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southeast state of ward- coupling Division in Korea Korea is an East Asian country, which is touch by the sea on tierce sides, but unfortunately split up into two severalises- sec Korea and North Korea. Korea is bordered by mainland China on the brotherhood and by the navigable Yalu and Tumen Rivers, both of which flow from Paektusan, the highest point in Korea at 9,000 feet (Weightman 360). Korea has four seasons and a monsoon climate with warm, humid summers and cold, dry winters. Continuous rains from June to July argon a phenomenon. southeastern and North Korea has many differences by geological patterns.North Korea is influenced by continental extremes, the south is warmed by the Japan Current. Moreover, South Koreas terrain is mostly mountainous. Lowlands is located in the west and southeast, so agriculture is intensive with rice, vegetables, fruit, and other types of market gardening. However, North Korea has wholly about a one-sixth of mountains for cropping and few c oastal lowlands for rice, corn, wheat, and soybeans. Therefore, they have a food sufficient problem. In Korea, the most important event in history is Korean fight. The Korean War between South and North Korea broke out on June 25, 1950, in which at least 2. million persons lost their lives. The North Korean Army invaded across the 38th parallel in the morning. The Korean citizens did non realize that the war broke out because by that time, there were a lot of skirmishes between the South and North Army. Before the Korean War erupted, Korea was split into political, ideologically entities due to the influence of the coupled States and the Union of Soviet socialist Republics. This research paper shows how the United States and the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics affected the Korean War and why the Korean War erupted.Moreover, it give be how South Korea has real an economy and what is likely to happen in the future. The origins of the Korean War are not as simple as people mig ht think. It is strongly connected by not only causes and effects but also nations understandings. The Yalta Conference of 1945 was the second of three assembly held between the three Allied superpowers during the s World War while (Perekop). The Yalta Conference was about how to reform the institution after winning the Second World War. One of the issues in this conference was about the Korean Peninsulas trusteeship.Many countries were snarled in Korea. Especially, when Soviet planned the war against Japan. The U. S also dropped an a-bomb on Hiroshima where the headquarters of the Japanese Army was in. Later, the Soviet declare the war against Japan and the army was planning to invade Japan by means of the Korean Peninsula, so they encamped at the northern part of Korea. Finally, Japan surrendered on August 15th. The U. S Army was placed in the gray part of Korea to discuss the trusteeship. So the northern part of Korea was occupied by the Soviets and the southern part of Korea was occupied by the U. S.At a conference in capital of the Russian Federation in December, the foreign ministers of the Soviet Union and Britain, and the U. S. Secretary of State met and discussed a five-year trusteeship for Korea (The Korean War). During those years, North Korea had absorbed the Communist ideology. Kim Il-Sung postulateed to associate Korea, so he chose to invade South Korea. It wouldnt take dour for the conflict to come to a head between North and South Korea. Indeed, the Korean War erupted in 1950 when North Korea invaded South Korea. The war had been low-spirited out in Ong-Jin Peninsula and started to spread out as time passed. The U. S almost immediately entered the battle.Truman told his daughter, Margaret, that We are going to fight. (The Korean War) The countryside quickly modify into a practical wasteland. During the Korean War, Northern troops conquered Seoul, which is the capital city, for three days. South Koreas defense line receded to the Nakdong River. The U. N decided to meet with South Korea and the war started to have the effect of becoming a institution war. Douglas MacArthur, the commanding general of the United Nations forces in Korea, launched his ambitious attack and arrive at Inchon on September 15, and the course of the war changed abruptly.Many parts in North Korea were taken by South Korea. by and by that, two high-ranking representatives from North Korea asked China to send troops into Korea. accordingly, China intervened in the Korean War to help North Korea, so the Soviet Union and China supported North Korea with arms, tanks, military supplies, fuel, foodstuffs, and medicine. In the subject field of South Korea, according to South Korea- a unpolished Study, with fifteen appendage-nations of the United Nations, had contributed armed forces and medical units to South Korea. On July 27th 1953, after the full-strength treaty, North and South Korea are in a truce on paper along the hostile parall el line.As a case of the war, very much of massacres were make and the left-right wings conflict has become worse. In South Korea, the Korean-American Mutual Defensive Treaty was made. The enmity between South and North Korea got worse, as well as the variation in social status. Then the U. S started to compete with the Soviets, which became known as the Cold War and centralise was on preventing communization. After the Korean War, the Korean economy was very poor, and naught thought that Korea could develop the economy as now. However, the Korean government made some plans to develop the economy.They started five- year plans. Park Chung Hee utilized a unique system of series of five economic plans to quick develop an economy. The first five-spot-Year sparing study Plan began in 1962. This plan consisted of initial steps toward the expression of a self-sufficient industrial structure that was neither consumption oriented nor over-dependent on oil (South Korea- sparing Pla ns). The second Five-Year Economic increment Plan (1967- 71) started with rapidly get uping import-substitution industries, including steel, machinery, and chemical industries.The third Five-Year Economic Development Plan (1972-76) developed the chemical industry and the economy stable. Before starting the fourthly Five Economic Development Plan, The Korean President said, The fourth Five-Year Economic Development Plan (1977-81) will foster the development of industries designed to compete efficaciously in the humanss industrial export markets (Cho-Sun 20). These major strategic industries consisted of technology-intensive and skilled labor-intensive industries such(prenominal) as machinery, electronics, and shipbuilding (South Korea-Economic Plans).The fifth Five-Year Economic and Social Development Plan (1982-86) concentrate on devote to building high-technology products on the world market. The sixth Five-Year Economic and Social Development Plan (1987-91) to a thumping ext ent continued to emphasize the goals of the previous plan. The goal of the seventh Five-Year Economic and Social Development Plan (1992-96), formulated in 1989, was to develop high-technology fields, such as microelectronics, new materials, fine chemicals, bioengineering, optics, and aerospace.Government and industry would work together to build high-technology facilities in seven provincial cities to better balance the geographic scattering of industry throughout South Korea (South Korea-Economic Plans). These Five Year plans had increased wealthiness and strengthen political stability. Moreover, these plans lead South Korea to become Asias fourth largest economy and the worlds 12th largest economy. Also, South Korea is a member of the United Nations, WTO, and OECD. I found that geographic patterns by researching Five Year Economic plans.The effect of Five year Economic plans is to preserve geographical inequities. Korea has been developed rapidly. Especially there are many rapi d developments from metropolitan areas which are centered in Seoul to K new-made-nam. Because of this development, inconsistent development has been occurred and financial development was inevitably centered in port towns. This phenomenon led young people in the rural areas move to metropolitan areas. Now a days, the rural areas contains a disproportionate number of young middle-class families.Therefore, income inequality by geographical areas is getting worse. According to Korea University economics professor Kim Seong-hui, This is the result of both the wage differences between large and small-medium businesses, and between regular and randomized workers. So, a lot of young people in the rural areas want to move to metropolitan areas, where the majority of big companies located in, to be rich. Although the defeat chapters of the Korean war now over, the bitterness between North and South Korea has continued to rage until this day.This is true despite the issue of cease-fire re solutions by the UN and even despite continued negotiations to reunite the countries. The United States has been closely involved with South Korea. However, North Korea has become a progressively greater world problem. Fortunately, North Koreas most recent disregard for world relate did not turn out to be as disastrous as it could have been. However, Such disregard for world concerns has been characteristic of North Korea since the Korean War.North Korea has planed the nuclear program and spent a lot of money for the military equipment. Unfortunately, it might be predicted that this recent action was except North Koreas means of testing the U. 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