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9 unusual facts about South Korea


Dibs

In South Korea, the equivalent for dibs is "찜" (zzim), meaning "I got that".

From the Yellow Room

From the Yellow Room is the third studio album by South Korean pianist Yiruma.

Geography of Guam

: Commercial fishing (mostly servicing and unloading of longline fleets and commercial vessels), recreational fishing of Indo-Pacific Blue Marlin (Makaira mazara), Wahoo (Acanthocybium solandri), Mahi-mahi (Coryphaena hippurus), Yellowfin tuna (Thunnus albacares), and deepwater reef fish, tourism (especially from Japan but increasingly from China and South Korea).

Global Vision Christian School

Global Vision Christian School is a private Christian boarding school located in Eumseong, Chungcheongbuk-do, South Korea.

President Dad

The work was originally titled as The Charter of National Education for Girls (소녀교육헌장, Sonyeo Gyoyuk Heonjang) published by Daiwon C.I. in 2002, South Korea.

Quonset hut

Some are still in active use at U.S. military bases; for example, Camps Red Cloud and Casey near the Korean DMZ and Pohakuloa Training Area on the big island of Hawaii.

Sinmunno

Sinmunno (신문로 新門路) which literally means "a new gate on a road" may refer to one of the dongs or neighbourhoods in Jongno-gu, Seoul, South Korea or to the two combined areas as a whole.

United States Army Medical Materiel Agency

In addition to the USAMMA headquarters located at Fort Detrick, USAMMA has operational maintenance and storage locations in Camp Carroll, South Korea; Sagami General Depot, Japan; Defense Depot Tracy, California; Sierra Army Depot, California; Defense Depot Hill, Utah; Tobyhanna Army Depot, Pennsylvania; Naval Weapons Station Charleston, South Carolina; Husterhoeh Kaserne, Pirmasens, Germany; As Saliyah Army Base, Qatar; and Camp Arifjan, Kuwait.

Yeongdo District

The Korea Maritime University and the National Maritime Museum of Korea are located in Yeongdo-gu.


1964 in Israel

The finals were held in Israel from 26 May to 9 June 1964 and the Israeli national football team won the title with a perfect record of three wins, defeating the teams of South Korea, Hong Kong and India.

1969 Asian Baseball Championship

Chinese Taipei (2nd) and South Korea (4th) were the other participants.

2001 IIHF Asian Oceanic U18 Championship

The Division I tournament began on 8 March 2001 in Seoul, South Korea.

Abdulrahim Abdulhameed

At the 2010 Asian Games, Abdulrahim was a win away from securing at least a bronze medal, but with about a minute into his quarterfinal bout against Kim Seong-Ho of South Korea, he began to feel dazed and short of breath while experiencing unbearable pain in his abdomen.

Alison Broinowski

1988 - Chargé d'Affaires with the Australian Embassy in Amman, Jordan, and Research Associate with the Korean Research Foundation and Yonsei University in Seoul, South Korea

Aphae Bridge

Aphae Bridge(in Hangul:압해대교, in Hanja:押海大橋) connects Mokpo and Aphae island of Sinan county of South Jeolla province, South Korea.

Batman: Earth One

He has a daughter living in Seoul, South Korea with her mother, where Alfred had previously worked at a security firm.

Cherry A. Murray

Born in Fort Riley, Kansas, and the daughter of a diplomat, Murray lived in the United States, Japan, Pakistan, South Korea, and Indonesia as a child.

Cho Young-Hun

While attending Sokcho Commerce High School in Gangwon-do, Cho was considered one of the top high school hitting pitchers nationwide along with Choo Shin-Soo and Lee Dae-Ho.

Choi Chung-Min

Choi Chung-Min (Hangul: 최정민, Hanja: 崔貞敏, 30 August 1930 – 8 August 1983) is a retired South Korean football player and football manager.

Copa Macaé de Juvenis

Among the non-Brazilian clubs which have disputed the competition, are América, Toluca and UNAM Pumas of Mexico, Pohang Iron and Steel Company (Posco) of South Korea and Shanghai Shenhua of China.

