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, officially known as the Republic of Korea, country in northeastern Asia that occupies the southern portion of the Korean Peninsula. is bounded on the north by North Korea; on the east by the Sea of Japan; on the southeast and south by the Korea Strait, which se ....

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.... gas have been discovered offshore. These minute resources are not as depended upon by the people of South Korea as in the North. The north is heavy in mining these resources because they have a large surplus of them, and the north is not; they have moved on and found other economical niches. The population of South Korea (1995 estimate) is about 45,182,000 people. The country's estimated population density of 1188 per sq mi is one of the highest in the world. The majority of the population lives in the southern and western coastal areas. The annual rate of increase has dropped steadily from more than 3 percent in the late 1950s to 0.8 ....