KOREA
SOUTH KOREA AND NORTH KOREA
REPORTERS: CHARLES MARIN AND AMADO MANAHAN
CCP ARHITECTURE 4TH YEAR
SOUTH KOREA
BACKGROUND
•AN INDIPENDENT KINGDOM FOR
MUCH OF ITS LONG HISTORY, KOREA
WAS OCCUPIED BY JAPAN
BEGINNING IN 1905 FOLLOWING
RUSSO-JAPANESE WAR IN 1910,
TOKYO FORMALLY ANNEXED THE
ENTIRE PENINSULA.
•KOREAN REGAINED ITS
INDEPENDENCE FOLLOWING
JAPAN'S SURRENDER TO THE
UNITED STATES IN 1945.
•AFTER WORLD WAR II, A
DEMOCRATIC-BASED GOVERNMENT
(REPUBLIC OF KOREA (ROK) WAS
SET UP IN THE SOUTHERN HALF OF
KOREAN PENINSULA WHILE A
COMMUNIST STYLE GOVERNMENT
WAS INSTALLED IN THE NORTH
(DEMOCRATIC PEOPLE'S REPUBLIC
OF KOREA, DPRK).
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LOCATION
•EASTERN ASIA , SOUTHERN HALF
OF THE KOREAN PENINSULA
BORDERING THE SEA OF JAPAN
AND THE YELLOW SEA
GEOGRAPHIC COORDINATES
•37 00 N, 127 30 E
AREA
total: 99,720 sq km
land: 96,920 sq km
water: 2,800 sq km
AREA COMPARATIVE
SLIGHTLY SMALLER THAN
PENNSYLVANIA , SLIGHTLY
LARGER THAN INDIANA
LAND BOUNDARIES
total: 237 km
border countries: North Korea 237
km
COASTLINE
•2,413 km
MARITIME CLAIMS
territorial sea: 12 nm; between 3 nm
and 12 nm in the Korea Strait
contiguous zone: 24 nm
exclusive economic zone: 200 nm
continental shelf: not specified
CLIMATE
temperate, with rainfall heavier in
summer than winter.
TERRAIN
mostly hills and mountains;
wide coastal plains in west
and south
ELEVATION EXTREMES
lowest point: Sea of Japan 0 m
highest point: Halla-san 1,950m
NATURAL RESOURCES
coal, tungsten, graphite, molybdenum,
lead, hydropower potential
LAND USE
arable land: 14.93%
permanent crops: 2.06%
other: 83% (2011)
ENVIRONMENT CURRENT
ISSUES
•air pollution in large cities; acid rain;
water pollution from the discharge of
sewage and industrial effluents; drift
net fishing.
GEOGRAPHY NOTE
•strategic location on Korea Strait
POPULATION
•49,039,986 (July 2014 est.)
POPULATION GROWT H RATE
•0.16% (2014 est.)
BIRTH RATE
•8.26 births/1,000 population (2014 est.)
DEATH RATE
•6.63 deaths/1,000 population (2014
est.)
NATIONALITY
•KOREAN / KOREAN(S)
ETHNIC GROUP
•homogeneous (except for about 20,000
Chinese)
RELIGION
Christian 31.6% (Protestant 24%,
Roman Catholic 7.6%), Buddhist 24.2%,
other or unknown 0.9%, none 43.3%
(2010 survey)
LANGUAGE
Korean, English (widely taught in junior
high and high school)
LITERACY
definition: age 15 and over can read
and write
total population: 97.9%
male: 99.2%
female: 96.6% (2002)
URBANIZATION
urban population: 83.2% of
total population (2011)
rate of urbanization: 0.71%
annual rate of change (2010-
15 est.)
DRINKING WATER SOURCES
improved:
urban: 99.7% of population
rural: 87.9% of population
total: 97.8% of population
unimproved:
urban: 0.3% of population
rural: 12.1% of population
total: 2.2% of population (2012 est.)
MAJOR CITIES
SEOUL (capital) 9.736 million;
Busan (Pusan) 3.372 million;
Incheon (Inch'on) 2.622 million;
Daegu (Taegu) 2.447 million;
Daejon (Taejon) 1.538 million;
Gwangju (Kwangju) 1.503 million
(2011)
COUNTRY NAME
conventional long
form: Republic of Korea
conventional short
form: South Korea
local long form: Taehan-
min'guk
local short form: Han'guk
abbreviation: ROK
GOVERNMENT TYPE
REPUBLIC
CAPITAL
name: Seoul
geographic
coordinates: 37 33 N, 126
59 E
time difference: UTC+9
(14 hours ahead of
Washington, DC, during
Standard Time)
ADMINISTRATIVE DIVISION
(9) provinces: Chungbuk (North
Chungcheong), Chungnam (South
Chungcheong), Gangwon,
Gyeonggi, Gyeongbuk (North
Gyeongsang), Gyeongnam (South
Gyeongsang), Jeju, Jeonbuk
(North Jeolla), Jeonnam (South
Jeolla)
(6) metropolitan cities: Busan
(Pusan), Daegu (Taegu), Daejeon
(Taejon), Gwangju (Kwangju),
Incheon (Inch'on), Ulsan
(1) special city: Seoul
(1) special self-governing
city: Sejong
INDEPENDENCE
15 August 1945 (from Japan)
GOVERNMENT EXECUTIVE BRANCH
chief of state: President PARK
Geun-hye (since 25 February
2013)
head of government: (vacant);
note - Prime Minister CHUNG
Hong-won resigned 27 April 2014;
MOON Chang-keuk was
nominated Prime Minister 10 June
2014 and awaits parliamentary
confirmation; Deputy Prime
Minister HYUN Oh-seok (since 26
June 2013)
cabinet: State Council appointed
by the president on the prime
minister's recommendation
elections: president elected by
popular vote for a single five-year
term; election last held on 19
December 2012 (next to be held in
December 2017); prime minister
appointed by president with
consent of National Assembly
election results: PARK Geun-Hye
elected president; percent of vote -
PARK Geun-Hye (NFP) 51.6%,
MOON Jae-In (DUP) 48%, others
0.4%
FLAG DESCRIPTION
•white with a red (top) and blue yin-
yang symbol in the center.
