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Call 051-212-3456 within Busan: 212-3456. Call 051-212-3456 from elsewhere: 051-212-3456. Call 02-312-3456 from abroad: +82-2-312-3456. South Korea uses an open dialing plan with a total length (including 0) of 9 to 11 digits and, within city, subscriber numbers 7 to 8 digits long. Dialing from mobile phones to any type of phone except 010 ...
The series numbers are expressed with Korean letters used in alphabetical order, e.g. 가, 나, 다, 라, 마, 바, 사. Therefore, 1,000 won issued in 1983 is series II (나) because it is the second design of all 1,000 won designs since the introduction of the South Korean won in 1962.
In this system the mun was worth 1 ⁄ 1000 "warn". They would only be produced in three different denominations, these were the 5 mun (5 文), 10 mun (10 文), and 1 warn (1 圜). [5] The milled coins of the second series were first struck using the aid of Japanese technicians and in 1886 with the aid of three German technicians.
Chisanbop or chisenbop (from Korean chi (ji) finger + sanpŏp (sanbeop) calculation [ 1 ] 지산법/指算法), sometimes called Fingermath, [ 2 ] is a finger counting method used to perform basic mathematical operations. According to The Complete Book of Chisanbop[ 3 ] by Hang Young Pai, chisanbop was created in the 1940s in Korea by Sung Jin ...
In the first official census, taken in 1949, the total population of South Korea was calculated at 20,188,641 people. The 1985 census total was 40,466,577. Population growth was slow, averaging about 1.1% annually during the period from 1949 to 1955, when the population registered at 21.5 million.
Seoul Subway Line 1 (dubbed The Dark Blue Line) of the Seoul Metropolitan Subway is a rapid transit and commuter rail line which links central Seoul, South Korea to Yeoncheon in the northeast, Incheon in the southwest, and Sinchang via Suwon and Cheonan in the south. The central underground portion of Line 1, running underneath Sejongno, Jongno ...
The Korean language was banned, and Koreans were forced to adopt Japanese names, [247] [note 5] [248] and newspapers were prohibited from publishing in Korean. Numerous Korean cultural artifacts were destroyed or taken to Japan. [249] According to an investigation by the South Korean government, 75,311 cultural assets were taken from Korea ...
This is a list of languages by total number of speakers. It is difficult to define what constitutes a language as opposed to a dialect . For example, Chinese and Arabic are sometimes considered single languages, but each includes several mutually unintelligible varieties , and so they are sometimes considered language families instead.