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	Korea (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Korea (한국) is a formerly unified country, situated on the Korean Peninsula in northern East Asia, bordering on China to the west and Russia to the north.
		Korea was divided into two occupation zones effectively starting on September 8, 1945, with the United States administering the southern half of the peninsula and the Soviet Union taking over the area north of the 38th parallel.
		In Korean, Korea is referred to as "Hanguk" (한국; 韓國;) in the south and "Chosŏn" (조선; 朝鮮) in the north.
	www.worldhistory.com /wiki/K/Korea.htm (2887 words)

	Korean Language, Etiquette and Dining (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Korean names usually have three parts: the family or surname placed first, and a name identifying the generation, alternating each generation to second or third place with th given personal name.
		Korean women keep their maiden names after marriage and do not assume their husbands' surname.
		Family names are traditional clan names and each has a village from which it comes.
	lrs.ed.uiuc.edu /students/d-moon1/Kname.html (235 words)

	Korean alphabet and pronunciation
		The Koreans borrowed a huge number of Chinese words, gave Korean readings and/or meanings to some of the Chinese characters and also invented about 150 new characters, most of which are rare or used mainly for personal or place names.
		The Korean alphabet was invented in 1444 and promulgated it in 1446 during the reign of King Sejong (r.1418-1450), the fourth king of the Joseon Dynasty.
		Korean can be written in vertical columns running from top to bottom and right to left, or in horizontal lines running from left to right.
	www.omniglot.com /writing/korean.htm (988 words)

	Asia Times - News and analysis from Korea; North and South
		Korea's official history is careful to define the time of Japanese colonization as a brutal rape of Korea and its people, which is largely true.
		Korea's first Japanese governor, Ito Hirobumi, himself one of the original architects of the Meiji restoration and an acolyte of Prussian-style bureaucracy, installed a strong system of centralized bureaucracy on the peninsula, while quietly buying off and removing the Yangban overlords.
		This could be wielded to undermine and discredit political foes, as the names of families sympathetic to the Japanese are leaked to the press prior to official publication of The Dictionary of Pro-Japanese Koreans, slated for 2006.
	www.atimes.com /atimes/Korea/FB04Dg01.html (2107 words)

	Chapter 17- Korea (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		The first of the three main Korean kingdoms to come in contact with the spreading Chinese influence was Koguryŏ, which emerged in the 1st century BCE in the north.
		Korean scholars have long rejected that view, and most modern historians are divided as to which kingdom, if either, dominated the other.
		Korea was liberated from the Japanese by the Allied victory that ended World War II in 1945.
	www.ibiblio.org /chinesehistory/contents/chap17.html (1819 words)

	Korea - Questionz.net , answers to all your questions (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Joseon In 1392 a Korean general, Yi Seonggye, was sent to China to campaign against the Ming Dynasty, but instead he allied himself with the Chinese, and returned to overthow the Goryeo king and establish a new dynasty.
		Korea continued to be a Japanese colony until Japan's surrender to the Allied Forces on 15 August 1945.
		At the Cairo Conference on 1 December 1945, it was agreed that Korea would be free "in due course as one unified country;" at a later meeting in Yalta in February 1945, it was agreed to establish a four-power trusteeship over Korea.
	www.questionz.net /Countries/Korea.html (1781 words)

	Korea (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Names In Korean, Korea is referred to as "Chos?n" in the North and "Hanguk" in the south.
		Before the Three Kingdoms Period, "Joseon" was the name of various early states in northern Korea, while "Han" was used in the names of several tribal confederacies in the south.
		Korean people were forced to adopt Japanese names whilst the celebration of Korean culture was suppressed.
	www.talkroot.com /library/Korea.shtml.htm (1754 words)