ECONOMY OVERVIEW
 SOUTH KOREA OVER THE
PAST FOUR DECADES HAS
DEMONSTRATED INCREDIBLE
GROWTH AND GLOBAL
ITEGRATION TO BECOME A
HIGH-TECH INDUSTRIALIZED
ECONOMY.
 IN THE 1960 GPA PER CAPITA
WAS COMPARABLE WITH
LEVELS IN THE POORER
COUNTRIES OF AFRICA AND
ASIA
 IN 2004, SOUTH KOREA
JOINED THE TRILLION DOLLAR
CLUB OF WORLD ECONOMIES,
AND IS CURRENTLY THE
WORLDS 12TH LARGEST
ECONOMY.
EXPORT COMMODITIES
• semiconductors, wireless
telecommunications equipment,
motor vehicles, auto parts,
computers, display, home
appliances, wire
telecommunication equipment,
steel, ships, petrochemicals.
EXPORT PARTNERS
• China 24.5%, US 10.7%, Japan
7.1%, Hong Kong 6%, Singapore
4.2% (2012 est.)
IMPORT COMMODOTIES
• machinery, electronics and
electronic equipment, oil, steel,
optical instruments, transport
equipment, organic chemicals,
plastics
IMPORT PARTNERS
• China 15.6%, Japan 12.4%, US
8.3%, Saudi Arabia 7.6%, Qatar
4.9%, Australia 4.4% (2011 est.)
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•total: 3,381 km
standard
gauge: 3,381 km
1.435-m gauge (1,843
km electrified) (2008)
TRANSPORTATION
1
RAILWAYS
2
ROADWAYS
3
WATERWAYS
•total: 104,983 km
paved: 83,199 km
(includes 3,779 km of
expressways)
unpaved: 21,784 km
(2009)
•total: 3,381 km
standard
gauge: 3,381 km
1.435-m gauge (1,843
km electrified) (2008)
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•1,600 km (most
navigable only by small
craft) (2011)
TRANSPORTATION
4
WATERWAYS
5
PIPELINES
6
PORT AND TERMINALS
•gas 2,216 km; oil 16
km; refined products
889 km (2013)
major
seaport(s): Incheon,
Pohang, Busan, Ulsan,
Yeosu
container port(s)
(TEUs): Busan
(16,163,842),
Kwangyang
(2,061,958), Incheon
(1,924,644)
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•111 (2013
TRANSPORTATION
7
AIRPORTS
8
AIRPORTS WITH
PAVED RUNWAYS
9
AIRPORTS WITH
UNPAVED RUNWAYS
•total: 71
over 3,047 m: 4
2,438 to 3,047 m: 19
1,524 to 2,437 m: 12
914 to 1,523 m: 13
under 914 m: 23
(2013)
total: 40
914 to 1,523 m: 2
under 914 m:
38 (2013)
CULTURE OF
KOREA
•THE TRADITIONAL CULTURE OF
KOREA REFERS TO THE SHARED
CULTURAL HERITAGE OF THE KOREAN
PENINSULA. SINCE THE MID 20TH
CENTURY.
•THE PENINSULA HAS BEEN SPLIT
POLITICALLY BETWEEN NORTH AND
SOUTH KOREA, RESULTING IN THE
NUMBER OF DIFFERENCES.
•BEFORE JOSEON DYNASTY, THE
PRACTICE OF KOREAN SHAMANISM
WAS DEEPLY ROOTED IN THE KOREAN
CULTURE.
TRADITIONAL
ARTS
•DANCE
•PAINTINGS
•CRAFTS
•CERAMICS
•MUSIC
LIFESTYLE
•HOMES
•GARDEN
•CLOTHING
•CUISINE
•TEA
BELIEFS
•THE ORIGINAL RELIGION OF THE
KOREAN PEOPLE WAS SHAMANISM,
WHICH THOUGH NOT AS WIDESPREAD
IN ANCIENT TIMES, STILL SURVIVES TO
THIS DAY.
•FEMALE SHAMANS OR MUDANG ARE
OFTEN CALLED UPON TO ENLIST THE
HELP OF VARIOUS SPIRITS TO
ACHIEVED VARIOUS MEANS.
KOREAS (4) FOUR
SEASONS
KOREA IS A GEOGRAPHICALLY
SITUATED IN A TEMPERATE CLIMATIC
ZONE AT MEDIUM LATITUDE. AS A
RESULT, IT HAS A DISTINCT SEASONS.
SPRING SEASON
• SPRING LASTS FROM LATE
MARCH TO EARLY MAY.
TEMPERATURES ARE MILD
AND PLEASANT.
• IT IS THE IDEAL SEASON TO
WITNESS CHERRY BLOSSOM,
FORSYTHIA, AZALEAS,
MAGNOLIAS AND LILACS
BLOOMING DURING THE PEAK
SEASON BETWEEN MARCH
AND MAY.
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SUMMER SEASON
• SUMMER IS USUALLY
BETWEEN JUNE AND AUGUST
WITH THE HOTTEST MONTH
BEING AUGUST WHEN THE
MEAN TEMPERATURE IS
BETWEEN 23 TO 26 DEGREE
CELSIUS.
• THE DRYNESS
CHARACTERIZING WINTER
AND SPRING DISAPPEARS IN
SUMMER, REPLACED BY HIGH
TEMPERATURE AND HUMID
AIR.
