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1. www.britannica.com › topic › history-of-South-KoreaHistory of South Korea | Flag, Map, Relation with North Korea

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   South Korea. The First Republic, established in August 1948, adopted a presidential system, and Syngman Rhee was subsequently elected its first president. South Korea also adopted a National Security Law, which effectively prohibited groups that opposed the state or expressions of support for North Korea. Rhee was reelected in August 1952 while ...

2. www.cia.gov › the-world-factbook › countriesTaiwan - The World Factbook

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   3 days ago · First inhabited by Austronesian people, Taiwan became home to Han immigrants beginning in the late Ming Dynasty (17th century). In 1895, military defeat forced China's Qing Dynasty to cede Taiwan to Japan, which then governed Taiwan for 50 years. Taiwan came under Chinese Nationalist (Kuomintang, KMT) control after World War II.

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   Why did the US start reopening immigration from Asia?

   • These episodes mark the start of the modest reopening of immigration from Asia. Wars and diplomacy had much to do with this. In the decades that followed combat with Japan, the US would fight a big war in Korea, a big war in Vietnam, Cambodia, and Laos, and fight shadow wars with Communist insurgencies throughout Asia.

   Mapping Asian American and Pacific Islander Migrations

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   How long did the Second Republic last?

   • Massive student demonstrations took place that culminated in a major event on April 19 in which many demonstrators died. Rhee resigned under pressure six days later and fled to exile in Hawaii, where he died in 1965 at age 90. The Second Republic, which adopted a parliamentary cabinet system, lasted only nine months.

   History of South Korea | Flag, Map, Relation with North Korea

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   How many Filipinos were there in the US in 1960?

   • The Filipino population in the US which had fallen to 89,000 in 1940 had begun to grow. In 1960, the Census Bureau recorded a population of 179,000. These episodes mark the start of the modest reopening of immigration from Asia. Wars and diplomacy had much to do with this.

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   How many Asian Americans were there in 1920?

   • The 1920 census reported just under 400,000 Asian ancestored Americans, with Japanese the largest at 225,000 followed by 88,000 Chinese, many of them elderly men marooned in shrinking Chinese American communities.

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4. www.cia.gov › the-world-factbook › aboutKorea, South - The World Factbook

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   Dec 28, 2021 · note: a novel coronavirus is causing an outbreak of respiratory illness (COVID-19) in South Korea; as of 6 October 2021, South Korea has reported a total of 323,379. cases of COVID-19 or 630.75 cumulative cases of COVID-19 per 100,000 population with 4.95 cumulative deaths per 100,000 population; as of 5 October 2021, 77.54% of the population ...

5. www.cia.gov › the-world-factbook › aboutKorea, South - The World Factbook

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   Dec 19, 2023 · Country name. conventional long form: Republic of Korea conventional short form: South Korea local long form: Taehan-min'guk local short form: Han'guk abbreviation: ROK etymology: derived from the Chinese name for Goryeo, which was the Korean dynasty that united the peninsula in the 10th century A.D.; the South Korean name "Han'guk" derives from the long form, "Taehan-min'guk," which is itself ...

6. www.history.com › topics › asian-historySouth Korea - President, Population & Capital | HISTORY

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   Feb 2, 2018 · The capital of South Korea, Seoul, is home to more than 25 million people, or about 50 percent of the country’s population. In early 2018, South Korea welcomed athletes from around the world to ...

7. depts.washington.edu › moving1 › map_asian_migrationMapping Asian American and Pacific Islander Migrations

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   By 1980 Asian American populations had reached 3.6 million nearly four times the number twenty years earlier. Twenty years later in 2000, the Census Bureau reported more than 12 million Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders and that number has passed 24 million in the 2020 report. People have been coming from new locations in the last fifty years.

8. www.reddit.com › r › todayilearnedTIL that the first constitutional republic in Asia ... - Reddit

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   The first republic was the very short lived Republic of Ezo (now known as Hokkaido). During the Boshin war (the big battle scene shown in the “fictional but feels real The Last Samurai”) fighters ran across the sea to Ezo island and started a republic. Once the big island sorted itself out they invaded and brought it back under.