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The government of South Korea is the national government of the Republic of Korea, created by the Constitution of South Korea as the executive, legislative and judicial authority of the republic. The president acts as the head of state and is the highest figure of executive authority in the country, followed by the prime minister and government ...
The history of South Korea begins with the Japanese surrender on 2 September 1945. [1] At that time, South Korea and North Korea were divided, despite being the same people and on the same peninsula. In 1950, the Korean War broke out. North Korea overran South Korea until US-led UN forces intervened.
The politics of South Korea take place in the framework of a presidential representative democratic republic, whereby the president is the head of state, and of a multi-party system. To ensure a separation of powers, the Republic of Korea Government is made up of three branches: legislative, executive, and judicial.
Like many democratic states, [146] South Korea has a government divided into three branches: executive, judicial, and legislative. The executive and legislative branches operate primarily at the national level, although various ministries in the executive branch also carry out local functions.
Before democratization in 1987, South Korea traditionally maintained a term Sambu-Yoin (Korean: 삼부요인; Hanja: 三府要人; lit. VIPs from three branches of the government) which depicts the Speaker of the National Assembly, the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court and the Prime Minister, as symbol for tripartite separation of powers.
Governor-General of Chōsen, List of Japanese governors-general of Korea (1910–1945) Provisional Government of the Republic of Korea, List of presidents (1919–1948) North Korea (1948–present), Supreme Leader (North Korean title) / List of heads of state of North Korea; South Korea (1948–present), List of presidents of South Korea
SEOUL (Reuters) -South Korea's opposition-controlled parliament on Tuesday passed a government budget bill for 2025 that was slashed from the government's proposal and triggered President Yoon Suk ...
The Constitution declares South Korea a "democratic republic" (took from Article 1 of Constitutional Charter of the Provisional Government of the Republic of Korea of 1919), [7] its territory consisting of "the Korean Peninsula and its adjacent islands," and that "The Republic of Korea shall seek unification and shall formulate and carry out a ...