greetings mama factors my name is Sam
and today I'm going to be talking to you
all about the best Korea South Korea you
guys have been requesting South Korea
for a long time now and we finally caved
in proving once and for all that peer
pressure's an effective means of getting
exactly what you want Vonda bar but how
oh how has a popular American TV show
affected the Korean language
what do Koreans say instead of cheese
when taking a photo and what is a BTS is
it bad it sounds bad oh god I've got BTS
haven't I
I haven't got long please just tell my
girlfriend I love her and to destroy my
computer that's very important that
second bit anyway to enter through those
questions are going to be answered so
Chuck on your handbook and do a shot of
soju to prepare yourself with some
terrible pronunciations because you know
that's my forte as we give you 101 facts
about South Korea number one South Korea
officially the Republic of Korea is a
country in East Asia constituting the
southern part of the Korean Peninsula
which is the estanque a bit here look at
it look at it number two
as you can see South Korea shares a land
border with its evil - a North Korea to
the west is the Yellow Sea in mainland
China and lying east it's sunrise
across from the Sea of Japan and the
career straight directly south this East
China Sea which opens up to the
Philippine Sea and Pacific Ocean number
three the name Korea is derived from
could Goryeo which was a powerful
ancient kingdom that was established on
and around the Korean Peninsula in 37 BC
lasting for over 700 years number four
the lenka Goryeo means high and clear
which is nice
however a slightly more poetic
interpretation of then Korea is land of
high mountains and sparkling streams
which is also nice number five South
Korea has a total land mass of around
thirty eight thousand seven hundred and
fifty square miles that makes South
Korea roughly the same size as the u.s.
state of Indiana which is now something
you know you're welcome number six South
Korea also includes over 3,000 islands
most located off the country's ragged
southern coast otherwise it that's soap
sexily by far the largest of these
islands is jeju located in the Korea
Strait number seven South Korea lies in
the North temperate zone and tends to
have a humid continental and subtropical
climate the country has a predominantly
mountainous terrain with arable lowlands
constituting only 30% of the total land
area that basically means they can't
grow food there number eight
not only that the vast majority of South
Korea's land is covered in trees a 64%
of the country is forested that's
tremendous a yard while I like this
number 9 the human component of South
Korea is comprised of an estimated 50
1.4 million people or roughly 25 point
seven million people post Thanos number
ten
South Korea's largest city and capital
is Seoul which has a population of
roughly 10 million people that means
that one in every five South Koreans
live in the capital a further 15 million
people live within the Seoul Capital
Area meaning roughly half of all South
Koreans live within this metropolitan
area number 11 in addition roughly 2.1
million South Koreans live in the good
old US of A a most lean cities like New
York Chicago and Seattle
the first Koreans began immigrating to
the United States in 1903 more than half
of which emigrated to the islands of
Hawaii in order to work on sugar and
pineapple plantations number 12
archeological evidence suggests that
early humans first inhabited the Korean
Peninsula roughly 500
now was in two years ago that's almost
500 thousand one years ago people that's
a lot number 13 later on the Korean
Peninsula settled by tong ducek speaking
people who migrated from Manchuria and
Siberia these groups formed the dominant
ethnic foundation of the Korean people
and spoke languages that eventually
developed into modern Korean well done
to them number 14 the first recognizable
political state to arise in the Korean
Peninsula was the code jos on the ethics
ko meaning ancient this thing was hid
from the later joseon dynasty which
we'll get to later my impatient little
darlings Kojo team was founded in two
333 BC in the north by the legendary
figure of dong Geun who we set up in the
offspring of a heavenly prince and
female bear that have been transformed
into a woman
I mean sure whatever works I guess
number 15 ker Jo saw mostly covered what
is now North Korea and the Chinese
region of Manchuria but it stands as the
foundation of modern Korea so I felt it
was worth mentioning one of the earliest
states to forming what we now know as
South Korea is the state of Jin not that
