Park alleged that the initial in “ G-20 ” sounds like the Korean word for “ rat ” however Korean government prosecutors alleged that Mr. Park was making a derogatory statement about President of ROK Lee Myung-bak, the host of the summit.

** Hangeul or han-geul in the Revised Romanization of Korean, which the South Korean government uses in all English publications and encourages for all purposes.

Since the Korean Armistice Agreement ended the armed conflict that existed during the active part of the Korean War in 1953, leaving a de-facto truce in place ever since, the North Korean government has been largely isolationist, becoming one of the world's most authoritarian societies.

In the following year the government contrived, with the help of the Red Cross, a scheme to " repatriate " Korean residents, who mainly were from the Southern Provinces, to their " home " of North Korea.

The South Korean government in 2009 published an estimate that Taekwondo is practiced by 70 million people in 190 countries.

North Korean leader Kim Jong-Il adopted Songun, or " military-first " policy in order to strengthen the country and its government.

The withdrawal of most U. S. forces from South Korea in June 1949 left the southern government defended only by a weak and inexperienced South Korean army.

For over a year before North Korean forces tried to attack the southern government on June 25, 1950, the two sides had been engaged in a series of bloody clashes along the 38th parallel, especially in the Ongjin area on the west coast.

Due to a combination of surprise, superior military forces, and a poorly armed South Korean army, the Northern forces quickly captured Seoul and Syngman Rhee and his government was forced to flee further south.

North Korean fighter pilots were also sent to Hanoi's assistance ( and conversely South Korea sent a contingent of troops to aid the government in Saigon ).

His son, Kim Jong-il, who had already assumed key positions in the government, succeeded as General-Secretary of the Korean Workers ' Party.

The North Korean government claims territorial waters extending from shore.

The North Korean government seems to perceive its population as too small in relation to that of South Korea.

The North Korean government invested heavily in its military, hoping to develop the capability to reunify Korea by force if possible and also preparing to repel any attack by South Korea or the United States.

As part of the government's information blockade policy, North Korean radios and televisions must be modified to receive only government stations.

The official government station is the Korean Central Broadcasting Station ( KCBS ), which broadcasts in Korean.

Content is most likely filtered by North Korean government agencies.

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.

Since the Korean War armistice in 1953, the North Korean government has been largely isolationist, becoming one of the world's most totalitarian societies.

The type of alcohol can vary, but more than likely soju, a common Korean liquor, is used when the games are being played.

* U. S. Army Sergeant Jerry Onken of Onamia, Minnesota, is sentenced to five years in prison by a South Korean court for killing a Korean woman in a hit-and-run crash involving alcohol.

It houses more than 1, 000 historical documents and Korean alcohol-related items, with free samples of 10 different kinds of traditional alcoholic drinks and food items, such as alcohol bread and crackers to Yakgwa and yeot.

Quite the contrary, around 80 % of Asian people ( less common in Thailand and India ) has a variant of the gene coding for the enzyme alcohol dehydrogenase called ADH1B * 2 and almost all Chinese and Korean people has a variant of the gene called ADH1C * 1.

The liquor is available in Korea, as a bottled 30 % alcohol beverage product, on the North Korean government-sponsored portal Naenara.

The most popular fruit wines are made from maesil plums ( such wine called maesilju, mae hwa su, mae chui soon, or Seol Joong Mae ), bokbunja ( 복분자, Korean black raspberries, Rubus coreanus Miquel, 15 % alcohol ), Chinese quinces, cherries, pine fruits,

* Traditional Korean alcohol

The Korean Information Service ( KOIS ), the government ’ s public affairs branch, sponsors contests to find out foreign Web sites that have “ incorrect ” content about South Korea.

On August 7 and 21, 2011, more than 2, 000 protesters from the Japanese Culture Channel Sakura and other rightist groups rallied in front of Fuji Television and Fuji Media Holdings ' headquarters in Odaiba, Tokyo to demonstrate against the network's increased use of Korean content.

The content of the Pyongyang Analects is similar to the Dingzhou Analects ; but, because of the secrecy and isolationism of the North Korean government, only a very cursory study of it has been made available to international scholars, and its contents are not completely known outside of North Korea.

The compilers of the Korean version incorporated older Northern Song Chinese, Khitan, Goryeo versions and added content written by respected Korean monks.

Soon Korean neo-Confucian scholars, no longer content to only to read and remember the Chinese original precepts, began to develop new neo-Confucian theories.

Although the main newspapers offer online content in Korean and / or English, there are several online-only publications.

It includes translated Japanese content, with added emphasis on domestic Korean animation projects.

* 2001: Anyang City officials tell Komachi Japan, not accepting seventeen Komachi exchange students due to the content of Japanese text books on the Korean War distorted.

During the Korean War and Vietnam War the U. S. used older designs like the M117 and M118, which had a higher explosive content ( about 65 %) than most current weapons.

Hankook Ilbo also publishes Korean editions of Fortune Korea, Popular Science, Golf Magazine and is Bloomberg TV's content partner.

In addition to the American, European and Japanese versions, there are two more versions: a Korean version with downloadable content support but no available downloads yet, and an Asian version which includes no download feature

** Sponge series ( Korean content ) has sold over a million copies

Nance worked to snag Korean War military contracts and turn around Packard's badly diluted image.

* A " sojito " is a mojito made with Korean soju instead of white rum.

A typical 300mL bottle of soju costs the consumer 1, 000 to 3, 000 South Korean Won in South Korea ( roughly $ 1 to $ 3 United States Dollars ).

From 1965 until 1999, in order to alleviate rice shortages, the Korean government prohibited the traditional distillation of soju from rice.

In 2006, it was estimated that the average adult Korean ( older than 20 ) had consumed 90 bottles of soju during that year.

) The Chinese word shāojiǔ is also rendered in Korean language as soju ( Hangul 소주 ; Hanja 燒酒 ), which denotes a distilled alcoholic beverage that is similar to shōchū.

In modern Korea ( especially in the South ), the concept of a bang has expanded and diversified from being merely a walled segment in a domestic space, to including buildings or enterprises in commercial, urban, space, such as a PC bang ( an internet café ), a noraebang ( a karaoke room ), sojubang ( a soju room, i. e. a pub ), manwhabang (" manwha room ", where people read or borrow manwha ) and a jjimjilbang ( elaborate Korean public bathhouse ).

Because of its clarity, baijiu can appear similar to several other liquors, but generally has a significantly higher ABV than, for example, Japanese shōchū ( 25 %) or Korean soju ( 20-45 %).

There are six main types of Korean alcoholic beverages: yakju, distilled liquors ( including soju ), takju, fruit wines, flower wines, and medicinal wines.