{"id":54,"date":"2017-10-02T15:49:12","date_gmt":"2017-10-02T12:49:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/disco.teak.fi\/asia\/?p=54"},"modified":"2025-11-04T15:19:24","modified_gmt":"2025-11-04T13:19:24","slug":"facts-about-korea","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/disco.teak.fi\/asia\/facts-about-korea\/","title":{"rendered":"Facts about Korea"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Since 1948 Korea has been divided into two states, into democratic South Korea (Republic of Korea) and into single-party, communist North Korea (Democratic People\u2019s Republic of Korea). Before the division the regions shared, to a great extent, a common culture.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"425\" height=\"600\" src=\"https:\/\/www.openstreetmap.org\/export\/embed.html?bbox=121.11328125000001%2C28.091366281406945%2C140.91064453125003%2C42.85985981506279&amp;layer=cyclemap\" style=\"border: 1px solid black\"><\/iframe>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">South Korea<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>Surface area:<\/strong>&nbsp;98,480 km<sup>2<\/sup><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Capital:<\/strong>&nbsp;Seoul<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Population:<\/strong>&nbsp;51.6 million<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Ethnic structure:<\/strong>&nbsp;Koreans, and Chinese 0.04%<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Languages:<\/strong>&nbsp;Korean<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Religions:<\/strong>&nbsp;Christianity 49%, Buddhism 47%, Confucianism 3% and others including Shamanism and more recent religious movements<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">North Korea<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>Surface area:<\/strong>&nbsp;120,540 km<sup>2<\/sup><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Capital:<\/strong>&nbsp;Pyongyang<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Population:<\/strong>&nbsp;26.5 million<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Ethnic structure:<\/strong>&nbsp;Koreans<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Languages:<\/strong>&nbsp;Korean<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Religions:<\/strong>&nbsp;Atheism (Totalitarian Stalinism), although official records mention shamanism, Christianity, Buddhism, and others<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Since 1948 Korea has been divided into two states, into democratic South Korea (Republic of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2563,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-54","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-korea"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/disco.teak.fi\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/disco.teak.fi\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/disco.teak.fi\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/disco.teak.fi\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/disco.teak.fi\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=54"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/disco.teak.fi\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4494,"href":"https:\/\/disco.teak.fi\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54\/revisions\/4494"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/disco.teak.fi\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2563"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/disco.teak.fi\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=54"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/disco.teak.fi\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=54"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/disco.teak.fi\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=54"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}