• DUE TO HIGH HUMIDITY,
PEOPLE FEEL THAT IT IS THE
HOTTER THAN IT ACTUALLY IS.
• THE WEATHER IS
PARTICULARLY HOT BETWEEN
THE END OF JULY AND END OF
AUGUST.
AUTUMN SEASON
• THE AUTUMN SEASON IN
KOREA IS BETWEEN
SEPTEMBER AND NOVEMBER.
THE WEATHER IS COOL AND
CRISP, AND THE SKY IS BLUE
WITH FEW CLOUDS.
• THE HEAT OF SUMMER STILL
SEEMS TO LINGER IN
SEPTEMBER WITH THE
DAYTIME BEING HOT, BUT THE
WEATHER IS COOL IN THE
MORNING AND EVENING.
• IN OCTOBER, THERE IS LESS
PRECIPITATION AND THE
HUMIDITY IN THE AIR
DECREASES, RESULTING IN
CRISP AND ENJOYABLE
WEATHER.
WINTER SEASON
• WINTER IN KOREA IS USUALLY
BETWEEN DECEMBER AND
FEBRUARY, WITH THE AVERAGE
TEMPERATURE IN JANUARY,
THE COLDEST MONTH
RANGING BETWEEN MINUS SIX
DEGREES AND THREE DEGREE
CELSIUS.
• THE DAYS WITH LOWEST
TEMPERATURES IN THE
WINTER USUALLY OCCUR IN
THE MIDDLE AND END OF
JANUARY.
• IN THE WINTER, THE DAYS ARE
SHORTER WITH THE SUNRISE
OCCURING LATER AND THE
SUNSET OCCURING EARLIER.
• USUALLY, A CYCLE OF THREE
DAYS OF COLD WEATHER
FOLLOWED BY FOUR DAYS
WARMER WEATHER IS
REPEATED.
SOUTH KOREA
LONGITUDAL
MAP
AVERAGE MONTHLY
WEATHER IN SEOUL,
SOUTH KOREA
THE MONTHS MAY, JUNE, JULY,
AUGUST AND SEPTEMBER HAVE NICE
WEATHER WITH A GOOD AVERAGE
TEMPERATURE.
ON AVERAGE, THE WARMEST
MONTH(S) ARE JULY AND AUGUST.
MOST RAINFALL (RAINY SEASON) IS
SEEN IN JUNE, JULY, AUGUST AND
SEPTEMBER.
SEOUL HAS DRY PERIODS IN JANUARY,
FEBRUARY AND DECEMBER
ON AVERAGE THE WARMEST MONTH
IS AUGUST
ON AVERAGE THE COOLEST MONTH IS
JANUARY
JULY IS THE WETTEST MONTH.
DECEMBER IS THE DRIEST MONTH.
AVERAGE MINIMUM AND MAXIMUM TEMPERATURE OVER THE YEAR
THE MONTHLY MEAN MINIMUM AND MAXIMUM DAILY TEMPERATURE
AVERAGE PERCENT OF SUNSHINE OVER THE YEAR
THIS IS THE MONTHLY TOTAL SUNHOURS
AVERAGE MONTHLY HOURS OF SUNSHINE OVER THE YEAR
THIS IS THE MONTHLY TOTAL OF SUNHOURS
AVERAGE MONTHLY PRECIPITATION OVER THE YEAR (RAINFALL,
SNOW)
THIS IS THE MONTHLY PRECIPITATION, INCLUDING RAIN, SNOW, HAIL.
AVERAGE MONTHLY RAINY DAYS OVER THE YEAR
THIS IS THE NUMBER OF DAYS EACH MONTH WITH RAIN, SNOW, HAIL ETC.
AVERAGE HUMIDITY OVER THE YEAR
THIS IS THE MEAN MONTHLY RELATIVE HUMIDITY
NORTH KOREA
Capital
and largest city
Pyongyang
is a country in East Asia, in the northern
part of the Korean Peninsula. The
name Korea is derived from the Kingdom of
Goguryeo, also spelled
as Koryŏ. Pyongyang is both the nation's
capital as well as its largest city, with a
population just over 2.5 million. To the
north and northwest the country
is bordered by China and by Russia along
the Amnok (known as the Yalu in China)
and Tumen rivers. The country is bordered
to the south by South Korea(officially the
Republic of Korea), with the heavily-
fortified Korean Demilitarized
Zone separating the two.
North Korea occupies the
northern portion of the Korean
Peninsula, lying between
latitudes 37° and 43°N, and
longitudes 124°and 131°E. It
covers an area of 120,540 square
kilometres (46,541 sq mi). North
Korea shares land borders with
China andRussia to the north,
and borders South Korea along
the Korean Demilitarized Zone.
To its west are the Yellow
Sea and Korea Bay, and to its
east lies Japan across the Sea of
Japan (East Sea of Korea).
Geography
Architecture
in KOREA
•INTRODUCTION
•HISTORICAL ARCHITECTURE
•PREHISTORIC ARCHITECTURE
•PROTO-THREE KINGDOMS PERIOD
•UNIFIED SILLA DYNASTY
•GORYO DYNASTY
•JOSEON DYNASTY
•COLONIAL PERIOD ARCHITECTURE
•MODERN ARCHITECTURE
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INTRODUCTION
INTRODUCTION
From a technical point of view,
buildings are structured
vertically and horizontally. A
construction usually rises from a
stone subfoundation to a curved
roof covered with tiles, held by a
console structure and supported
on posts; walls are made of earth
(adobe) or are sometimes totally
composed of movable wooden
doors. Architecture is built
according to the k'a unit, the
distance between two posts
(about 3.7 meters), and is
designed so that there is always
a transitional space between the
"inside" and the "outside."
