Labels:bird | earth | grass OCR: Korea South Korea, officially republic of i Korea, occupies the southern Korean Peninsula in East Asia. The capital is Seoul. which is also the largest. It is bordered by North Korea the Sea Japan, the Korean Strait and the Yellow Sea. About 70percent of the country consists of mountains uplands. It has continental type of climate with cold win- ters and hot summers After World War US forces occupied the south, while the Soviet Union occupied the north, until 1948 when the south was established as republic with an elected govern- ment. lellow nountains
