Related to similar media sources, the cosplay community forms a subculture centered around wearing costumes and reenacting scenes or inventing likely behavior inspired by their chosen sources, usually from Japan, Taiwan, South Korea ( a. k. a. Korean wave ), China, and Philippines media.

The size of this community has been attributed to the former residence of the South Korean ambassador in Lord Chancellor's Walk off Coombe Lane West.

point to a joint-venture between what was then Decca, later Racal Avionics, now part of Thales Group, at Shannon Corner and a Korean chaebol in the 1950s as the start of the community.

A high proportion of the community are expatriate workers for Korean companies, who remain in the UK for a number of years before returning to Korea.

The presence of a large South Korean expatriate community has led to the expansion of relations between the two nations.

In the 1970s and 1980s, there was also a significant community of South Korean migrant labourers, numbering in the hundreds of thousands, but most have since returned home ; the South Korean government's statistics showed only 1, 200 of their nationals living in the kingdom.

For example by 2009, the South Korean community in Shanghai increased to more than 70, 000 according to Xinhua.

Rhee arrived in Hawaii in March 1912 and began a Christian school for Korean immigrants, and became involved in the local Korean-American community, which had swelled by those displaced in the nation's continued political unrest.

Rhee lived in exile in the United States living in New York and Washington, DC, and then in Hawaii, where a large Korean community in exile was politically active.

In New York there was Korean Methodist Church and Institute which worked as a Korean community and independence movement center.

The question that always comes up within the Korean community is, ' Why would a Japanese culture that doesn't have Korean ceramic ability or horses yet have horse sculptures in their tombs?

In addition, there is no sizable ethnic Korean community in Russia to receive support from, as opposed to China, which has a larger Korean population.

Korean Air and Asiana Airlines provide non-stop flights from Seoul to nearby JFK Airport in Queens, which also is home to a large and growing Korean community.

The Korean American community comprises about 0. 6 % of the United States population, or about 1. 7 million people, and is the fifth largest Asian American subgroup, after the Chinese American, Filipino American, Indian American, and Vietnamese American communities.

The U. S. is home to the second largest Korean diaspora community in the world after the People's Republic of China.

Between 1990 and 2000, Georgia was home to the fastest-growing Korean community in the U. S., growing at a rate of 88. 2 % over that decade.

A prominent figure among the Korean immigrant community is Ahn Chang Ho, pen name Dosan, a Protestant social activist.

Another prominent figure among the Korean immigrant community was Syngman Rhee ( 이승만 ), a Methodist.

Los Angeles has emerged as a major center of the Korean American community.

In recent years, ethnic Koreans such as Korean Mexicans and Korean Brazilians emigrated to the U. S. bringing further diversity to the Korean-American community.

This is also a response to the UN's sanctions that were imposed in June 2009, after Pyongyang's atomic test in May 2009, as well as the new UN resolution that any nation can inspect a North Korean vessel that the investigating nation believes is carrying weaponry.

Dutch journalist and filmmaker Peter Tetteroo shows footage of what he believes ( at the prompting of his North Korean guides ) to be the Korean Wall.

The Korean historical community believes that the document was a fabrication by the General-Government.

Korean records that state that hangul was based on an " Old Seal Script ", 古篆字, which Gary Ledyard believes to be ' Phags-pa and a reference to its Chinese name 蒙古篆字.

Sidney believes that had Truman decided to talk to Mao, both the Korean War and the Vietnam War could possibly have been averted.

Working undercover, he meets with Korean gangsters ( whom he believes have kidnapped two Korean schoolgirls ) in a parking lot, who are looking to buy a machine gun from him.

Although the role of the ground attack aircraft significantly diminished after the Korean War, it re-emerged during the Vietnam War, and in the recognition of this, the US Air Force authorised the design and production of what was later to become the A-10 dedicated anti-armour and ground-attack aircraft of the Cold War.

* 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.

* English why and Korean wae ( what for )

In particular, refugees from the massacres conducted by the Korean forces in what is termed the Jeju Uprising, were treated as " smugglers " and frequently forcibly returned to Korea.

* 1952 – Korean War: U. S. President-elect Dwight D. Eisenhower fulfills a campaign promise by traveling to Korea to find out what can be done to end the conflict.

Often, students count in Korean during their class, and during tests they are usually asked what certain Korean words used in class mean.

Japan hoped to achieve what it called Man-Kan kōkan, the exchange of a free hand for Russia in Manchuria for a free hand for Japan in Korea, but Russia, feeling greatly superior to Japan and unwilling to give up its ability to use Korean ports for its navy, was in no mood to compromise ; its foreign minister, Vladimir Lamsdorf, " thought that time was on the side of his country because of the ( Trans-Siberian ) railway and there was no need to make concessions to the Japanese.

This portion of the canal was used to transport troops to what is now the North Korean border region during the Goguryeo-Sui Wars ( 598 – 614 ).

Many people also listen to music such as Gangnam Style by Korean rapper PSY which is listened to by people around the world despite the fact nobody knows any of his other songs and don't even know what K-POP is.

On May 24, 2010, the United States set plans to participate in new military exercises with South Korea as a direct military response to the sinking of a South Korean warship by what officials called a North Korean torpedo.

However, what all historians agree upon is that Kim Busik's history is critical to the study of Korean history during the Three Kingdoms and Unified Silla periods.

Chang's work is constantly evolving, and what seems to differentiate his work from others of his generation is his singular focus on detailing the Korean American experience as distinctly American.

The Koreans use Juche in their case with the goal of creating a self-reliant state of mind, the correct thought that must precede and that will then determine correct action but also as a means of defining what is simultaneously modern and Korean.

** Korean cuisine – features cooking methods such as sautéing and what is known in the West as barbecue.

Lake Tianchi Monster is the name given to what is said to be a lake monster that lives in Heaven Lake ( known as Cheonji in Korean ) located in the peak of Baekdu Mountain within the Baekdudaegan and Changbai mountain ranges encompassing Jilin Province of China and Ryanggang Province of North Korea.

Korean Buddhism is distinguished from other forms of Buddhism by its attempt to resolve what it sees as inconsistencies in Mahayana Buddhism.

When Korea was liberated from Japanese occupation in 1945, the celibate monastics of what has become the main sect of Korean Buddhism, Jogye Order, began to take over for the married priests who ran the temples during the occupation.

Some South Korean Buddhists have denounced what they view as discriminatory measures against them and their religion by the administration of President Lee Myung-bak, which they attribute to Lee being a Protestant.

In 1271, General Kim Tong-jeong escaped with what remained of his Sambyeolcho force from Jindo and built the Hangpadu Fortress at Kwiil-chon from where they continued their fight against the combined Korean government-Mongolian army but within 2 years, faced by an enemy army of over 10, 000 troops, the Sambyeolcho was annihilated.

Similarly, the Northwest Youth League, a Korean government sponsored watch-dog group made up of refugees who had fled northern Korea, actively repressed any and all " communist sympathizers " with an ardent campaign of shooting anyone on sight entering or leaving the president's " enemy zone ", raping / violation, torturing, and killing hundreds of islanders using open armed violence and what would be labeled today as terrorist activities.

They point to what they say are the continuing provocations and criminal activities committed by the North, such as the 2002 sea battle that left several South Korean sailors dead,

Baduk is the Korean name for what is known as Go in English.