HISTORICAL ARCHITECTURE
Pit house Reconstructed Neolithic-period huts
in Amsa-dong, Gangdong-gu, Seoul
Gochang Dolmen, a UNESCO
World Heritage Site.
In the Paleolithic the first inhabitants of the
Korean peninsula used caves, rockshelters,
and portable shelters. The remains of a
portable shelter dating to c. 30,000 BC were
excavated at the Seokjang-ri site in South
Chungcheong Province. The earliest
examples of pit-house architecture are from
the Jeulmun Pottery Period. Early pit-houses
contained basic features such as hearths,
storage pits, and space for working and
sleeping.
Log houses were built by laying logs
horizontally one on top of one another.
The interstices between the logs were
filled with clay to keep the wind out.
Similar houses are still found in
mountainous areas as like Gangwon-
do province.
Elevated houses, which probably
originated in the southern regions, are
believed to have first been built as storage
houses to store grains out of the reach of
animals and to keep them cool. This style
still survives in the two-story pavilions and
lookout stands erected in melon patches
and orchards around the countryside.
In the Mumun period buildings were pit
dwellings with walls of wattle-and-
daub and thatched roofs. Raised-floor
architecture first appeared in the Korean
peninsula in the Middle Mumun, c. 850–
550 BC.
Wattle and daub is
a composite buildi
ng material used
for making walls, in
which a woven
lattice of wooden
strips called wattle
is daubed with a
sticky material
usually made of
some combination
of
wet soil, clay, sand,
animal dung and
straw.
Thatching is the craft of building
a roof with dry vegetation such
as straw, water reed, sedge (Cladium
mariscus), rushes, orheather, layering the
vegetation so as to shed water away from
the inner roof.
PROTO – THREE KINGDOM
PERIOD
Archaeological evidence of ondol(온돌),
the Korean floor panel heating system, was
found in the architectural remains of
early Protohistoric period.
According to Chinese text Sanguo Zhi, it
recorded the existence of three types of
prehistoric dwellings in Korea: pit houses,
log houses and elevated houses. Only the
remains of pit houses have been
identified, however. Pit houses consisted
of a 20–150 cm deep pit and a
superstructure of grass and clay supported
by a tripod-like frame made of timber to
provide protection from the wind and rain.
Pit houses of the Neolithic period had
circular or oval pits about 5–6 meters in
diameter with a hearth at the center.
Three Kingdoms
Period
Pottery shaped in the form of a house
from Gaya.
Ruins of Hwando Mountain Fortress, a major
Goguryeo fortification, Ji'an, China. A UNESCO
World Heritage Site dated to c. 5th century.
Hwando Mountain
Fortress ruins
COMMON ARCHITECTURE
FORTRESS ARCHITECTURE
The western stone pagoda
that was built during the
Baekje Kingdom era in the
Temple, Mireuksa
Reconstruction of the eastern stone
pagoda of Mireuksa Temple
RELIGIOUS ARCHITECTURE
Miniature
reconstruction of
Mireuk Temple, Iksan,
South Korea. 7th
Century.
Miniature reconstruction
of Hwangnyong Temple,
6th Century
Bunhwang
Templepagaoda.
It is thought this
pagoda once
stood seven or
nine stories
based on
historical records.
Chongnim Temple Pagoda, one of the
oldest surviving pagodas in Korea.
Baekje period, Buyeo, South Korea
A reconstruction of
the great pagoda
atHwangyong
Temple.
Faint outline of a hip-and-gabled
building, perhaps a temple or
hermitage in the foreground of a
brick excavated from a Baekje
temple.
ROYAL ARCHITECTURE
Cheomseongdae,
royal observatory.
Poseokjeong (Pavilion
of Stone Abalone)
used to be a grand
royal garden
TOMB ARCHITECTURE
Tomb of the General, presumed to
be the tomb of a great Goguryeo
king or military official. Located in
Ji'an, China
Goguryeo tombs, 5th century, Jian, China.
Baekje royal tomb complex, Buyeo, South
Korea.
Hwangnam Great Tomb, a double-
mounded tomb for a king and
queen of Silla.
Royal tombs of Bihwa Gaya.
UNIFIED SILLA DYNASTY
RELIGIOUS ARCHITECTURE
Bulguk Temple, a UNESCO World
Heritage Site.
Bulguksa Temple, built on a stone
platform at the foothill of Mt.
Toham near Gyeongju, is the
oldest existing temple in Korea.
The temple was first founded
early in the 6th century and was
entirely rebuilt and enlarged in
752. The original platform and
foundations have remained intact
to the present, but the existing
wooden buildings were
reconstructed during the Joseon
dynasty.
Dabo Pagoda,
a national
treasure of
South Korea.
Roof end tile
shaped like an
owl's tail, chimi in
Korean.
Gameunsa
granite pagoda
in typical Sillan
style. It is the
largest example
of its kind.
Foundation
stones of
Gameunsa.
Granite
memorial
stupa carved in
the shape of
an eight-sided
roof,National
Museum of
Korea.
ROYAL ARCHITECTURE
Anapji pond in Gyeongju
Details of wooden construction
reconstructed from archaeological
remains recovered from a dredging
of Anapji pond.Gyeongju National
Museum.
GORYEO (Koryŏ) DYNASTY
A Goryeo painting depicting a royal palace.
Muryangsujeon,
a national
treasure of
Korea.
Woljeong
Temple pagoda.
Daeungjeon Hall
of Sudeoksa
Temple.
JOSEON DYNASTYJOSEON DYNASTY
Donggwoldo, a landscape of the once
extensive grounds of Changdeokgung Palace, a
UNESCO World Heritage Site,
and Changgyeonggung Palace. Painted c. 1830.
