Political System of South Korea
South Korea Flag
Hello, a good day for you and me. So at this moment, we will explain the political system of South Korea. We will explain to you about their government, flag, language, territories, religion, and last but not least constitution.Government of South Korea
South Korea's country adopts a Democratic and Presidential system that is assisted by the Prime Minister. In South Korea, the President is directly elected by the people for a term of 5 years. Also, the President in South Korea is assisted by the Prime Minister. The President appoints the Prime Minister and has the right to release him from his duties and the state council which is commonly referred to as the cabinet.
South Korea is a Republic. As in other democracies, South Korea divided its government into three parts: The Executive, The Legislative, and The Judicial.
- The Executive branch is held by the President who is elected based on the election results for a term of 5 years and is assisted by the Prime Minister who is appointed by the President with the approval of the National Assembly. The President acts as the head of state and the Prime Minister as the head of government.
- The Legislative branch is held by a representative council that serves for 4 years. the plenary session is held once a year or at the request of the President. This trial is open to the public but can take place closed.
- The Judicial branch is held by The Constitutional Court consisting of 9 judges recommended by the President and the representative council. Judges will serve for six years and must not exceed 65 years of age at the time of the election.
President of South Korea
Moon Jae-In
Moon Jae-In born January 24, 1953, at Geoje Island, South Gyeongsangnam Province, South Korea. He is a South Korean lawyer and civil rights activist who was the president of South Korea (2017-) and the leader of the Liberal Democratic Party of Korea (2015-2016).
Moon's parents were refugees who fled North Korea ahead of the 1950 Chinese winter offensive during the Korean War. They were among the 100.000 civilians evacuated from Hungnam, North Korea, during 'Christmas Cargo," a massive sealift that marked the conclusion of the Battle of the Chosin Reservoir. Moon was born at a refugee relocation center on Geoje, an Island southwest of Busan. His family moved to Busan, and it was there that Moon spent his childhood. He entered Kyung Hee University in Seoul in 1972 and became active in the student movement against the authoritarian regime of President Park Chung Hee. He was expelled and briefly imprisoned for his activism.
In 2012 Moon entered electoral politics for the first time, winning a seat in the National Assembly representing the Sasang district of Busan. That December he was a Democratic United Party (DUP) candidate in the presidential contest against Park Geun Hye, the daughter of Park Chung Hee. Moon was narrowly defeated, but he remained active in politics at both the national and party levels. In February 2015 he was
named chairperson of the DUP’s successor, the New Politics Alliance for
Democracy (NPAD). The day after Moon’s elevation to party chief, a South Korean
appellate court ruled that the National Intelligence Service had orchestrated
an illegal online whispering campaign against Park’s opponents before the
2012 presidential election. The court declined to comment on whether the interference
had altered the outcome of the election. Moon chose not to run for reelection
for his National Assembly seat in 2016. An
influence-peddling scandal engulfed the Park administration and the leaders of
some of South Korea’s most powerful chaebols (family-controlled
conglomerates) in 2016. Park was accused of extorting tens of millions of
dollars from companies by threatening them with financial audits if they did
not donate to charitable foundations operated by her friend, Choi Soon-Sil. As
details of the scandal were uncovered, demonstrators called for Park’s
resignation and staged the largest street protests since the restoration of
democracy. Park’s Saenuri Party had
lost its legislative majority in April 2016, and a resurgent Democratic Party
(the successor to the NPAD) began to push for her removal. In December Park was
impeached by an overwhelming majority, and on March 10, 2017, the
Constitutional Court upheld that decision.
Park’s
impeachment triggered a snap election, and Moon quickly emerged as the
front-runner. Moon pledged to rein in the power of the chaebols, to
sever the ties between government and business, and to adopt a more nuanced North Korea policy. His strongest conservative
challenger, former United Nations secretary-general Ban Ki-Moon, had
declared in February 2017 that he would not enter the race. Software
magnate Ahn Cheol-Soo, who had supported Moon in 2012, threatened to split
the centrist vote with a technocratic “third way” campaign,
but he ultimately fell short. Despite Ahn’s last-minute surge, Moon won the May
9, 2017, contest in a landslide, becoming South Korea’s first liberal president
in nearly a decade.