	Language Purism in Korea
		With Korea's independence from Chinese political hegemony at the turn of the century, the Hangul-only movement grew with a rise in Korean nationalism, only to be slowed down by the fifty-year Japanese colonial period (1910-1945)(Song, 206).
		For North Korea, the elimination of illiteracy (and Chinese characters) was "an essential prerequisite to enable the party and the government to spread their policies among the people"(Kumatani, 91).
		North Koreans who were opposed to the full abandonment of Chinese characters (because of the resulting confusion in the vocabulary system) were dealt with by being publicly denounced as "the remains of the overthrown exploiting class, sectarian factors deeply influenced by flunkeyism, doctrinism, and reactionism"(93).
	www.fortunecity.com /victorian/exhibition/605/page31.html (4681 words)

	Korean Names
		When a new name was created, the family was given some land by a king and the city where the land was located became known as 'bon' or origin.
		Also, when people with only given names (lower class, and domestic slaves) were allowed to use (or to buy) family names, they preferred to use one out of existing names instead of creating new and thereby recognizable names for their own benefit.
		Since a generational name is not a middle name in American sense, and not exactly a given name either, Koreans are not sure how to anglicize their names.
	www.unsu.com /names.html (3625 words)

	SIU Law Library: Korean Legal Research Resources on the Internet (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Korea is a democratic republic government based on the separation of powers and a system of checks and balances.
		The Korean judiciary system is three tiered: the Supreme Court, the highest court; the High Courts, the intermediate appellate courts; and the District Courts (including the specialized Patent Court, Family Court, Administrative Court), the courts of original jurisdiction.
		The Korean government, however, is not using this standard and has changed the official romanization rule several times, with the latest one in July, 2000.
	www.law.siu.edu /lawlib/koreanlaw (6977 words)

	NewsHour Extra: North Korean Nukes -- Jan. 8, 2003
		Tensions are on the rise between the US and North Korea, after the Communist country admitted it has been actively pursuing a nuclear weapons program.
		The standoff between Washington and North Korea began in October 2002 when the North Korean government admitted publicly that it had been secretly developing a nuclear weapons program, a move that conflicted with a 1994 agreement to end all nuclear programs.
		Korea remains divided at the 38th parallel, known as the Demilitarized Zone (DMZ).
	www.pbs.org /newshour/extra/features/jan-june03/nkorea.html (930 words)

	MindZine - Go - Korea: Korean name variants
		The problem for us at MSO is that we try to give a truly comprehensive coverage of the Korean scene, and so we are constantly referring to minor players, amateurs, officials and companies where the idiosyncratic readings are not known and would be hard to discover.
		Furthermore, we often refer to Korean place names, which - belonging to no-one in particular - are usually written in a form close to the official or McCune-Reischauer systems.
		A problem here is that Korean has pairs of sounds variously rendered as, for example, t-t' or d-t (not to mention emphasised variants) and it can be difficult to know which letter is intended in the original.
	www.msoworld.com /mindzine/news/orient/go/korea/koreannames.html (665 words)

	Surname Directory: Asian Surname Resources
		Most Chinese names have 3 or 2 characters, with the first character being the surname and the remaining characters being the first name.
		Commoners were not allowed to use family names until after the Meiji Restoration of 1868, when they were allowed to create a surname or borrow an existing one.
		Vietnamese consider names to be part of the soul and thus sacred.
	www.surnamedirectory.com /surname-resources-ASIAN.html (226 words)

	Korean Baby Names
		Chinese-based name's became the norm among upper and middle classes in Korea during the Go-Ryu dynasty.
		The Western custom of naming a baby after another close member of the family would be unheard of as a custom or tradition in the Korean culture.
		The given name in Korea is rarely used within the close-knit family circle.
	www.babynames.org.uk /korean-baby-names.htm (439 words)

	1stopKorea - North Korea Trip (pg. 1), Preparing for North Korea
		The odd twang of the North Korean accent began to be discernible amongst the Japanese and Chinese conversations.
		Any North Korean allowed out of the country is such an obvious elite that we were all curious about their backgrounds.
		Even a lot of the words were different, the most important one being the name of the country.
	www.1stopkorea.com /nk-trip1.htm (1526 words)