Joseon architecture is defined as from
the 14th century to the beginning of
20th century. The founding of the Joseon
Dynasty in 1392 brought to power like-
minded men steeped in the doctrines
of Neo-Confucianism, which had slowly
percolated into Korea from China in the
14th century. This ushered in a new
environment that was relatively hostile
to Buddhism, causing the state to
gradually shift its patronage from
Buddhist temples to Confucian
institutions. Throughout the early
dynasty, the impetus to reform society
along Neo-Confucian lines led to the
construction of hyanggyo (local schools)
in Seoul and numerous provincial cities.
Here, sons of the aristocracy prepared
for civil service careers in an atmosphere
of Confucian learning.

HISTORY: Korean Architecture 1.0

  • 1.
    KOREA SOUTH KOREA ANDNORTH KOREA REPORTERS: CHARLES MARIN AND AMADO MANAHAN CCP ARHITECTURE 4TH YEAR
  • 2.
    SOUTH KOREA BACKGROUND •AN INDIPENDENTKINGDOM FOR MUCH OF ITS LONG HISTORY, KOREA WAS OCCUPIED BY JAPAN BEGINNING IN 1905 FOLLOWING RUSSO-JAPANESE WAR IN 1910, TOKYO FORMALLY ANNEXED THE ENTIRE PENINSULA. •KOREAN REGAINED ITS INDEPENDENCE FOLLOWING JAPAN'S SURRENDER TO THE UNITED STATES IN 1945. •AFTER WORLD WAR II, A DEMOCRATIC-BASED GOVERNMENT (REPUBLIC OF KOREA (ROK) WAS SET UP IN THE SOUTHERN HALF OF KOREAN PENINSULA WHILE A COMMUNIST STYLE GOVERNMENT WAS INSTALLED IN THE NORTH (DEMOCRATIC PEOPLE'S REPUBLIC OF KOREA, DPRK). http://www.indexmundi.com/factbook/compare/so uth-korea.north-korea
  • 3.
    LOCATION •EASTERN ASIA ,SOUTHERN HALF OF THE KOREAN PENINSULA BORDERING THE SEA OF JAPAN AND THE YELLOW SEA GEOGRAPHIC COORDINATES •37 00 N, 127 30 E AREA total: 99,720 sq km land: 96,920 sq km water: 2,800 sq km AREA COMPARATIVE SLIGHTLY SMALLER THAN PENNSYLVANIA , SLIGHTLY LARGER THAN INDIANA
  • 4.
    LAND BOUNDARIES total: 237km border countries: North Korea 237 km COASTLINE •2,413 km MARITIME CLAIMS territorial sea: 12 nm; between 3 nm and 12 nm in the Korea Strait contiguous zone: 24 nm exclusive economic zone: 200 nm continental shelf: not specified CLIMATE temperate, with rainfall heavier in summer than winter.
  • 5.
    TERRAIN mostly hills andmountains; wide coastal plains in west and south ELEVATION EXTREMES lowest point: Sea of Japan 0 m highest point: Halla-san 1,950m NATURAL RESOURCES coal, tungsten, graphite, molybdenum, lead, hydropower potential
  • 6.
    LAND USE arable land:14.93% permanent crops: 2.06% other: 83% (2011) ENVIRONMENT CURRENT ISSUES •air pollution in large cities; acid rain; water pollution from the discharge of sewage and industrial effluents; drift net fishing. GEOGRAPHY NOTE •strategic location on Korea Strait POPULATION •49,039,986 (July 2014 est.) POPULATION GROWT H RATE •0.16% (2014 est.)
  • 7.
    BIRTH RATE •8.26 births/1,000population (2014 est.) DEATH RATE •6.63 deaths/1,000 population (2014 est.) NATIONALITY •KOREAN / KOREAN(S) ETHNIC GROUP •homogeneous (except for about 20,000 Chinese) RELIGION Christian 31.6% (Protestant 24%, Roman Catholic 7.6%), Buddhist 24.2%, other or unknown 0.9%, none 43.3% (2010 survey) LANGUAGE Korean, English (widely taught in junior high and high school) LITERACY definition: age 15 and over can read and write total population: 97.9% male: 99.2% female: 96.6% (2002)
  • 8.
    URBANIZATION urban population: 83.2%of total population (2011) rate of urbanization: 0.71% annual rate of change (2010- 15 est.) DRINKING WATER SOURCES improved: urban: 99.7% of population rural: 87.9% of population total: 97.8% of population unimproved: urban: 0.3% of population rural: 12.1% of population total: 2.2% of population (2012 est.) MAJOR CITIES SEOUL (capital) 9.736 million; Busan (Pusan) 3.372 million; Incheon (Inch'on) 2.622 million; Daegu (Taegu) 2.447 million; Daejon (Taejon) 1.538 million; Gwangju (Kwangju) 1.503 million (2011)
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    COUNTRY NAME conventional long form:Republic of Korea conventional short form: South Korea local long form: Taehan- min'guk local short form: Han'guk abbreviation: ROK GOVERNMENT TYPE REPUBLIC CAPITAL name: Seoul geographic coordinates: 37 33 N, 126 59 E time difference: UTC+9 (14 hours ahead of Washington, DC, during Standard Time) ADMINISTRATIVE DIVISION (9) provinces: Chungbuk (North Chungcheong), Chungnam (South Chungcheong), Gangwon, Gyeonggi, Gyeongbuk (North Gyeongsang), Gyeongnam (South Gyeongsang), Jeju, Jeonbuk (North Jeolla), Jeonnam (South Jeolla) (6) metropolitan cities: Busan (Pusan), Daegu (Taegu), Daejeon (Taejon), Gwangju (Kwangju), Incheon (Inch'on), Ulsan (1) special city: Seoul (1) special self-governing city: Sejong INDEPENDENCE 15 August 1945 (from Japan) GOVERNMENT EXECUTIVE BRANCH chief of state: President PARK Geun-hye (since 25 February 2013) head of government: (vacant); note - Prime Minister CHUNG Hong-won resigned 27 April 2014; MOON Chang-keuk was nominated Prime Minister 10 June 2014 and awaits parliamentary confirmation; Deputy Prime Minister HYUN Oh-seok (since 26 June 2013) cabinet: State Council appointed by the president on the prime minister's recommendation elections: president elected by popular vote for a single five-year term; election last held on 19 December 2012 (next to be held in December 2017); prime minister appointed by president with consent of National Assembly election results: PARK Geun-Hye elected president; percent of vote - PARK Geun-Hye (NFP) 51.6%, MOON Jae-In (DUP) 48%, others 0.4%
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    FLAG DESCRIPTION •white witha red (top) and blue yin- yang symbol in the center. ECONOMY OVERVIEW  SOUTH KOREA OVER THE PAST FOUR DECADES HAS DEMONSTRATED INCREDIBLE GROWTH AND GLOBAL ITEGRATION TO BECOME A HIGH-TECH INDUSTRIALIZED ECONOMY.  IN THE 1960 GPA PER CAPITA WAS COMPARABLE WITH LEVELS IN THE POORER COUNTRIES OF AFRICA AND ASIA  IN 2004, SOUTH KOREA JOINED THE TRILLION DOLLAR CLUB OF WORLD ECONOMIES, AND IS CURRENTLY THE WORLDS 12TH LARGEST ECONOMY.
