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South Korea women's national football team (대한민국 여자 축구 국가대표팀)
South Korea women's national football team (대한민국 여자 축구 국가대표팀), Korea Republic, governed by the KFA. 2022 Asian Cup runners-up, 2026 semi-finalists, qualified for the 2027 FIFA Women's World Cup; FIFA ranking around 19th-21st.
South Korea–Australia free trade agreement
The South Korea–Australia free trade agreement, known as KAFTA, is a bilateral trade treaty signed in Seoul in 2014 and in force since December 2014, phasing nearly all tariffs to zero.
South Korea–India free trade agreement
The South Korea–India free trade agreement, or CEPA, is a trade pact signed in 2009 and in force since 2010, cutting tariffs on most goods.
South Korean beauty standards
South Korean beauty standards: culturally shared appearance ideals (fair skin, V-line jaw, double eyelids, slim body) shaping K-pop, K-beauty, plastic surgery, body image, lookism, and the global cosmetics export industry.
South Korean defamation law
South Korean defamation law makes defamation both a civil tort and a crime, with over 60,000 complaints a year and punishment possible even for true statements.
South Korean defectors
South Korean defectors are people from North Korea who fled, took citizenship in South Korea, and then left to seek refugee protection elsewhere.
South Korean guerrilla warfare
South Korean guerrilla warfare was the irregular conflict between leftist partisans and South Korean security forces from 1948 through the Korean War, in which more than 30,000 Koreans died.
South Korean nationality law
South Korean nationality law, the Nationality Act (국적법) of 20 December 1948, defines who is a Korean national: descent-based jus sanguinis, naturalization tracks, strict single-nationality rules with limited exceptions.
South Korean television dramas in the Philippines
South Korean television dramas (Koreanovelas, K-dramas) in the Philippines: imported since GMA-7's 2003 airing of Autumn in My Heart, dubbed, remade locally, and streamed via Netflix, shaping Filipino viewing, marketing, and infrastructure politics.
South Korean won (원)
The South Korean won (원, code KRW) is the currency of South Korea, issued by the Bank of Korea in notes and coins since the 1962 reform.
South Korean Workers' Party
The South Korean Workers' Party (남로당) was a communist party active in southern Korea from 1946 to 1949, when it merged into the Workers' Party of Korea.
South Lake Tahoe, California
South Lake Tahoe is a general law city in El Dorado County, California, incorporated November 30, 1965 on the south shore of Lake Tahoe at 6,237 feet. Population 21,330 (2020); tourism-driven economy with severe housing vacancy and vacation-rental disputes.
South Lanarkshire
South Lanarkshire: Scottish council area created in 1996, headquarters Hamilton; population 334,330 (2025), 5th of 32 council areas, growing 10.6% since 2001, net expenditure budget £1,019.145 million.
South Lebanon Army (جيش لبنان الجنوبي)
South Lebanon Army (جيش لبنان الجنوبي), also Free Lebanon Army, was Israel-funded militia under Saad Haddad then Antoine Lahad defending the 1985 security zone; collapsed May 2000 during Israeli withdrawal.
South Lebanon conflict (1985–2000)
The South Lebanon conflict (1985–2000): attrition war between Israel, its South Lebanon Army proxy, and Hezbollah in the Israeli-occupied security zone, ending with Israel's UN-confirmed withdrawal in June 2000.
South London
South London: the boroughs south of the River Thames, about 59 sq mi (153 km²), shaped by Victorian suburban railways, a sparse Underground network, neighborhoods like Brixton, Greenwich, and Peckham, and rail-devolution reform proposals.
South Los Angeles
South Los Angeles, formerly called South Central, is a 50-square-mile region of 28 communities in Los Angeles with about 800,000 residents, once 80 percent African-American and now two-thirds Latino.
South Luzon Expressway
The South Luzon Expressway (SLEx), originally the Manila South Expressway, is a Philippine toll road from Metro Manila to Calamba, Laguna, opened in 1969 and serving the CALABARZON region.
South Manchuria Railway Company
The South Manchuria Railway Company (南満洲鉄道株式会社), known as Mantetsu, was a semi-official Japanese joint-stock company founded in 1906 to run railways and lands in southern Manchuria, dissolving in 1945.
South Manchuria Railway Company Law
The South Manchuria Railway Company Law (南満洲鉄道株式会社法) is the Japanese imperial ordinance promulgated by Emperor Meiji in 1906 that founded Mantetsu, the half-official, half-private company operating Japan's railways in Manchuria.
South Moravian Region
South Moravian Region (Jihomoravský kraj, NUTS CZ064), a Czech region with capital Brno, borders Austria and Slovakia. Fourth largest region; 673 municipalities; second-highest GDP per capita after Prague; nearly 90% of Czech vineyards.
South Morecambe gas field
South Morecambe is a depleted natural gas field in the East Irish Sea, discovered in 1974, producing since 1985, and now planned as a carbon dioxide store.
South Necropolis (Pergamon)
South Necropolis (Südnekropole), ancient burial ground on the southern slopes of Pergamon, Bergama, Turkey; mainly Roman Imperial and Byzantine in use, excavated in part by DAI Istanbul, with Archaic to Late Roman rescue finds.
South New Zealand
South New Zealand (MEOW ecoregion 200) is a marine ecoregion of the Temperate Australasia realm covering southern South Island coastal waters; 0.4 percent protected, boundaries debated, new Te Au Roa o Te Rakihouia reserves from 2026.
South Oak Creek Plant
The South Oak Creek Plant is the coal-fired portion of the Oak Creek Power Plant in Oak Creek, Wisconsin, whose remaining units are set to retire in 2027.
South of Heaven
South of Heaven is Slayer's fourth studio album, released July 5, 1988 on Def Jam and produced by Rick Rubin. It slowed the tempos of Reign in Blood, peaked at #57 on the Billboard 200, and was RIAA-certified gold in 1992.
South of Midnight
South of Midnight: Compulsion Games' 2025 third-person action-adventure set in a magical American Deep South; Hazel's Weaving power, stop-motion art, Olivier Derivière score, Game Pass day one, PS5/Switch 2 in 2026.
South of My Days
"South of My Days" is a 1945 poem by the Australian poet Judith Wright, depicting the New England tableland of her childhood through an old drover's stories.
South of the Border (attraction)
South of the Border, also known as Pedroland, is a Mexican-themed roadside attraction and rest stop in Hamer, South Carolina, just south of the North Carolina line on Interstate 95.
South Orkney Islands
South Orkney Islands: maritime Antarctic island group in the Scotia Sea, discovered December 1821 by George Powell and Nathaniel Palmer; home to Signy Research Station (BAS), Orcadas Base, and the 94,000 km2 South Orkney southern shelf MPA, the first international MPA under CCAMLR.