kind of Jin which was established no
later than the third century base a
number 16 by roughly the first century
bc co joseon had developed into a league
of tribes in an area of atte dong and
liao rivers they eventually evolved into
three main rival kingdoms ko carrillo
picture and Shilla this was known as the
Three Kingdoms period because it was a
period of time in which there were three
kingdoms I thought you've got on your
own but I explained it anyway number 17
the three kingdoms were also joined by
the Chi a confederacy which was a
collection of city-states located on the
central section to Korean Peninsula
southern coast the Chi a confederacy
managed to stay independent for hundreds
of years throughout the three kingdoms
period because it was a funky little
polity that in his owned thing number 18
however the guy can better see never
fully developed into a centralized
Kingdom and those utter rot banks in the
Shilla Kingdom eventually annexed a guy
Confederacy in 562 ad packs number 19
over an 8-year period between 660 and
668 ad the kingdom of Shilla conquered
and unified the Korean Peninsula with
the assistance of China under the Tang
Dynasty this formed the later Shilla
Kingdom and for the first time created a
united Korean identity number 20 however
the state's rigid class system caused
stagnation and unrest in later Shilla
and in 892 ad the kingdom fracture
this resulted in the re-emergence of the
previous kingdoms Co Carrillo and Peck
share in what is sensibly known as the
later Three Kingdoms period because what
well you known by now number 21 in 918
the leader of later coup Carrillo was
ousted by two named and by the way yes
this is completely legit I'm not making
this up
his name was Wang Khan okay Wang big
space Khan anyway when Khan
anyway Wang Khan went to conquer picture
and Shilla unifying the country wants
more under a new name
the Koryo dynasty this was the first
truly unified korean state in the
history of the Korean Peninsula
number 22 despite a brief period between
eleven seventeen twelve seventeen which
the government was controlled by
military regime leaders and experienced
several Mongol invasions Koriyama
existed as an unbroken dynasty that
ruled Korea for 474 years number 23 the
Koryo dynasty fell in 1392 and was
replaced by the Chosun dynasty which
lasted with impressive 518 years
that's almost 119 years people and
that's math number 24 in the 1590s the
Korean Peninsula was twice invaded by
the Japanese in the conflict that has
collectively known as the engine war
Japan's forces were repelled by the
ingenious military tactics of Admiral
Asian chin who was never defeated at sea
nor lost a single ship under his command
to enemy action
what allege as such admiral yi sun-shin
is considered one of history's greatest
naval commanders even greater perhaps
than the naval commander of my heart
Jennifer Lawrence yeah one expert in
that way number 25 in 1897 the Joseon
dynasty changed the official name of the
country for the Kingdom of Jos onto the
Empire of Korea in the misplaced hope of
an auspicious future that wouldn't be
completely upended only thirteen years
later number twenty-six only thirteen
years later however Japan finally
annexed Korea in 1910 bringing the
Korean Empire and its monarchy to an end
the Japanese exercise strict colonial
control over the Korean people and force
him to speak Japanese and practice
Shintoism number 27 I hope you're ready
for a sad serious voice because these
are dark facts people during world war
ii approximately five million four
hundred thousand koreans were
conscripted by the japanese to alleviate
a labor shortages that developed as a
result of the conscription of japanese
males roughly 670
thousand of these were taken to Japan
where they were forced to work under
appalling conditions leading to roughly
60,000 deaths it's estimated that
between two hundred seventy thousand at
eight hundred and ten thousand Korean
forced laborers in Korea and Manchuria
also died during this period number 28
the Imperial Japanese Army also abducted
from their homes nearly 200-thousand
women over 80 percent of whom were
Korean and forced them to work as slaves
for Japanese soldiers known as comfort
women they were sent across China and
Southeast Asia and was subjected to the
brutality one would expect from forced
female slaves roughly three-quarters
these women died during the war number
twenty-nine at the end of World War two
Korea was released from the Japanese
colonial rule when Japan surrendered to
Soviet and US forces who occupied the
northern and southern half of Korea
respectively despite an initial plan to