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    EXPORT COMMODITIES • semiconductors,wireless telecommunications equipment, motor vehicles, auto parts, computers, display, home appliances, wire telecommunication equipment, steel, ships, petrochemicals. EXPORT PARTNERS • China 24.5%, US 10.7%, Japan 7.1%, Hong Kong 6%, Singapore 4.2% (2012 est.) IMPORT COMMODOTIES • machinery, electronics and electronic equipment, oil, steel, optical instruments, transport equipment, organic chemicals, plastics IMPORT PARTNERS • China 15.6%, Japan 12.4%, US 8.3%, Saudi Arabia 7.6%, Qatar 4.9%, Australia 4.4% (2011 est.)
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    ________________________________ •total: 3,381 km standard gauge:3,381 km 1.435-m gauge (1,843 km electrified) (2008) TRANSPORTATION 1 RAILWAYS 2 ROADWAYS 3 WATERWAYS •total: 104,983 km paved: 83,199 km (includes 3,779 km of expressways) unpaved: 21,784 km (2009) •total: 3,381 km standard gauge: 3,381 km 1.435-m gauge (1,843 km electrified) (2008)
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    ________________________________ •1,600 km (most navigableonly by small craft) (2011) TRANSPORTATION 4 WATERWAYS 5 PIPELINES 6 PORT AND TERMINALS •gas 2,216 km; oil 16 km; refined products 889 km (2013) major seaport(s): Incheon, Pohang, Busan, Ulsan, Yeosu container port(s) (TEUs): Busan (16,163,842), Kwangyang (2,061,958), Incheon (1,924,644)
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    ________________________________ •111 (2013 TRANSPORTATION 7 AIRPORTS 8 AIRPORTS WITH PAVEDRUNWAYS 9 AIRPORTS WITH UNPAVED RUNWAYS •total: 71 over 3,047 m: 4 2,438 to 3,047 m: 19 1,524 to 2,437 m: 12 914 to 1,523 m: 13 under 914 m: 23 (2013) total: 40 914 to 1,523 m: 2 under 914 m: 38 (2013)
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    CULTURE OF KOREA •THE TRADITIONALCULTURE OF KOREA REFERS TO THE SHARED CULTURAL HERITAGE OF THE KOREAN PENINSULA. SINCE THE MID 20TH CENTURY. •THE PENINSULA HAS BEEN SPLIT POLITICALLY BETWEEN NORTH AND SOUTH KOREA, RESULTING IN THE NUMBER OF DIFFERENCES. •BEFORE JOSEON DYNASTY, THE PRACTICE OF KOREAN SHAMANISM WAS DEEPLY ROOTED IN THE KOREAN CULTURE.
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    TRADITIONAL ARTS •DANCE •PAINTINGS •CRAFTS •CERAMICS •MUSIC LIFESTYLE •HOMES •GARDEN •CLOTHING •CUISINE •TEA BELIEFS •THE ORIGINAL RELIGIONOF THE KOREAN PEOPLE WAS SHAMANISM, WHICH THOUGH NOT AS WIDESPREAD IN ANCIENT TIMES, STILL SURVIVES TO THIS DAY. •FEMALE SHAMANS OR MUDANG ARE OFTEN CALLED UPON TO ENLIST THE HELP OF VARIOUS SPIRITS TO ACHIEVED VARIOUS MEANS.
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    KOREAS (4) FOUR SEASONS KOREAIS A GEOGRAPHICALLY SITUATED IN A TEMPERATE CLIMATIC ZONE AT MEDIUM LATITUDE. AS A RESULT, IT HAS A DISTINCT SEASONS. SPRING SEASON • SPRING LASTS FROM LATE MARCH TO EARLY MAY. TEMPERATURES ARE MILD AND PLEASANT. • IT IS THE IDEAL SEASON TO WITNESS CHERRY BLOSSOM, FORSYTHIA, AZALEAS, MAGNOLIAS AND LILACS BLOOMING DURING THE PEAK SEASON BETWEEN MARCH AND MAY. https://weather-and-climate.com/average-monthly- Rainfall-Temperature-Sunshine,Seoul,South-Korea
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    SUMMER SEASON • SUMMERIS USUALLY BETWEEN JUNE AND AUGUST WITH THE HOTTEST MONTH BEING AUGUST WHEN THE MEAN TEMPERATURE IS BETWEEN 23 TO 26 DEGREE CELSIUS. • THE DRYNESS CHARACTERIZING WINTER AND SPRING DISAPPEARS IN SUMMER, REPLACED BY HIGH TEMPERATURE AND HUMID AIR. • DUE TO HIGH HUMIDITY, PEOPLE FEEL THAT IT IS THE HOTTER THAN IT ACTUALLY IS. • THE WEATHER IS PARTICULARLY HOT BETWEEN THE END OF JULY AND END OF AUGUST.
