South Korea

Did you know?

• 💻Seoul has some of the fastest average internet speeds on the planet.
• 🗣The Korean alphabet (Hangul) was scientifically designed in the 15th century to be learnable in a single day.
• ✨Age was traditionally counted differently — Koreans were born already 1 year old, and everyone aged together on New Year.
• 👥Has the world's highest rate of plastic-surgery procedures per capita.
• 💰K-pop and Korean dramas (the 'Hallyu wave') are now a multi-billion-dollar cultural export.