Daeil Foreign Language High School

The private, coeducational, college preparatory school was founded in 1983 as the first foreign language high school to be established in South Korea aiming the goal of nurturing future global leaders with remarkable foreign language abilities.

Daykey High School

Daykey High School (대기고등학교,大起高等學校) is a private school located in the Jeju, South Korea.

DJMax

DJMax (Korean: 디제이맥스, dijeimaegseu) (often stylised as DJMAX and also known as DJ Max in North America) is an action-rhythm video game series created by the South Korean studio Pentavision Studio Division under Neowiz Mobile.

Do Jong-hwan

Since that time Do has also written about the issue of Division of Korea, depicting the difficulties on a single people in a divided country, Do opens up new possibilities for the unification of North Korea and South Korea. He is the recipient of many Korean literary prizes.

Edgar Itt

Edgar Itt (born June 8, 1967, Gedern) was a West German athlete who competed for West Germany at the 1988 Summer Olympics held in Seoul, South Korea where he won the bronze medal in the 4 x 400 metre relay with his team mates Norbert Dobeleit, Jörg Vaihinger and Ralf Lübke.

Eric Menk

His debut with the team was delayed, as he spent his time with the Philippine National Team for the 2002 Asian Games in Busan, South Korea.

Eunkwang Girls' High School

Eunkwang Girls' High School is a private girls' high school located in Seoul, South Korea.

Fluor Corporation

In May 2008 the Kuwait National Petroleum Co. (KNPC) awarded a construction contract to a consortium of Asian companies—Japan's JGC Corp., South Korea’s GS, SK, Daelim Industrial, and Hyundai—and a consulting contract to Fluor to build an oil refinery, which would be Kuwait's fourth.

Gavin Bellis

At the 2013 World Championships in Chungju, South Korea, he partnered with Kathryn Ross to win the gold medal in the Mixed Double Sculls TAMix2x.

Gubei, Shanghai

Gubei is best known as an enclave of East Asian expatriates in Shanghai, including those from Japan, South Korea, Hong Kong, Macau and Taiwan.

Hwang Sun-mi

Hwang Sun-mi (born 1963) is a South Korean author and professor who is best known for her fable The Hen Who Dreamed She Could Fly, which has also been made into a successful animated film in South Korea, Leafie, A Hen into the Wild.

Ibaraki Airport

At the time of opening, Ibaraki offered two flights, an Asiana service to Seoul, South Korea, and to Kobe in western Japan, by Skymark Airlines.

Jeff Tho

Tho played the 2007 BWF World Championships in men's singles, and was defeated in the first round by Park Sung-hwan, of South Korea, 21-14, 21-6.

Jung Da-yeon

Jung Da-yeon is a South Korean diet writer and fitness guru widely known as a Korean popular culture figure under the moniker momjjang ajumma (Korean: 몸짱 아줌마).

Kevin Song

Kevin Song (born in South Korea) is a South Korean professional poker player who started playing poker since 1980 and began playing in poker tournaments since 1994 where he has cashed in many of them throughout his poker career, among them are 29 cashes at the World Series of Poker including winning the 1997 World Series of Poker $2,000 buy-in Limit Hold'em event.

Kim Kaphwan

The main location of Kim Kaphwan is actual site of Namdaemun(or Sungnyemun) located in Seoul, South Korea.

Live in Bucharest: The Dangerous Tour

The other official releases by Michael Jackson is a VHS of his HIStory World Tour concert in Seoul, South Korea, and it was released only in South Korea in 1996, and Live at Wembley July 16, 1988, which is the second leg of his Bad World Tour.

Michał Łogosz

In 2004, they defeated Tri Kush Aryanto and Sigit Budiarto of Indonesia in the first round, before being defeated in the round of 16 by Kim Dong-moon and Ha Tae-kwon of Korea.

MV Discovery

The Island Princess operated as part of the Princess fleet until 1999, when she was sold on to Hyundai Merchant Marine of South Korea.

