SOUTH KOREA
South Korea occupies the southern half of the Korean Peninsula, bordered to the north by North Korea along the heavily fortified demilitarized zone established at the end of the Korean War in 1953. In the seven decades since that conflict, it has undergone one of the most rapid economic transformations in modern history, transitioning from one of the world’s poorest countries to the world’s tenth largest economy, a shift often referred to as the “Miracle on the Han River.”
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