korea will eventually give up its nuclear weapon
program.
''I believe North Korea will abandon nuclear weapons pro...
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Seoul (dpa) - South Korea has agreed to provide its neighbour
North Korea with 400,000 tons of rice, despite the failure of the
impoverished communist country to meet the de...
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South Korean Unification Minister Lee Jae Joung on Thursday
expressed optimism that North Korea will shut down its main nuclear
reactor by mid-April in accordance with a multilateral agreemen...
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Seoul (dpa) - South Korea began to send Friday 400,000 tons of
rice to North Korea, as it had promised at during April talks with
the North Korea for economic cooperation, t...
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(Corrects to remove references to South Korea and the United
maintaining "pressure" on North Korea and to clarify that Song
did not use the word "pressure") By Scott Malone CAMBRIDGE, Mass. (Reute...
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Reclusive North Korea accused the U.S., Japan and South Korea of being Asia's biggest security threats and pledged to give up its nuclear weapons if they dismantle missiles aimed at it, according t...
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Ceramics—Korea
Korea, Democratic People's Republic of (Dprk)
Korea Unification
Our Global Village - Korea
Korea, Republic of
