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"Korea" is the modern spelling of "Corea", a name attested in English as early as 1614. [5] [6] "Corea" is derived from the name of the ancient kingdom of Goryeo. [7]Korea was transliterated as Cauli in The Travels of Marco Polo, [8] of the Chinese 高麗 (MC: Kawlej, [9] mod.
Korea became independent after World War II (1945) and the country was then divided. In 1948, the South adopted the provisional government's name of Daehanminguk (대한민국; 大韓民國; see above), known in English as the Republic of Korea, [14] though commentators have noted that the English name is not a direct translation of the Korean one.
The Korean language in South Korea has a standard dialect known as the Seoul dialect, with an additional four dialects (Chungcheong, Gangwon, Gyeongsang, and Jeolla) and one language in use around the country. Almost all South Korean students today learn English throughout their education. [293] [294]
Any text included in signs will normally be in Korean and English. Signs are normally placed 1 to 2.1 meters high. [1] South Korean road signs depict people with realistic (as opposed to stylized) silhouettes. Road signs in South Korea closely followed Japanese and European rules on road signs until the 1970s.
South Koreans refer to themselves as Hanguk-in [j] or Hanguk-saram, [k] both of which mean "people of the Han". The "Han" in the names of the Korean Empire, Daehan Jeguk, and the Republic of Korea (South Korea), Daehan Minguk or Hanguk, are named in reference to the Three Kingdoms of Korea, not the ancient confederacies in the southern Korean ...
Korea, the term for the peninsula and its culture composed currently of two sovereign states, for which Corea is a spelling in many languages, especially Romance languages, and a former spelling in English Korean Peninsula, the land area which Korea occupies; North Korea, one of the two sovereign states occupying the Korean peninsula
The Korean language was banned, and Koreans were forced to adopt Japanese names, [249] [note 5] [250] and newspapers were prohibited from publishing in Korean. Numerous Korean cultural artifacts were destroyed or taken to Japan. [251] According to an investigation by the South Korean government, 75,311 cultural assets were taken from Korea ...
Seoul, the capital of South Korea, has been called by a number of formal and informal names over time. The word seoul was originally a common noun that simply meant "capital city", and was used colloquially to refer to the capital throughout Korean history. Seoul became the official name of the South Korean capital after its liberation from ...