unify Korea failed negotiations and
escalating Cold War hostility between
the United States and Soviet Union
eventually led to the establishment of
two separate and ideologically distinct
governments number 30 in what is known
as the division of Korea a separate
election held in the u.s. zone in 1948
created the pro-west Republic of Korea
in southern Korea now commonly known as
he gets to South Korea in the north the
Soviets appointed communist Kim il-sung
as the leader of North Korea which has
since become infamous is pretty much the
worst place on earth sorry not sorry
number 31
both Koreas then pursued authoritarian
repression that sent within their
respective regions with each considering
themselves to be the true descendant of
historical Korea bit like you know in a
psych ward where you get all these
people thinking they're Jesus
liber tensions continue to flare and on
a 25th of June 1950 North Korea invaded
South Korea sparking the Korean War the
conflict which involved the United
States China the Soviet Union and
several other nations lasted for three
years until reaching a stalemate in 1953
by which points roughly 1.2 million
people had already died
number 32 at this point the two Koreas
agreed to create the Korean
Demilitarized Zone a buffer zone between
the two countries that remains the most
heavily fortified border on earth the 4
kilometer wide border commonly
abbreviated to dmz stretches 245
kilometers across the korean peninsula
from the Yellow Sea to the Sea of Japan
number 33 in the decade since the
division of Korea between 100,000 and
300,000 people have made the
our decision to escape from North Korea
most of whom fled to Russia or China
roughly 30,000 North Koreans eventually
made their way to South Korea by
comparison
very few South Koreans have ever
defected to the north neighborhoods for
as a result of the demilitarized zones
creation much of the natural wildlife
and rare plants along the border have
remained untouched for over 60 years
this has allowed unique species of
plants and wild animals to flourish such
that the area is now recognised as one
of most well preserved areas of
temperate habitat in the world
number 35 though North and South Korea
signed a ceasefire in 1953 the conflicts
never officially ended
meaning North Korea and South Korea are
technically still at war
however kim jeong-hoon and mu j in metal
in dmz in April of 2018 officially
signifying the end of the war
number 36 following the Korean War South
Korea struggled with political
instability and autocratic governments
well into the 1980s it also until a
former Army general named wrote a Wu won
the country's first free presidential
election in 1987 following a period of
military rule that South Korea finally
transitioned away from its turbulent
past number 37 South Korea is now a
presidential Republic consisting of 17
sexy little administrative divisions of
these nine properties similar to US
state and ate a special or metropolitan
cities number 38 in 2012 South Korea
elected Park geun-hye as their
first-ever female president in doing so
she became the first female president
popularly elected as head of state in
East Asia good times number 39 however
in 2017 Park geun-hye was later
impeached and ultimately sentenced to 24
years in prison after she was found
guilty of multiple counts of abuse of
power bribery and coercion bad times
number 40 both North and South Korean
speak Korean Korean consists of 14
continents and 10 vowels and is written
with an alphabetic writing system known
as Hangul which was personally developed
by King Seon the great in the 15th
century prior to that Korean was written
using Chinese characters number 41 in
fact more than half of Korean vocabulary
taught to be derived from Chinese which
reflects the influence that China had on
Korea over the past few thousand years
or so those Chinese dudes really get
around
the meaning of life one of the most
common ways to ask someone how they are
in South Korea is to say have you eaten
well I wish more people ask me that's
instead of just looking at me in
assuming I have all the chubs number 43
amazingly the Korean word for Swiss Army
knife is make I bow Cal Cal is an
entirely Korean word meaning knife but
make I bow is derive from the title
character of the iconic American TV
series MacGyver wow this is the best
fact so far big fan of this fact
number 44 funnily enough the Korean
phrase for light a cigarette literally
translates to attach pyre to a cigarette
that actually makes sense in an
excruciatingly me literal sort of way
number 45 the current flag of South
Korea incorporates symbols and
philosophies of Buddhism and Taoism with
