In 2003 he traveled to The Democratic Peoples ' Republic of Korea with a team of American lawyers to meet with Korean lawyers and subsequently co-authored a report on conditions in the DPRK with the purpose of encouraging reconciliation between the peoples of the Korean peninsula and resolving conflicts with the west in a peaceful manner.

Examples of present-day abjads are the Arabic and Hebrew scripts ; true alphabets include Latin, Cyrillic, and Korean hangul ; and abugidas are used to write Tigrinya, Amharic, Hindi, and Thai.

The most important text for the study of early Korean is the Hyangga, a collection of 25 poems, of which some go back to the Three Kingdoms period ( 57 – 668 AD ), but are preserved in an orthography that only goes back to the 9th century AD ( Miller 1996: 60 ).

Similar words are found in Korean and Vietnamese.

point of view, are the beautiful, full-figured women like Daisy Mae, Wolf Gal, Stupefyin ' Jones and Moonbeam McSwine ( a caricature of his wife Catherine, aside from the dirt )— all of whom found their way onto the painted noses of bomber planes during World War II and the Korean War.

Interpenetration and essence-function are mutually informing in the East Asian Buddhist traditions, especially the Korean Buddhist tradition.

These are shared with other Sinospheric languages such as Japanese, Korean and Vietnamese.

" The burakumin are one of the main minority groups in Japan, along with the Ainu of Hokkaidō and those of residents of Korean and Chinese descent.

Dolmens are known by a variety of names in other languages including dolmain ( Irish ), cromlech ( Welsh ), anta ( Portuguese and Galician ), Hünengrab / Hünenbett ( German ), Adamra ( Abkhazian ), Ispun ( Circassian ), Hunebed ( Dutch ), dysse ( Danish and Norwegian ), dös ( Swedish ), and goindol ( Korean ).

Although found in smaller numbers outside of Korea, they are often considerably larger than Korean dolmen.

Among notable recipients below flag rank are: X-1 test pilot Chuck Yeager and X-15 test pilot Robert M. White, who both received the DSM as U. S. Air Force majors ; Air Force Major Rudolf Anderson, the U-2 pilot shot down during the Cuban Missile Crisis ; director Frank Capra, decorated in 1945 as an Army colonel ; actor James Stewart, decorated in 1945 as an Army Air Forces colonel ( later Air Force Brigadier General ); Col. Wendell Fertig, who led Filipino guerrillas behind Japanese lines ; Col. ( later Major General ) John K. Singlaub, who led partisan forces in the Korean War ; and Maj. Maude C. Davison, who led the " Angels of Bataan and Corregidor " during their imprisonment by the Japanese, and Colonel William S. Taylor, Program Manager Multiple Launch Rocket System.

* 1968 – Vietnam War: 135 unarmed citizens of Ha My village in South Vietnam's Quảng Nam Province are killed and buried en masse by South Korean troops in what would come to be known as the Ha My massacre.

Manual alphabets based on the Arabic alphabet, the Ethiopian syllabary and the Korean hangul syllabary-alphabet use handshapes that are more or less iconic representations of the characters in the writing system.

Chinese and Korean names are the most common examples: Chinese names are usually pronounced with Japanese readings and the pronunciation written in hiragana, while Korean names are usually pronounced with Korean readings and the pronunciation written in katakana.

The words are written in the original foreign script, such as hangul for Korean, and furigana is used to indicate the pronunciation.

In military use, bolt-action rifles with high-power scopes are common as sniper rifles, however by the Korean War the traditional bolt-action and semi-automatic rifles used by infantrymen had been supplemented by select-fire designs known as " automatic rifles " ( see " Automatic Rifle " below ).

Traditional Japanese society, Korean society and Chinese culture are sometimes said to be " shame-based " rather than " guilt-based ", in that the social consequences of " getting caught " are seen as more important than the individual feelings or experiences of the agent ( see the work of Ruth Benedict ).

Contrary to America's policy which restrained armament ( limited equipment was provided for infantry and police forces ) to South Korea, Stalin extensively armed Kim Il Sung's North Korean army and air forces with military equipment ( to include T-34 / 85 tanks ) and " advisors " far in excess of those required for defensive purposes ) in order to facilitate Kim's ( a former Soviet Officer ) aim of conquering the rest of the Korean peninsula.

In order to buy a TV-set or a radio, Korean citizens are required to get special permission from officials at their places of residence or employment.

In the beginning, the Korean government instigated a series of five-year plans under which the chaebol were required to achieve a number of basic objectives.

The Faculty of International Relations ( founded in 1986 ) being perhaps closest to the original liberal foundation principles of 1923, as all students are required to learn one of nine Asian languages ( Chinese, Korean, Urdu, Hindi, Arabic, Persian, Thai, Indonesian, Vietnamese ) for at least two of their four years of undergraduate study, in addition to one year of English, and most students participate in school festivals celebrating Asian language and culture, such as Asia Week, and the Asian Language Speech Contest.

As a result of Belenko's defection, fuel was limited for fighters on Sakhalin bases, which required Maj. Gennady Osipovich, the pilot of the Su-15 interceptor that downed Korean Air Lines Flight 007, to return to base almost immediately after the attack.

The end came after a series of lawsuits challenged the draft upon its re-enactment and renewed conscription in 1972 without regard to the 90-day waiting period required in the original Korean War era draft law ( section 20 of the Act ) that remained in the 1972 Act ( which U. S. Attorneys defending conscription argued was as a result of a legislative drafting error ).

The armistice signed at end of the Korean War required a political conference within three months — a timeline which was not met —“ to settle through negotiation the questions of the withdrawal of all foreign forces from Vietnam, the peaceful settlement of the Korean question, etc .”

Later that year, Hee Jun headed off to military service, a duty required for every male Korean citizen.

