Funny enough, most people that I have met so far that either were from South Korea or had family ties there simply referred to it as "Korea" (when talking Engli

Funny enough, most people that I have met so far that either were from South Korea or had family ties there simply referred to it as "Korea" (when talking English or German to me, obviously). I too attended high school geography class, so I know that there are actually two of them. In fact, I initially bothered to explicitly call it "South Korea", but fairly quickly ran into someone who actually took offense in that. Not sure if that was an outlier or a general thing. Considering that this is an English translation of a [South] Korean news site, I tend towards the later.