a red and blue yin-yang surrounded by
four symbols representing heaven earth
fire and water the flag is known as type
G which literally means supreme ultimate
flag number 46 the hibiscus syriacus a
flowering plant species also known as
the Rose of Sharon who Sharon is South
Korea's national flower where it's known
as mu Tong hua the flower is even
mentioned in the national anthem so yeah
it's a pretty important flower you guys
number 47
both the tiger and rabbit are important
entities of Korean folklore and have
found throughout Korean folk tales and
art some Koreans even say that the
Korean Peninsula is shaped like a tiger
and others of rabbits I mean sort of if
you squint and ignore like a lot of it
and add ears number 48
the most common family names in South
Korea are Kim Lee and Park more than a
fifth of all South Koreans in fact had
the last name Kim number 49 according to
the Organization for Economic
Cooperation and Development South Korea
has the highest estimated national IQ in
the world the country with the lowest IQ
is all Wow okay nope not really in that
particle devotional true but
controversial moving on number 50 South
Koreans are some of the most overworked
people on earth in 2018 the South Korean
government was forced to pass
legislation introducing a maximum 52
hour workweek
down from a punishing 68 hours
previously number 51
although South Korea enjoys very high
living standards suicide is a serious
and widespread problem in fact South
Korea has the highest suicide rate in
the developed world according to the
health organization number 52 South
Korea boasts the world's fastest
wireless speeds on the planet though
with an average download speed of 33.5
megabits per second that's an it'd be
three times the average speed of second
place Hong Kong number 53 not only that
an incredible ninety nine point two
percent of all South Koreans have
broadband access number fifty-four
South Koreans are also some of the
biggest smartphone users in the world as
of 2013 seventy eight point five percent
of the South Korean population had a
smartphone among 1824 year olds that
bigger jumps to ninety seven point seven
percent hello if you're watching gang
number 55 according to the South Korean
National Information Agency fourteen
percent of South Koreans between the
ages of nine and twelve are addicted to
the Internet in 2011 South Korea passed
a law called the shut down law that bans
anyone younger than 16 from accessing
online game sites between midnight and
6:00 a.m. number 56
not only that in 1999 South Korea passed
the law requiring all online shopping
and banking to be done using Internet
Explorer as of 2016 that law is still in
place which I genuinely consider an
abuse of human rights number 57 by law
every South Korean man is obliged to
inform 21 months of military training at
the age of 28 which means sexist in 2018
but hey hey whatevs aside from those
with disabilities the only South Korean
men who are exempt from conscription are
successful Olympic athletes and
footballers number 58 South Korea has a
controversial national security law
which forbid citizens and showing
support for North Korea in any context
in 2016 a 73 year old South Korean man
were sentenced to a year in prison for
praising the north on his blog years
previously number 59 adultery was only
legalized in South Korea in 2015
prior to that the crime of cheating on
one's husband or wife was punishable by
up to two years in prison number 60
South Korea is known for a fairly unique
practice within its criminal justice
system in which people suspected of
crimes had just murder are taken back to
the scene of the crime where they are
forced to recreate it in public not only
that the media is often invited to take
pictures and publish details about the
crime too weird number 61
South Korea is the largest market for
plastic surgery per capita in the world
with some estimates suggesting that one
in five women in Seoul have gone under
the knife for at least one cosmetic
procedure number 62 one of the most
common plastic surgery procedures
performed in South
Korea is eyelid surgery in which the
skin around the eye is reshaped to
create a crease in the upper eyelid this
procedure is controversial as many
people suggest it's done to appeal to
Western beauty standards even so the
surgery so popular that some wealthy
South Koreans receive double eyelid
surgery on their 16th birthday
number 63 South Korean men are
particularly evolved when it comes to
makeup with as many as one in five South
Korean gents reporting to using makeup
regulate in fact many South Korea
spending close to 19 million u.s.
