the name Korea can be traced back to
Marco Polo when Marco Polo came across
the land the dynasty there already had a
name for themselves and their land
gulia it was this name that Marco Polo
transliterated into his native tongue of
Italian as a collie it was from this
Italian name we got its first English
name Korea which has more or less stayed
the same until at some point in time the
sea change to a K and we have the name
that covers the land today Korea now
what this will be this video done and
dusted if we had a country on our planet
simply called Korea but the peninsula of
Korea as we all know is home to not one
country but two countries North Korea
and South Korea the history as to how we
got these two countries is vast but to a
bridge that story we can say that the
peninsula has had a long history of rule
by other nations in 1904 Russia and
Japan started fighting for control of
the country leading the country to be
ruled by the Japanese in 1910 this more
or less ended the Korean dynasty on the
land that lasted over 500 years when the
last emperor died in 1926 the Japanese
were all on the peninsula led till the
suppression of Korean culture Japan even
tried to enforce a law that stated that
all second names in the country had to
be Japanese
Japan's rule on the land came to an end
however when their Kingdom was split up
in the fall out of World War two
it was now in the midst of the cold war
the two countries we know today started
to form the peninsula of Korea has the
38th parallel running more or less
through the middle of it it was on
either side of this parallel where
influences from different nations took
place the u.s. took control of the south
while Russia started a communist regime
in the north formal governments were set
up in the countries in 1948 and instead
of given the two separate countries
different names they were simply called
in North Korea and South Korea however
these are just their names in English as
a Korea is an exonym you know like how
in English this countries could Germany
but in German it's good Deutschland
seriously I've explained that so many
times but you never know when it might
be someone's first time on the channel
hello first time viewer like to
subscribe all that stuff but anyway
while Korean is still the official
language in both countries the split in
the peninsula has even made these
languages change due to the isolation
from the rest of the world
the Korean spoken in North Korea has had
no chance to change and evolve like it
has in the South many North Korean
defectors now live in in the South said
the change in language is a challenge in
adjusting to their new home
the countries even have different names
for the peninsula as a whole in North
Korea the word for Korea is chosen /
Joseon and in South Korea it's hanguk
the North Korean Joseon is fought to be
of Chinese origin meaning land of the
dawn or even a land of Morning Calm it's
interesting that North Korean username
for Korea of Chinese origin as the
Chinese had a huge influence in the
formation of North Korea the South
Korean Hangul is a formation of the
Korean word which - comes from the
Chinese Gore meaning country and Han
meaning great or leader in Korean
meaning Han means great / leader
country and of course North Korea and
South Korea have named specifically for
themselves in Korean and for each other
South Koreans UNAM hammer for South
Korea meaning South Han Han meaning
country as we mentioned earlier and book
hunt for North Korea meaning North hand
South Koreans also use less formally
ubach meaning just in the north
when talked about North Korea and Iran
are sometimes for all of Korea meaning
just our country North Koreans using a
Mojo sauna for South Korea and a book of
shortened for North Korea door books
drop zone is rarely used today in North
Korea when the two countries have
official meetings they use Nanook and a
bookshop meaning southern side and
northern side respectively referring to
either country a size when talking
together is interesting it insinuates
that there are two sides of one country
as opposed to two separate countries the
name of this video
what do North Korea and South Korea call
each other sounds like the start of a
joke and no doubt there'll be funny -
questionable punchlines - the stroke in
the comment section bar there has been a
volatile history between these two
countries from war to some of the worst
living conditions on our planet today in
North Korea yet at the time of writing
this there seems to be change in the air
or the things that the leaders of North
Korea have put their people through is
unforgiveable perhaps sometime in the
future these two countries could call
themselves allies or maybe even friends
the country of Korea was suggested by
ALP and Kevin Uyghur over on patron and
thanks to their suggestions they will
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