SOUTH KOREA

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does South Korea mean? 

• SOUTH KOREA (noun)
  The noun SOUTH KOREA has 1 sense:

1. a republic in the southern half of the Korean Peninsula; established in 1948

  Familiarity information: SOUTH KOREA used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• SOUTH KOREA (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A republic in the southern half of the Korean Peninsula; established in 1948

Classified under:

Nouns denoting spatial position

Synonyms:

Republic of Korea; South Korea

Instance hypernyms:

Asian country; Asian nation (any one of the nations occupying the Asian continent)

Meronyms (parts of "South Korea"):

capital of South Korea; Seoul (the capital of South Korea and the largest city of Asia; located in northwestern South Korea)

Chemulpo; Incheon; Inchon (a port city in western South Korea on the Yellow Sea)

Kwangju (city in southwestern South Korea; an important military base during the Korean War)

Taegu; Tegu (a city in southeastern South Korea)

Pusan (a city in southeastern South Korea on the Korean Strait; the chief port and second largest city)

Domain member region:

Inchon (a battle in the Korean War (1950); United States forces landed at Inchon)

Holonyms ("South Korea" is a part of...):

Dae-Han-Min-Gook; Han-Gook; Korea; Korean Peninsula (an Asian peninsula (off Manchuria) separating the Yellow Sea and the Sea of Japan; the Korean name is Dae-Han-Min-Gook or Han-Gook)

Asia (the largest continent with 60% of the earth's population; it is joined to Europe on the west to form Eurasia; it is the site of some of the world's earliest civilizations)

Derivation:

South Korean (of or relating to or characteristic of South Korea or its people)

 Context examples 

The technology has the support of Japanese car maker Toyota and South Korea’s Hyundai Motor Company.

(Cars Powered by New Fuel Type Tested in Australia, VOA)

A few nations, including the U.S., the UK and South Korea, have banned microbeads.

(Researchers Discover Microplastics in 100 Percent of People Studied, VOA)

The disease also has been found in South Korea, Norway and Finland.

(Study finds no chronic wasting disease transmissibility in macaques, National Institutes of Health)

Academics in South Korea had tested the vaccine in animals and it had prevented the virus from infecting fat cells.

(Scientists Find Virus Linked to Weight Gain, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

Light pollution is most extensive in countries like Singapore, Italy and South Korea, while Canada and Australia retain the most dark sky.

(Milky Way now hidden from a third of humanity, NOAA)

Scientists from The University of Texas at Dallas and Hanyang University in South Korea developed high-tech yarns that generate electricity when they are stretched or twisted.

(Energy-Harvesting Yarns Generate Electricity, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

Kim and researchers at Andrews University in Michigan and Kyung Hee University in South Korea focused their research on mode conversion, the way in which some EMIC waves form.

(Scientists deepen understanding of magnetic fields that surround Earth, National Science Foundation)

A country in eastern Asia, occupying the northern half of the Korean Peninsula, bordering the Korea Bay and the Sea of Japan, between China and South Korea.

(Korea, Democratic People's Republic of, NCI Thesaurus)

There are only a handful of hydrogen-powered cars in Australia, but there are tens of thousands across Japan, South Korea and Singapore.

(Cars Powered by New Fuel Type Tested in Australia, VOA)