* In Korea, the Chinese phoenix / fenghuang has been used for the royal emblem ( more especially for Queens ) and the presidential emblem.

Not only is Mr. Frelinghuysen a member of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, but he is the grandson of the man who was instrumental in opening relations between the United States and Korea, Frederick T. Frelinghuysen, Secretary of State in the administration of Chester A. Arthur.

Next year is the 80th anniversary of the signing of the treaty between Korea and the United States and experts in Seoul are trying to find the correspondence between Frederick Frelinghuysen, who was Secretary of State in 1883 and 1884, and Gen. Lucius Foote, who was the first minister to Korea.

The fact that China ( which is obsessed by Formosa -- to Khrushchev a very small matter ) should be supported by North Korea and North Vietnam is highly indicative.

After all, the average American as he lies and waits for the enemy in Korea or as she scans the newspaper in some vain hope of personal contact with the front is unconcerned that his or her plight is the result of a complex of personal, economic and governmental actions far beyond the normal citizen's comprehension and control.

In Korea, the Hangul alphabet was created by Sejong the Great Hangul is a unique alphabet: it is a featural alphabet, where many of the letters are designed from a sound's place of articulation ( P to look like the widened mouth, L to look like the tongue pulled in, etc.

Chinese philosophy is the dominant philosophical thought in China and other countries within the sinosphere, including Japan, Korea, and Vietnam.

The meat of this mollusk is considered a delicacy in certain parts of Latin America ( especially Chile ), France, New Zealand, Southeast Asia, and East Asia ( especially in China, Japan, and Korea ).

* 1973 – Kim Dae-jung, a South Korean politician and later president of South Korea, is kidnapped.

It is also found and mined in South Korea.

* 1948 – The Republic of Korea is established south of the 38th parallel north.

* 1974 – Yuk Young-soo, First Lady of South Korea, is killed during an apparent assassination attempt upon President of South Korea, Park Chung-hee.

This marks the end of the First Sino-Japanese War, and the defeated Qing Empire is forced to renounce its claims on Korea and to concede the southern portion of the Fengtien province, Taiwan and the Pescadores Islands to Japan.

* 2005 – Snuppy, the world's first cloned dog, is born in South Korea.

Although colour change in leaves occurs wherever deciduous trees are found, coloured autumn foliage is noted in various regions of the world: most of Anglo-America, Eastern Asia ( including China, Korea, and Japan ), Europe, parts of Australia and New Zealand.

It is known that tests were undertaken in Cairo, Egypt, Liberia, in South Korea, and in Japan ’ s satellite province of Okinawa in 1961, or earlier.

The Bible that the Anglican Church of Korea uses is the 1994 edition called the " gong-dong beon-yuk-seong-seo " or the Common Translation Bible.

Ddeokbokki is a Korea n dish consisting of sautée d rice cake s with vegetables and pork.

There is no official-level diplomatic relation between Cuba and South Korea.

The objective is reportedly to protect another parts of US National Missile Defense from long-range missile strikes from Iran and North Korea, but Czech PM Mirek Topolánek said the main reason is to avoid Russian influence and strengthen ties to US.

The Anglican Church of Korea has made a 1965 translation of the BCP in Korean and called it " gong-do-gi-do-mun " meaning common prayers.

The cavalry of Goguryeo, one of the Three Kingdoms of Korea, were called Gaemamusa ( 개마무사, 鎧馬武士 ).

Japan, like China and Korea, had its own untouchable caste, shunned and ostracized, historically referred to by the insulting term Eta, now called Burakumin.

The country is supposedly capitalist, shares a border with a totalitarian regime, North Elbonia " a parody of North Korea and Iran ," and is also shown to share a border with a country called " Kneebonia " with which relations are bad.

In 1981 a curator of Seoul's National Museum of Korea, Gon-Gil Ji, classified Korean dolmen into two types which he called northern and southern.

The rulers of Balhae ( 698-926 ) internally called themselves the emperor, and it was first used in Korea.

The latter is often called the Eastern order because Europeans are most familiar with the examples from East Asia, specifically China, Korea, Japan and Vietnam.

The game is also popular in Korea, where it is called omok ( 오목 ( 五目 )) which has the same structure and origin as the Japanese name.

In some parts of the world ( e. g., German-language areas, France, Korea, Italy, Spain, Turkey ), it is called " Gin Tonic ".

It has been said that FR Yugoslavia was sometimes called the " European North Korea ".

In Taiwan, karaoke bars similar to those in Japan and Korea are called KTV, short for karaoke television.

However, in South Korea in particular, it is traditional to consume maple sap, called gorosoe, instead of processing it into syrup.

The official name of the 3G mobile phone service in North Korea is called Koryolink, and is a joint venture between Orascom and the state-owned Korea Post and Telecommunications Corporation ( KPTC ).

In 2003 a joint venture called KCC Europe between businessman Jan Holterman in Berlin and the North Korean government brought the commercial Internet to North Korea.

The resolution from the UN General Assembly called for a UN-supervised general election in Korea, but with the North rejecting this proposition, a general election for a Constitutional Assembly was held in the South only, in May 1948.

This incident, called in the Dai Ichi Daihoumaru Ship case, strained relations between South Korea and Japan.

At the 2009 G-20 London summit, U. S. President Barack Obama called South Korea " one of America's closest allies and greatest friends.

* In North Korea, entire families are jailed in large political prison camps ( called Kwan-li-so ) if one family member is suspected of anti-government sentiments.

In Korea, ramen is called ramyeon ( 라면 ).

Specialized archaeologists called palaeoethnobotanists, relying on data such as the relative abundance of charred grains found in archaeological sites, hypothesize that the cultivation of millets was of greater prevalence in prehistory than rice, especially in northern China and Korea.

According to an 11th-century Korean chronicle the Samguk Yusa, the wife of King Suro of the ancient Korean kingdom of Geumgwan Gaya was a princess who travelled by boat from a faraway land called Ayuta to Korea in 48 CE.

* The national academy of Chinese learning, called Taehak, is established in the kingdom of Goguryeo ( Korea ).

In Korea, it is called aekjeot or jeotgal, and is used as a crucial ingredient in many types of kimchi ( usually from myoelchi, anchovy or kanari which is made from sand lance ), both for taste and fermentation.