Flag of South Korea
The
flag of South Korea also known as the Taegukgi has three parts: a white
rectangular background, a red and blue Taekguk in its center, and four black
trigrams one toward each other.
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Trigram
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Korean Name
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Celestial Body
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Season
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Cardinal Direction
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Virtue
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Family
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Natural Elements
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Meaning
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☰
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Geon
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Heaven
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Spring
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East
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Humanity
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Father
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Heaven
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Justice
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☲
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Ri
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Sun
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Autumn
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South
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Righteousness
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Daughter
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Fire
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Fruition
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☵
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Gam
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Moon
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Winter
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North
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Intelligence
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Son
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Water
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Wisdom
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☷
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Gon
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Earth
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Summer
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West
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Courtesy
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Mother
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Earth
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Vitality
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The
flag’s field is white, a traditional color in Korean culture. White was common
in the daily attire of 19th century Koreans, and it still appears in
contemporary versions of traditional Korean garments. Such as the hanbok. The
color represents peace and purity. The
circle in the center represents balance in the universe. The red half
representative positive cosmic force and the blue half represents the opposing
the negative cosmic forces. Together,
the trigrams represent movement and harmony as fundamental principles. Each
trigram represents one of the four classical elements. Language of South Korea
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Korean
In South Korea, the language is spoken in various dialects. The most popular dialect
among other
dialects in Gyeonggi
dialect because it
is the
basis of
the establishment of Korean
language variation standards.
Cities such as
Seoul, which includes
Incheon and Gyeonggi
province, are widespread
in the
area. This
dialect also has
a different
shape as the dialect
used on
the mainland
is different
from the
dialect used in
Jeju province. The Gyeongsang dialects are used by communities in the Yeongnam
region. All of this dialect has a variety of differences unlike Korean dialects that are
usually used like the Jeolla dialect which is mainly used in areas of South
Korea such as the Gwangju region. In the Chuncheong region and also within Daejeon
city use the Chungcheon dialect.
Key phrases in South Korea
Here’s how to say a few
keywords and phrases in standard Korean:
Hello
Annyeonghaseyo
Pleased to meet you
Mannaseo bangawoyo
My name is…
Je ireum-eun … imnida
Please
Butakamnida
Thank you
Kamsahamnida
Sorry
Mianhamnida
Where’s the toilet?
Hwajangsiri eodiyeyo?
Get me a big ice cream
Na-ege keun aiseukeulim-eul gajyeo ogi
English
Almost all of Koreans under 40 years have participated in
English lessons as part of their schooling. Looking at the conditions
that exist
such as
the fear of mispronunciation and inadequate practice makes this English
language only as a theory but
has not
been used
as communication
there and
many Koreans
only know
the basics
of English
in communication.
South Korea's
efforts to strengthen its bilateral cooperation and global
trade has finally been promoted as a second language and the government supports the
initiative. Koreans also
have a
lot of
motivation to learn
English as part
of academic,
trade and
business. However, they rarely
use English
to communicate
with their
own people.
And we
know a
lot of
workers like hotels
and airlines
whose workers
can speak
little English therefore
as tourists should be
able to
use Korean
to communicate
with the
residents there
The population of the older generation in South Korea speaks Japanese. The majority of the Japanese speakers reside in Busan, which is a short trip to the Japanese city of Fukuoka. The dialect verbalized in Busan bears similarities to Japanese while the Japanese dialect used in Fukuoka exhibits Korean influence.
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Chinese
There is a large Chinese community in South Korea, so in some areas, you may well hear Mandarin or
Cantonese spoke and you’ll encounter Hanja, Chinese characters that used to write Korean words. It’s becoming less
common and tends now to be used chiefly as disambiguation, in which case
you’ll find it in brackets beside the Hangul.
Religion in South Korea
South Korea is a country where all the world's major religions, Christianity, Buddhism, Confucianism, and Islam, peacefully coexist with Shamanism. According to the 2015 statistic, 44% of the Korean population has a religion.
