The South Korean won was initially pegged to the U.S. dollar at a rate of 15 won 1 dollar.

The South Korean central bank s 30 billion swap, though limited, averted a run on the won.

China s South Korean Future

On 4 April 2006, the South Korean fishing vessel MV Dong Won (628) reported it had come under rocket attack off the coast of Somalia.

Renewing the South Korean Miracle

To diversify away from US dollar assets while maintaining its effective dollar peg, China started to buy Japanese yen and South Korean won, hurting their competitiveness.

Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. (Korean 삼성전자 Hanja ) is a South Korean multinational electronics company headquartered in Suwon, South Korea.

The South Korean Twittersphere erupted with various responses.

At the 2010 Asian Games, the Korean National Baseball team won the gold medal.

Samsung Life Insurance (Korean 삼성생명, ) is a South Korean multinational insurance company headquartered in Seoul, South Korea, and a subsidiary of the Samsung Group.

The North Korean leader s message was well received by some Western and South Korean media outlets.

Similarly, after North Korean shells killed innocent South Korean civilians in November 2010, China remained essentially silent.

Finally, there is the attractiveness of South Korean culture.

This was clearly demonstrated late last year when a South Korean consortium won a contract to build four nuclear reactors in the United Arab Emirates late last year, beating out the French.

Korail provides frequent train services to all major South Korean cities.

Korean Broadcasting System (KBS) (, ) is the national broadcaster of South Korea.

Recently, a high South Korean official listed in hierarchical order the countries that mattered most in the North Korean nuclear crisis.

Son Dam bi (born September 25, 1983 in Seoul, South Korea) is a South Korean singer and actress.

North Korea blasted this South Korean decision as a declaration of war.

Ask a Korean! discusses the homophobic culture and reaction in South Korea.

The South Korean public's initial response to the news was pure shock.

Nevertheless, the South Korean government has insisted on carrying out the project.

South Korean churches are being widely criticized for building huge church buildings.

Lee Pil mo ( born June 26, 1974) is a South Korean actor.

Kim Tae hee ( born 29 March 1980) is a South Korean actress.

These were the first South Korean coins to display the date in the Common era, earlier coins having used the Korean calendar.

SPEED (Korean 스피드 commonly stylized as SPEED) is a South Korean idol group from MBK Entertainment, formerly known as Core Contents Media.

The won () (symbol code KRW) is the currency of South Korea.

The next artist is K. M. Yoon, a really interesting South Korean artist.

But US and South Korean leaders were not ready to accommodate Kim s overture.

The performance of the South Korean players was even applauded in North Korea.

Kim Dong Jin (born June 9, 1973) is a South Korean football referee.

Bada (, born February 28, 1980) is a South Korean singer and musical actress.

Heo Ga yoon (born May 18, 1990) is a South Korean idol singer.

The South Korean nuclear power sector once maintained capacity factors of over 95 .

In March 2010, a North Korean submarine torpedoed a South Korean ship on the high seas, killing 46 sailors and sinking any prospect of an early resumption of negotiations to implement the North Korea s 2005 commitment to eliminate all its nuclear programs. North Korean invective and provocation against the South continued, and in November its military shelled a South Korean held island along the northern limit line, which has served as the North South border since the 1953 armistice.

On August 10, South Korean President Lee Myung bak visited the island of Takeshima (called Dokdo in Korean), which has been the subject of a territorial dispute between Japan and South Korea for 60 years.

Only in South Africa have gays and lesbians won significant legal protections.

A majority of South Korean net users expressed support for the newly implemented law.

Kim Hyo yeon (born September 22, 1989), is a South Korean singer and actress.

Goo Hara (born January 13, 1991) is a South Korean idol singer and actress.

The authorities released two American journalists and a South Korean worker whom they had seized in August 2009 on charges of violating North Korean law.

Language Korean is the official language of both North and South Korea, and (along with Mandarin) of Yanbian Korean Autonomous Prefecture in Manchuria area of China.

Huh Jung moo (Korean 허정무, Hanja 許丁茂, born January 13, 1955 in Jindo, Jeonnam, South Korea) is a former Korean football player and coach.

In the 2008 Summer Olympics, South Korea won the gold medal in baseball.