Hey! My name is Jelly. I have "adopted" the country, South Korea. This is their flag.

For the time being, I'm going to be telling you all about South Korea. You could fit five and a half of "South Koreras" into Saskatchewan. The capitol is called Seoul. Everyone in South Korea speaks the Korean language and the kids in school get taught English as their second language

Current Events. I'm going to also tell you about the current events that occur in South Korea.

Unfortunately, on Saturday, October 21, the police in South Korea did a major raid on illegal internet gambling. The police found and smashed about 600 computers from several cafes in the city of Ulsan.

Now, in South Korea, 3 million out of 48 million have gambling problems. The government is closing down as many gambling casinos that they can find. It is hard for the police to make the law about illegal casinos because if they close down one, another one opens up under a new name. The sad part is that these illegal gambling casinos attract teenagers. They even set up these casinos near high schools, to make it convenient for the students to go there.

South Korea did allow gambling, but people were not aloud to win money; they were just given gift certificates. But then, some cafes decided to cheat and re-program their computers to win higher paid winnings. Video cafes used to be just for video games, but then they changed into gambling games.


The government in South Korea promises to continue to monitor these video casinos and to stop any internet lines that lead to illegal gambling. The government is also working on a system to rate video games that would be appropriate to play in the cafes of South Korea.

Prison Uniforms:

South Korea has decided to change the colours of the uniforms in prisons for the first time in 50 years. They changed them because of phychological reasons such as the colour kahki is more calming for the prisoners. They were also changed to be warmer for the winter

They changed the mens uniforms used to be dark blue and brown. Now they changed them to Khaki and light blue.
They changed the ladies uniforms too. They now changed them to blueish green. They will have elastic and buttons on them too.

Resources:
South Korea has a few Natural resources. They are coal, tungsten, graphite, lead, and hydropower potential.

Coal:



Tungsten:



Graphite:



Lead:



Hydropower Potential:



South Korea has 19% of arable land:



They have chief crops, which are filled with rice, root crops, barley, vegetables, and fruit.

South Korea also, has livestock. It includes 1,950,000 cattle, 107,000,000, chickens, 430,000 goats, and 8,810,000 pigs. South Korea catches 2,282,486 tuns of fish. Which is a lot of fish to eat compared to the people in Saskatchewan!

South Korea has some industries too. They are electronics, vehicles, chemicals, shipbuilding, stell, textiles, clothing, footwear and food processing.

The webiste where I found this was World Almanac and Book of Facts, Annual 2004 p709

Movement:
The Korean people get around by plains, cars, trains, boats, and busses.

South Korean Government is split up into three parts. They are executive, judicial, and legislative. The executive and judicial system take care of national problems and sometimes little problems that come along the way. The Governments structure is all held together by the Constitution of the Republic of Korea, and checks and balances are always in place making sure everyone has the right amount of power. The president's name is Roo Moo Hyun and the prime minister is Han Duck Soo. This is all I could really find out about the government. I'm definitely going to update this section of my blog though, and find out as much as I can if anything new comes up.
Han Duck Soo (Prime Minister):

Roo Moo Hyun (President):