Among them, Buddhism and Confucianism have been more influential than any others upon the life of the Korean people, and over half of the country's listed cultural heritage is related to the two religions. Buddhism arrived in Korea in 372, and since then, tens of thousands of temples have been built across the country.
Now rapidly on its way to becoming a multi-ethnic, multi-cultural, and multi-religious society, Korea protects religious diversity by law. People in Korea are free to lead a religious life according to their own choice and convictions, whether as followers of one of the major religions, namely, Christianity, Buddism, Confucianism, and Islam, or as adherents of Korean native religions such as Won Buddhism and Cheondogyo.
The First Protestant Church in South Korea
Buddhist Festival called Lotus Lantern Festival
Cathedral in Seoul
The Seoul Central Mosque
Constitutions in South Korea
The constitutions of the Republic of South Korea is the supreme law of South Korea. It was promulgated on July 17, 1948, and was last revised on October 29, 1987.
Consisting of Preamble, 130 articles, and supplementary provision, the Constitution provides for an executive branch headed by a President and an appointed Prime Minister, a unicameral legislature called the National Assembly, and a judiciary consisting of the Constitutional Court, Supreme Court, and Lower Courts.
The Constitution declares South Korea a "democratic republic" (taken from Article 1 of the Constitutional Charter of the Provisional Government of the Republic of Korea of 1919), its territory consisting of 'the Korean Peninsula and its adjacent island," and that "The Republic of Korea shall seek unification and shall formulate and carry out a policy of peaceful unification based on the principles of freedom and democracy." There are disputes over what "freedom and democracy" mean in Korea, but the direct translation of the Korean word used in the constitution would be a liberal democracy.
The Territory of South Korea
South Korea, a country in East Asia. It occupies the southern portion of the Korean Peninsula. The country is bordered the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (North Korea) to the north, the East Sea (Sea of Japan) to the east, the East China Sea to the south, and the Yellow Sea to the west, to the southeast, it is separated from the Japanese Island of Tsushima by the Korea Strait. South Korea makes up about 45% of the peninsula's land area. The capital is Seoul.
South Korea faces North Korea across a demilitarized zone (DMZ) 2.5 miles (4km) wide that was established by the term of 1953 armistice that ended fighting in the Korean War (1950-1953). The DMZ, which runs for about 150 miles (240 km), constitutes the 1953 military cease-fire line and roughly follows latitude 38° N (the 38th parallel) from the mouth of the Han River on the west coast of the Korean Peninsula to a little south of the North Korean town of Kosong on the east coast.
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Whether Indonesia and South Korea always import industry?
BalasHapusOf course, Indonesia and South Korea always import industries to complement commodities or needs that do not exist and also the two countries will later benefit from economic activity.
HapusWhat caused South Korea to progress, is it because of the politics? If yes, why is that?
BalasHapusThere is a lot of other factors why South Korea could progress or develop quickly. Not only from the political factors which provides policies that can foster development but also from the innovation and strong business environment that attracts the investor. Those factors help South Korea to develop. In conclusion yes politics also one of the factors why South Korea progress by provide policies.
HapusDoes South Korea not use international languages to communicate?
BalasHapusMainly the language they spoke is Korean, it's not really common to speak international language like English in South Korea. But there is a lot of student or modern generation who master international language but they are not using it for communicate everyday.
HapusWhy do South Korea and North Korea hate each other even though they are brothers?
BalasHapusIt's all start since America (Allies) and the Soviet Union occupied Korea. America occupied the south and the Soviet Union occupied the north. When the relationship between the Allies and the Soviet Union did not get along well, it's became a national problem that sparked the civil war, the Korean War (25 June 1950 - 27 July 1953). The war separated Korea by the Korean Demilitarized Zone, technically leaving behind the Cold War. Until now, no peace agreement has been signed which makes the two countries still at war. That is the reason why South Korea and North Korea still hate each other.
HapusThe outstanding differences are South Korea is Capitalist Country meanwhile North Korea is Communist Country.
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