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This is a list of Korean inventions and discoveries; Koreans have made contributions to science and technology from ancient to modern times.In the contemporary era, South Korea plays an active role in the ongoing Digital Revolution, with one of the largest electronics industries and most innovative economies in the world.
In late 1985 North Korea's first integrated circuit plant became operational. By the early 1990s, North Korea was producing about 20,000 computers a year, reportedly 60% were exported and the remainder were mostly for domestic military use. [24] The development of a software industry started in the early 1990s.
Tool-making artifacts from the Paleolithic period have been found in present-day North Hamgyong, South Pyongan, Gyeonggi, and north and south Chungcheong provinces, [24] which dates the Paleolithic Age to half a million years ago, [5] though it may have begun as late as 400,000 years ago [1] or as early as 600,000–700,000 years ago.
17 September. North Korea (DPRK) and South Korea (ROK) join the United Nations (UN). 26 December. The end of the Cold War as the Soviet Union collapses and North Korea loses military and economic aid. 1992 11 August. South Korea's first satellite, KITSAT-1, a.k.a. 우리별 (Uri Byol) is successfully launched from Guiana Space Centre. 24 August.
Prehistoric Korea is the era of human existence in the Korean Peninsula for which written records do not exist. It nonetheless constitutes the greatest segment of the Korean past and is the major object of study in the disciplines of archaeology , geology , and palaeontology .
Countries & their culture: South Korea; History of Korea, Asian Info Organization; The Korean War, BBC; Korean War, Naval History & Heritage Command; Hidden Korea, PBS; Korea: case history of a pawn Archived 8 March 2020 at the Wayback Machine, The United States Army Center of Military History; The Korea Society Podcast: History of Korea Part 1&2
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