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SOUTH KOREA

South Korea occupies the southern half of the Korean Peninsula, with North Korea to the north, China across the sea to the west and Japan across the sea to the southeast. Japan ruled Korea for years and after its defeat in World War II, Soviet forces occupied the northern half of Korea while US forces occupied the southern half. North and South each declared independence as separate states in 1948, with Kim Il-Sung establishing a communist regime with the support of Soviet Union in the north, and a capitalist regime was installed with the support of the United States in the south. After this disastrous war, South Korea achieved rapid economic growth starting in the 1960s and is one of the Asian Tigers recognized as an industrialized, developed economy with some of the world's leading high technology corporations such as Samsung and LG. Today, tensions are still existing between the two countries and increased in the last years.
Seoul, the Korean Demilitarized Zone (DMZ).
BEST TIME to VISIT SOUTH KOREA
 
BEST TIME to TRAVEL to SOUTH KOREA
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May - October - November
Hot and rainy in summer
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