What kind of a country is South Korea?

[andreaqi]

South Korea is a free, very advanced democratic country, with a profound and diverse culture from Japan and China.

By the way it is also a nice place, with an average of very nice (and very hard headed) people and recently is producing very good movies.

It is a country that suffered a lot, including 50 years of Japanese invasion , the war with the north and several US backed fascist dictators after that. Last was the 1980 coup d'état by General Chun Doo-hwan who ruled up to 1987.
Meanwhile Korea was able to develop and from 1987 is a full blown democracy, with a per capita GDP equal to many western European countries, advanced technologies, nice cities and a bustling and living capital, Seoul.