National Model United Nations

Since 2008, NMUN has expanded internationally, hosting conferences in Xi’an, China (2008), Quito, Ecuador (2010), Olomouc, Czech Republic (2010), Lille, France (2012), Galápagos, Ecuador (2013), and Seoul, South Korea, planned for December 2013.

National Public Safety Commission

The National Public Safety Commission is the policy making and oversight body of the national police forces in Japan and South Korea.

Nina Solheim

In addition to a bronze medal from the 2001 World Taekwondo Championships in Jeju, South Korea, Solheim won the gold medal in middleweight (72 kg) at the 2006 World Cup in Bangkok, Thailand.

Pak Chi-eun

Pak Chi-eun (born on November 4, 1983) is a South Korean professional Go player of 9-dan rank.

Perivaldo Dantas

In the late 80s, after living three years in South Korea, he relocated to Portugal in hopes of finding a new club, but eventual poor choices and several misfortunes ended up with him as an homeless person having to resort to street vending in Lisbon.

Shin Suk-ja

Shin Suk-ja (also spelled Shin Sook-ja; born 1942) is a South Korean prisoner of North Korea, imprisoned with her daughters in Yodok concentration camp after her husband Oh Kil-nam defected from North Korea to Denmark.

SM Town Week

SM Town Week is a winter music festival held from December 21 to 29, 2013 at Korea International Exhibition Center in South Korea.

Soonchunhyang University

SCH (Soonchunhyang University) is a private university located in the city of Asan, South Chungcheong province, about 52 miles(88 km) southwest of Seoul in South Korea.

T-ara Japan Tour 2012: Jewelry Box

T-ara Japan Tour 2012: Jewelry Box (stylized as T-ARA JAPAN TOUR 2012~Jewelry box~) is the first Japan nationwide concert tour by South Korean girl group T-ara, in support of their first Japanese studio album, Jewelry Box (2012).

The First Live Concert

The First Live Concert is a live music video by South Korean entertainer Harisu.

Tower Palace One

Tower Palace One is an apartment complex completed in 2002 in Seoul, South Korea.

Turkish military memorials and cemeteries outside Turkey

The farmost located memorial cemeteries are Ertuğrul Memorial Cemetery in Japan, United Nations Memorial Cemetery in Busan, South Korea, the Thayetmyo War Cemetery and Meiktila War Cemetery in Myanmar.

Ulmus × mesocarpa

Kim & S. Lee is a cross of Ulmus macrocarpa with Japanese Elm Ulmus davidiana var. japonica discovered on Seoraksan (Mount Sorak) near the city of Sokcho on the eastern coast of South Korea.

Underwood International College

Underwood International College (acronym: UIC) was founded in 2006 as a constituent college of Yonsei University, based in Seoul and Incheon, South Korea.

Woo Joo-Young

He participated in the 2009 East Asian Games as member of South Korea.


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2010–11 ISU Speed Skating World Cup – Men's 500 metres

Lee Kang-seok of South Korea won the cup, while his countryman Lee Kyou-hyuk came second, and Joji Kato of Japan came third.

2013 North Korean nuclear test

This was said after North Korea floated propaganda leaflets to South Korea that threatened the annihilation of Baengnyeongdo.

2013–14 ISU Speed Skating World Cup – World Cup 1 – Women's 500 metres

The podium placings of both races were identical – Lee Sang-hwa of South Korea won, followed by Jenny Wolf of Germany and Wang Beixing of China.

38th parallel

38th parallel north, a circle of latitude in the Northern Hemisphere, used as the pre-Korean War boundary between North Korea and South Korea

Anti-American sentiment in Korea

Strongly anti-US foreign policy and anti-Bush, the song was written in 2002 at a time when, following the Apolo Ohno Olympic controversy and the Yangju highway incident, anti-American sentiment in South Korea reached record high levels.

ATK motorcycles

As of 5/20/2011 ATK has associated itself with S&T Motors, parent company of the Changwon, South Korea based Hyosung.

Audition Online

In South Korea, PSP (called Audition Portable) and cellphone versions were released on June 1, 2007 and June 4, 2007 respectively.

