SOUTH KOREA

South Korea

South Korea

Before the 1945 national division of the peninsula and “the subsequent establishment of the two political regimes of North and South Korea in 1948? Koreans identified themselves as the people of Choson. Tan'gun as the founding ancestor has had a symbolic meaning for Koreans throughout the nation's history. Korea is one of the few countries in which ethnicity and nationality coincide. The only immigrant ethnic minority group is a Chinese community of about 20?000 that is concentrated mainly in Seoul and has existed since the late nineteenth century. Since the Korean War? the continued presence of the ...