South Korea

a sovereign state in East Asia, constituting the southern part of the Korean Peninsula. Officially, its territory consists of the whole Korean Peninsula and its adjacent islands,] which are largely mountainous. South Koreans lead a distinctive urban lifestyle, as half of them live in high-risesconcentrated in the Seoul Capital Area with 25 million residents. The capital Seoul is the world's sixth leading global city with the fifth largest economy[16] and is the seventh most sustainable city in the world.

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Geopolitical profile

Geopolitical position:

Position on the geopolitical map:

South Korea is Southern part of Korean Peninsula and belong to Eurasian Rimland.

Geopolitical balance:

South Korea after WWII was occupied by USA and that has defined its role in the geopolitical balance. From 1945 it became the part of Sea Power, atlantiscism and strategic base for US politics in Pacific and on the costal zone of Eurasia. The same geopolitical identity was confirmed during the Civil War between South Korea and North Korea in 1950. So division of Korean people and existance of two Korean States represent direct result of Great War of Continents and is consequence of the geopolitical struggle for the control of Eurasian Rimland.

South Korea is geopolitical antithesis for North Korea. South Korea is atlanticist entity - hence the domination of liberalism, capitalism and atlanticism.

Main geopolitical allies:

USA, NATO, Japan

Opponents:

North Korea, China

Neutrality:

Russia, India

Sphere of national interest.:

North of Korean Peninsula us considered by Seul as territory of virtually unified space under control of South.

THe control of maritime zone on both sides of Peninsula

International disputes:

North of Korean Peninsula

Ethnosociology:

Ethnical structure:

Pure Korean ethnicity

Religious structure:

Atheists

Buddhists

Confucians

Taoist

Cheondoism (a Confucianizing religion)

Jeungsanism

Daejongism

Daesun Jinrihoe

Korean shamanism

Christianity (Catholicism, Protestantism)

Languages:

Korean

Ethnical identity:

Korean identity dissolving by libreal individualism

Nationlal_identity:

Liberal democrat concept of nation with strong anti-communist dimension

Liberal dictatorship

Individual (Civil Society):

strong expansion of urban individualist liberal identity

civil society Westernized consciousness in youth and urban population

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Political Ideology:

Political map:

Political schema :

Full domination of Liberal Center

RIght Liberalism is represented by pro-american fullscale currupted financial and military cercles

Left Liberalism is represented by progressist as well pro-american democrates fighting for opem society of Popper/Soros type. So called reformers

There is strong branch of farleft Liberal popular among youth

Small groups of far right (Liberal) Korean nationalists (anti-communists)

Some fully unrepresented politically part of population supports North Korea and is inclined toward reunification of both Koreas

Geoeconomy:

Economical descriprtion:

Important economical growth of chebols - criminal big corporations working with currupted structures of Government produce positive effect on country's economy

Chebols broped to be very effective

Geostrategy:

Geostrategy description:

Expansion of products in World markets, use of globalization

Values structure:

Marginal notes:

Full scpetrum domination of Libertal system of values imposed from 1945 by military US administration

Currupted type of Western Liberalism (right or left) of colonial style

Transnational organizations:

Transnational description:

ONU

National profile

Geography:

Climate:

South Korea tends to have a humid continental climate and a humid subtropical climate, and is affected by the East Asian monsoon, with precipitation heavier in summer during a short rainy season called jangma (장마), which begins end of June through the end of July. Winters can be extremely cold with the minimum temperature dropping below −20 °C (−4 °F) in the inland region of the country: in Seoul, the average January temperature range is −7 to 1 °C (19 to 34 °F), and the average August temperature range is 22 to 30 °C (72 to 86 °F). Winter temperatures are higher along the southern coast and considerably lower in the mountainous interior.[149] Summer can be uncomfortably hot and humid, with temperatures exceeding 30 °C (86 °F) in most parts of the country. South Korea has four distinct seasons; spring, summer, autumn and winter. Spring usually lasts from late March to early May, summer from mid-May to early September, autumn from mid-September to early November, and winter from mid-November to mid-March.

Rainfall is concentrated in the summer months of June through September. The southern coast is subject to late summer typhoons that bring strong winds, heavy rains and sometime floods. The average annual precipitation varies from 1,370 millimetres (54 in) in Seoul to 1,470 millimetres (58 in) in Busan.

Terrain::

South Korea occupies the southern portion of the Korean Peninsula, which extends some 1,100 km (680 mi) from the Asian mainland.

The country, including all its islands, lies between latitudes 33° and 39°N, and longitudes 124° and 130°E. Its total area is 100,032 square kilometres (38,622.57 sq mi).

South Korea can be divided into four general regions: an eastern region of high mountain ranges and narrow coastal plains; a western region of broad coastal plains, river basins, and rolling hills; a southwestern region of mountains and valleys; and a southeastern region dominated by the broad basin of the Nakdong River.

South Korea's terrain is mostly mountainous, most of which is not arable. Lowlands, located primarily in the west and southeast, make up only 30% of the total land area.

About three thousand islands, mostly small and uninhabited, lie off the western and southern coasts of South Korea. Jeju-do is about 100 kilometres (62 miles) off the southern coast of South Korea. It is the country's largest island, with an area of 1,845 square kilometres (712 square miles). Jeju is also the site of South Korea's highest point: Hallasan, an extinct volcano, reaches 1,950 metres (6,400 feet) above sea level. The easternmost islands of South Korea include Ulleungdo and Liancourt Rocks (Dokdo/Takeshima), while Marado and Socotra Rock are the southernmost islands of South Korea.

South Korea has 20 national parks and popular nature places like the Boseong Tea Fields, Suncheon Bay Ecological Park, and the first national park of Jirisan.

Territorial sea:

This mountainous peninsula is flanked by the Yellow Sea to the west, and the Sea of Japan to the east. Its southern tip lies on the Korea Strait and the East China Sea.

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