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    AUTUMN SEASON • THEAUTUMN SEASON IN KOREA IS BETWEEN SEPTEMBER AND NOVEMBER. THE WEATHER IS COOL AND CRISP, AND THE SKY IS BLUE WITH FEW CLOUDS. • THE HEAT OF SUMMER STILL SEEMS TO LINGER IN SEPTEMBER WITH THE DAYTIME BEING HOT, BUT THE WEATHER IS COOL IN THE MORNING AND EVENING. • IN OCTOBER, THERE IS LESS PRECIPITATION AND THE HUMIDITY IN THE AIR DECREASES, RESULTING IN CRISP AND ENJOYABLE WEATHER.
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    WINTER SEASON • WINTERIN KOREA IS USUALLY BETWEEN DECEMBER AND FEBRUARY, WITH THE AVERAGE TEMPERATURE IN JANUARY, THE COLDEST MONTH RANGING BETWEEN MINUS SIX DEGREES AND THREE DEGREE CELSIUS. • THE DAYS WITH LOWEST TEMPERATURES IN THE WINTER USUALLY OCCUR IN THE MIDDLE AND END OF JANUARY. • IN THE WINTER, THE DAYS ARE SHORTER WITH THE SUNRISE OCCURING LATER AND THE SUNSET OCCURING EARLIER. • USUALLY, A CYCLE OF THREE DAYS OF COLD WEATHER FOLLOWED BY FOUR DAYS WARMER WEATHER IS REPEATED.
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    AVERAGE MONTHLY WEATHER INSEOUL, SOUTH KOREA THE MONTHS MAY, JUNE, JULY, AUGUST AND SEPTEMBER HAVE NICE WEATHER WITH A GOOD AVERAGE TEMPERATURE. ON AVERAGE, THE WARMEST MONTH(S) ARE JULY AND AUGUST. MOST RAINFALL (RAINY SEASON) IS SEEN IN JUNE, JULY, AUGUST AND SEPTEMBER. SEOUL HAS DRY PERIODS IN JANUARY, FEBRUARY AND DECEMBER ON AVERAGE THE WARMEST MONTH IS AUGUST ON AVERAGE THE COOLEST MONTH IS JANUARY JULY IS THE WETTEST MONTH. DECEMBER IS THE DRIEST MONTH.
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    AVERAGE MINIMUM ANDMAXIMUM TEMPERATURE OVER THE YEAR THE MONTHLY MEAN MINIMUM AND MAXIMUM DAILY TEMPERATURE AVERAGE PERCENT OF SUNSHINE OVER THE YEAR THIS IS THE MONTHLY TOTAL SUNHOURS
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    AVERAGE MONTHLY HOURSOF SUNSHINE OVER THE YEAR THIS IS THE MONTHLY TOTAL OF SUNHOURS AVERAGE MONTHLY PRECIPITATION OVER THE YEAR (RAINFALL, SNOW) THIS IS THE MONTHLY PRECIPITATION, INCLUDING RAIN, SNOW, HAIL.
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    AVERAGE MONTHLY RAINYDAYS OVER THE YEAR THIS IS THE NUMBER OF DAYS EACH MONTH WITH RAIN, SNOW, HAIL ETC. AVERAGE HUMIDITY OVER THE YEAR THIS IS THE MEAN MONTHLY RELATIVE HUMIDITY
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    NORTH KOREA Capital and largestcity Pyongyang is a country in East Asia, in the northern part of the Korean Peninsula. The name Korea is derived from the Kingdom of Goguryeo, also spelled as Koryŏ. Pyongyang is both the nation's capital as well as its largest city, with a population just over 2.5 million. To the north and northwest the country is bordered by China and by Russia along the Amnok (known as the Yalu in China) and Tumen rivers. The country is bordered to the south by South Korea(officially the Republic of Korea), with the heavily- fortified Korean Demilitarized Zone separating the two.
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    North Korea occupiesthe northern portion of the Korean Peninsula, lying between latitudes 37° and 43°N, and longitudes 124°and 131°E. It covers an area of 120,540 square kilometres (46,541 sq mi). North Korea shares land borders with China andRussia to the north, and borders South Korea along the Korean Demilitarized Zone. To its west are the Yellow Sea and Korea Bay, and to its east lies Japan across the Sea of Japan (East Sea of Korea). Geography
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    Architecture in KOREA •INTRODUCTION •HISTORICAL ARCHITECTURE •PREHISTORICARCHITECTURE •PROTO-THREE KINGDOMS PERIOD •UNIFIED SILLA DYNASTY •GORYO DYNASTY •JOSEON DYNASTY •COLONIAL PERIOD ARCHITECTURE •MODERN ARCHITECTURE https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Korean_architecture
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    INTRODUCTION INTRODUCTION From a technicalpoint of view, buildings are structured vertically and horizontally. A construction usually rises from a stone subfoundation to a curved roof covered with tiles, held by a console structure and supported on posts; walls are made of earth (adobe) or are sometimes totally composed of movable wooden doors. Architecture is built according to the k'a unit, the distance between two posts (about 3.7 meters), and is designed so that there is always a transitional space between the "inside" and the "outside."
