Other forms: koreas
Korea is the Asian country of Seoul, K-pop, and kimchi. Travel to Korea, from Korea, the coast of Korea.
The peninsula has been divided since 1945 into two states that remain technically at war, since the fighting ended in an armistice rather than a treaty. South Korea's cultural exports — music, film, television — are a deliberate national strategy and among the most successful ever attempted.
1nounkoreaThe Asian country of Seoul.
“Kimchi is a traditional dish from Korea, made with spicy pickled cabbage.”
korea is a country.
Also accepted in games: south korea
Dutch
Core
English
Korea
English, today
korea
Korea First attested as Core in the 1598 English translation of the 1596 Itinerario of Jan Huyghen van Linschoten, from the original Dutch Core, itself from Portuguese - according to van Linschoten's account. The spelling Corea was more common in Early Modern English, likely through Core + -ia. Ultimately a sixteenth-century borrowing by Europeans from some variety of Chinese -. Compare cmn 高麗 but especially nan-hbl 高麗, which matches the Dutch-Portuguese vowels exactly. These are Chinese pronunciations of Sino-Korean ^고려(高麗), Korea's official name between 918 and 1394 and still used by Chinese people to refer to the country for centuries thereafter; this itself being a shortening of 高句麗 (“Goguryeo”), an ancient Korean kingdom in the first millennium. a doublet of Goryeo, directly from Korean.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA