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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.
South Korea is an emerging exporter of nuclear reactors, having concluded agreements with the United Arab Emirates to build and maintain four advanced nuclear reactors, [220] with Jordan for a research nuclear reactor, [221] [222] and with Argentina for construction and repair of heavy-water nuclear reactors.
Increased trade with Japan along with hundreds of millions of dollars of desperately needed capital in the form of grants, public loans, and commercial credits from the Japanese government helped Korea swiftly industrialize out of the cataclysmic destruction of the Korean War (Ch'o, Pang, and Chang 14-15; Eckert et al. 388, 392).
Today, South Korea is a leading economy and a technological powerhouse, rivaling even countries such as the United States in information and communications technology. South Korean pop culture has also boomed abroad in recent years, in a phenomenon known as the Korean Wave .
After the Japan–Korea Annexation Treaty of 1910, Hapjeong-dong was known as Hapjeon-ri in 1913 and Hapjeong-jeong in 1936; it was a part of Yeonhui-myeon, which extended from Seodaemun District to Yeouido. In 1944, it became a part of the newly created Mapo District district and received its current name in 1946.
The Korean independence movement was a series of diplomatic and militant efforts to liberate Korea from Japanese rule.The movement began around the late 19th or early 20th century, and ended with the surrender of Japan in 1945.
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Korea (Korean: 한국; RR: Hanguk in South Korea, or Korean: 조선; MR: Chosŏn in North Korea) is a peninsular region in East Asia consisting of the Korean Peninsula (한반도; 韓半島; Hanbando in South Korea, or 조선반도; 朝鮮半島; Chosŏnbando in North Korea and among some in the Korean diaspora), Jeju Island, and smaller islands.