This status contributes into the large tensions that divide the peninsula, and both states assert for being the only real respectable authorities of Korea. South Korea is usually a regional electrical power and 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 파라곤솔루션 militaries, with the planet's 2nd-largest standing Military by military and paramilitary personnel. South Korea has long been renowned for its globally influential pop culture, significantly in songs (K-pop) and cinema, a phenomenon often called the Korean Wave.

This was The very first time an performing president were impeached given that South Korea turned a democracy.