dollars a year on makeup nintendo64 the
national dish of South Korea is kimchi
which is a combination of fermented
vegetables and spice the first written
description of making kimchi dates to
the 13th century and today there are
literally hundreds of different
varieties of the dish number 65 kimchi
so popular in South Korea that when
taking a photo South Koreans say kimchi
instead of cheese which implies that
kimchi is better than cheese but it
isn't because literally nothing is
better than cheese
number 66 although it may be shocking to
other nations around the world dog meat
has been eaten in South Korea for
centuries and it's still served in
certain Korean restaurants and street
markets today however this practice has
become increasingly controversial in
recent decades and contrary to popular
belief only a very small percentage of
South Koreans have actually tried it
number 67 incredibly only 3.2 percent of
Koreans are overweight which makes them
one of the least obese nations on the
planet number 68 most popular type of
alcohol in South Korea is soju a clear
distilled beverage similar to babka
that's traditionally made from rice
wheat or barley the alcohol content of
shoji varies from about 70% all about
53% and is usually consumed neat neat
number 69 denizens of the nation's
capital of Seoul are tied with the
people of Tokyo as the most
sleep-deprived city slickers in the
world
the inhabitants of both cities get the
least amount of sleep any residents of
major cities on earth at less than 6
hours of sleep a night
number 7 day in Korean the word Seoul
literally means capital city I'm
starting to get the impression that
Koreans are fairly literal people number
71 Seoul is home to Lotte world they
made a recreation complex that houses
the world's largest indoor theme park
the complex also contains shopping malls
a luxury hotel a monorail a Korean folk
museum sport facilities and cinemas or
as the Americans call it movie theaters
number 72
tourists the South Korea are often drawn
to hasten in park which is located in
the northeast of the country the pain is
notable for containing roughly highly
stylized tattoos of you can you can see
well that is which were erected to a
piece of fabled virgin woman who drowned
at sea it's best if you don't ask number
73
similarly the beaches of South Korea's
largest island Rajesh you are home to
large stone statues called da LaRue bang
meaning stone grandfather these statues
depicting is with balding faces and
suggestively shaped hats which some have
described is erm what's the word phallic
it's a popular belief that if newlywed
women touch the nose of these statues
they will be blessed with fertility
number 74 the island of Jersey was also
home to hallasan a shield volcano and
the tallest mountain in the country
allison measures up in an impressive six
thousand three hundred and eighty eight
feet in height number 25 the island of
jeju is also home to the han yo or see
women who are female divers who hunt for
sea urchins abalone and octopus without
using breathing apparatus this tradition
of diving dates back to the fifth
century though it didn't become an
exclusively female profession until the
17th century when significant numbers of
men died at war
number 76 in a practice it probably
seems slightly odd to most Westerners
roughly 60% of South Korean families use
professionals to find a name for their
babies based on the Chinese zodiac
number 77 apparently however South
Koreans need to stop fussing over name
to get back to boinking according to a
2014 study commissioned by the national
legislature add their current birth rate
South Koreans will go extinct by 2750
yikes number 78 interestingly South
Koreans may not consider themselves to
be the same age as foreigners born on
the very same day this is because in
South Korea babies are considered a
one-year-old at birth and turn 2 on the
1st of January so if a baby is born on
the first photo December which I'm told
does happen from time to time they'll
turn to the very next day that's like
cheating to me number 79 speaking of
birthdays a traditional birthday dish
served in South Korea is seaweed soup I
think I'll stick with Colin McAteer
Villa thank you very much number 81
South Koreans reached the age of 60 they
are often thrown a lavish party called
a1 gap which originated before the
development of modern medicine when very
few people live to that age it's also a
significant birthday because the
traditional Korean
it's based on a 60-year cycle number 81
Christmas is an official holiday in
South Korea as roughly a third of all
South Korean to Christians however the
festival apparel worn by South Korean
Santa Claus isn't red but blue or even
more rarely green he is also known as
Santa Kulu so which means grandfather
Santa number 82 in South Korea April
14th is a holiday reserved for single
people who did not receive gifts on
Valentine's Day
the holiday is known as black day which
refers to the sticky black noodles
called Josh I'm yon witch 8:00 in the
morning of their lack of relationships
hot fatties o bleak number 83 South
Korean celebrated the Harvest Moon
festival known as Chuseok by traveling
back to their hometowns to visit and
clean the graves of their ancestors to
