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skorea

South Korea
By:Katie
Grade 6
Gulf Shore School 2001
Capital:Seoul 10,663,000(1990)
Population:43,663,000(1990)
Area:(sq km) 99,270

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Korea has been known as''The Land of the morning Calm''for generation.Its histore,however,has almost never been calm.For centuries the Korean peninsula was dominated by larger,more aggressive neighbors, most ofter China and Mongolia.

Form 1910 to 1945 it was occupied byJapan. At the end of World war 11 it was partitioned into two zones,the north to be administered by the Soviet Union, the south by the United States.