South Korea

"This is South Korea. My home sweet home. Sweet Daehan. I lived there, and it was very peaceful. Me, my family, and my friends, live there in the South Korean seaside village of Gyeongyeong. For so long, we were divided between the two Korean nations, the tyrannical north, and the lovable south."

--Su Ji-Hoon, Welcome to Gyeongyeong

South Korea, officially the Republic of Korea (abbreviated ROK), is a sovereign state in East Asia, constituting the southern part of the Korean Peninsula. Officially, its territory consists of the whole Korean Peninsula and its adjacent islands, which are largely mountainous. South Koreans lead a distinctive urban lifestyle, as half of them live in high-rises concentrated in the Seoul Capital Area with 25 million residents.