For instance, South Korea's Hyundai Heavy Industries sent PPS mobile generators to Cuba for the country's power grids.

South Korea's major conservative party, the Saenuri Party or 새누리당, changed its form throughout its history.

During the 2006 Wimbledon Championships, Hewitt survived a five-set match against South Korea's Hyung-Taik Lee that was played over two days.

By the mid to late-1970s some parts of the capitalist world, including South Korea, were creating new industries based around computers, electronics, and other advanced technology in contrast to North Korea's Stalinist economy of mining and steel production.

An official at South Korea's seismic monitoring center confirmed a magnitude-3. 6 tremor felt at the time North Korea said it conducted the test was not a natural occurrence.

By comparison, South Korea's population is expected to stabilize at 52. 6 million people in 2023.

To date, North Korean efforts to improve relations with South Korea to increase trade and to receive development assistance have been mildly successful, but North Korea's determination to develop nuclear weapons and ballistic missiles has prevented relations with Japan or the United States from improving.

Largely because of these debt problems but also because of a prolonged drought and mismanagement, North Korea's industrial growth slowed, and per capita GNP fell below that of the South.

North Korea's first Internet café opened in 2002 as a joint venture with South Korean internet company Hoonnet.

The project includes US Verizon Communications, Chinese firms China Telecom, China Netcom and China Unicom, South Korea's Korea Telecom and Taiwan's Chunghwa Telecom.

South Korea's subsequent history is marked by alternating periods of democratic and autocratic rule.

Shortly after Roh's inauguration, the Seoul Olympics took place, raising South Korea's international recognition and also greatly influencing foreign policy.

Geographically, South Korea's land mass is approximately.

The Nakdong is South Korea's longest river ( 521 kilometers ).

The movement of air masses from the Asian continent exerts greater influence on South Korea's weather than does air movement from the Pacific Ocean.

On June 23, 2012 South Korea's population touched 50 million as the 26th country to reach the mark.

South Korea's political elite starting from the 1970s, including presidents Park Chung Hee, Chun Doo Hwan, and Roh Tae Woo, have come largely from the Gyeongsang region.

Because about 70 % of South Korea's land area is mountainous and the population is concentrated in the lowland areas, actual population densities were in general greater than the average.

As early as 1975, it was estimated that the density of South Korea's thirty-five cities, each of which had a population of 50, 000 or more inhabitants, was 3, 700 people per square kilometer.

Throughout the 1980s until the mid 1990s, South Korea's economic prosperity as measured in GDP by PPP per capita was still only a fraction of industrialized nations.

South Korea's separate annual economic aid to North Korea has historically been more than twice its ODA.

It was estimated that over two-thirds of South Korea's manufacturers spent over half of the funds available for facility investments on automation.

South Korea's real gross domestic product expanded by an average of more than 8 percent per year, from US $ 2. 7 billion in 1962 to US $ 230 billion in 1989, breaking the trillion dollar mark in 2007.

This strategy was particularly well suited to that time because of South Korea's poor natural resource endowment, low savings rate, and tiny domestic market.

The automobile industry was one of South Korea's major growth and export industries in the 1980s.

These directives implied precise emphasis on: the search for political coordination with emerging and developing countries, namely India, South Africa, Russia and China ; creation of the Union of South American Nations and its derivative bodies, such as the South American Security Council ; strengthening of Mercosul ; projection at the Doha Round and WTO ; maintenance of relations with developed countries, including the United States ; undertaking and narrowing of relations with African countries ; campaign for the reform of the United Nations Security Council and for a permanent seat for Brazil ; and defense of social objectives allowing for a greater equilibrium between the States and populations.

Napalm was also used during the Korean War, most notably during the defense of " Outpost Harry " in South Korea during the night of June 10 – 11, 1953.

However, after the 2008 South Ossetia war the territorial defense was once again emphasized.

The Germans and the crew of an Austro-Hungarian protected cruiser put up a hopeless defense and after holding out for more than a week surrendered to the Japanese, forcing the German East Asia Squadron to steam towards South America for a new coal source.

Since the 1980s, South Korea, now in possession of more modern military technology than in previous generations, has actively began shifting its defense industry's areas of interest more from its previously homeland defense-oriented militarization efforts, to the promotion of military equipments and technology as mainstream products of exportation to boost its international trade.

South Korea has also outsourced its defense industry to produce various core components of other countries ' advanced military hardware.

In other major oursourcing and joint-production deals, South Korea has jointly produced the S-300 air defense system of Russia via Samsung Group, and will facilitate the sales of Mistral class amphibious assault ships to Russia that will be produced by STX Corporation.

In 1967, South Korea obliged the mutual defense treaty, by sending a large combat troop contingent to support the United States in the Vietnam War.

By 1970, President Richard Nixon initiated a Plan of Vietnamization, which would remove the US from the Vietnam War and return the responsibility of defense back to the South Vietnamese.

North Atlantic Treaty Organisation ( NATO ), a collective security agreement of Atlantic powers, the mutual defense treaties with Japan and South Korea, and to a far lesser extent the Southeast Asia Treaty Organization ( SEATO ).

After Longstreet's death, his second wife Helen privately published Lee and Longstreet at High Tide in his defense, in which she stated " the South was seditiously taught to believe that the Federal Victory was wholly the fortuitous outcome of the culpable disobedience of General Longstreet.

* 1950-53-Korean War ; U. N. orders defense of South Korea against invasion by North Korea.

He is best known for his intense and original defense of slavery as something positive, his distrust of majoritarianism, and for pointing the South toward secession from the Union.

" A year later in the Senate ( January 10, 1838 ), Calhoun repeated this defense of slavery as a " positive good ": " Many in the South once believed that it was a moral and political evil ; that folly and delusion are gone ; we see it now in its true light, and regard it as the most safe and stable basis for free institutions in the world.

As Supreme Allied Commander of the South West Pacific Area, General Douglas MacArthur had after months of arguments with that victory, finally convinced Australian politicians in early August 1942 to " defend Australia by defending Port Moresby "— a forward defense strategy.

* Inter-American Defense Board, an international committee of nationally appointed defense officials in North, Central, and South America

Critics of Acheson have argued that the speech seemed to say that South Korea was beyond the American defense line, so that American support for the new Syngman Rhee government in South Korea would be limited.

There is a view in defense of Calley, South Korean Vietnam Expeditionary Forces Commanding Officer Chae Myung Shin remarks " Calley tried to get revenge for the deaths of his troops.

On June 21, 1775, Marion was commissioned Captain in the 2nd South Carolina Regiment under William Moultrie, with whom he served in June 1776 in the defense of Fort Sullivan ( today known as Fort Moultrie ), in Charleston harbor.

Over the next three months units under his command arrived in the vicinity of Charleston, South Carolina, where they participated in the town's defense.