The South Korean government required from 2003 a 50 to 100 Won deposit to be levied against all disposable cups used to hold products sold in restaurants to ensure that they are returned to a recycling venue.

As Korea was under Japanese rule, Korean athletes who hoped to compete in the Games were required to qualify for the Japanese team.

Proficiency with these forms is required for rank promotion tests conducted by the Korea Kumdo Association, the de-facto governing body for Korean kumdo, and its overseas affiliates.

According to the Samguk Yusa, a 13th century Korean record of history and fable that deals with the period in question, the fortress ( known as Mobeol prefectural fortress ) required the labor of nearly 40, 000 men, a massive mustering of manpower that is testimony of the increasing power of the centralized monarchy.

While the treaty was affixed with the national seal of the Korean Empire, Emperor Sunjong of Korea refused to sign the treaty as required under Korean law.

While at the University of Alabama, he had been required ( as were all male students at the time owing to the Korean War ) to join the Reserve Officers ' Training Corps ( ROTC ) and had moved to New York awaiting his eventual commission as a second lieutenant.

Yi Seok as a young man was required to look after his family as best he could, along with his brothers, and took any jobs that he could to provide for his parents and siblings before and after university during the hard times of the Korean War and Cold War era as the Republic of Korea fought communism and internal subversion.

An anti-ballistic missile facility may be required to protect Alaska and the West Coast of the United States from possible North Korean attacks.

In South Korea, school counselors must teach a subject besides counseling, and not all school counselors are appointed to counseling positions, even though Korean law has required school counselors in all middle and high schools.

It was developed as a result of experiences in the Korean War where US airpower had great difficulty in destroying targets which required precise aiming and were often heavily defended, such as bridges.

The US Army ordered 40 SW8's for service in Korea during the Korean War, allowing a reduction in transportation since they did not need the water and coal the steam engine required.

This required that North Korean law had to be changed.

Towards the end of 1953, a decrease in interest due to the end of the Korean War, as well as Kurtzman becoming overwhelmed with his work on Mad required changes to be made.

Conversely, Chinese, Japanese, and Korean do not have single words for a thousand to the second, third, fifth power, etc., unlike English and many other European languages.

Eberstadt and Banister suggest that although South Korean statisticians do not classify settlements of under 50, 000 as urban, their North Korean counterparts include settlements as small as 20, 000 in this category.

The Ministry of Education vets all history textbooks, and those that do not mention Japanese war crimes and atrocities are not vetted ; however, the Atarashii Rekishi Kyōkasho de-emphasises aggressive Japanese Imperial wartime behaviour and the matter of Chinese and Korean comfort women.

In Korean, tae ( 태, ) means " to strike or break with foot "; kwon ( 권, ) means " to strike or break with fist "; and do ( 도, ) means " way ", " method ", or " path ".

In Sino-Xenic languages, 道 is pronounced as Japanese dō, tō, or michi ; Korean do or to ; and Vietnamese đạo, dạo, or nhạo.

For example, Japanese has as many as three classes of adjectives where English has one ; Chinese, Korean and Japanese have nominal classifiers whereas European languages do not ; many languages do not have a distinction between adjectives and adverbs, adjectives and verbs ( see stative verbs ) or adjectives and nouns, etc.

Those who do not share such features are often rejected by the Korean society or face discrimination.

From 1952, when he was called up to do his national service, until 1954, he served in the British Army's Royal Fusiliers, first at the BAOR HQ in Iserlohn, Germany and then on active service during the Korean War.

Hapkido ( also spelled hap ki do or hapki-do ; ; Hanja: 合氣道 ) is a dynamic and also eclectic Korean martial art.

In addition to contributing to UN forces in the Korean War – it was the first country to announce it would do so after the United States – Australia sent troops to assist in putting down the communist revolt in Malaya in 1948 – 60 and later to combat the Indonesian-supported invasion of Sarawak in 1963 – 65.

During World War II and the Korean War battlefield medics administered painkilling narcotics by injection in emergency situations, and pharmacists ' mates on warships were permitted to do even more without the guidance of a physician.

Despite requests from the South Korea government to put North Korea back on the list after it sunk the Navy ship the ROKS Cheonan in 2010, the Obama administration stated that it will not do so because the act was conducted by only the North Korean military and was thus not an act of terror.

Traditionally, all CJK languages have no spaces: modern Chinese and Japanese ( except when written with little or no kanji ) still do not, but modern Korean uses spaces.

" This is a typical example of Gugyeol words where the radical ( 爲 ) is read in Korean for its meaning ( hă — " to do ") and the suffix 尼, ni ( meaning ' nun '), used phonetically.

" This may have had something to do with Allen's influence, as he was heavily involved in the planning and participation of the Korean exhibit at Chicago.

Korean, Japanese, and Austronesian languages do not have phonemic tone, though Japanese does have a pitch accent ( see Japanese pitch accent ), and Korean formerly had a three-way pitch accent still present in some dialects.

** Japanese verbs and Korean verbs do have suffixes for properties of the verb itself like aspect, mood, and tense, similar to those of the Turkic and Mongolic languages further north, but agree with Chinese and Southeast Asian languages in not marking gender, number, or any other properties of the verb arguments on the verb itself.

When boys or girls are between the ages of fifteen and twenty, boys wear gat, a Korean traditional hat made of bamboo and horsehair, and girls do their hair in chignon with binyeo, a Korean traditional ornamental hairpin.

Most Korean American Christians do not practice traditional Confucian ancestral rites practiced in Korea ( in Korea, most Catholics, Buddhists and nonbelievers practice these rites ).

* Korean: " 호랑이도 제 말하면 온다 ” ( horangi do jae malhamyun onda ), which translates to " If you talk about a tiger, it will appear.