	CNN.com - U.S. names North Korea No. 1 Asian enemy - March 21, 2001
		The statement comes at a sensitive time when South Korea is trying to reinforce under its so-called Sunshine Policy the progress it has made with the North toward reconciliation.
		However, the planned exchange of letters between 600 North and South Korean of citizens separated from their families on either side of the border pushed through.
		The Korean peninsula was divided into the communist North and the pro-Western South in 1945.
	archives.cnn.com /2001/WORLD/asiapcf/east/03/20/korea.blair (647 words)

	Korean baby names- Korea Girl/Boy baby names (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Korean language is spoken by 50-60m people in Democratic Peoples Republic of Korea (North) and Republic of Korea (South), some part of china and japan.
		Korean may well be distantly related to the Altaic languages, or possibly to the Japanese language.
		More than half of the Korean vocabulary is Chinese in origin with one of the two writing methods employing the original Chinese characters but with Korean pronunciation when read.
	www.babynology.com /korean (175 words)

	Korean Actors and Actresses (Page 1)
		Korean names are generally not transcribed according to one agreed-upon system.
		The letter "iung" is silent and is followed by a vowel; note that the name "Lee" is actually pronounced "ee" or "yi" in Korean.
		Throughout this time she was a constant presence in TV ads and on billboards in Korea and also in other Asian countries.
	koreanfilm.org /actors.html (8191 words)

	Behind the Name: Korean Names
		The names listed here are used in Korea.
		Note that depending on the Korean characters used these names can have many other meanings besides those listed here.
		From the Korean elements kyung "honoured" and soon "mild" or "gentle".
	www.behindthename.com /nmc/kor.php (38 words)

	Task 3: Korean Names -- Explanation (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		In Korean names, the family name comes first, followed by the given names (or name).
		Groups with the same family name are divided by ancestry into branches (the Kim family name has about 280 branches) and people with the same family name and branch cannot inter-marry.
		In Korea the use of personal names for address is usually restricted to members of the same family and close friends.
	www.arts.monash.edu.au /korean/t3e.htm (327 words)

	The South Korean Network Blocking List (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Some of it was in Korean, a language that nobody here understands, some was in English.
		As networks clean up their act, get rid of their spammers, fix their abusable relays and proxies, and set up a reasonable procedure to receive and act on complaints, I have started removing well run networks from the list.
		If you do Postfix will look up domain names, which it shouldn't, rather than IP addresses, which is what it should do.
	korea.services.net (408 words)

	Ethnologue 14 report for language code:KKN
		There is a difference of opinion among scholars as to whether or not Korean is related to Japanese.
		Comprehension of Standard Korean may be lower on Cheju Island.
		The McCune-Reischauer system is the official Roman orthography in South Korea used for maps and signs.
	www.ethnologue.com /show_language.asp?code=KKN (196 words)

	Sensei's Library: Korean names
		Personal names usually have two characters but a few have one, and a few have more.
		The variant forms of personal names are given here unhyphenated, as is common, but some writers will hyphenate and others will leave a space between characters.
		SAS: It would be useful if someone could do a similar list for the names of Korean tournaments, since there are various ways of spelling these too (e.g., Kuksu / Kuksoo / Guksu).
	senseis.xmp.net /?KoreanNames (944 words)

	Travel in Korea
		See the full list of locations You can also view the ratings made by other readers who have previously visited the destinations.
		Note: Life in Korea is currently in the process of updating the site to reflect the government's new Romanization system.
		Because of this, some place names may not match other references on the site.
	www.lifeinkorea.com /Travel2 (132 words)

	API Name Pronunciation Guide
		The original version of the API Name Guide was developed to help faculty and staff at a diverse public university in Southern California to more accurately pronounce some common Asian names.
		Site "allows users to type in their names, and uses Edinburgh University's Festival to generate the phonetic transcription as well as an audio file according to (i) the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, (ii) a baseline, ngram-based pronunciation model and (iii) a model incorporating language origin information."
		You may find it useful if you wish to look up the pronunciation of a name but are not sure which language to explore.
	susankullmann.com /MIRROR/pronunciation (745 words)

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