This standing contributes towards the significant tensions that divide the peninsula, and the two states assert to get the sole legit federal government of Korea. South Korea is a regional electricity along with a formulated nation, with its financial state ranked as the whole world's fourteenth-premier by GDP (PPP). Its armed forces are one of the entire world's strongest militaries, with the world's 2nd-major standing army by military services and paramilitary 토토 personnel. South Korea has actually been renowned for its globally influential pop culture, notably in music (K-pop) and cinema, a phenomenon generally known as the Korean Wave.

Korea contains a temperate weather with comparatively less typhoons than other countries in East Asia. Due to the peninsula's posture, it's a unique local climate motivated by Siberia inside the north, the Pacific Ocean in the east and the remainder of Eurasia inside the west. The peninsula has four distinctive seasons: spring, summer season, autumn and winter.[179]