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 * South Korea** shares a land border with North Korea to the north, as well as overseas borders with Japan to the east and China to the west. Roughly half of the country's 50 million people reside in the metropolitan area surrounding its capital, Seoul.

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Headlines
[] [] [|FU_EN_15.jsp?cid=1702666] [|south-korea-to-push-ecotourism-near-tense-border-with-north]

Tourism Portals
[|Visit Korea] - [|@KoreanTravel]

Tourism Info
[] [|Tourism Sciences Society of Korea]

Nature
[|korean_environmental_issues] http://www.cbd.int/countries/?country=kr

Flickr
[|The Natural Wonders of Jeju - IUCN]

Flickr Groups
[|ilovekorea] [|national museum_korea]

Blogs
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Twitter
[|@KoreanTravel]

Wikipedia
[|South_Korea] [|Korean_cuisine] [|Jajangmyeon] [|Hibiscus_syriacus]

Baseball
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Geography
The Korean Peninsula extends southward from the eastern end of the Asian continent. It is roughly 1,000 km (621 miles) long and 216 km (134 miles) wide at its narrowest point. Mountains cover 70% of the land mass, making Korea one of the most mountainous regions in the world. The mountain range that stretches along the east coast falls steeply into the sea in East, while along the south and west coasts, the mountains descend gradually to the coastal plains that produce the bulk of Korea’s agricultural crops, particularly rice.

Vocabulary
Korean

Busan
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Busan [] []

Jeju
[] [] http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/city.html?n=2492

Pyeongchang
Pyeongchang is located in the Gangwon province, in the Taebaek Mountains region, located approximately 180 kilometers (110 miles) east of Seoul. Pyeongchang will host the 2018 Winter Olympics. [] [] []

Seoul
[] - [|@VisitSeoul] [] [|The Seoul Metropolitan Subway]

Woljeongsa
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Events
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Recent Events

 * September 2012** World Conservation Congress (Jeju, South Korea)

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Photos
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Embedded Tweets
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