which they bring gifts such as fine
boots man I wish I was a long-dead
Korean ancestor so people would bring me
food number 84 originally conceived as a
way to advertise mud cosmetics South
Korea's annual boreal mud festival
attracts millions of people from around
the world every year for ten whole days
among enthusiasts partake in mud
marathons mud wrestling and mud photo
contests as well as a nice relaxing mud
massage just to you know take the edge
off number 85
it's a popular belief in South Korea as
well as Japan and Taiwan that one's
blood type can determine a person's
personality character and social
compatibility this belief is so
profoundly engrained into Korean culture
in may even affect to whom a person
decides to marry number 86 in South
Korea it's commonly believed that
leaving an electric fan on overnight in
an unventilated room will kill anyone
inside sleeping though this belief is
declining amongst younger Koreans it
remains a persistent superstition in
Korean culture despite literally zero
evidence to support it number 87 of
course we can't talk about South Korea
without mentioning the biggest event of
2012
Gangnam style the infectious pop song
written and performed by South Korean
k-pop star psy was released on July the
15th 2012 accompanied by a quirky and
hilarious music video the song quickly
went viral topped the charts in 30
countries around the world and on the
21st of December Gangnam Seoul became
the first YouTube video to reach 1
billion views
which this one will - right guys number
88 indeed the explosive South Korean
cultures throughout the world has been
dubbed hey you
meaning the flow of Korea the sorely
missed q comments anger sounds a liberal
cakwe
former president brock obama even
referred to this during a visit South
Korea in March of 2012
number 89 in 2012 a prison in the South
Korean city of Pohang became the first
in the world to introduce robotic prison
guards the bolts are equipped with 3d
depth cameras a 2-way communication
system and software capable of
identifying certain human behavior
patterns allowing them to effectively
conduct patrols through prison corridors
our biet under human supervision
numbered 90 South Korea it's also home
to u Edo Full Gospel Church which boasts
the largest congregation on the planet
with over eight hundred and thirty
thousand members as of 2016
sadly the church faces at the cloning
convocation after its founder David
Young dicho received a three-year
suspended sentence for embezzling 12
million dollars in church funds awkward
number 91
somewhat hurtfully in South Korea a
unmarried person is often referred to as
a big baby
it's a weird but sure okay number 92
many Korean homes have heated floors a
tradition called on doll meaning warm
stone which states all the way back to
1000 BC more than 90 percent of houses
in South Korea have modern floor heating
allowing people to eat sleep and watch
TV on the warm floor number 98 taxis in
South Korea and literally color-coded
according to the level of service
offered a gray or white taxi will offer
a basic service for the qualified for
potentially inexperienced driver
whereas luxury cars with experienced
drivers are painted black like Rolling
Stones songs number 94 South Korea's
national sport is Taekwondo which had
developed in the 1940s and 50s out of
Chinese martial arts like karate and the
indigenous Korean martial arts like
tachyon soo bahk and Guam being number
95
shehram is a korean form of racing that
can be traced all the way back to 37 BC
starting as competition between villages
before it developed into a fully fledged
martial art today shiron matches are
held in stadiums and quite often
televised number 96 baseball is one of
the most popular sports in South Korea
where it's known as yah goo there are in
fact a number of interesting differences
between Yahoo and american-style
baseball for instance teams are named
after corporations like Samsung Kia not
cities baseball in Korea is also
accompanied by cheerleaders which is
usually weirdly not the case in United
States number 97
interestingly basically the only recent
baseball even exists in South Korea it's
because of dictator general shouldn't do
harm we established the Korean baseball
organization in 1981 as a way to pacify
the people of South Korea who kept
protesting his regime and attempting to
revolt
still he ended up in prison anyway
like old chap number 98 a popular
pastime in South Korea is kite flying on
the last day of the new moon before the
Lunar New Year it's a tradition to let
go of your kites in the hope your bad
luck will float away with them number 99
another popular sports in South Korea is
ten pin bowling which was introduced to
the country by American GIs during the
Korean War good god it's number a
hundred Oh since the game launched in
1988 nearly half of all copies of the
American military science strategy game
Starcraft one of the best selling games
in history had been sold in South Korea
101 the world's oldest existing
astronomical laboratory known as sharm
song day Observatory is located in
Jiangsu South Korea where it was built
during the mid six hundreds the name of
the structure from song day means
stargazing platform in Korean so that
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