South Korea
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| Republic of Korea | |
| Type | Democratic country in East Asia |
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| Founded | September 9, 1948 |
| Headquarters | Seoul, capital city |
| Key people | Syngman Rhee, founder and first president |
| Industry | Electronics, Machine building, military equipment, chemicals, mining, metallurgy, textiles, food processing, tourism |
| Products | Electronics |
| Number of people | 52,081,799 |
| Website | https://www.korea.net/ |
The Republic of Korea (大韓民國; Daehanminguk, "Great Korean Republic) or ROK, known outside of the country as South Korea, is a country in East Asia that constitutes the southern half of the Korean peninsula.
Unlike North Korea, it is democratic and open to immigration, import, export, and tourism, rather than authoritarian and isolated.
Japan ruled Korea from 1910 until it surrendered at the end of World War II in 1945. Korea was divided into two zones along the 38th parallel on September 2, 1945. The Soviet Union occupied the north, while the United States of America occupied the south.
Negotiations for reunification failed, so two governments were formed in 1948. North Korea was aligned with the communism of the Eastern Bloc, while South Korea was aligned with the capitalism of the Western Bloc. North Korea invaded South Korea on June 25, 1950, starting the Korean War. A ceasefire occurred on July 27, 1953, but no peace treaty was ever signed.
Launch of TCP/IP network
On May 15, 1982, the TCP/IP network known as the SDN was launched in South Korea. SDN originally stood for Software Development Network, but this was later changed to System Development Network. The first computers to be hooked up to the South Korean network were a computer at the Department of Computer Science at Seoul National University and a computer at the Korea Institute of Electronics Technology in Gumi.
A computer at the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology was connected to the SDN in January 1983. In August 1983, SDN connected to the EUnet mcvax in the Netherlands through UUCP. SDN connected to the CSNET in December 1984.