Boris Grinyov

In 2008 he was awarded a Honorary Doctorate of Science by Hanyang University (Seoul, South Korea) for his contribution in establishing scientific and technical cooperation between Ukraine and South Korea.

Clandestine HUMINT asset recruiting

Won Jeong-hwa, who was arrested by South Korea in 2008 and charged with spying for North Korea, is accused of using this method to obtain information from an army officer.

Climate change in South Korea

Seoul, South Korea has 227 years of precipitation records Cheugugi, which is the longest continual instrumental rainfall collection in the world.

Copy Exactly!

A123 Systems, a US company that makes lithium-ion batteries, has recently repatriated its manufacturing operations after years of producing in South Korea and China.

Daewon

Daewon University College, private technical college in Chungcheongbuk-do, South Korea

Daytime Drinking

Ushering in a new era of independent filmmaking in South Korea, Daytime Drinking is a comedy in the spirit of Stranger Than Paradise and Sideways, but with a distinctly Korean twist.

Evans Wadongo

Evans Wadongo and his story have been featured on CNN, BBC, AFP, The New Yorker, China Central Television, Reuters, France 24, Discovery Channel, MBC South Korea, Deutsche Welle, German Radio, Russian State TV, Huffington Post among other international media channels.

Evgeny P. Bazhanov

He was Academic advisor of 50 PhD dissertations defended by President of South Korea Kim Dae-jung, Prime Minister of Kazakhstan Kassym-Jomart Tokayev, Foreign Minister of Kyrgyzstan Alikbek Jekshenkulov, Ambassadors to Russia of Yemen, United Arab Emirates, Palestine and many prominent Russian politicians, educators and diplomats.

FIFA Online 3

It has been launched through licensing agreements in South Korea (published by Nexon), Thailand (published by Garena), Vietnam (published by Garena), Singapore and Malaysia (published by Garena).

Forever the Moment

South Korea won the silver medal in women's handball at the 2004 Summer Olympics, following a close game against Denmark which was decided by a penalty shootout.

Gabe Lopez

Credits include Belinda Carlisle, New Kids On the Block, Joey McIntyre, Charice, Drew Ryan Scott, Thomas Fiss, Varsity Fanclub, Shinee (Top 5 hit in South Korea), Tyler Hilton, Jeff Silbar, Brent Paschke, Chris Salvatore, and other recording artists.

Gangnam

Gangnam District, a local government district in Seoul, South Korea

Goseong

Goseong County, South Gyeongsang, a county in South Gyeongsang Province, South Korea

Grand Canal

The proposed Pan Korea Grand Waterway (한반도 대운하) in South Korea, sometimes referred to as the "Grand Canal"

HanaTV

BTV (formally HanaTV) is an IPTV service in South Korea provided by SK Broadband.

Hongdae

Hongik University, a university in Seoul, South Korea, known as Hongdae for short

Jang Jae-Ho

After Warcraft III: Reign of Chaos was released July 2002 a professional competitive gaming scene supporting the game developed in South Korea.

By January 2004 Warcraft III: The Frozen Throne (released July 2003) replaced Reign of Chaos as the game of choice for professional competitions and at this time Jang Jae Ho was recognized as one of South Korea's greatest WarCraft III players, but had limited exposure globally as he had at this point not competed in any competitions outside of South Korea.

Jinsop

Jinsop Ho Odirling, known as "Jinsop" (Seoul, South Korea, 1959 – Santa Elena, Ecuador, June 24, 2012) was an Ecuadorian singer of Korean and American heritage who sang Spanish ballads, pop, and rock music.

Kim Sam-Rak

He was manager of South Korea national under-16 football team at South 1987 FIFA U-16 World Championship and South Korea national under-23 football team at 1992 Summer Olympics

Kong Hee

Kong is a board member of Dr. David Yonggi Cho’s Church Growth International (South Korea) and Dr. Luis Bush’s Transform World (Indonesia).

Korea national football team

Korea Unified football team - A unified team of players from both North Korea and South Korea competed at the 1991 FIFA World Youth Championship.

