Map & Geography
This is the continent where South Korea is located.
What is Asia?
This is the Korean name for South Korea's flag.
What is the Taegeukgi?
This king is associated with the creation of Hangul, Korea's writing system.
Who was King Sejong?
This is the name of Korea's writing system.
What is Hangul?
This country is directly north of South Korea.
What is North Korea?
This city is the capital of South Korea.
What is Seoul?
These two colors make up the circle in the center of the flag.
What are red and blue?
This ancient kingdom controlled much of the Korean Peninsula by 668 CE.
What was Silla?
This is the language spoken in South Korea.
What is Korean?
This is the name of the sea located east of South Korea.
What is the East Sea?
This type of land is surrounded by water on three sides.
What is a peninsula?
This symbol is the red-and-blue circle at the center of the flag.
What is the Taegeuk?
This dynasty's name gave us the English name for Korea.
What was Goryeo?
These are the groups Hangul letters form when written together.
What are syllable blocks?
This year were separate governments established in North and South Korea.
What was 1948?
This body of water lies west of South Korea.
What is the Yellow Sea?
This idea is represented by the Taegeuk's opposing forces.
What are balance and harmony?
These were the three major ancient kingdoms of Korea.
What were Goguryeo, Baekje, and Silla?
This Korean word means “hello” in a polite way: 안녕하세요.
What is annyeonghaseyo?
This trigram, ☰ represents this symbol.
What is heaven or sky?
This island, known for its volcanic landscape and Hallasan Mountain, lies south of mainland South Korea
What is Jeju Island?
These four natural-world ideas are represented by the flag's black trigrams.
What are Heaven, Earth, Water, and Fire?
This year did the Korean War armistice stop the fighting.
What was 1953?
This Korean word means “thank you” in a polite way: 감사합니다.
What is gamsahamnida?
This Korean dynasty lasted from 1392 to 1897, before Korea came under Japanese rule.
What was the Joseon Dynasty?