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Eric Dang President Major: Business Administration- Marketing. Hobbies: Tennis, Learning Korean, Eating Food Favorite Food: Pho and 설렁탕

Alma Moreno Vice-Pres. Major: pre-psych Hobby: undecided Favorite food: corundas (a type of tamales)

Kimberly Antonio Secretary Major: Biology Hobbies: Playing Games, Listening to music, and reading Favorite food: Filipino Spaghetti

Estephanie Barrera aka (EB) Treasurer Major: Business Accounting Hobby: Cooking Favorite food: mole’ casserole

Where is South Korea?

South Korean Geography

South Korean Geography Total Area: 61,963 mi² (¼ size of CA, 10x of Fresno County) Land size: 60,223.3 mi² Water area: 1,740 mi² Climate: temperate (heavy rain in summer, cold winters) Terrain: mostly hills and mountains, coastal plain in W & S

Government Constitutional Republic, and Democratic Current President: Moon Jae-in 3 Branch Government: Executive, Legislative, and Judicial.

A little S. Korean History Ancient 60,000 years old 3 Kingdoms: Goguryeo, Baekje, Silla (30/50BC - 660/900 AD) Later 3 Kingdoms: Taebong, Hubaekje, Husilla (900s) Dynastic Period (900s-1910) Modern Colony of Japan (1905-1945) WWII Division of Korea (1948-present) Korean War (1950-1953)

Economy GDP: $2.138 T (14 in world) Agricultural products: rice, root crops, barley, vegetables, fruit; meat and dairy and fish Industries: electronics, telecommunications, automobile production, chemicals, shipbuilding, steel Unemployment rate: 3.6%

Demographics Population: 51,446,201 (CA ≅ 39 Mil) More males than female until 55+ Population growth rate: 0.53% Religion: none (43.3%), Christian (31.6%), Buddhist (24.2%), other/unknown (0.9%) Median age: 41.2 years

Questions?

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