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    HISTORICAL ARCHITECTURE Pit houseReconstructed Neolithic-period huts in Amsa-dong, Gangdong-gu, Seoul Gochang Dolmen, a UNESCO World Heritage Site. In the Paleolithic the first inhabitants of the Korean peninsula used caves, rockshelters, and portable shelters. The remains of a portable shelter dating to c. 30,000 BC were excavated at the Seokjang-ri site in South Chungcheong Province. The earliest examples of pit-house architecture are from the Jeulmun Pottery Period. Early pit-houses contained basic features such as hearths, storage pits, and space for working and sleeping.
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    Log houses werebuilt by laying logs horizontally one on top of one another. The interstices between the logs were filled with clay to keep the wind out. Similar houses are still found in mountainous areas as like Gangwon- do province. Elevated houses, which probably originated in the southern regions, are believed to have first been built as storage houses to store grains out of the reach of animals and to keep them cool. This style still survives in the two-story pavilions and lookout stands erected in melon patches and orchards around the countryside. In the Mumun period buildings were pit dwellings with walls of wattle-and- daub and thatched roofs. Raised-floor architecture first appeared in the Korean peninsula in the Middle Mumun, c. 850– 550 BC. Wattle and daub is a composite buildi ng material used for making walls, in which a woven lattice of wooden strips called wattle is daubed with a sticky material usually made of some combination of wet soil, clay, sand, animal dung and straw. Thatching is the craft of building a roof with dry vegetation such as straw, water reed, sedge (Cladium mariscus), rushes, orheather, layering the vegetation so as to shed water away from the inner roof.
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    PROTO – THREEKINGDOM PERIOD Archaeological evidence of ondol(온돌), the Korean floor panel heating system, was found in the architectural remains of early Protohistoric period. According to Chinese text Sanguo Zhi, it recorded the existence of three types of prehistoric dwellings in Korea: pit houses, log houses and elevated houses. Only the remains of pit houses have been identified, however. Pit houses consisted of a 20–150 cm deep pit and a superstructure of grass and clay supported by a tripod-like frame made of timber to provide protection from the wind and rain. Pit houses of the Neolithic period had circular or oval pits about 5–6 meters in diameter with a hearth at the center.
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    Three Kingdoms Period Pottery shapedin the form of a house from Gaya. Ruins of Hwando Mountain Fortress, a major Goguryeo fortification, Ji'an, China. A UNESCO World Heritage Site dated to c. 5th century. Hwando Mountain Fortress ruins COMMON ARCHITECTURE FORTRESS ARCHITECTURE
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    The western stonepagoda that was built during the Baekje Kingdom era in the Temple, Mireuksa Reconstruction of the eastern stone pagoda of Mireuksa Temple RELIGIOUS ARCHITECTURE Miniature reconstruction of Mireuk Temple, Iksan, South Korea. 7th Century. Miniature reconstruction of Hwangnyong Temple, 6th Century
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    Bunhwang Templepagaoda. It is thoughtthis pagoda once stood seven or nine stories based on historical records. Chongnim Temple Pagoda, one of the oldest surviving pagodas in Korea. Baekje period, Buyeo, South Korea A reconstruction of the great pagoda atHwangyong Temple. Faint outline of a hip-and-gabled building, perhaps a temple or hermitage in the foreground of a brick excavated from a Baekje temple.
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    ROYAL ARCHITECTURE Cheomseongdae, royal observatory. Poseokjeong(Pavilion of Stone Abalone) used to be a grand royal garden TOMB ARCHITECTURE Tomb of the General, presumed to be the tomb of a great Goguryeo king or military official. Located in Ji'an, China
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    Goguryeo tombs, 5thcentury, Jian, China. Baekje royal tomb complex, Buyeo, South Korea. Hwangnam Great Tomb, a double- mounded tomb for a king and queen of Silla. Royal tombs of Bihwa Gaya.
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    UNIFIED SILLA DYNASTY RELIGIOUSARCHITECTURE Bulguk Temple, a UNESCO World Heritage Site. Bulguksa Temple, built on a stone platform at the foothill of Mt. Toham near Gyeongju, is the oldest existing temple in Korea. The temple was first founded early in the 6th century and was entirely rebuilt and enlarged in 752. The original platform and foundations have remained intact to the present, but the existing wooden buildings were reconstructed during the Joseon dynasty.
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    Dabo Pagoda, a national treasureof South Korea. Roof end tile shaped like an owl's tail, chimi in Korean. Gameunsa granite pagoda in typical Sillan style. It is the largest example of its kind. Foundation stones of Gameunsa. Granite memorial stupa carved in the shape of an eight-sided roof,National Museum of Korea.
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    ROYAL ARCHITECTURE Anapji pondin Gyeongju Details of wooden construction reconstructed from archaeological remains recovered from a dredging of Anapji pond.Gyeongju National Museum.
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    GORYEO (Koryŏ) DYNASTY AGoryeo painting depicting a royal palace. Muryangsujeon, a national treasure of Korea. Woljeong Temple pagoda. Daeungjeon Hall of Sudeoksa Temple.
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    JOSEON DYNASTYJOSEON DYNASTY Donggwoldo,a landscape of the once extensive grounds of Changdeokgung Palace, a UNESCO World Heritage Site, and Changgyeonggung Palace. Painted c. 1830. Joseon architecture is defined as from the 14th century to the beginning of 20th century. The founding of the Joseon Dynasty in 1392 brought to power like- minded men steeped in the doctrines of Neo-Confucianism, which had slowly percolated into Korea from China in the 14th century. This ushered in a new environment that was relatively hostile to Buddhism, causing the state to gradually shift its patronage from Buddhist temples to Confucian institutions. Throughout the early dynasty, the impetus to reform society along Neo-Confucian lines led to the construction of hyanggyo (local schools) in Seoul and numerous provincial cities. Here, sons of the aristocracy prepared for civil service careers in an atmosphere of Confucian learning.