Korean diaspora

However, an increasing number of aspiring Korean American singers and actors, finding their career progress in Hollywood blocked, choose to go to South Korea through talent and modelling agencies; prominent examples include singer Brian Joo (of R&B duo Fly to the Sky) and actor Daniel Henney (who initially spoke no Korean).

Kumho

Geumho Station, Seoul Metro station in Geumho-dong, Seungdong-gu, Seoul, South Korea

Lee Jin-Young

In Round 2, Lee smacked a 2-RBI single off Yu Darvish in the top of the first inning to lead his team to a 4-1 victory over Japan, which assured South Korea a spot in the semifinals.

Let's Get Together Now

Performed by the supergroup Voice of Korea/Japan (Lena Park and Brown Eyes for South Korea and Sowelu and Chemistry for Japan), it was released in three separate versions: a full Japanese version, a full Korean version (with some English at the end), and a merged version which combines the lyrics of the two versions.

Nanogenerator

Professor Sang-Woo Kim's group of Sungkyunkwan University (SKKU) and Dr. Jae-Young Choi's group of Samsung Advanced Institute of Technology (SAIT) in South Korea introduced bowl-shaped transparent counter electrode by combining anodized aluminum and the electroplating technology.

Nongshim

Nong Shim Ltd., a South Korea food manufacturer specializing in instant noodles and snacks

Nonproliferation Policy Education Center

James R. Lilley – Director of Asian Policy Studies at the American Enterprise Institute, former US Ambassador to China and South Korea, and former Assistant Secretary of Defense for International Security Affairs

Olleh TV

Since November 20, 2007, following a partnership between KT and Sony Computer Entertainment, Olleh TV is made available for PlayStation 3 owners in South Korea.

Omitama, Ibaraki

So far Asiana Airlines operates the only international route, with a daily flight to/from Incheon (Seoul) in South Korea.

Outlandish

The singles from their second album made a bigger impact on the international music charts, including their cover version of Khaled's "Aïcha", which was a #1 hit in Germany and received a lot of airplay across Asia, especially in South Korea.

PCK

Presbyterian Church of Korea, a mainline Protestant denomination based in South Korea, which currently has the largest membership of any Presbyterian denomination in the world

Peter F. Drucker and Masatoshi Ito Graduate School of Management

It also offers exchange programs with Hitotsubashi University in Japan, University of St. Gallen in Switzerland, Inha University in South Korea, and Rotterdam School of Management, Erasmus University at Erasmus University Rotterdam in the Netherlands.

Ryu Seung-Woo

On 27 June 2013, Ryu was injured and substituted during South Korea's final game of the group stage against Nigeria, forcing him to miss out their Round of 16 match against Colombia, and subsequently, their Quarter-final loss against Iraq.

Song Du-yul

Song finally returned to South Korea in September 2003 for the first time in 37 years at the invitation of the Korea Democracy Foundation; his itinerary was to include a meeting with then-President Roh Moo-hyun.

Surakiart Sathirathai

In July 2006 a straw poll was held among the UNSG candidates and Dr. Surakiat placed third, behind Ban Ki Moon from South Korea and Shashi Tharoor from India.

Tara Rushton

Rushton starred in the South Korean drama The King 2 Hearts in May 2012 as Tara, the wife of Kim Bonggu, a man who wanted to take over South Korea.

The Reef

Shark Bait, a 2006 animated film released as The Reef in the United States, South Africa and Ireland and as Pi's Story in South Korea

The Weird Villa

With a psychological plotline, the style and theme deemed to inspire from numerous foreign classic thriller concepts such as the South Korea horror film A Tale of Two Sisters, which obviously resemble to the stepmother character appearance.

Tiago Iorc

His second studio album Umbilical had New York-based Andy Chase as producer and was simultaneously released in Brazil, South Korea and Portugal on October 2011.

Yangyang County

The county is proud to unite the five major religious influences in South Korea: Confucianism, Buddhism, Shamanism, Protestantism and Roman Catholicism.